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The Latta Cooperative Dairy at Hillsborough and the Farmers Cooperative Dairy at Chapel Hill, their milk plants, and their 1949 merger.
In briefDairyman H. F. Latta and others formed the Latta Co-operative Dairy in November 1944, began collecting milk from fourteen farmers near Hillsboro that December, and opened their own small milk plant in Hillsborough on June 5, 1945. About fifty dairy farmers of Orange, Durham and Chatham counties bought a Chapel Hill lot for a cooperative plant early in 1945, and the Farmers Cooperative Dairy began building it on West Franklin Street that July and opened it in 1946. On September 1, 1949 the Latta cooperative merged into the Farmers Dairy Cooperative, and by 1955 the old Latta dairy building on East King Street held a shoe repair shop.
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Patrick Cullom and J. Chris Holaday recount the history of restaurants in Chapel Hill and Orange County, with a pictorial strand of photographs and facsimiles. Published in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2020 by American Palate, an imprint of The History Press, 139 pages plus sixteen pages of plates with illustrations, some in color, facsimiles and portraits.
Orvin Lee Shiflett's biography of William Terry Couch, 1901 to 1988, the editor who built up UNC Press at Chapel Hill over four decades in publishing, with a subtitle that calls his career a lightning rod for controversy. Chapters treat culture in the South, a case history in book publishing, objectivity and social science and 'The Sainted Book Burners'. It bears on scholarly publishing and university presses in the twentieth century. McFarland, 2015, 268 pages with illustrations.
J. Ronald Oakley's pictorial history of Mebane, the railroad town on the Orange and Alamance county line, from Arcadia Publishing in 2012, 127 pages of photographs. Chapters cover the railroad, industries, businesses, the Depression and war years, profiles past and present, churches and civic clubs, recreation and sports, school days, and preserving the past. Topics include Mebane's history, economy, buildings and railroads.
A group of materials combining a county planning document with a highway map of Orange County, dated 2012. The planning piece, issued in Raleigh by a state commission, lays out a planning and management process for the county with recommendations on land development. The map, based on the statewide highway planning survey, shows roads, bridges, utilities, public property, businesses and industries across Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough; one copy carries red-pencil notes naming the county's voting precincts.
Holden Thorp, then chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Buck Goldstein make the case for the entrepreneurial university in chapters on entrepreneurial science, enterprise creation, social entrepreneurship, multidisciplinary centers, leadership, academic roles, teaching entrepreneurship, accountability and the new donors. Topics include entrepreneurship at Chapel Hill and academic-industrial collaboration in North Carolina. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2010, 170 pages.
Reviewed in New England journal of entrepreneurship (2011).
Moreton Hobbs Neal's guide to restaurants in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough, published by the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau in 2009 with illustrations by Laura Frankstone. 82 pages with illustrations and a map.
Catalog of an exhibit mounted by the Manuscripts Department of Wilson Library from January 23 to May 31, 2007, on student protest in Chapel Hill during the 1960s. Topics include civil rights demonstrations, the Speaker Ban Law, the Black Student Movement, restaurant strikes and Vietnam War protests at the university. Compiled by Biff Hollingsworth, 59 pages with illustrations and facsimiles, published by the university library.
Telephone directory issued in 2002 by the Talking Phone Book, covering Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough alongside Durham, Butner, Creedmoor, Mebane, Pittsboro, Saxapahaw, Research Triangle Park and the Raleigh-Durham airport. 472 pages with illustrations.
Telephone directory for 2001 issued under the Bell South, Sprint and GTE names, covering the Triangle exchanges with Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough listed alongside Durham, Raleigh, Cary and a dozen smaller places out to Butner, Creedmoor, Wendell and Zebulon. 214 pages. Directories of this kind serve family and business researchers who need to place a name or a firm in a given year.
Small business resource guide for Orange County issued by the Orange County Economic Development Commission in Hillsborough in January 2001, 37 pages with illustrations. A directory of the agencies and programs a start-up could call on at the time.
Maxine Freeland's biography of James John Freeland (1918-1999), a Hillsborough man of the twentieth century, compiled in 1999.
Directory of major employers in Orange County published by the Orange County Economic Development Commission from its Hillsborough office in 1997, 24 pages, accompanied by two shorter lists: Manufacturers in Orange County and Distribution and Assembly Firms in Orange County, North Carolina.
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