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Historic Black neighborhoods of Chapel Hill and Carrboro

Northside, Pine Knolls, Tin Top and Pottersfield in Chapel Hill, the Lloyd–Broad neighborhood in Carrboro, and their churches, schools and businesses.

In briefNorthside, Pine Knolls, Tin Top and Pottersfield in Chapel Hill and the Lloyd–Broad neighborhood in Carrboro grew from land bought by freedpeople such as Toney and Nellie Strayhorn, around their churches, the Orange County Training School and Lincoln High. Urban renewal, campus growth and rising land prices pressed them from the 1970s, and conservation districts, a zoning overlay in Carrboro and the Jackson Center’s work have answered since 2004.

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St. Paul A.M.E. Church on Merritt Mill Road
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StorylineNorthside residents and the town, 1987–19881987–1988 · 6 events · In 1987 and 1988 Northside residents spoke against a mental health day center on Carr Street, a proposed Pittsboro Street extension and a rezoning off West Rosemary Street, saying such changes threatened their neighborhood. After a Black child drowned at the A. D. Clark pool in 1987, the Concerned Black Citizens pressed the town to hire Black lifeguards, and the council agreed to changes.

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  1. Black and Native American worshippers in Chapel Hill gather under a grape arbor and form the congregation that became St. Paul AME A group that included William Thompson, Charles Craig, Jerry Hargraves, Kenny Brooks, Green Merritt and Green Cordal began meeting under a grape vine arbor, with Rev. Green Cordal preaching the first service. The congregation was received into the African Methodist Episcopal connection in 1870. People: Green Cordal Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Jerry Hargraves, William Thompson, Charles CraigFrom the Rock Wall: St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
  2. Freedpeople build a church and school at Chapel Hill's West End After emancipation, Black families kept homes and small farms on Chapel Hill's west end. St. Paul's congregation, first gathered under an arbor in December 1864, built a log church on Merritt Mill Road and bought land in 1878, and in 1866 Benjamin Craig and Green Cordal bought an acre nearby for a freedmen's school. People: Green Cordal, Benjamin Craig Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Merritt Mill RoadChapel Hill Historical Society, From the Rock Wall: St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
  3. Benjamin Craig and Green Cordal secure land for a Black school In 1866 Benjamin Craig and Green Cordal bought a plot of land near what is now the corner of West Franklin Street and Merritt Mill Road and gave part of it to the Philadelphia Quakers for a school for freedpeople and the rest for the church that became St. Paul AME. In the spring of 1867 the Friends reported that the freedmen were putting up a school and house of worship on a fifty-dollar lot. People: Green Cordal, Benjamin Craig, George Dixon Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Merritt Mill RoadTown of Carrboro: Historic Downtown Walking Tour, stop 14 · Also: Internet Archive: Fourth Annual Report of the Friends' Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Colored Freedmen; NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975; Open Orange: Quaker Freedmen's School
  4. Quakers open a freedmen's school in Chapel Hill In 1866 Philadelphia Friends opened a school for Black children in Chapel Hill; by early 1867 it had been running more than half a year with 248 pupils, in a rented house while the freedpeople built a school and house of worship on a fifty-dollar lot the Friends had bought. The school, which came to stand on the land near West Franklin Street and Merritt Mill Road that Benjamin Craig and Green Cordal bought in 1866, merged into Orange County Training School in 1917. People: Green Cordal, Benjamin Craig Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Orange County Training School, Merritt Mill RoadInternet Archive: Fourth Annual Report of the Friends' Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Colored Freedmen (1867), p. 20 · Also: Town of Carrboro: Historic Downtown Walking Tour, stop 14
  5. Chapel Hill freedmen seek Bureau aid for a building that Lt. Hay judges is meant as a Baptist church Thomas Kirby and others of Chapel Hill wrote Gen. O. O. Howard on July 15, 1868 asking help to build a school house on land they had secured. The superintendent of education advised against it because the Bureau had already helped build one school there. Lt. Thomas H. Hay reported a school house of 44 by 22 feet already standing, enough for all the Black children who would attend, judged that the letter's main object was a house of worship for Chapel Hill's Black Baptists, and recommended refusal. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas Kirby, Thomas H. Hay, O. O. HowardSearch the index · Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Endorsements Sent and Received, Vol. 131, July 1867–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 63
  6. Chapel Hill's freedmen's school gets Bureau money for repairs and desks Trustees led by Ben J. Craig reported 90 scholars on September 28, 1868, and said the Friends' Freedmen's Association of Philadelphia had paid $50 for the school and $30 toward the building, to which the Bureau had given $70. In November the teacher counted 42 day, 15 night and 50 Sunday scholars. The Bureau allowed $50, Richard Mayo did $48 of carpentry on the building, twelve desks made at Hillsborough went to the school in late December, and the trustees drew $12 a month rent. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Ben J. Craig, Richard MayoFreedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Register of Letters Received, Vol. 129, July 1867–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 10
  7. A count of Chapel Hill finds 483 white and 454 Black residents Four years after emancipation, Chapel Hill had 483 white and 454 Black residents, close to half and half. Freed families were making homes on the village's western side, on West Cameron Avenue, West Franklin Street and around Potter's Field west of Church Street. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Potter's Field, West Cameron AvenueNC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 35
  8. Black families make homes on Lot 16 on East Franklin Street After E. Hunt closed his boarding house and Dr. Johnston B. Jones left town, Black families moved into both buildings: Tom Moore into the larger two-story house and the Burnett family into the small former medicine shop. Several other Black families settled on what had been Lot 16. Place: Lot 16, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Tom Moore, E. HuntBernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 125
  9. Most Black members leave the Chapel Hill Methodist church after the war When Black members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, withdrew in 1869 and 1870 to form a separate church, the Chapel Hill congregation lost nearly all of its Black membership, which had peaked at 81 in 1864 and stood at 8 in 1871. Place: Chapel Hill Methodist Church, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Methodist Church: A Centennial History, 1853-1953 (1954), scan p. 21
  10. St. Paul joins the African Methodist Episcopal Church Six years after it began meeting under a grape arbor in 1864, the Chapel Hill Black Methodist congregation now known as St. Paul AME received word in 1870 that it had been accepted into the African Methodist Episcopal Church, headquartered in Philadelphia. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · St. Paul AME Church, Chapel Hill: Church History
  11. The Chapel Hill Baptist Church bars the Black congregation from its building The Black members who left in 1865 had been allowed to keep using the church building for a small fee. In 1871 the white church passed a long resolution ending that use. Place: Chapel Hill Baptist Church, Chapel HillSearch the index · Almonte Charles Howell, A History of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 1854-1924 (1945), scan p. 24
  12. The Chapel Hill Baptist Church turns down the Black Baptist church's request to reunite The Black Baptist congregation asked to join the white church again. The church declined and sent a deacon to tell them as gently as he could. Place: Chapel Hill Baptist Church, Chapel HillSearch the index · Almonte Charles Howell, A History of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 1854-1924 (1945), scan p. 24
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  1. Louis H. Hackney becomes pastor of Rock Hill Baptist Church Louis H. Hackney, who had spent six years at Shaw University in the early 1870s and then taught school, became pastor of Rock Hill Baptist Church on Franklin Street in January 1877, when he was barely twenty-two. He held the pastorate for sixty years, until his death in 1937. He and his wife had married in 1876. People: Louis H. Hackney Place: Rock Hill Baptist Church, Chapel Hill · Also named: Lara Edwards Hackney · Also mentions: Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 13, 1926, p. 4 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 29, 1927, p. 6; Chapel Hill Weekly, October 22, 1926, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 24, 1937, p. 6; Open Orange: Louis H. Hackney
  2. St. Paul AME buys a church lot from Benjamin and Dilsy Craig The congregation paid fifty-five dollars on April 15, 1878 for a church lot bought from Benjamin and Dilsy Craig, and was raising money in December 1879 and January 1880 to finish a church there. In 1892 it built its present church across Merritt Mill Road from the earlier one, on land the 1983 Carrboro inventory says the Hargraves and Caldwell families gave about 1890. People: Benjamin Craig, Dilsey Craig Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Dilsy Craig · Also mentions: Merritt Mill RoadSt. Paul AME Chapel Hill: History · Also: The Chapel Hill Ledger, December 6, 1879, p. 3; Brown, McSwain and Florin, Carrboro Inventory
  3. Toney and Nellie Strayhorn, formerly enslaved, bought thirty acres in what became Carrboro The Strayhorns bought about thirty acres and built a one-room log cabin at what is now 109 Jones Ferry Road, and their son William built the house next door at 107 in 1915. Toney Strayhorn is remembered as a founder of First Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, and the house is still owned by a great-granddaughter. People: Toney Strayhorn, William Strayhorn Place: 109 Jones Ferry Road, Carrboro · Also named: Nellie StrayhornTown of Carrboro: Our Roots Run Deep: Black History in Carrboro
  4. Methodist trustees sell the old Rosemary Street church to the American Missionary Association With the Franklin Street church ready, the trustees sold the 1853 church and its lot at Rosemary and Henderson streets for $800 to W. H. Hubbard, treasurer of the American Missionary Association of New York, keeping back only the organ, clock and Bible. The building became a Congregational church that Northern friends had bought for Black worshippers. People: John H. Watson, Jones Watson Place: Old Methodist Church, Rosemary and Henderson streets, Chapel Hill · Also named: W. H. Hubbard · Also mentions: Rosemary and Henderson streets, Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Methodist Church: A Centennial History, 1853-1953 (1954), scan p. 22
  5. St. Paul AME congregation builds its present church on Merritt Mill Road St. Paul AME, the first all-Black congregation in Chapel Hill, put up the church that still stands, across Merritt Mill Road from the site of its first building near the old Quaker school. Town and Gown dates it to 1892; in October 1893 the Chapel Hill News reported that the town's Black Methodists had about finished their new church, at a cost of about $1,000. Place: St. Paul AME Church, Merritt Mill Road, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Merritt Mill RoadSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 37 · Also: The Chapel Hill News, October 19, 1893, p. 4
  6. Black families' homes on Lot 16 are razed and an Alpha Tau Omega cottage goes up The houses of Jordan Weaver, a Black preacher, and of two other Black families who had built on the old Lot 16 were torn down, and a cottage for the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity was built on the lot facing the Episcopal church. Place: Alpha Tau Omega cottage, East Franklin Street opposite the Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jordan WeaverBernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 161
  7. Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten was born on Lloyd Street in what became Carrboro Elizabeth Nevills, later known as Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten, was born near the railroad tracks on what is now Lloyd Street in Carrboro. As a child she wrote “Freight Train,” which Folkways released on record in 1958 and which carried her into the folk revival. People: Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten Place: CarrboroSearch the index · Town of Carrboro: Elizabeth Libba Cotten
  8. Cotton Chapel CME Church, the forerunner of St. Joseph CME, was organized Chapel Hill members of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church, who had worshipped at Hamlet Chapel in Pittsboro, formed their own congregation named for founder Henry Cotton. Its first building later burned and was rebuilt as a frame church. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry CottonFrom the Rock Wall: St. Joseph C.M.E. Church
  9. The board of education orders Chapel Hill's Black school rebuilt in Potter's Field The county board of education ordered the superintendent to sell the Black school house and grounds in Chapel Hill and rebuild in Potter's Field, the Black settlement. At the same meeting it abolished Bethel district in Bingham Township, sending its patrons to White Cross and a neighboring district, and allowed Caldwell's patrons to vote on a local school tax. People: Charles Edward Maddry Place: Potter's Field, Chapel HillOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 14, 1904, p. 2
  10. Black-owned town lots in Chapel Hill nearly double in ten years The African American community's real estate grew from 98 lots in 1910 to 170 in 1920. The same passage names Black-owned barber, shoe repair, restaurant, grocery and pressing businesses of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Place: Chapel HillNC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 36
  11. The Strayhorn log cabin on Jones Ferry Road reaches its two-story form Toney Strayhorn, born enslaved in Orange County, became a farmer and brick mason and in the late 1800s built a one-room log cabin on his tract. He and later his son William enlarged it until, by about 1910, it stood two stories high with a rear ell and big brick end chimneys that show the family's skill. People: Toney Strayhorn, William Strayhorn Place: Toney Strayhorn House, 109 Jones Ferry Road, Carrboro · Also named: Nellie StrayhornTown of Carrboro: Brown, McSwain and Florin, Carrboro, N.C.: An Architectural and Historical Inventory (1983), p. 37
  12. The Chapel Hill Community Club runs an improvement contest in a Black neighborhood Susan Moses Graham and the Community Club, with YMCA students under Frank Porter Graham, organized a project in an African American neighborhood at the edge of town, giving prizes for the cleanest house, the cleanest yard and the best fence. People: Frank Porter Graham Place: African American neighborhood at the edge of Chapel Hill · Also named: Susan Moses Graham · Also mentions: YMCAHoward E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 81
