On October 21, 1893 the Hillsboro Roller Mills, a new flour mill owned by Jackson Crabtree, started its machinery, and its first run turned out three grades of flour. In August 1900 the Hillsboro Milling and Manufacturing Company organized under Dr. C. D. Jones as president and received a state charter with $10,000 in capital stock. It planned a roller mill and a shuttle-block factory in the Webbs' brick building east of the courthouse, and by early 1901 it had put in a corn mill and was buying wheat. By March 1906 Crabtree had sold the company the old river mill, which it kept running with Charles A. Whitaker as manager. By May 31, 1917 Houston J. Walker and his brother had bought the roller mill at Hillsboro. On July 24, 1963 Charles M. Walker Jr., who had bought the business from his father and uncle after World War II, said he would close Walker Milling Co. in its three-story landmark on Court Square. On August 5 the commissioners bought the mill and its lot for $25,000. In December 1964 a Wilmington contractor razed the building to clear the lot for parking; historical groups asked the commissioners to save it, but by a split vote they agreed only to buy the old handmade bricks for resale.
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Background on Work, Labor & Industry · the most widely held histories of the theme this storyline is filed under; they may not discuss it
Johnston and Robson Mill History, New Hope Creek (Orange Co., N.C.)
Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2010
Stewart E. Dunaway's history of the two mills George Johnston built on New Hope Creek in Orange County, the first in 1793 and the second in 1820, the earlier of which he sold to the Englishman William Robson. Self-published in 2010, 256 pages with illustrations, maps and facsimiles. Topics include gristmills in Orange County and the Blackwood, Johnston, Robinson and Robson families, so the volume serves both mill history and genealogy.
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave
Fleischner, Jennifer · 2003 · Broadway Books
Jennifer Fleischner's double biography of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley, the dressmaker who had been enslaved, including years in Hillsborough, before buying her freedom and becoming the First Lady's confidante. Published by Broadway Books in New York in 2003, 372 pages with illustrations and a map. Topics include enslaved women in Hillsborough and the United States, dressmakers and women's friendships in the nineteenth century.
History of Patterson Mill, New Hope Creek, Orange County, NC
Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2010
Stewart E. Dunaway's 2010 study of Patterson Mill, a gristmill site on New Hope Creek where Orange County meets Chatham County. The book pairs a short genealogy of the Patterson family with a close survey of what remains of the mill on land now inside Duke Forest, supported by maps, facsimile documents and illustrations across 176 pages. Self-published in a second issue dated October 10, 2010.
A Generosity of Spirit: The Early History of the Research Triangle Park
Link, Albert N. · 1995 · Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina
Albert N. Link's early history of Research Triangle Park, published in 1995 by the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina. Topics include research parks, research institutes and industrial research in the state, with the park's own history at the center. 149 pages with illustrations and maps.
From seed to harvest
Link, Albert N. · 2002 · Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina
Albert N. Link's history of the Research Triangle Park, the research park founded to draw on the universities at Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh, published in 2002 by the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina in 278 pages with illustrations. Topics include research parks, research institutes and industrial research in North Carolina and the history of the park itself.
Sheer Resilience : An Untold Story of A Free Community of Color in Orange County, N.C
Scarlett, Beverly A. · 2024
Beverly A. Scarlett's 2024 study of a free community of color in nineteenth-century Orange County, drawing on apprenticeship and freedmen's records among other county sources.
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Working for A Living
Orange County Historical Museum (N.C.) · 2024
Exhibit publication from the Orange County Historical Museum for its special exhibit on working life, shown in Hillsborough from March to December 2024 and concerned with the county's trades and industrial arts. Produced by the museum in 2024, it documents Orange County and Hillsborough history through the work people did.
The East Asian collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bolick, Hsi-Chu · 2010
Hsi-Chu Bolick's 2010 account of the East Asian collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, printed as an article running from page 280 to page 292 with illustrations and portraits. Topics include East Asian libraries in Chapel Hill, library resources for East Asia, and the university's cooperation with Duke in building the collection.
The water mills of Bolin and Morgan creeks, Orange County, North Carolina
Chilton, Mark · 2008 · The author
Mark Chilton's short account of the water mills that once stood on Bolin and Morgan creeks in Orange County, prepared to accompany a talk given to the Chapel Hill Historical Society on January 27, 2008. Seven unnumbered pages with a folded plate, color illustrations and a map.
I raised my hand to volunteer : students protest in 1960s Chapel Hill.
2007 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Account of student protest in 1960s Chapel Hill, published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007 with illustrations. It draws together the civil rights movement and segregation in the town, discrimination in restaurants, academic freedom and university autonomy, protest against the Vietnam War, Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Student Movement on campus.
Making Carrboro home : user alteration of company space
Lachenman, Sara Regan · 2005
Sara Regan Lachenman's 2005 thesis on how the people living in Carrboro's company built housing altered it to suit themselves. It takes up domestic architecture, working class housing and the social side of the textile industry in the town, with 158 pages of text and illustrations.
The treatment of African American girls in progressive era North Carolina's juvenile justice system (1890-1930)
Brice, Tanya Smith · 2003
Tanya Smith Brice studies how North Carolina's juvenile justice system treated African American girls between 1890 and 1930, naming among its institutions the North Carolina Industrial School for Negro Girls at Efland in Orange County. Health and hygiene, juvenile delinquency and the state's social conditions are among its subjects. A 2003 typescript of 89 leaves with a bibliography on the closing pages.
