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Food, Drink & Local Culture

Sorghum syrup, Brunswick stew, barbecue, and the restaurants and traditions that gave the county its flavor.

In briefSorghum syrup, Brunswick stew, barbecue and the restaurants and traditions that gave the county its flavor. The records here are cookbooks, restaurant histories and local lore.

365 indexed works are connected with this theme. 14 held at OCPL →

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Material

Photographs & portraits 74Histories 37Letters & correspondence 36Periodicals 17Biography 5other types 29

Period

Colonial era (to 1775) 217th century 218th century 7Revolution (1775–1783) 419th century 18Civil War (1861–1865) 1420th century 23World War II era 2

Place

North Carolina (statewide) 224Chapel Hill 199Hillsborough 106Orange County 93City of Durham (neighboring) 12Carrboro 11

Widely held

Papa D

Danziger, Edward G. · 1967

Edward G. Danziger's memoir of love and cooking, published by J. F. Blair in 1967. Danziger (1893 to 1972) ran Danziger's Old World Restaurant in Chapel Hill, and the book tells his life as a restaurateur in the town.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Restaurants -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC BIO DANZIGER DAN UNC Durham Chapel Hill PL CH Historical Society

The recipe : have a seat at our table

Council, Annette Marie · 2005 · NP Press

Annette Marie Council's book about her family and Mama Dip's Country Kitchen, the Chapel Hill restaurant, published by NP Press in 2005. Subjects include African Americans in Chapel Hill, the restaurant's history and family biography. Fourteen introductory pages and 223 pages of text with illustrations, part local history and part family account.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Restaurants.

UNC CH Historical Society

Authentic southern recipes

1972 · Colonial Inn

A cookbook put out in 1972 by the Colonial Inn of Hillsborough, ninety six pages with illustrations and a portrait. The recipes feature Southern dishes served at the inn, alongside material on its history. The title page verso records a fourth printing in 1979.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cooking.

UNC Durham

Selected Hillsboro recipes

1952

Cookbook compiled by the Hillsboro Presbyterian Women and published in Hillsborough in 1952, with 124 illustrated pages of local recipes.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cooking.

UNC DPLA

Ridge Garden United Methodist charge cookbook

Clover Garden United Methodist Church & Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church · 2025 · Clover Garden United Methodist Church

Community cookbook from the Ridge Garden charge, the pairing of Clover Garden United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill and Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church in Efland, published by Clover Garden in 2025. Topics include both congregations' histories as well as cooking in Chapel Hill and Efland. Seven preliminary pages and 130 pages.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cooking.

UNC

A taste of history

Chapel Hill Historical Society · 2009 · Chapel Hill Historical Society

Cookbook from the Chapel Hill Historical Society, published in 2009 and including recipes alongside local history. Topics include cooking and food in Chapel Hill and the history of both, so the collection doubles as a record of what town households put on the table. Of interest to readers of community cookbooks and to anyone tracing local foodways.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Food.

UNC
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Circle of blessings

2007 · Efland UMC

A community cookbook from Efland United Methodist Church in Efland, in western Orange County, published by the church in 2007, that also carries a history of the congregation alongside its recipes. 116 numbered pages with six unnumbered pages at either end, an illustration and a color portrait.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cooking.

UNC

A taste of heaven : a collection of recipes

Cross Roads Baptist Church (Hillsborough, N.C.) · 2005 · Morris Press Cookbooks

Community cookbook from Cross Roads Baptist Church in Hillsborough, printed by Morris Press Cookbooks in 2005 in a three-ring binder. Recipes are credited to their contributors. The book includes Southern cooking, church history and material on the Family House of Chapel Hill. 124 pages of recipes plus front and back matter, with color illustrations.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cooking.