  13. Hackney's school on Merritt Mill Road is bought for a public training school Louis Hackney had opened his school for Black students on Merritt Mill Road in 1912. In 1916 the property was bought for a public training school for Black students, after Black residents raised $3,000 toward the purchase. People: Louis H. Hackney Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Louis Hackney · Also mentions: Merritt Mill RoadNC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School National Register nomination (2023), sec. 8 p. 8 · Also: Open Orange: Orange County Training School
  14. Henry Guthrie opens a movie theatre on West Franklin Street Henry "Buddy" Guthrie opened a picture house just west of Graham Street, in the blocks where Black families were settling. Bryant's history says that by 1923 it was owned by Davie O'Kelly and called the Standard Theatre. The papers of 1924 tell it differently: Guthrie's land, with a building used as a moving-picture house, lay on the north side of Franklin Street and was advertised for foreclosure that July, while the Chapel Hill Weekly described the Standard, opened July 4, 1924, as a new theatre on the south side owned by Durward O'Kelly, Charlie Brooks and Jesse Kirkland. Place: Guthrie's movie theatre, later the Standard Theatre, West Franklin Street west of Graham Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry Guthrie, Charlie Brooks, Jesse Kirkland, Durward O'Kelly · Also mentions: Standard Theatre, Franklin StreetSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 219 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 10, 1924, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 25, 1924, p. 6
  15. Carpenter Luther Hargrave builds a bungalow on Lindsay Street for his daughter's family In the African American section of Northside west of Church Street, carpenter Luther Hargrave built a side-gabled bungalow with a large front dormer at 308 Lindsay Street in 1920 for his daughter and her husband. Place: 308 Lindsay Street, Northside, Chapel Hill · Also named: Luther HargraveNC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 48
  16. Luther R. Hargraves built the tin-roofed houses that gave Tin Top its name Luther R. Hargraves, a carpenter and Chapel Hill's first African American mortician, built a row of houses with tin roofs on Hargraves Street near the railroad tracks behind St. Paul AME, and the cluster became known as Tin Top or Tin Top Alley. Place: Hargraves Street, Chapel Hill and Carrboro · Also named: Luther R. HargravesThe Marian Cheek Jackson Center: Tin Top and the Soundscapes of History
  17. Toney and William Strayhorn begin Carrboro Baptist's brick church When the Rev. J. B. Davis called for full-time services, the Baptists traded their lot for a larger Durham Hosiery lot on North Greensboro Street and hired the Strayhorns, who laid the foundation and ground-floor walls in 1921. Money ran short and work stopped until 1924, a break visible in two shades of brick. People: William Strayhorn Place: Carrboro Baptist Church, 100 North Greensboro Street, Carrboro · Also named: Toney Strayhorn, J. B. DavisSearch the index · Town of Carrboro: Brown, McSwain and Florin, Carrboro, N.C.: An Architectural and Historical Inventory (1983), p. 40
  18. Contractor Charles Craige builds a gambrel-roofed bungalow for mason William Strayhorn The house at 107 Jones Ferry Road was built for William and Margie Strayhorn beside the home of his father Toney, head of a family of brick masons. The 1983 inventory dates it 1915, but in August 1925 the Weekly listed Will Strayhorn's home in Carrboro among the works of the Black contractor Charles Craig, who it said had begun contracting two or three years before. William died young in 1933; his daughter Laura and her husband Albert Reaves kept the house in 1983. People: William Strayhorn, Toney Strayhorn, Charles C. Craig Place: William Strayhorn House, 107 Jones Ferry Road, Carrboro · Also named: Margie Strayhorn, Charles Craige, Charles Craig · Also mentions: Jones Ferry RoadTown of Carrboro: Brown, McSwain and Florin, Carrboro, N.C.: An Architectural and Historical Inventory (1983), p. 36 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 14, 1925, p. 1
  19. Thomas McDade, a Black merchant and community leader, dies in Chapel Hill Thomas McDade, a Black merchant, died at his home in the Potter's Field neighborhood of Chapel Hill. The News, in a one-line notice, called him a merchant and a leader among his race. Place: Potter's Field, Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas McDadeThe News (Chapel Hill), June 8, 1922, p. 5
  20. Orange County Training School burns About 4 a.m. on Monday, June 12, 1922, fire broke out in the Sallie Flanner house, a large two-story frame house on South-West Lane at the edge of the Carrboro town limits where eight or ten Black roomers lived; the News supposed it began in the kitchen, and two roomers were hurt jumping from windows. With no hydrant near, firemen had to borrow hose from the University and Carrboro to reach one almost half a mile away. The fire spread to the house of the school's head, Bozeman, and destroyed the large school building and one or two other buildings of the Orange County Training School, the county's school for Black students on the former Hackney campus; most of the furniture was saved. The school reopened on September 20, using the Masonic and Odd Fellows halls, a hall over the picture house and a dwelling on Rosemary Street until it could rebuild, and in spring 1923 its pupils were meeting in the Odd Fellows' hall, lent free of charge. A Rosenwald-aided brick building replaced the burned campus in 1924. Place: Orange County Training School, South-West Lane, at the edge of Carrboro · Also mentions: Rosemary StreetNC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 15 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), September 14, 1922, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 5, 1923, p. 1; Open Orange: Orange County Training School; The News (Chapel Hill), June 15, 1922, p. 1
  21. Luther Hargrave builds four rental houses north of the Baptist church Luther Hargrave, a Black carpenter and undertaker, had built four dwelling houses on the street running north from the Baptist church; three were already rented and lived in and the fourth was soon to be occupied. Place: Street running north from the Baptist church, Chapel Hill · Also named: Luther HargraveThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 5, 1923, p. 3
  22. Van Nunn completes a new store on Rosemary Street Van Nunn, a Black merchant whom the News called the most progressive Black citizen of Chapel Hill, finished building a new store on Rosemary Street in October 1923 and moved into it. Place: Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Van NunnThe News (Chapel Hill), October 25, 1923, p. 3
  23. Fire destroys the Caldwell garage and four automobiles on West Franklin Street Fire broke out about 4 a.m. on Tuesday, November 20, 1923, and destroyed the Caldwell garage behind the moving-picture theatre for Black patrons on West Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, along with four nearly new automobiles belonging to Black residents. Firemen could only save the buildings nearby. The frame garage belonged to Henry Guthrie, and the News said it was the second fire on his property in that block in about a month, after one that burned a house and part of another. Place: West Franklin Street, behind the moving-picture theatre, Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry GuthrieThe News (Chapel Hill), November 22, 1923, p. 1
  24. An electric line and five street lights reach Pottersfield on Church Street A lighting line was run out to Pottersfield, the Black neighborhood along Church Street, and five street lights were strung along the street; fourteen Black householders connected their homes. Water mains and sewers for the neighborhood were still waiting on branch sewer lines. Place: Church Street, Pottersfield, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 8, 1923, p. 1
  25. Kennon Cheek helps negotiate the land swap that brought Hackney's school to Northside Cheek's daughter Marian Cheek Jackson said he was instrumental in negotiating the 1924 land swap that moved Hackney's Educational and Industrial School from South Merritt Mill Road into the Northside community. People: Kennon Cheek, Marian Cheek Jackson Place: Northside, Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Names in Brick and Stone: Cheek Clark Building
  26. Orange County Training School opens a Rosenwald campus The Orange County Training School's new brick building for Black students rose on land given by Henry Strowd at the north end of Church Street in Northside, Chapel Hill. Its cornerstone was laid on Labor Day 1924 and it opened late that year; the Rosenwald Fund gave $1,500 of its $23,112 cost, Black residents $500. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry StrowdThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 18, 1924, p. 1: Negro Children's Rally (celebrating the opening of the new building)
  27. Black residents ask that their Potter's Field neighborhood be called New Town Reporting on the Community Club's new nurse for Black residents, Mrs. Carter of the club's health department said many Black residents had told Nurse Compton they disliked the name Potter's Field for their section north of town and wanted it called New Town, and she urged that they be helped to drop the name. By then the nurse, who came from Lincoln Hospital, had made more than 200 home visits. Place: Potter's Field (Black neighborhood north of town), Chapel Hill · Also named: Nurse Compton · Also mentions: Lincoln HospitalThe Chapel Hill Weekly, February 7, 1924, p. 1
  28. The Standard, a movie theatre owned by and for Black residents, opens on West Franklin Street Chapel Hill's new movie house, owned by and run for Black residents, opened with two crowded shows. Its owners were tailor Durward O'Kelly, builder Charlie Brooks and brick mason Jesse Kirkland. Place: South side of West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Durward O'Kelly, Charlie Brooks, Jesse KirklandSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 10, 1924, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 22, 1933, p. 3
  29. Black contractor Charles Craig builds a new settlement on North Avenue, and neighbors propose to call it Craigtown Charles Craig, a Black contractor trained at a technical college, had built or begun several houses in a new settlement on North Avenue off Rosemary Lane, on the line between Chapel Hill and Carrboro, for owners including Fred Edwards and Craven Jones. White and Black citizens proposed naming it Craigtown, the Weekly reported, partly because his father Manuel Craig had lived on the same ground as a slave. People: Charles C. Craig Place: North Avenue off Rosemary Lane, Chapel Hill-Carrboro line · Also named: Charles Craig, Manuel Craig, Fred Edwards · Also mentions: Rosemary LaneThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 14, 1925, p. 1
  30. Chapel Hill and the University arrange a sewer for the Black neighborhood on Church Street By joint action the University agreed to put in a new water line and the town to build a sewer for the Black section along Church Street. Town Manager E. M. Knox said that with this job done Chapel Hill would be 'ninety-five per cent sewered.' People: Edward M. Knox Place: Church Street, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1926, p. 1
  31. Chapel Hill lays a sewer system through the Black neighborhood around Church Street In mid-May 1926 the town of Chapel Hill finished a complete sewer system for the Black neighborhood in the northwest corner of the village, with a trunk line along Church Street and three branch lines, connecting 70 houses. The Weekly reported that Black residents had wanted the sewers and worked with the town on them, and the state's chief of sanitary engineering wrote to commend the town for serving its poorer neighborhoods as well as its prosperous ones. People: Edward M. Knox Place: Church Street, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 21, 1926, p. 4
  32. Chapel Hill extends sewers to Pritchard field and the Church Street neighborhood In what the Weekly called Chapel Hill's most active year of sewer building, the town laid about a mile of new lines in the Pritchard field section and gave the Black neighborhood around Church Street complete service, with a main under Church Street from Rosemary Lane north to the town limits. Other new lines served western Cameron Avenue and the east end of town. Place: Pritchard field and Church Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Cameron Avenue, Rosemary LaneThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 15, 1926, p. 2
  33. Mason Toney Strayhorn and his grandson Alfred Barbee finish a stone dam across Morgan Creek Toney Strayhorn, a formerly enslaved Carrboro mason and preacher, completed a thirty-foot-wide stone dam spanning Morgan Creek near University Lake with his grandson Alfred Barbee, whose first masonry job it was. Alfred and his brother Willis Barbee went on to build walls, dams and chimneys around Chapel Hill and Carrboro for sixty years. People: Alfred David Barbee Sr., Toney Strayhorn Place: Morgan Creek near University Lake, south of CarrboroSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)
  34. The Black neighborhood on the Chapel Hill line spreads west into Partridge Field In the late 1930s the African American neighborhood straddling the Chapel Hill and Carrboro line grew west into Partridge Field. Only then, the book says, was it readily counted as part of either town; segregation and the community's own sense of itself had kept it apart, with its churches and schools facing Chapel Hill. Place: Partridge Field, east Carrboro, on the Chapel Hill lineTown of Carrboro: Brown, McSwain and Florin, Carrboro, N.C.: An Architectural and Historical Inventory (1983), p. 22
  35. The home of Atlas Durham, a Swain Hall worker, burns The home of Atlas Durham, a Black employee of Swain Hall, burned to the ground shortly after midday on August 16, 1930, on the road running south from the west end of Cameron Avenue near the University laundry. The loss was about $2,000, with no insurance. Place: Road south from the west end of Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill · Also named: Atlas Durham · Also mentions: Swain Hall, University laundry, Cameron AvenueThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 22, 1930, p. 6
  36. Black homeowners on West Franklin Street turn to federal loans to pay their paving assessments The Weekly reported in November 1934 that Black property owners on West Franklin Street, assessed $7.70 a running foot for the paving and curb-and-gutter laid several years before, still owed the town about $30,000, with 60 owners behind on a ten-year payment plan. Town officials gathered the figures and the Home Owners' Loan Corporation agent, H. A. Whitfield, helped owners apply for fifteen-year federal loans; by the end of November three of them had settled with the town that way. People: Henry A. Whitfield, Peter L. Burch Place: West Franklin Street, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 16, 1934, p. 1