UNC

Recently indexed: The Chapel Hill Service League's Chapel Hill favorites (1982) · Children tested recipies (1966) · Circular (1840) · A commitment to excellence in management (1979) · Ephesus' around the world cookbook : celebrating Ephesus Elementary School's multicultural community! (1993) · The Franklin Street gourmet (1986)

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Start at OCPL

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

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  • Wider context · NC 285.175 MAC Colorful Heritage: An Informal History of Barbecue Presbyterian Church and Bluff Presbyterian Church MacKenzie, James Donald · 1969

    James Donald MacKenzie's history of two Presbyterian congregations: Barbecue Church in Harnett County and Bluff Church in Cumberland County. Barbecue, in a community named for Barbecue Creek, served Gaelic-speaking Scottish settlers, and Flora MacDonald worshipped there in colonial times. Privately printed at Olivia in 1969; xi and 149 pages with portraits. Victor E. Clark's 389-page Colorful Heritage of 1989, for the Harnett County Library, is built on this book and reproduces it.

  • Wider context · NC 641.5 OBRIEN North Carolina's Historic Restaurants and Their Recipes O'Brien, Dawn · 1983

    Restaurants in historic North Carolina buildings, each with a sketch of its history and recipes from its kitchen, gathered by Dawn O'Brien with drawings by Janice Murphy. John F. Blair published the 184 pages, with a map and an index, in 1983.

  • Start here · NC 975.656 BOYD Collective History: Stories of the Colonial Inn Boyd, Amanda · 2021

    Amanda Boyd's stories of the Colonial Inn in Hillsborough, gathered as anecdotes of the inn and of the town's social life. The inn on West King Street is one of Hillsborough's landmarks. Published in Durham in 2021, 120 pages with illustrations, facsimiles, maps and portraits, many in color.

  • Foundational · NC 344.054 NORTH North Carolina Tavern (ordinary) Bonds 2009

    Ordinary bonds, which county courts required of tavern and inn keepers, compiled by Stewart E. Dunaway from originals in the State Archives and covering 1755 to 1874. The bonds come from Bute, Carteret, Chatham, Guilford, Hyde, Mecklenburg, Onslow, Orange, Randolph, Rowan and Surry counties, and an introduction explains how English law licensed the sale of drink and regulated the inn side of an ordinary. Issued in 2009; 267 pages with facsimiles and an index.

  • Wider context · 338.766 MYERS North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries Myers, Erik Lars · 2012

    A guide to North Carolina's craft breweries by Erik Lars Myers, with addresses and telephone numbers, written while he was starting Mystery Brewing Company in Hillsborough, which appears among the breweries listed. John F. Blair of Winston-Salem published the 285 pages in 2012 with illustrations and an index.

  • Wider context · NC 975.6 MAR Carolina Classics Marsh, Carole · 1985

    Carole Marsh pairs recipes with miscellany and anecdotes from both North and South Carolina in this undated collection from Gallopade of Bath, North Carolina, thought to date from about 1985; 173 pages.

In the chronology

Dated events connected with this theme, earliest first. See these 158 dated events in the chronology →

  1. Thirty-eight students petition the faculty over food at Steward's Hall Signers including John Branch complained of too little butter and of beef often unsound and full of vermin. The faculty found the wording defiant and had it rewritten, and suspended John R. Stokes and Elias Foord for refusing to sign the milder version.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 215
  2. D. Yarbrough opens a grocery store in Hillsborough Yarbrough advertised in May 1820 a cash-only grocery in Mr. Bacon's former shoe shop, selling coffee, sugar, rum, brandy, wine, tea, china, glass, nails and powder.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 272-273
  3. Whigs hold a Scott and Graham mass meeting and barbecue at Hillsborough During Superior Court week some 2,000 to 2,500 people marched to a grove on the Chapel Hill road south of Hillsborough for a free Whig barbecue and speeches. William A. Graham, home after resigning from the cabinet to run for vice president, thanked the people of Orange and Alamance, and Willie P. Mangum said he would retire from public life at the end of the next Congress. People: Willie P. Mangum, Hugh WaddellSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 22, 1852, p. 2
  4. Farmers of the Oaks neighborhood pledge to sell food to soldiers' families at fixed prices A plan for Orange farmers to join an association selling necessities to soldiers' families and the poor at set moderate prices (corn at $1 a bushel, pork at $10 a hundred, bacon at 20 cents and beef at 6 cents a pound) came to little when bad weather stopped the January meeting of delegates at Hillsborough, but one neighborhood, the Oaks, sent in a list of a dozen men willing to join, among them William J. Bingham and Thomas D. Oldham, and the Recorder printed it so that families would know where to find supplies. People: William Bingham (1835-1873)Hillsborough Recorder, February 18, 1863, p. 2
  5. Hillsborough licenses food sellers at the depot and hires a paid town patrol The Hillsborough town commissioners ordered that anyone selling cooked food at the railroad depot pay the magistrate of police two dollars a month, under penalty of a fine for white or free people and a whipping for the enslaved, and, because so many of the men liable to patrol duty were away, authorized the magistrate of police to hire two men to patrol the town for the next month.Hillsborough Recorder, March 18, 1863, p. 2
  6. George Trice turns Tom Moore's former house into a restaurant and shoe shop George Trice made the East Franklin Street house where Tom Moore had lived into a restaurant and ice cream parlor with a shoe shop. He gave up the restaurant after his wife died in 1899, and by 1903 a tailor and a shoe shop were in its place. People: George TriceSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 133
  7. Col. H. B. Guthrie opens a grocery store in Chapel Hill Col. H. B. Guthrie opened a grocery store one door below the Long & Norwood store in Chapel Hill. By late October he was selling fresh fish, oysters, bread from the Durham bakeries and sausage.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, October 11, 1879, p. 3
  8. A. B. Roberson and W. F. Stroud form a dry goods and grocery firm Roberson & Stroud announced a partnership in dry goods and groceries at the corner of Franklin and Columbia streets, the old stand of Roberson & Harris, whose drug store had moved to a new store opposite the campus.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, April 10, 1880, p. 3
  9. A. F. Hall opens a grocery in the Cheek building north of the court house A. F. Hall, back in Hillsborough from Winston with his family, opened a grocery and notions store in the Cheek building just north of the court house.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 30, 1886, p. 3
  10. Revenue officers seize James A. Cheek's registered distillery at Hillsborough A deputy revenue collector seized the registered distillery of James A. Cheek of Hillsborough, the Republican nominee for the legislature, alleging that his warehouse receipts and books did not agree. Cheek's side answered that his son had entered sales in the wrong book.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 6, 1894, p. 3
  11. George Trice advertises his oyster restaurant and shoe shop opposite the Chapel Hill Hotel George Trice's advertisement in The Tar Heel offered fresh oysters three times a week, fries, stews, steaks and eggs, board at $10 a month, and neat shoe repairing at low cost, all at his place opposite the Chapel Hill Hotel.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Tar Heel, October 11, 1894, p. 3 (advertisement)
  12. John Crawford opens a grocery store opposite the Hillsborough court house John Crawford opened a grocery store opposite the west side of the court house, one door north of Laws's furniture store, and the paper reported his trade growing.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 27, 1895, p. 3