  37. Toney Strayhorn dies at his Carrboro home at 84 Toney Strayhorn, a well-known Black resident of Carrboro, died at his home on the night of December 2, 1934, at the age of 84. The Weekly called him a beloved figure in and around Chapel Hill all his life and reported that white members of the Carrboro Baptist church held a prayer service for him just before he died. People: Toney Strayhorn Place: Strayhorn home, CarrboroThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 7, 1934, p. 6
  38. St. Joseph CME builds its first church on West Rosemary Street The Weekly reported on June 9, 1933 that the mortgage on Cotton Chapel, the congregation's church in the northwest part of the village, had been foreclosed and the building sold, and that the pastor, Rev. J. S. Miller, was appealing for help to buy a new site and build anew. Henry Baldwin, Margaret Burnette and Kennon Cheek mortgaged their homes for the down payment on the Rosemary Street lot, which Black leaders had judged too small for a new high school. A frame church went up under Miller and was dedicated as St. Joseph Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. In September 1935 the Weekly reported that Black Methodists had almost completed a new church on West Rosemary Street near the town line, and by 1937 it was naming St. Joseph's C. M. E. church. People: Kennon Cheek Place: 510 West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry Baldwin, Margaret Burnette, Joseph S. Miller, J. S. Miller · Also mentions: Rosemary Street, West Rosemary StreetThe Marian Cheek Jackson Center: Saint Joseph CME Church historical sketch, 118th anniversary journal (2016) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 9, 1933, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 6, 1935, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, March 12, 1937, p. 5
  39. The Standard Theatre building becomes a funeral home and a grocery store The West Franklin Street movie house that had served the Black community was given over to a funeral home and a grocery. Place: Standard Theatre, West Franklin Street west of Graham Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 255
  40. Racial violence erupts in western Chapel Hill and Carrboro Late on Saturday, August 21, 1937, a white filling-station attendant struck Tom Atwater, a Black man, with a bottle near West Franklin Street. An angry crowd gathered, some throwing stones and firing guns, and armed white men from Carrboro fired on them from a barricaded truck. Four men were shot before Durham police with tear gas restored calm. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Tom Atwater, Chapel HillIn the index: Hargraves Community Center (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 27, 1937, p. 1 (editorial on the clash and Judge Phipps's charge)
  41. Second Baptist Church is organized in Chapel Hill A second Black Baptist congregation was organized in Chapel Hill and put up its building in April 1938. Place: Chapel HillLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 306 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 14, 1937, p. 1
  42. A new movie theater for Black audiences, the Hollywood, opens on Main Street in Carrboro In May 1939 an auction notice pointed buyers to a business lot on Main Street in Carrboro near 'the new colored theatre.' By 1940 the Weekly called it the Hollywood theatre, at the west end of Franklin Street. Place: East Main Street (now 405 East Main Street), Carrboro · Also mentions: Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 5, 1939, p. 2 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 9, 1940, p. 1
  43. Fire destroys a Black rooming house at the Carrboro end of Cameron Avenue A large two-story rooming house for Black tenants at the west end of Cameron Avenue burned to the ground about 6 p.m., and nothing in it was saved. The Carrboro and Chapel Hill fire departments put out fires on the shingle roofs of two nearby houses, one on each side of the town line. Place: West end of Cameron Avenue at the Carrboro line · Also mentions: Cameron AvenueThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 5, 1939, p. 6
  44. WPA crews regrade and wall the grounds of the Orange County Training School The WPA transformed the grounds of the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's Black school, with a broad new entrance road from Church Street, gravel walks, stone walls against washing, and grading for a playground, a regulation football field and parking. School board member Collier Cobb Jr. and engineer Ralph M. Trimble supervised, and the board meant to ask the state highway commission to surface the road beyond the town limits. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Ralph M. Trimble Place: Orange County Training School, Church Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 19, 1939, p. 1
  45. Nurse Compton surveys underweight children getting free milk at the Black school Nurse Compton finished a survey of underweight children who received free milk at Chapel Hill's Black school from the Tuberculosis Association, visiting their homes to check their care and to advise parents on food and rest. She was also running a canning contest for the Community Garden Club of Black residents of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, to be judged in September with prizes from local grocers. Place: Black school, Chapel Hill · Also named: Nurse ComptonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 4, 1939, p. 6
  46. The Wayside Beautification Club of Black residents plants iris by the A.M.E. church and cleans its clubhouse Under public health nurse Compton, the Wayside Beautification Club cleared a plot about 200 by 25 feet near the A.M.E. church in Chapel Hill and planted iris given through the Community Club, sharing more with seven families. The club also cleaned the clubhouse that the Friends Association of Chapel Hill had given Black residents some years before and stripped the advertising signs from it. Place: A.M.E. church and the community clubhouse, Chapel Hill · Also named: Nurse Compton · Also mentions: A.M.E. churchThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 4, 1939, p. 6
  47. Citizens buy land for a Negro Community Center Ten Chapel Hill men, among them Louis Graves, R. B. House and Paul Wager, signed a $1,500 note at the Bank of Chapel Hill to buy about five acres of the old Craig place at the west end of Rosemary Lane for a Black community center. The project grew out of concerns raised by the Negro Civic Club. People: William Chambers Coker, Louis Graves, R. B. House Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Paul Wager · Also mentions: Bank of Chapel Hill, Rosemary LaneThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 6, 1939, p. 2 (People of Both Races Combine Efforts to Establish a Community Center for Negroes)
  48. A survey of the Sunset neighborhood finds most Black homes without running water In an article published November 10, 1939, Rev. Donald H. Stewart of the Presbyterian church gave Health Department figures for the 72 houses in the Black Sunset section, most of them inside the town limits: only 10 had water inside, 6 had baths, 56 used privies and 4 had none, 70 percent had no screens and 95 percent no means of garbage disposal. He counted five telephones in the whole Black community and one hydrant for Sunset, and he laid the blame on the town's comfortable 'good' people. Place: Sunset (Sunset Drive area), Chapel Hill · Also named: Donald H. StewartThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 10, 1939, p. 3
  49. Nurse Compton reviews her years of public health work among Chapel Hill's Black residents In an article for the Weekly on December 1, 1939, Nurse Compton, a 1922 graduate of Lincoln Hospital in Durham, recalled that her first census of the Black section counted about 900 people, a number that had since nearly doubled. She described the change from wells and privies emptied by wagon to sewer and town water, curbs and gutters, tonsil and baby clinics, a weekly town garbage truck, and the newer health and welfare departments. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Nurse Compton · Also mentions: Lincoln HospitalThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 1, 1939, p. 4
  50. The Knolls, a home colony for Black University janitors, is laid out on the old Creel place The Service Employees Corporation laid out 66 lots on more than 40 acres of the old Creel place beyond the west end of Cameron Avenue for a Black home development to be called The Knolls. Thirty-eight University janitors had taken lots, a committee of their association decided who was admitted, the FHA had approved the plan, and the corporation meant to build three demonstration houses first; owners' houses were expected to cost about $500 a room. Place: Old Creel place, beyond the west end of Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Cameron AvenueThe Chapel Hill Weekly, September 6, 1940, p. 1
  51. Black University janitors move into the first houses of the Knolls home colony Six five-room houses were finished and occupied in Knolls, a colony for the University's Black janitors on the old Creel place beyond the laundry near the west end of Cameron Avenue, where a 40-acre tract held sites for 60 homes. The janitors' own committee chose the buyers, the FHA financed the houses at about $17.50 a month for 25 years, and John Clark, janitor of the South Building, was the first to move in. Place: Knolls, off the west end of Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill · Also named: John Clark · Also mentions: Cameron AvenueThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 1, 1941, p. 1
  52. A Black community health club forms in Chapel Hill A health club for Chapel Hill's Black community was founded in August by a health education trainee under the Orange County health department, with Mrs. E. T. Sellars as chairman. By November it had surveyed neighborhood problems and was planning a tuberculosis program and meetings for all the town's Black organizations. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Mrs. E. T. SellarsThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 23, 1944, p. 1
  53. Jeter and Ethel Neville buy a corner lot at Cobb and Broad streets in Carrboro On September 13, 1944, Jeter and Ethel Neville bought a small lot at the northwest corner of Cobb and Broad streets, in the Lloyd-Broad section of the Black Northside neighborhood, from Guilford Realty and Insurance Company. Jeter Neville was a janitor at Northside Elementary School. Place: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, 107 Cobb Street, Carrboro · Also named: Jeter Neville, Ethel Fuller Neville · Also mentions: Northside Elementary SchoolNC State Historic Preservation Office: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, National Register nomination (OR3151), p. 5
  54. Chapel Hill's Black Community Health Club reports its survey of 116 families At a community meeting at the C.M.E. church, the club reported its survey of 116 Black families, 657 people: 38 of 94 young children had no smallpox vaccination, 42 families had no means of sewage disposal, and some carried water three or more blocks. The club planned a study program and more home nursing classes. People: William P. Richardson Place: C.M.E. church, Chapel HillThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 14, 1944, p. 1
  55. Sunset Drive property owners ask Chapel Hill for sewer lines County sanitarian Ford P. Brendel presented the Chapel Hill aldermen a petition from seven property owners asking that sewer lines be run to the Sunset Drive area, a request the paper said grew out of the Black Community Health Club's survey. Place: Sunset Drive area, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ford P. BrendelThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 21, 1944, p. 1
  56. Black mason John Wesley Campbell and his sons build the stone Neville House in Carrboro John Wesley Campbell and his sons, with Jeter Neville and mason Earnest Farrar, built the Nevilles' one-and-a-half-story bungalow of granite fieldstone trimmed in red brick, with an arcaded porch and a star and crescent moon set in stone beside the front windows. Campbell's son Handy said the stones came by army truck from Chatham County; the house is the least altered of Campbell's five 1940s stone buildings in Northside. People: John Wesley Campbell Place: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, 107 Cobb Street, Carrboro · Also named: Handy Campbell, Earnest Farrar, Jeter NevilleNC State Historic Preservation Office: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, National Register nomination (OR3151), p. 11
  57. John Wesley Campbell builds a fieldstone house for a pastor on North Graham Street John Wesley Campbell designed and built a large fieldstone house at 214 North Graham Street in Northside for a local pastor, finished in 1945 and one of the first houses on the street. It is the largest of his four stone houses in the neighborhood, with a broad arched corner porch and a stone end chimney. People: John Wesley Campbell Place: 214 North Graham Street, Northside, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: North Graham StreetNC State Historic Preservation Office: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, National Register nomination (OR3151), p. 23
  58. Mason Alfred Barbee builds his own house on Jones Ferry Road After working at the Carrboro munitions plant during the war, the African American mason Alfred Barbee spent three years building his own house on Jones Ferry Road near the Strayhorn family homes, using his carpentry as well as his masonry skills. People: Alfred David Barbee Sr. Place: Jones Ferry Road, CarrboroNC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)
  59. The Campbells build a stone bungalow for carpenter Vance Thompson on Broad Street Next door to the Neville House, John Wesley Campbell and his sons designed and built a fieldstone Craftsman bungalow at 201 Broad Street for carpenter Vance Thompson and his family just after World War II. Land records show it finished by 1947; a Thompson son recalls moving in in 1946, and the family kept it until 2013. People: John Wesley Campbell Place: 201 Broad Street, Carrboro · Also named: Vance ThompsonNC State Historic Preservation Office: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, National Register nomination (OR3151), p. 22
  60. Chapel Hill aldermen order a blinker light and street work after a Black civic club petition Adolphus Clark asked the board, for the Negro Civic Club and Community Health Club, for sewer service on Sunset Drive, trash cans, drainage, street markings and a traffic light. The aldermen ordered a blinker light at the Hazzard Motor Company corner and had the street marking and drainage done at once, but said sewer lines had to wait for a new system. People: O. David Garvin Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: A. D. Clark, Adolphus ClarkThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 17, 1946, p. 8
  61. Chapel Hill's Community Health Club holds its second annual spring clean-up Block leaders of the Community Health Club in Chapel Hill's Black community, with Boy and Girl Scouts, visited every home to enlist residents in the second annual clean-up, with prizes for the most improved and best kept yards. Extended two weeks because of weather, it closed with inspection by judges from Hillsboro on April 27 and a mass meeting at the Community Center on April 28. Place: Community Center, Chapel HillThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 28, 1946, p. 5
  62. George Campbell and his father build a stone house on North Graham Street On a lot owned by George Campbell, he and his father John Wesley Campbell, helped by the other Campbell sons, designed and built a small one-story fieldstone house at 203 North Graham Street, finished in 1948. It is the only one of the family's Northside stone houses whose stonework runs up into the gable. People: John Wesley Campbell Place: 203 North Graham Street, Northside, Chapel Hill · Also named: George Preston Campbell · Also mentions: North Graham StreetNC State Historic Preservation Office: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, National Register nomination (OR3151), p. 23
  63. The Town of Chapel Hill buys land for a new cemetery for its Black residents The town bought about ten acres of the former Roberson property, just beyond the railroad on the Carrboro side of town, for a segregated cemetery for Black residents. It became the West Chapel Hill Cemetery on Village Drive. Place: West Chapel Hill Cemetery, Village Drive, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 11, 1949, p. 1
  64. African American flower sellers known as the Flower Ladies set up on Franklin Street A group of Black vendors, each working independently, began selling fresh-cut flowers on the Franklin Street sidewalk around 1950 and became one of the town's best-known enterprises. Place: Franklin Street, Chapel HillNC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 68
  65. Chapel Hill's Negro Civic Club asks the aldermen for sidewalks, traffic lights and sewers A petition from the Negro Civic Club asked the Chapel Hill aldermen for sidewalks on Graham and Church streets, traffic lights at Church and Rosemary and at Graham and Franklin, sewer pipe in the open ditches running from Rosemary Street along Mitchell Lane, and enforcement of proper parking on Church Street. The club also asked for a school attendance officer; the board took the proposals under advisement and sent that one to the school board. Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill; Graham and Church streets and Mitchell Lane · Also mentions: Mitchell Lane, Rosemary StreetThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 12, 1950, p. 1
  66. The name Northside began to replace Pottersfield and Sunset When the old Lincoln building became Northside Elementary in 1951, the school's name spread to the Black neighborhoods around it. By the mid-1950s Pottersfield, north of West Rosemary and west of Columbia Street, and its western neighbor Sunset were both being called Northside. Place: Pottersfield and Sunset, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Columbia StreetFrom the Rock Wall: A Note on "Northside"
  67. Lincoln High School opens on Merritt Mill Road In 1951 Lincoln High School, Chapel Hill's high school for Black students, moved from the old Orange County Training School building on Caldwell Street to a new building on Merritt Mill Road, and the old building became Northside Elementary. Lincoln used the Merritt Mill Road campus until 1966; the building is now the school district's Lincoln Center. People: Charles A. McDougle Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Lincoln Center, Lincoln High School, Merritt Mill RoadFrom the Rock Wall: A Note on "Northside" · Also: fromtherockwall.org; The Daily Tar Heel: Cammie Bellamy, New school, old ground; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 24, 1950, p. 1; Open Orange: 350 Caldwell St. / Orange County Training School; Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), October 1, 1951, p. 1
  68. Stephen J. Edwards's Midway Barber Shop is open on West Rosemary Street Edwards's Midway Barber Shop was advertising on West Rosemary Street, at the Chapel Hill and Carrboro line, by late 1952. His son Stepney Edwards later ran the Black-owned shop. Place: West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill-Carrboro line · Also named: Stephen J. EdwardsDigitalNC: The Lincoln Echo, December 1, 1952, p. 4 · Also: Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 9, 1989, p. 6; Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 2, 1976, p. 2
  69. The Rock Baptist Church building on West Franklin Street is torn down The Black Baptist congregation's church on West Franklin, in use since 1908, was demolished late in 1953 once its new church on North Roberson Street was finished. Place: Rock Baptist Church, West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: West FranklinSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 291
  70. Rock Hill Baptist, renamed First Baptist, holds its first services on North Roberson Street The Black Baptist congregation organized in 1865 had worshipped for decades as Rock Hill Baptist Church on the south side of West Franklin Street. Under its pastor, the Rev. J. R. Manley, it raised $10,001 in the first months of 1952 and began a colonial-style brick church on North Roberson Street between Franklin and Rosemary streets. The first services in the $100,000 building were held on Sunday, September 27, 1953, opening three weeks of dedication services; with the move the congregation took the name First Baptist Church. By early 1954 the old Franklin Street lot stood vacant. Place: North Roberson Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. R. Manley · Also mentions: Rock Hill Baptist Church, Franklin and Rosemary streets, Franklin StreetThe Chapel Hill Weekly, September 25, 1953, p. 4 (Many Visiting Ministers Will Preach at 3-Weeks Dedication of Negro Church) · Also: From the Rock Wall: First Baptist Church; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 21, 1952, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, October 2, 1953, p. 7; Chapel Hill Weekly, May 9, 1952, p. 4
  71. Charlie Mason's motor court on West Rosemary Street was lodging Black travelers Charlie Mason's family ran Mason Grocery and the Mason Motel, which was advertising in Chapel Hill by December 1957. As Mason's Motor Court at 603 West Rosemary Street, with the Starlite Supper Club, it took Black guests, including well-known Black performers in town for concerts, when other Chapel Hill hotels would not. Place: 603 West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Charlie Mason · Also mentions: West Rosemary StreetFrom the Rock Wall (Marian Cheek Jackson Center): Mason Motel · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 24, 1957, p. 8; Open Orange: 603 W. Rosemary St. / Mason Motel / Mason's Motor Court
  72. Chapel Hill school board asks the town to annex the Estes Hills, Northside and Lincoln school areas The board voted to join property owners seeking annexation of the Estes Hills School area and, on the Rev. J. R. Manley's motion, to seek annexation of the Northside and Lincoln school properties, whose neighborhoods had asked to join Chapel Hill. In November the aldermen called a hearing on the 42-acre Northside area, which the News said held land of interest for a federal low-rent housing project. Place: Estes Hills, Northside and Lincoln school areas, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. R. ManleyThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 8, 1959, p. 10
  73. Chapel Hill annexes the 48-acre Northside School area Chapel Hill's town limits took in the 48-acre Northside School neighborhood, as the school board had asked, moving the northern edge of town to Clark Road near Longview. Some new residents of the area registered as town voters for the first time before the March bond vote. Place: Northside School area, Chapel HillThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 18, 1960, p. 1
  74. Northside Elementary closes after the school system integrates The Caldwell Street school closed soon after the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools began mandatory integration in 1966, and the building was turned into office space. It was still holding classes in December 1966, when the Daily Tar Heel reported on a special education class in Northside School. Place: 350 Caldwell Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City SchoolsThe Daily Tar Heel: Cammie Bellamy, New school, old ground (July 16, 2013) · Also: From the Rock Wall: A Note on "Northside"; Open Orange: 350 Caldwell St. / Orange County Training School; The Daily Tar Heel, December 15, 1966, p. 1
  75. Chapel Hill annexes the Merritt Mill Road area The town took in the mostly residential area between South Greensboro Street, Morgan Creek, Pritchard Branch and the Carrboro line, around Knolls and Johnson streets and the Lincoln and Frank Porter Graham schools. Its streets other than Merritt Mill Road were unpaved and many were dead ends. Place: Merritt Mill Road area (Knolls and Johnson streets), Chapel Hill · Also named: Frank Porter Graham · Also mentions: Merritt Mill RoadResearch Triangle Regional Planning Commission, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Development Alternatives (1969), scan p. 117
  76. Northside discussions turn Chapel Hill redevelopment toward rehabilitation and away from more public housing there Planners showed three sets of options for Northside on November 7, 1967. A note added before their report appeared in November 1969 says meetings in the neighborhood since then had led to decisions to favor repairing and conserving existing housing in redeveloping Northside, and not to add more public housing in the area. Place: Northside, Chapel HillResearch Triangle Regional Planning Commission, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Development Alternatives (1969), scan p. 77
  77. Stonemason John Wesley Campbell, builder of Northside stone houses, dies John Wesley Campbell, born about 1888 to a white father and a Black mother and trained in masonry from age seven, died in 1968. He worked on UNC buildings, Memorial Hospital and Franklin Street stores, built stone houses and the Hargraves Center in Northside, and taught the trade to his five sons and other Black masons. People: John Wesley Campbell Place: Northside, Chapel Hill and Carrboro · Also mentions: Hargraves Center, Memorial Hospital, Franklin StreetNC State Historic Preservation Office: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, National Register nomination (OR3151), p. 17
  78. The Pine Knolls Community Center opens in the Green House on Johnson Street The University Baptist Church gave two wooden buildings for a multi-purpose neighborhood center in Pine Knolls, later moved onto land given by the Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action agency. Known as the Green House, it held tutoring, adult classes, free lunches and family reunions, with help from the BSM and Chi Psi fraternity in its first years; by 1977 it had been condemned. Place: Johnson Street, Pine Knolls, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Pine Knolls, University Baptist ChurchBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 1, 1977, p. 4
  79. Most unpaved streets in the Merritt Mill Road area are paved after an owners' petition Most of the area's unpaved streets were being paved in 1969 after a majority of the owners along them signed a paving petition. The town expected to pave the rest and add other improvements under a redevelopment program stressing conservation and rehabilitation. Place: Merritt Mill Road area (Knolls and Johnson streets), Chapel HillResearch Triangle Regional Planning Commission, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Development Alternatives (1969), scan p. 117
  80. Fraternity pledges clear a thousand feet of the Mitchell Lane drainage ditch In an Interfraternity Council project proposed by town manager Robert Peck, 328 pledges from 19 fraternities cleared brush and trash, from bedsprings to old tires, out of about 1,000 feet of the open storm drain near Mitchell Lane and piled it on the street for town trucks. Place: Mitchell Lane, Chapel Hill · Also named: Robert PeckThe Daily Tar Heel, April 23, 1969, p. 1
  81. Mitchell Lane residents take their open-ditch complaint to the town's redevelopment board Residents of the Black neighborhood along Mitchell Lane, where an open storm drain carrying runoff from about a fourth of Chapel Hill ran through their yards, took their complaints for the third time to the Chapel Hill redevelopment board, which agreed something had to be done and was to recommend a program to the aldermen. Town manager Robert Peck had said the town laid pipe only when owners paid for it. Place: Mitchell Lane, Chapel Hill · Also named: Robert PeckThe Daily Tar Heel, April 24, 1969, p. 2
  82. The Northside-Tanyard Branch Improvement Committee meets on the open Mitchell Lane storm drain Residents in the Northside-Tanyard Branch Improvement Committee met with town officials to build support for covering the open storm drain along Mitchell Lane before a renewal program went to the aldermen on May 12. County health officials reported no organic matter in the ditch, Dr. Daniel Okun of the UNC School of Public Health said there was, and no town official at the meeting would commit to action. Place: Northside, Chapel Hill · Also named: Daniel Okun · Also mentions: UNC School of Public Health, Mitchell LaneThe Daily Tar Heel, May 1, 1969, p. 1
  83. Chapel Hill aldermen commit to piping the Mitchell Lane storm drain Two days after Howard Lee took office, the mayor and aldermen met in special session and voted unanimously to have town engineer Tom Rose price piping the open drain at least from Lindsay Street to McDade Street, with his report due June 9. Town manager Robert Peck and alderman George Coxhead had argued for making the ditch a park, but the board chose piping as the first step. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Tom Rose, Robert Peck, George CoxheadThe Daily Tar Heel, May 15, 1969, p. 1
  84. Chapel Hill hires planners for its first federal Neighborhood Development Program application The Board of Aldermen contracted City Planning and Architectural Associates to prepare the town's first application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under the Neighborhood Development Program, the first year of a five-year urban renewal plan. The project area ran along Franklin Street from Kenan Street to Merritt Street, north to the town limits and southwest to Park Road, with the emphasis on downtown and the Black community, where block captains were organizing residents. Place: Northside and downtown, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Franklin StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, September 16, 1969, p. 15
  85. The town begins piping and filling the Mitchell Lane storm drain Work crews began laying concrete pipe and fill in the open storm drain along Mitchell Lane from Lindsay Street to McDade Street, a $29,900 job for the town, after about ten years of complaints from the Black residents along the ditch. Alderman Joe Nassif said federal urban redevelopment money could pay much of the cost, while former mayor Sandy McClamroch argued on WCHL that the town should have made a park instead. People: Howard N. Lee, Sandy McClamroch Place: Mitchell Lane between Lindsay and McDade streets, Chapel Hill · Also named: Joe Nassif · Also mentions: WCHL, Mitchell LaneThe Daily Tar Heel, September 16, 1969, p. 4
  86. The Topeka Tavern, a Black-owned bar in Carrboro's Black community, draws an integrated crowd On a corner in Carrboro's Black community beside a self-service laundry, the Topeka Tavern hosted the Jazzmen, a band of Black Durham professionals and North Carolina Central students, for a mixed Black and white crowd. Its owner, who had run it for about a year while working for the federal housing program, said it was losing money and might close before Christmas. Place: Topeka Tavern, CarrboroThe Daily Tar Heel, November 25, 1969, p. 5