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  1. Gooch's Café opens in Chapel Hill with seven seats Gooch's Café began feeding university students in Chapel Hill about 1903, with seven seats by its own later account. It stayed a student gathering place for more than fifty years.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Tar Heel, April 30, 1927, p. 2 · Also: The Tar Heel, December 11, 1923, p. 4
  2. The old Belle Hutchins house becomes a restaurant The former home of Miss Belle Hutchins, daughter of John R. Hutchins, was turned into a restaurant with living quarters.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 189
  3. The university football team's training table is set up at George Trice's restaurant The athletic association's advisory committee decided to set up a training table for as many as eighteen football players at George Trice's restaurant, under Dr. R. B. Lawson. Each player paid eleven dollars a month, about what the players had been paying for board, and the team manager paid the other seven.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Tar Heel, October 3, 1907, p. 3 (Advisory Committee Meets)
  4. George Trice, who ran an oyster restaurant and shoe shop on Franklin Street, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery George Trice (1838-1915), an African American businessman who kept an oyster restaurant and a shoe repair shop on Franklin Street, was buried in the cemetery's Black section. People: George TriceSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, National Register nomination (OR0496), p. 23
  5. Mary Owen Graham is endorsed as supervisor of Orange County's canning clubs The commissioners approved Graham, of Charlotte, to lead the county's canning clubs, the start of extension work with farm women. In 1916 they renewed $250 a year for tomato club work.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 214
  6. The school board names Lula Cassidy rural supervisor and county canning agent A week after electing Mary O. Graham supervisor, the board chose Lula Cassidy as rural supervisor and canning agent. In 1916 it put her in charge of a county-wide school commencement in Hillsboro. People: Lula M. CassidySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 63
  7. J. Cheshire Webb is named Orange County's food administrator On September 20, 1917, State Food Administrator Henry A. Page appointed J. Cheshire Webb of Hillsborough food administrator for Orange County, with R. A. Eubanks as administrator for Chapel Hill. The record says no mill in the county broke a Food Administration rule. People: J. Cheshire Webb, Eugene Cunningham Branson, Robert A. EubanksSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 52
  8. Eugene C. Branson urges county teachers to back the food conservation drive At a court house meeting of teachers and school committeemen called by J. C. Webb, Branson explained why food conservation mattered, and Mrs. Isaac Manning described her work in the south end of the county. Forty-two teachers attended, and the meeting laid the plan to register every woman at her school house on October 27. People: J. Cheshire WebbSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 53
  9. Orange County women sign the food pledge at their school houses On Saturday, October 27, 1917, committees at every school house in the county registered the women of the district and asked each to sign the Food Administration pledge. A house-to-house canvass of every housewife followed from October 29 to November 4. People: J. Cheshire Webb, Eugene Cunningham BransonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 53
  10. Gus Paviakis opens the Carolina Confectionery, later the Carolina Coffee Shop Paviakis opened the Carolina Confectionery in the space the University Athletic Shop had used. George Livas and James Gust later bought it and renamed it the Carolina Coffee Shop. People: George LivasSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 221
  11. Fire destroys Gooch's Café and a row of frame stores in Chapel Hill An early-morning fire, thought to have started in Gooch's Café, burned five frame buildings in the business district, among them Pendergraft's grocery, Peace's barber shop and Foister's book store. Summer school students carried out the bookstore's stock, and the loss was put at $35,000.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Tar Heel, July 20, 1920, p. 1 · Also: The Tar Heel, November 9, 1920, p. 1
  12. A neighborhood grocery is built at 425-427 West King Street A one-story frame grocery was built around 1921 at 425-427 West King Street; the 1924 Sanborn map shows it as commercial, and by 1943 it had been made into a duplex. A small store facing South Nash Street was added at its rear after 1943.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), 425-427 W. King Street (Grocery/Duplex)
  13. William B. Neal opens the Hill Bakery in Chapel Hill Neal started the bakery in 1921 on the lot later taken by Strowd Motor Company. After his death Mrs. Neal ran it until 1945, and it supplied most of the town's bread for over thirty years.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 285