  87. Northside and Pine Knolls residents resist federal urban renewal When Northside and Pine Knolls were targeted for urban renewal, residents confronted HUD and avoided the wholesale clearance seen in Durham's Hayti, winning home improvements and new construction instead. Place: Northside and Pine Knolls, Chapel HillMarian Cheek Jackson Center: Our Neighborhoods (history of Northside)
  88. Aldermen hear the merchants' call to regulate Chapel Hill's flower ladies At a public hearing the Board of Aldermen took up a letter from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association asking for rules on street vending by the flower ladies, the Black women who had sold flowers on Franklin Street for about fifty years. Residents spoke on both sides, and Mayor Howard Lee named a committee of three aldermen to study street vending and report. People: Howard N. Lee, Roland Giduz, Ross Scroggs Place: Franklin Street, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, January 14, 1970, p. 1
  89. Chapel Hill aldermen approve the town's Neighborhood Development Program application The Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to send the town's Neighborhood Development Program application to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. If approved, it would bring $444,000 for planning, a staff, and loans and grants to property owners in selected areas of Chapel Hill to improve their property. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill (Board of Aldermen meeting)The Daily Tar Heel, January 14, 1970, p. 1
  90. Chapel Hill's flower ladies move into an alley beside the Varsity Theatre With street vending banned, the flower ladies, whose trade on Franklin Street went back about 50 years, moved together onto private property, an alley owned by George Watts Hill between the Varsity Theatre and the Intimate Bookshop, after turning down space at Kroger and in front of Ledbetter-Pickard so that they could stay together. One of them told the paper that a petition from 15 merchants, not the young peddlers, had pushed them off the street. People: George Watts Hill Place: Alley between the Varsity Theatre and the Intimate Bookshop, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Varsity Theatre, Franklin StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, July 1, 1971, p. 1
  91. The Flower Ladies move off Franklin Street into an alley beside the Varsity Theatre When Chapel Hill's ban on all street vending took effect at the start of July 1971, the Flower Ladies left the Franklin Street sidewalk for the alley between the Varsity Theatre and the Intimate Bookshop, which its owner, George W. Hill, opened to them. The Daily Tar Heel still placed them in that alley in 1973 and 1974. Ruth Little's history also places them in the NCNB Plaza passage, which did not open until late 1972. Place: Alley between the Varsity Theatre and the Intimate Bookshop, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ruth Little · Also mentions: Varsity Theatre, Franklin StreetNC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 68 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, July 1, 1971, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, December 8, 1971, p. 6; The Daily Tar Heel, September 4, 1973, p. 1
  92. Chapel Hill aldermen approve a revised Neighborhood Development grant application for Northside and Pine Knolls At the second and final public hearing, with no one opposed, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen unanimously approved an application for a federal Neighborhood Development Program grant to rehabilitate the Northside-Knolls area north and south of West Franklin Street. The Redevelopment Commission had redrawn the project from a larger area after learning in late July that the Department of Housing and Urban Development had cut the funds available, and the revised application was due October 20. Place: Northside and Pine Knolls, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, October 6, 1971, p. 2
  93. Chapel Hill aldermen return the Neighborhood Development Program to its 1969 boundaries On September 18 the aldermen voted 4 to 2, with Ross Scroggs and Alice Welsh opposed, to return the Neighborhood Development Program to its original 1969 boundaries, taking back areas near downtown that had been dropped for lack of federal money, ahead of the October 1 application to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. James E. Kerr, who had resigned the week before as Redevelopment Commission director, said the program's $480,000 yearly grant might otherwise have been at risk. People: Ross Scroggs Place: Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Alice Welsh, James E. KerrSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 19, 1972, p. 1
  94. Chapel Hill aldermen approve the Redevelopment Commission's second-year action plan On April 9 the Chapel Hill aldermen approved the Redevelopment Commission's second-year action plan for the Neighborhood Development Program, while deferring the zoning changes the commission asked for to meet federal guidelines. Redevelopment Director Al Stevenson had been due to ask the town to cover a 75 percent cutback in federal funds since October. Place: Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Al StevensonThe Daily Tar Heel, April 11, 1973, p. 1
  95. HUD releases $190,000 in frozen Neighborhood Development Program money to Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill Housing Authority received $190,000 in Neighborhood Development Program funds that the federal housing department had held back until the town answered questions about its budget, bringing the program's money since July 1973 to $840,000. Mayor Howard Lee called the program, which gave low-income owners loans and grants to repair their homes, a reasonable success and said the new Community Development Program would replace it after December 31. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, September 23, 1975, p. 3
  96. St. Joseph CME sold Henry W. Baldwin's Broad Street land to Carrboro for a park Henry W. Baldwin, a Black landowner in the Lloyd/Broad neighborhood, left his estate to St. Joseph CME Church. During the pastorate of Dr. L. Kenneth Bennett the church sold a tract on Broad Street to the Town of Carrboro for a park, which was named Baldwin Park in his honor. Place: Baldwin Park, Broad Street, Carrboro · Also named: Henry W. Baldwin, L. Kenneth BennettThe Marian Cheek Jackson Center: Saint Joseph CME Church historical sketch, 118th anniversary journal (2016) · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 30, 1981, p. 3
  97. Pine Knolls residents ask the town to rebuild their condemned community center Residents of Pine Knolls, where most people were Black, asked the town for $10,000 to renovate the condemned Green House community center or $15,000 to $20,000 for a new one, and began raising half the cost. Assistant Town Manager Gene Shipman said a neighborhood center was not in the town's interest while it planned a citywide recreation center. Place: Johnson Street, Pine Knolls, Chapel Hill · Also named: Gene Shipman · Also mentions: Pine KnollsBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 1, 1977, p. 4
  98. Carrboro aldermen vote down a $1 million street-paving bond referendum The Carrboro Board of Aldermen voted against putting a $1 million street-improvement bond to the voters, saying streets could be paved without bonds. Alderman Braxton Foushee warned that without the bond, streets in Black neighborhoods would stay unpaved because residents could not meet the 60 per cent share required under petition paving. The board asked the town attorney to draft legislation letting it assess owners without a petition. People: Braxton Foushee Place: Carrboro Town HallThe Daily Tar Heel, September 6, 1977, p. 4
  99. The renovated Pine Knolls Community Center reopens The newly renovated Pine Knolls Community Center on Johnson Street prepared to resume its programs under the Pines Community Organization, a nonprofit group of neighborhood residents, beginning with a Summer Youth Development Program that ran until August 4. The center asked for paper, books, household goods and a piano, and for volunteers. Place: Pine Knolls Community Center, Johnson Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Johnson StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, July 20, 1978, p. 6
  100. Pine Knolls residents and volunteers build a solar greenhouse on their community center About 20 members of the Committee for Solar and Appropriate Technology and Pine Knolls residents built a 10-by-16-foot solar greenhouse onto the Pine Knolls community center over a weekend, to cut the center's heating costs and grow food for community dinners. The materials cost about $900, paid partly from a spring Sun Day fund-raiser and donations, and the group held public workshops on solar heating at the center. Place: Pine Knolls community center, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Pine KnollsThe Daily Tar Heel, September 26, 1978, p. 3
  101. Mahogany Florist holds a Black Arts Festival in Chapel Hill Mahogany Florist and Gift Shop at 400 West Rosemary Street, which Black Ink called the first Black-owned florist to open in Chapel Hill in ten years, sponsored a Black Arts Festival. The shop had been open about a year and sold Black greeting cards, Afro jewelry and art. Place: Mahogany Florist, 400 West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: West Rosemary StreetBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 1, 1979, p. 1
  102. Officials say students are pushing low-income families out of Northside and Pine Knolls Chapel Hill Housing Authority and University officials said students pooling their rents, in a market where vacancies sometimes fell below 1 percent, were outbidding low-income families, and that the Pine Knolls-Northside area off Cameron Avenue had been "virtually taken over by students." The authority counted 1,459 non-student families needing housing help, 282 families using its federal rent assistance, and a waiting list of 200 families for the town's public housing. Place: Pine Knolls and Northside, off Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Pine Knolls, Cameron AvenueThe Daily Tar Heel, September 18, 1979, p. 1
  103. Northside's Black population falls by about 40 percent Between 1980 and 2010 Northside's Black population fell by roughly 40 percent as investors bought homes and converted or replaced them as student rentals; over the same period the share of university workers living 10 or more miles away rose above 60 percent. Place: Northside, Chapel HillUNC-Chapel Hill: Supporting the Northside Neighborhood Initiative
  104. Graham Street residents petition the town over the Elliot's Nest disco Residents of South Graham Street, a predominantly Black neighborhood, petitioned the Chapel Hill Town Council on January 14, 1980, to ban night parking on their street, citing noise, litter and rudeness from patrons of the Elliot's Nest disco at 112 South Graham Street; the council accepted the petition and sent it to the town manager. Residents told the Daily Tar Heel that club patrons had misused the nearby Second Baptist Church and that a motorcyclist had shouted racial slurs on the street at night, and they also petitioned the state ABC office. Place: South Graham Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Elliot's NestThe Daily Tar Heel, January 16, 1980, p. 3
  105. Elliot's Nest closes after the state denies its beer and wine permit After South Graham Street residents petitioned the state Alcoholic Beverage Control office, its assistant administrator refused Elliot's Nest a permanent permit to sell beer and wine, and the owner closed the Graham Street nightclub on January 23, 1980, to await an appeal hearing set for February 15. At a town committee meeting on January 21 the Rev. James A. Brown of Second Baptist Church called the club a misplaced business and said the trouble was a race problem. Place: Elliot's Nest, 112 South Graham Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: James A. Brown · Also mentions: South Graham StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, January 28, 1980, p. 3
  106. The Town Council bans night parking on South Graham Street On January 28, 1980, the Chapel Hill Town Council voted 6-0 to prohibit parking from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. on South Graham Street, South Roberson Street and Cameron Avenue between them, as the Graham Street residents had petitioned and the town manager recommended. Jonathan Howes questioned the need now that Elliot's Nest had closed, and Joe Straley asked how it could be enforced near the Second Baptist Church. People: Jonathan Howes, Joe Straley Place: South Graham Street, South Roberson Street and Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Elliot's Nest, Cameron AvenueThe Daily Tar Heel, January 30, 1980, p. 3
  107. Chapel Hill's community development program ties housing aid to low-income tenants in Northside and Pine Knolls Chapel Hill's plan for spending its three-year, $2.1 million federal community development grant required landlords who received money to rent only to low- and moderate-income tenants for 15 years, a safeguard against students outbidding families for housing. Most of the money went to the Northside and Pine Knolls neighborhoods, where a 1978 study by UNC professor Michael Stegman had found students moving into traditionally low-income areas; the town also hoped to build new low-cost housing there. Place: Northside and Pine Knolls, Chapel Hill · Also named: Michael StegmanThe Daily Tar Heel, April 23, 1980, p. 1
  108. A petition asks Chapel Hill Transit to extend bus service into Pine Knolls The Chapel Hill Transportation Board accepted a petition asking that the L or C bus route be extended into the Pine Knolls community and set it for discussion on October 7. At the same meeting the board recommended that the Town Council combine the D and A routes for Saturday service from January. Place: Pine Knolls, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, September 18, 1980, p. 3
  109. Chapel Hill moves to condemn a Caldwell Street Extension home to straighten a Northside street By late October 1980 Chapel Hill's town attorney had begun condemnation proceedings against a house on Caldwell Street Extension, home to its owner for about 40 years, to realign the street through the Northside neighborhood with Community Development money. The council had voted 5-3 on September 8 to use part of a $2.1 million federal grant to remove the hairpin curve where Caldwell Street, once School Lane, met Gomains Avenue and Mitchell Lane; the town offered market value, up to $15,000 in relocation money and moving costs, or to move the house to a vacant lot. People: R. D. Smith Place: Caldwell Street Extension, Northside, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Mitchell LaneThe Daily Tar Heel, October 30, 1980, p. 1
  110. Northwest Chapel Hill residents protest a federal redevelopment plan at a council hearing A hearing on a HUD-funded plan to improve substandard housing north of Rosemary Street, between Church Street and Carrboro, ran more than two hours as residents objected that the Chapel Hill Housing Authority could condemn property not brought up to code within a year. Housing Authority chairman Theodore Parrish said condemnation was unlikely, council member R.D. Smith sided with the residents, and the council referred the $2.1 million plan to Town Manager Gene Shipman. People: R. D. Smith Place: Chapel Hill Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Theodore Parrish, Gene Shipman · Also mentions: Rosemary StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, January 28, 1981, p. 1
  111. Chapel Hill Town Council adopts the Northside redevelopment plan with power of eminent domain By 6 to 2 the council approved the community redevelopment plan, paid for by a $2.1 million federal Small Cities grant for 1979-1982, which lets the town condemn substandard and vacant lots so the Housing Authority can clear them and resell them to low-income families, with 21 duplexes and single-family homes and 18 units for the elderly planned. Council member R.D. Smith, voting no, said it had taken Black families "a long, long time" to acquire the property, and Jim Wallace called forced transfer distasteful; Mayor Joe Nassif said the land was needed for homes. People: R. D. Smith Place: Chapel Hill Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Joe Nassif, Jim WallaceThe Daily Tar Heel, April 15, 1981, p. 3
  112. Northside residents protest eminent domain at a Planning Board hearing At a Planning Board public hearing on the 1981-82 phase of the town's Small Cities community development program, Northside residents objected that the redevelopment plan let the town take neighborhood property by eminent domain and resell it; Housing Authority director Al Stevenson said owners who brought property up to standard would not lose it and would be notified soon. The board asked the town and Housing Authority to use one set of inspection standards. Place: Chapel Hill Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Al StevensonThe Daily Tar Heel, April 23, 1981, p. 3
  113. HUD approves a $700,000 block grant for Chapel Hill's Northside By October 1, 1981, the Department of Housing and Urban Development had approved a $700,000 Community Development Block Grant for Chapel Hill, the third year of a $2.1 million commitment. Town officials said it would pay for house rehabilitation, water and sewer lines and street repairs in Northside, land for public and subsidized housing, and a linear park along Tanbark Branch near Umstead Drive. Place: Northside, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Umstead DriveThe Daily Tar Heel, October 1, 1981, p. 3
  114. Carrboro aldermen name the Broad Street park Henry W. Baldwin Park At their last meeting before the newly elected members took their seats, on Tuesday, November 24, 1981, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen unanimously named the Broad Street Park the Henry W. Baldwin Park. Members of St. Joseph C.M.E. Church had asked that it carry the name of Baldwin, a steward of the church, whom the paper called the original owner and donor of the land; a dedication was planned for December. Place: Baldwin Park, Broad Street, Carrboro · Also named: Henry W. BaldwinThe Daily Tar Heel, November 30, 1981, p. 3
  115. Chapel Hill Town Council starts condemnation for a greenway between Umstead Park and the Hargraves Center On September 13, 1982, the Chapel Hill Town Council voted 7-1 to have the town attorney begin condemnation of two lots near Mason Road and McMasters Street, a 1.55-acre and a 0.37-acre tract whose owners had turned down the town's offers of $10,500 and $6,000. The land was needed to finish a greenway of walking trails linking Umstead Park with the Hargraves Center, part of a community development plan that went back to the 1965 report of the Mayor's Task Force on Open Space. People: R. D. Smith Place: Mason Road and McMasters Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Hargraves Center, Umstead ParkThe Daily Tar Heel, September 15, 1982, p. 1
  116. Esther Tate opens the Abundant Life Center in the former Mason Hotel on West Rosemary Street Esther Tate established the nonprofit Abundant Life Center in 1985 in the long-abandoned Charlie Mason Hotel at 603 West Rosemary Street, as a home for low-income people in transition, many struggling with addiction or mental illness. The Daily Tar Heel reported in 1994 that the hotel, in the Midway business district, had been the only place in town where Black people could rent rooms in the 1940s and 1950s and that Cab Calloway and Count Basie had performed there. Place: Former Charlie Mason Hotel, 603 West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Esther Tate · Also mentions: Abundant Life Center, West Rosemary StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, March 1, 1994, p. 3
  117. Northside residents speak against a special use permit for a mental health day center The Orange-Person-Chatham Mental Health Center asked the Chapel Hill Town Council for a special use permit to turn a house at Carr and Church streets in Northside into an adult day center for people with chronic mental illness; the house was 197 square feet too large for its lot under the floor-area rules. All 41 speakers agreed such a program was needed, but opponents represented by Bob Epting warned of a precedent for landlords to expand, and Northside residents said the change could raise their taxes and push them out. Place: Carr and Church streets, Northside, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bob Epting · Also mentions: Orange-Person-Chatham Mental Health CenterThe Daily Tar Heel, March 18, 1987, p. 4
  118. Concerned Black Citizens ask Chapel Hill to hire Black lifeguards at the A.D. Clark pool Five days after a five-year-old Black boy from Hillsborough drowned at the A.D. Clark Swimming Pool while two white lifeguards were on duty, the group Concerned Black Citizens wrote to the town charging negligence and asking it to recruit Black lifeguards for the pool at the Hargraves center, offer certification courses and make the jobs attractive. The Daily Tar Heel reported that the group still had no answer a month later; town officials said none of the pool and day camp's four Black employees that summer was a lifeguard and no Black applicants had come forward. Place: A.D. Clark Swimming Pool, Hargraves Recreation Center, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, September 22, 1987, p. 1
  119. The Northside Neighborhood Association questions town candidates on special-use zoning At an informal forum on Saturday about ten Northside residents questioned mayoral candidates Julie Andresen, Jonathan Howes and David Lineberger about special-use permits that let owners rezone residential land, and on Sunday four of the ten Town Council candidates, Martha Pendergrass, Nancy Preston, Cassandra Sloop and Mayor Jim Wallace, answered the association on growth, a public facilities ordinance and the proposed Pittsboro Street extension, which all four opposed. Residents said developers buying parcels for denser use threatened the integrated neighborhood, and the council candidates said they would have voted against a mental health center on Carr Street and the women's center on Henderson Street. People: Jonathan Howes Place: Northside neighborhood, Chapel Hill · Also named: Julie Andresen, David Lineberger, Martha Pendergrass, Nancy Preston, Cassandra Sloop, Jim Wallace · Also mentions: Henderson Street, Pittsboro StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, September 14, 1987, p. 3
  120. Residents oppose rezoning lots off West Rosemary Street for town-center use At a Town Council meeting, neighborhood residents denounced a developer's proposal to rezone six underdeveloped lots off West Rosemary Street between Sunset Drive and North Graham Street for town-center uses, saying it would uproot their community. Town Manager David Taylor, who said the town and the owner had cleared the overgrown lots of loiterers, recommended denial. Place: West Rosemary Street between Sunset Drive and North Graham Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: David Taylor · Also mentions: North Graham Street, West Rosemary StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, February 17, 1988, p. 4
  121. Chapel Hill Town Council defines rooming houses and duplexes to curb duplex building in Northside Before about 100 people on Oct. 29, the council unanimously adopted an ordinance amendment separating single-family houses, duplexes and rooming houses, meant to discourage new student duplexes in Northside, and kept the neighborhood's boundary at North Columbia Street rather than expanding it. A Northside resident told the council the change still let duplexes be built. People: Jonathan Howes Place: Northside, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: North Columbia StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, October 31, 1990, p. 1
  122. Police seal off a block of North Graham Street in a drug raid and make 13 arrests More than 40 Chapel Hill and Carrboro police, with the State Bureau of Investigation and Orange County officers, closed North Graham Street between West Franklin and Rosemary streets on a warrant for the whole block, searched the people there and made 13 arrests. A UNC law professor said the warrant was likely unconstitutional. Place: North Graham Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: West FranklinThe Daily Tar Heel, November 19, 1990, p. 1
  123. District Attorney Carl Fox drops five cases from the North Graham Street drug raid Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl Fox dismissed charges against five of the 13 people arrested in the November 16 raid in which more than 40 Chapel Hill and Carrboro officers, with the SBI, closed a block of North Graham Street for several hours and searched people and property, saying the search warrant was too broad to meet the Fourth Amendment. Town Attorney Ralph Karpinos, who helped word the warrant, defended the raid, and Police Chief Arnold Gold said the department would keep fighting drugs in the area. Place: North Graham Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Carl Fox, Ralph Karpinos, Arnold GoldThe Daily Tar Heel, December 3, 1990, p. 1
  124. Esther Tate and Samuel Irving found the Seeds of Sheba cultural arts center As an extension of the Abundant Life Center on West Rosemary Street, Tate and Irving co-founded Seeds of Sheba (S.O.S.) in 1991 to use drama and community programs to educate people about issues facing Black residents of Chapel Hill and to restore their sense of self-worth. By 1994 it also ran a shop selling clothing and goods made in Africa and Chapel Hill. Place: Abundant Life Center, 603 West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Esther Tate, Samuel Irving · Also mentions: West Rosemary StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, March 1, 1994, p. 3
  125. Chapel Hill police raid the wrong apartment on Johnson Street On the afternoon of August 30, 1991, Chapel Hill police and State Bureau of Investigation officers on a drug raid broke into the wrong apartment on Johnson Street and held a couple at gunpoint in front of their six-year-old son before going next door, where they found no evidence. The father said police would not have acted that way outside a mostly Black neighborhood and that none of the 20-member team was Black; police said race played no part, Mayor Jonathan Howes apologized, and Chief Arnold Gold ordered that officers visit a site before any raid. People: Jonathan Howes Place: Johnson Street, Pine Knolls, Chapel Hill · Also named: Arnold GoldThe Daily Tar Heel, September 3, 1991, p. 1
  126. Students march on Town Hall and Northside residents oppose the University Place condominiums About a dozen members of the Student Environmental Action Coalition marched to the Chapel Hill Town Hall before a public hearing on University Place, a proposed 98-unit student condominium complex of seven buildings on 14 acres off Clark Road beside Northside. Residents who filled the chamber cited traffic, parking for some 400 occupants, the clear-cutting of woods and leaks in OWASA's Bolin Creek sewer interceptor; Town Manager Cal Horton had recommended a permit with conditions. People: Mark Chilton, Cal Horton Place: Town Hall, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, October 22, 1991, p. 3
  127. Pine Knolls residents and police meet to take back their streets About 18 residents of the Pine Knolls neighborhood met with Chapel Hill police at the Pine Knolls Community Center on Johnson Street, the first meeting of the Pine Knolls Community Development Association since November, to work against drug dealing and gun crime under the slogan 'take back our streets.' Police said residents had reported 152 incidents involving firearms in six months, nearly all on Johnson Street; organizers sought a community watch, a police substation at the center and closer screening of tenants by landlords. Place: Pine Knolls Community Center, Johnson Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Pine Knolls, Johnson StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, March 19, 1992, p. 3
  128. Pine Knolls residents and police weigh a satellite police station as the neighborhood starts a community watch At a meeting of the Pine Knolls Community Development Association, Chapel Hill police officer Everett Johnson said the department was considering a satellite station at the Lincoln Center on Merritt Mill Road to strengthen its presence in the neighborhood, which the Daily Tar Heel said had been called an open-air drug market. The association had set up a community watch with a chairman and block captains on every street, and residents asked for officers on foot. Place: Pine Knolls, Chapel Hill · Also named: Everett Johnson · Also mentions: Lincoln Center, Merritt Mill RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, March 27, 1992, p. 3
  129. The Midway Development Commission asks Chapel Hill to fund revitalizing the Black business district The Midway Development Commission, formed to develop the largely Black business and church district at the west end of Franklin and Rosemary streets on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro line, submitted a declaration asking the Chapel Hill Town Council for money to revitalize the area, including a cultural center annex tied to UNC's Black Cultural Center. The declaration blamed a historic 'whites-only' attitude in the business community for the district's weakness; council members asked for more information. People: James Brittian Place: Midway district, West Franklin and Rosemary streets, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Franklin and Rosemary streetsThe Daily Tar Heel, March 23, 1992, p. 3
  130. Mayor Broun revives the Downtown Plan Committee as NAACP leaders plan a Midway Development Commission Mayor Ken Broun told the town council that the Downtown Commission's plan committee, idle for three years, would draw up a plan for downtown Chapel Hill and Carrboro, with public focus sessions and a database of downtown business activity. Alan McSurely of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP said the recession was ruining Black-owned businesses in the Midway area on the town line and that a Midway Development Commission of Black businesses and churches, backed by Broun and Carrboro Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird, was being organized. People: Alan McSurely, Ellie Kinnaird Place: Chapel Hill Town Hall · Also named: Ken BrounThe Daily Tar Heel, April 14, 1992, p. 3
  131. Residents press officials on drug dealing at a Hargraves Center forum About 40 people attended a forum on civil liberties and drug enforcement at the Hargraves Center on North Roberson Street, where public housing residents turned the evening into a grievance session about open drug dealing in their neighborhoods. Interim Chapel Hill police chief Ralph Pendergraph called for more cooperation between police and residents, and District Attorney Carl Fox likened the war on drugs to the Vietnam War. Place: Hargraves Center, North Roberson Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ralph Pendergraph, Carl FoxThe Daily Tar Heel, April 23, 1992, p. 1