  14. Sutton's Drug Store opens on Franklin Street J. L. Sutton and J. L. Alderman, a UNC pharmacy graduate, opened the Sutton and Alderman drugstore with a soda fountain in the Strowd Building on Franklin Street, in space vacated by Jack Sparrow's shop. As Sutton's Drug Store it marked its centennial in 2023 as a downtown gathering place.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 5, 1923, page 4: Changes on Franklin Street
  15. The Carolina Inn is built John Sprunt Hill built the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill. People: John Sprunt HillSearch the index · NCpedia
  16. Lueco Lloyd builds the brick store that houses Hearn's grocery After the December 1924 fire that began in the Pendergraph boarding house, Lueco Lloyd put up a one-story brick building at 102 East Main Street as rental property, with T. C. Thompson as contractor. His only tenant was John Hearn, who had moved his grocery from Chapel Hill after World War I and ran what by 1983 was Carrboro's oldest business.Search the index · Town of Carrboro: Brown, McSwain and Florin, Carrboro, N.C.: An Architectural and Historical Inventory (1983), p. 34 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 23, 1924, p. 1
  17. Brodie S. Carr opens a grocery in a small filling-station building north of Hillsboro Out of work after losing his timekeeper job at Eno Cotton Mills, Brodie S. Carr opened a grocery in a small frame service-station building on the northern edge of Hillsboro. It grew into Carr's Super Market. People: Brodie S. CarrSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, March 2, 1950, sec. 2 p. 1 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 9, 1961, p. 13
  18. Lawyer J. Clyde Ray finishes a two-story office building with a restaurant on Churton Street J. Clyde Ray built a two-story brick building, about $10,000 with its lot, with his law offices on one side of the ground floor and a restaurant run by Arthur Crabtree on the other. It also held six offices, a lodge room and a rest room for women shopping in town.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, April 30, 1925, p. 6 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 26, 1925, p. 1
  19. George Livas and James Gust go into partnership at the Carolina Confectionary George Livas formed a partnership with James Gust in 1929 and began operating the Carolina Confectionary as a restaurant as well; it became the Carolina Coffee Shop.Search the index · Chapel Hill Weekly (DigitalNC): George Livas Dies Unexpectedly Sunday, February 14, 1956, p. 1
  20. The Friendly Cafeteria opens on East Franklin Street in the old University Cafeteria space The Webber brothers of High Point, who ran Friendly Cafeterias in several North Carolina cities, bought the fixtures of the failed University Cafeteria at auction and reopened the space as a Friendly Cafeteria able to serve about 200 people.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, April 25, 1930, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, April 4, 1930, p. 8
  21. Mr. Brooks and J. I. Chandler open the NC Cafeteria in the later Porthole building Mr. Brooks, a former manager of Gooch's cafe and the Carolina Coffee Shop, and J. I. Chandler opened the NC Cafeteria in 1935 in the building later home to the Porthole restaurant. The cafeteria moved to a new location in 1944.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 14, 1949, p. 7
  22. Harry Stern moves his Carolina Grill into a new building on East Franklin Street Harry Stern moved his Carolina Grill, a restaurant and delicatessen, into a larger new building that T. C. Atwood put up on the lot next to the Model Market. The Weekly counted it among the year's new business buildings. People: Thomas C. AtwoodSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 18, 1936, p. 4 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 26, 1936, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 18, 1936, p. 1
  23. 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.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 255
  24. Farm women open the Orange County curb market in Carrboro A curb market run by Orange County farm women opened in the former McCauley store in Carrboro, selling vegetables, fruit, chickens, eggs, sausage, preserves and canned goods. It was organized with the county home demonstration agent, with thirteen women signed on as sellers before opening.Search the index · Chapel Hill Weekly: Curb Market Tomorrow (September 10, 1937)
  25. The Orange County Women's Market moves from Carrboro to Chapel Hill The farm women's market begun in Carrboro the previous September reopened in the old Methodist church building at Henderson Street and Rosemary Lane, a block from the Chapel Hill post office, open on Saturdays. About twenty women sold regularly, poultry and cakes led its sales of about $120 a week, and it was run with the home demonstration agent, Grace Holcombe.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 14, 1938, p. 1