  132. Students hold a candlelight march for the Black dead of the University cemetery Opening UNC's Kwanzaa week, students and other campus members held a candlelight vigil and march on November 30, 1992, in honor of the Africans and African Americans buried in the University cemetery, whom a Black Student Movement organizer called the unknown dead. The paper said it was the third year Kwanzaa had been celebrated at UNC, held early so students could take part. Place: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, December 2, 1992, p. 3
  133. The Collegiate Black Caucus presses Chapel Hill to finish repairing the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery The Collegiate Black Caucus began organizing students as Students for the Improvement of our Ancestry to demand that the town keep its promise to spend $250,000 over five years restoring the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, especially its Black sections, where broken stones and sunken graves remained. The town had told a longtime advocate the work would take four more years. Place: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel HillBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 14, 1992, p. 4
  134. Chapel Hill Town Council funds the Midway Development Commission The council unanimously approved a $6,000 grant to promote Black-owned businesses and housing in the Midway district between Chapel Hill and Carrboro. James Brittian, NAACP president and the commission's project development coordinator, said the money would bring in millions. People: James Brittian, Cal Horton Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 12, 1993, p. 1 (Council OKs grant for black-owned Midway businesses)
  135. Merritt Mill Road neighbors sue UNC over the power plant Six residents of the mostly Black neighborhood around the University's Cameron Avenue power plant filed suit, charging that UNC had ignored their complaints about pollution and noise because of who lived there. Plant superintendent Raymond DuBose said the site had been chosen in 1939 because the railroad, an electric substation and the steam tunnel met there. Place: UNC power plant, Cameron Avenue and Merritt Mill Road, Chapel Hill · Also named: Raymond DuBoseThe Daily Tar Heel, February 1, 1993, p. 1
  136. The Midway Development Commission incorporates as a nonprofit The commission, formed to reinvest in the Midway, the historically Black business area between downtown Chapel Hill and Carrboro, was incorporated in March 1993 with its base at 705 West Rosemary Street. President Harvey Reid told a meeting at Internationalist Books on November 11 that it was studying why money was not invested in predominantly African-American areas and considering building a parking lot. Place: 705 West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Harvey Reid · Also mentions: Internationalist Books, West Rosemary StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, November 12, 1993, p. 3
  137. Chapel Hill Town Council lends $20,000 to start affordable homes in Pine Knolls After more than 30 residents of Pine Knolls, off Merritt Mill Road, told the council the town had let its Black neighborhoods decay while developers bought up land, the council approved a $20,000 loan to move two houses from Durham and renovate them for sale to low-income families, the first step of a plan for 20 homes. A loan for the remaining $70,000 was set for April 26. Place: Pine Knolls, off Merritt Mill Road, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Merritt Mill RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, April 13, 1993, p. 1
  138. The Chapel Hill Town Council lends the Pine Knolls Development Association $70,000 On April 26, 1993 the Chapel Hill Town Council unanimously approved a $70,000 loan to the Pine Knolls Development Association to buy land and build or rehabilitate about 20 homes for low-income families, who would put 2,000 hours of sweat equity into the program. Proceeds from sales were to go back into the fund. Place: Pine Knolls, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, April 27, 1993, p. 3
  139. Chapel Hill police hold a teen speak-out at the Hargraves Center About 25 young people from elementary to high school age met officers and UNC social work graduate students at the Hargraves Recreation Center to talk about crime and relations with police; groups named drug dealing as the worst problem and asked for more teen centers. Officer Matt Sullivan, who organized it, called it the first of many. Place: Hargraves Recreation Center, 216 North Roberson Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Matt SullivanThe Daily Tar Heel, November 12, 1993, p. 1
  140. Chapel Hill Town Council agrees at its retreat to hire more police, with officers for Northside and Pine Knolls At its annual retreat at the Friday Center the council agreed in concept to start hiring more police, including neighborhood officers for Pine Knolls and Northside near downtown, and asked the town manager for 1994-95 budget choices running from no tax increase to 3.7 cents. People: Cal Horton Place: William and Ida Friday Center, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Pine KnollsThe Daily Tar Heel, January 18, 1994, p. 3
  141. Chapel Hill police open a substation on North Graham Street As part of the Bicentennial day, Mayor Ken Broun cut the ribbon on a police substation in a former office at 109 North Graham Street, renovated with donated materials and volunteer labor from local developers and residents, among them the Midway Development Commission. Chief Ralph Pendergraph said the department chose the area for its high-crime reputation and to balance the COP Shop at University Mall in east Chapel Hill, and that volunteers rather than paid staff would keep the office running. People: Cal Horton Place: 109 North Graham Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ken Broun, Ralph Pendergraph · Also mentions: University Mall, North Graham StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, April 25, 1994, p. 3
  142. Campus Y and YMCA volunteers repaint the Pine Knolls Community Center In the first week of April 1994 volunteers from the Campus Y's Child Advocacy Program and the YMCA of Chapel Hill cleaned the Pine Knolls Community Center and repainted its dingy walls yellow with paint given by Lowe's, for the children of the YMCA's after-school program there. Organizers said the run-down building had forced the children to play outside. Place: Pine Knolls Community Center, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: YMCAThe Daily Tar Heel, April 7, 1994, p. 3
  143. Northside, Pine Knolls and Tin Top residents meet Chapel Hill police at the Hargraves Center on neighborhood crime About 75 residents of Northside, Pine Knolls and Tin Top met with Chapel Hill police at the Hargraves Community Center to plan action against break-ins and drug dealing and to strengthen their neighborhood watch. Police Chief Ralph Pendergraph said the department would answer through community policing, adding six officers funded by the Town Council and five paid with federal money, and the residents set another meeting for November 14. Place: Hargraves Community Center, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ralph Pendergraph · Also mentions: Pine KnollsThe Daily Tar Heel, October 26, 1994, p. 3
  144. Chapel Hill Town Council grants $106,089 to help low-income residents The council divided $106,089 in federal community development money among the Inter-Faith Council for job training and substance abuse counseling, the Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action and Midway Development Commission to aid minority-owned businesses, the Pine Knolls Development Association to teach house repair to young people in Pine Knolls, and the Community School for People Under Six for a playground. It also lent $15,000 to the Cookie Bear Company, which a planner said was the town's first loan to a small business. Place: Chapel Hill Town Hall · Also mentions: Inter-Faith Council, Pine KnollsThe Daily Tar Heel, December 7, 1994, p. 3
  145. Northside Gymnasium opens at Hargraves Park Chapel Hill's Northside Gymnasium at William H. Hargraves Park, beside the Hargraves Center on North Roberson Street, opened to the public on June 15, 1998. Construction began April 21, 1997, paid for in part with parks bonds voters approved in November 1996, and the gym was dedicated on September 16, 1998. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Hargraves CenterThe Daily Tar Heel, September 17, 1998, p. 2: Northside Celebrates Gym Opening
  146. Chapel Hill enacts the Northside neighborhood conservation district After residents asked for protection from student-rental conversions, the council enacted the town's first neighborhood conservation district, a zoning overlay limiting house size and height in Northside. An advisory committee drafted it through 2003 before a January 21, 2004 public hearing. Place: Northside, Chapel HillTown of Chapel Hill: Northside Neighborhood Conservation District (council presentation)
  147. Chapel Hill enacts the Pine Knolls neighborhood conservation district The council voted 9-0 to adopt Ordinance O-7 creating the Pine Knolls district, which bans new duplexes, caps floor area at 2,500 square feet and reduces front-yard parking. The Greenwood and Kings Mill/Morgan Creek districts were adopted the same night. Place: Pine Knolls, Chapel HillTown of Chapel Hill: Council business meeting minutes, June 12, 2006
  148. St. Joseph CME Church and UNC begin the Northside oral history partnership Rev. Troy Harrison and UNC professor Della Pollock began collecting oral histories in Northside, the project that grew into the Marian Cheek Jackson Center. People: Marian Cheek Jackson Place: Northside, Chapel Hill · Also named: Troy Harrison, Della PollockMarian Cheek Jackson Center: Our Story
  149. Marian Cheek Jackson Center opens at St. Joseph CME Church The Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History held its ribbon cutting on the second floor of the H.W. Baldwin Fellowship Hall at St. Joseph C.M.E. Church. It is named for Marian Cheek Jackson, the church historian and lifelong Pine Knolls resident. People: Marian Cheek Jackson Place: St. Joseph C.M.E. Church, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Pine KnollsMarian Cheek Jackson Center: Saint Joseph Christian Methodist Episcopal Church historical sketch (2016)
  150. The Greenbridge condominium towers topped out on West Rosemary Street The 10-story and 7-story Greenbridge towers, with 98 condominium units, rose on the former Black business block that had held the Mason Motel. Northside residents opposed the project in an open letter, and restaurant owner Mildred "Mama Dip" Council said rising property values threatened her business. People: Mildred Council Place: West Rosemary Street, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel: Greenbridge leases more than half its units
  151. Council freezes building in Northside and Pine Knolls for six months The council voted 7-0 for a six-month development moratorium in Northside and Pine Knolls, backdated to May 23, 2011, while a community plan was drafted. Jackson Center staff helped organize residents in support. Place: Northside, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Northside and Pine KnollsINDY Week: Chapel Hill freezes Northside, Pine Knolls building for six months
  152. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board decides to build a new Northside Elementary on the old school's site The board announced a new elementary school on the grounds of the Northside school that had closed in 1966, to carry the Northside name. Black families in the Northside neighborhood, whose children had been bused to other schools for decades, welcomed it as a return of their school. Place: Northside Elementary School site, Chapel HillWillow Lung-Amam, "The Not-So-New South Suburbs," RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9, no. 2 (2023), p. 63
  153. Council adopts the Northside and Pine Knolls community plan The council approved three resolutions under the plan, amending both conservation districts with building rules effective February 1, 2012 and a four-vehicle-per-lot parking limit effective September 1, 2012. Place: Northside and Pine Knolls, Chapel HillDaily Tar Heel: New Northside ordinance to limit parking this fall
  154. A new Northside Elementary opened on the old Training School grounds The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools opened a new Northside Elementary on the former Orange County Training School site. In 2012 neighbors had rallied to make sure the new school kept the Northside name. Place: 350 Caldwell Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Orange County Training SchoolFrom the Rock Wall: Orange County Training School
  155. Ethel Fuller Neville dies at 99 in the stone house on Cobb Street Ethel Fuller Neville, widowed in 1960, lived at 107 Cobb Street until her death in 2013 at 99. Her five children all took part in the local civil rights movement, and son Calvin became a stonemason trained by the Campbells. The house stood mostly empty afterward. Place: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, 107 Cobb Street, Carrboro · Also named: Ethel Fuller Neville, Jeter Neville, Calvin NevilleNC State Historic Preservation Office: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, National Register nomination (OR3151), p. 13
  156. UNC, Self-Help, the Jackson Center and the town launch the Northside neighborhood initiative UNC-Chapel Hill committed a $3 million, 10-year, no-interest loan to Self-Help to buy Northside homes as they came on the market and hold them in a land bank for affordable resale or rental. The Jackson Center and the Town of Chapel Hill were partners. People: Mark Kleinschmidt, Carol L. Folt Place: Northside, Chapel HillUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Supporting the Northside Neighborhood Initiative
  157. A stone gateway honoring Northside's freedom fighters was opened at Rosemary and Roberson streets The gateway of Chatham stone carries eight black granite slabs with civil rights images and quotations from oral history interviews. It was opened with a ribbon cutting at the first Northside Festival, as the Jackson Center renamed its annual celebration. People: Hilliard Caldwell Place: West Rosemary and Roberson Streets, Chapel HillThe Marian Cheek Jackson Center: The New Gateway: A Historic Welcome to Northside
  158. Carrboro created a zoning overlay district to protect the Lloyd-Broad neighborhood At residents' request the Board of Aldermen set square-footage and parking limits and a cap of four unrelated occupants per household for the historically African American neighborhood, which had seen more student rentals and larger replacement houses. New building had to comply at once and existing houses were given three years. People: Lydia Lavelle Place: Lloyd-Broad neighborhood, CarrboroChapelboro: Carrboro Approves Overlay District for Downtown Neighborhood
  159. EMPOWERment broke ground on PEACH apartments at the former Pine Knolls Community Center The nonprofit began building 10 debt-free apartments for households earning 30 percent or less of area median income at 107 Johnson Street, where Ted Parrish had run the independent Pine Knolls Community Center. It had raised $3.5 million for the project. Place: 107 Johnson Street, Pine Knolls, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ted Parrish · Also mentions: Pine Knolls Community Center, Johnson StreetChapelboro: PEACH Apartments for Vulnerable Residents Break Ground in Chapel Hill

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Indexed works

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Histories of home : a walk with Northside neighbors

Jackson Center for Saving & Making History · 2021 · Marian Cheek Jackson Center

A folded walking tour map of Northside, the historically African American neighborhood near downtown Chapel Hill, produced by Alexander Stephens for the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History in 2021. One illustrated sheet, 43 by 28 centimeters, folded to pocket size. The walk introduces the neighborhood through its residents' own histories of home.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Northside (Chapel Hill, N.C.) -- Tours.

UNC

African Americans of Durham & Orange Counties

Bolduc, Jean · 2016

Jean Bolduc's 2016 collection of interviews with African American residents of Durham and Orange counties, presented as short biographies. The subjects are Floyd McKissick (1922-1991), the first African American admitted to UNC's law school, Walter Jackson, Brenda Stephens, Nate Davis, poet Jaki Shelton Green, Jackie Wagstaff, Diane Wright and Michelle Johnson, with a closing chapter on the Ku Klux Klan. 125 pages with illustrations.

Included because: The record names this subject alongside a heading for the county or its towns.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 975.656 BOLDUC Duke

Significance report : the Northside Neighborhood, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Mary L. Reeb, consultant · 1989 · Town of Chapel Hill

Consultant Mary L. Reeb's April 1989 report for the Town of Chapel Hill on the significance of the Northside Neighborhood, the historically Black neighborhood north of downtown. Topics include the neighborhood's buildings and dwellings and real estate development in Chapel Hill. Prepared as a working document for the town, it runs to 34 leaves with maps and a two-page bibliography.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Northside Neighborhood (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

UNC

Announcing: the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History

2009

Announcement issued in Chapel Hill in 2009 for the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History, a community history organization in the town's Northside neighborhood.

Included because: Its title names this subject.

UNC

African Americans of Durham and Orange counties : an oral history

Bolduc, Jean · 2016 · The History Press

Jean Bolduc's collection of oral history interviews with Black residents of Durham and Orange counties, published by The History Press in 2016, 125 pages with photographs and portraits. The narrators are the poet Jaki Shelton Green, civil rights lawyer Floyd McKissick, Walter Jackson, Nate Davis, Brenda Stephens, Diane Wright, Jackie Wagstaff and Michelle Johnson, and a closing chapter deals with the Ku Klux Klan. The interviews document Black life and race relations in the two counties across the twentieth century.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Davis, Nate, 1951?-.

NC Cardinal Duke Durham Wake Forest CH Historical Society UNC

Northside neighborhood, Chapel Hill, Orange County : an action-oriented community diagnosis : findings and next steps of action

2005 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A community diagnosis of the Northside neighborhood in Chapel Hill, dated the twelfth of May 2005 and published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Findings on health status and socioeconomic conditions are followed by proposed next steps for action. Topics include community health services for town and county. Appendices A and D are missing from the copy described, and the bibliography sits on leaf 41.

Included because: Its title names this subject.

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Pine Knolls, Chapel Hill and Carr Court, Carrboro, Orange County community diagnosis

1997

A 1997 community diagnosis of two neighborhoods, Pine Knolls in Chapel Hill and Carr Court in Carrboro, dated the tenth of May. Topics include community health services, health status, socioeconomic factors and public opinion in the county. Bound in with it are a list of health services for Orange County and a 1995 guide to services for county parents and young children.

Included because: Its title names this subject.

UNC

A small business incubator for a disadvantaged community : is it the answer for Northside

Chanin, Douglas · 1995 · University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Douglas Chanin's 1995 study weighing a small business incubator as a tool for the Northside neighborhood in Chapel Hill. Forty-seven leaves, filmed on a single microfilm reel by the university library. Topics include African American business enterprises in North Carolina, small business in Chapel Hill and the town's economic conditions, which places the work with local community development research.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Northside Neighborhood (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

UNC

Newsletter, Pine Knolls-Northside communities

1988

Neighborhood newsletter for the Pine Knolls and Northside communities of Chapel Hill, starting in 1988. Issued in volumes at 36 centimeters, the large format of a folded news sheet.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Northside (Chapel Hill, N.C.) -- Periodicals.

UNC

Let the record show, the Hackneys : two early, prominent Black families of Chatham and Orange Counties, NC : a history and genealogy of Charles H. & Antoinette Stone Hackney and Louis Henry and Laura Edwards Hackney

1987 · The Associates

A history and genealogy of two Black families of Chatham and Orange counties, tracing the households of Charles H. Hackney and Antoinette Stone Hackney and of Louis Henry Hackney and Laura Edwards Hackney. Published in 1987 by The Associates, it sets out the family lines from the nineteenth century forward.

Included because: The record names this subject alongside a heading for the county or its towns.

Library of Congress

Chapel Hill - Carrboro : report of a survey conducted by a group participating in a workshop on neighborhood centers.

1966 · Institute of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Report of a survey of Chapel Hill and Carrboro made in 1966 by a group at a workshop on neighborhood centers, sponsored jointly by the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers and the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina. Subjects include the Hargraves Community Center and the Northside neighborhood, and the topic is community center planning and social conditions in the town. Forty-six leaves.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Northside Neighborhood (Chapel Hill, N.C.) -- Social conditions.

UNC

Northside news.

Jackson Center

Community paper for the Northside neighborhoods of Chapel Hill, issued by the Jackson Center and described beneath its title as a print link for the neighborhoods of Northside. Volumes with color illustrations at 36 centimeters.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Northside (Chapel Hill, N.C.) -- Periodicals.

UNC

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Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this storyline. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled. Books marked Wider context cover the broader subject rather than this storyline itself.

  • Foundational · NC 929.209 SCARLETT The Harris Family of Orange County, North Carolina: 318 Years of Black-American Indian Culture Scarlett, Beverly A. · 2019

    Beverly A. Scarlett traces the Harris family of Orange County across what her subtitle calls 318 years of Black-American Indian culture, a family history of mixed African American and Native descent in the county. Published through Lulu in Morrisville in 2019, 95 pages with illustrations, portraits and maps. It concerns both African American and Indigenous genealogy for Orange County.

  • Foundational · NC 975.656 BOLDUC African Americans of Durham & Orange Counties: An Oral History Bolduc, Jean · 2016

    Jean Bolduc's 2016 collection of interviews with African American residents of Durham and Orange counties, presented as short biographies. The subjects are Floyd McKissick (1922-1991), the first African American admitted to UNC's law school, Walter Jackson, Brenda Stephens, Nate Davis, poet Jaki Shelton Green, Jackie Wagstaff, Diane Wright and Michelle Johnson, with a closing chapter on the Ku Klux Klan. 125 pages with illustrations.

  • Foundational · NC 305.896 AND Race and Politics in North Carolina, 1872-1901: The Black Second Anderson, Eric · 1981

    Eric Anderson's political history of North Carolina's Second Congressional District, the Black Second, from 1872 to 1901. The district, where most counties had Black majorities, sent four Black Republicans to Congress: John A. Hyman, James E. O'Hara, Henry P. Cheatham and George H. White, who left in 1901 after the state's disfranchisement amendment of 1900. Louisiana State University Press published the study in 1981, with a bibliography and an index.

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  • Wider context · NC 305.896 BRO Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South Brown, Leslie · 2008

    Leslie Brown's history of Black Durham, the community Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois both admired in the 1910s, from emancipation to the civil rights era. Drawing on interviews and family stories, Brown puts African American women at the center and argues that conflicts of gender and class among Black Durhamites fed their activism. UNC Press, 2008, in the John Hope Franklin series; 451 pages with maps.

  • Foundational · NC 975.6 BLA The Black Presence in North Carolina North Carolina Museum of History · 1978

    An illustrated booklet from 1978 on the history and culture of African Americans in North Carolina, part of a project of the North Carolina Museum of History, with Jeffrey J. Crow and Robert E. Winters Jr. as co-editors. The 55 pages end with a short bibliography.

  • Wider context · NC 975.6 HER The Heritage of Blacks in North Carolina 1990

    Family histories of African American North Carolinians, written largely by the families themselves and drawn from about 85 percent of the state's counties, with articles on Black churches, schools and farm life. Linda Simmons-Henry directed the project for the North Carolina African American Heritage Foundation, with Phillip N. Henry and Carol M. Speas as editors and a foreword by Alex Haley. Published in Raleigh in 1990 as volume one, illustrated, with an index.

  • Wider context · NC 975.6 GAI Becoming Truly Free: 300 Years of Black History in the Carolinas Gaillard, Frye · 1985

    Three centuries of Black history in North and South Carolina, condensed from a series the Charlotte Observer ran in February and March 1982. Frye Gaillard, Richard Maschal and Ed Williams wrote the text and Vanessa Gallman and Jerry Shinn the epilogue; Al Phillips drew the illustrations, and Milton Hinnant and Don Sturkey took the photographs. The newspaper published the 80-page summary in 1985 in cooperation with Johnson C. Smith University.

  • Wider context · NC 975.004 BLA Black Americans in North Carolina and the South 1984

    Jeffrey J. Crow and Flora J. Hatley edited these essays on the history of Black Americans in North Carolina and the wider South, with bibliographies and an index. The University of North Carolina Press published the collection in 1984; 200 pages.

  • Wider context · NC 306.488 WIL Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South Wilson, Emily Herring · 1983

    Older Black women of North Carolina and the South tell their life stories in Emily Herring Wilson's oral biographies, set beside Susan Mullally's portrait photographs, with a foreword by Maya Angelou. Temple University Press of Philadelphia published the 200 pages in 1983.

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