  26. Bayard Wootten and Ben Bunker publish Ways and Byways of Chapel Hill The Wootten-Moulton studio published a picture booklet of the village pairing Wootten's photographs with light captions written by Ben Bunker, printed by Edwards and Broughton of Raleigh. Its scenes include the Davie Poplar, the Franklin Street stores, the Saturday women's curb market and University Lake.Search the index · Ben Bunker and Bayard Wootten, Ways and Byways of Chapel Hill (1939), scan p. 3
  27. Edward Danziger opens a candy kitchen on Franklin Street Edward G. Danziger, a candy maker whose family name was well known in Vienna, opened a candy kitchen with a tea-and-coffee room in the Munch building on Franklin Street, where Gooch's restaurant had been. He sold candy and ice cream with fresh fruit and planned to add Viennese and Turkish coffee, tea and pastries. The family business later included Danziger's Old World Gift Shop.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 22, 1939, p. 6 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 28, 1939, p. 1; Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan; NC State Historic Preservation Office: Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation, National Register nomin; Open Orange: Danziger's Old World Candy Shop / Danziger's Old World Restaurant / Danziger's Old World Gift Shop
  28. Wilbur Kutz opens The Varsity, a clothing store with a basement soda fountain Kutz's clothing store on the north side of East Franklin had a soda fountain downstairs that drew a crowd.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 267
  29. Robert Rhinehart buys the Hill Bakery from Mrs. William Neal Rhinehart bought the bakery that William Brumfield Neal's widow had run since his death in 1935.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 267
  30. Len Hearn buys the East Main Street building his family grocery rents After John Hearn died his son Len ran the store as L. D. Hearn, bought the building in 1944 and extended the back three times. It became L. D. Hearn & Son in the 1950s and, under grandson James, Hearn's Grocery.Search the index · Town of Carrboro: Brown, McSwain and Florin, Carrboro, N.C.: An Architectural and Historical Inventory (1983), p. 34
  31. Rev. Joe Brooks is a Ridge Road leader in the Black farm families' wartime food drive Black neighborhood, 4-H and home demonstration club leaders across Orange County pooled efforts to produce and conserve more food for their families and the war effort in 1944. Rev. Joe Brooks was one of the leaders named for the Ridge Road neighborhood.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, March 23, 1944, p. 4
  32. Home demonstration clubs report the year's work at Achievement Day in Hillsboro At the county home demonstration clubs' Achievement Day at the courthouse, the home agent reported that women had canned an average of 350 quarts and that 94 percent made their own clothes, and that the women's curb market in Chapel Hill had taken in $30,280.68 over the past year. Clubs from Caldwell, Carr, Cedar Grove, Efland, New Hope, Orange Grove, St. Mary's, Schley and Murphy had made 699 garments and 744 other articles for the Red Cross.Search the index · News of Orange County: Achievement Day report of the county home demonstration clubs (December 7, 1944)
  33. George Livas becomes sole owner of the Carolina Coffee Shop George Livas's partnership with James Gust ended and Livas became sole owner of the Carolina Coffee Shop, which he ran until his death in 1956.Search the index · Chapel Hill Weekly (DigitalNC): George Livas Dies Unexpectedly Sunday, February 14, 1956, p. 1
  34. James Freeland opens a barbecue pit behind his Fairview Bowling Alley James Freeland opened a barbecue pit behind the Fairview Bowling Alley and began serving barbecue every day. As with the alley, he built most of it himself. People: James J. FreelandSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, April 5, 1945, p. 5 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 15, 1945, p. 2
  35. The Terrace View supper club opens on the Greensboro road west of Chapel Hill The Terrace View, a dining and dancing club about five miles out the Greensboro road, was "christened" on Saturday, May 26, 1945 with a private ATO fraternity party held partly on its roof garden. By December it was open to the public every night, for couples only.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Tar Heel, May 29, 1945, p. 2 · Also: The Tar Heel, December 15, 1945, p. 5
  36. Fire destroys the barbecue pit at Dud's Tavern near Hillsborough A Monday afternoon fire destroyed the barbecue pit building and its contents at Dud's Tavern, with damage put at $1,800. The fire had gained too much headway by the time the Hillsborough fire department reached it.Search the index · DigitalNC: News of Orange County, July 25, 1946, p. 1
  37. A community cannery is set up at Aycock School G. A. Munn and E. F. Cude told the board in July 1947 that the cannery at Aycock School had used $3,500 and needed $1,500 more to finish.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 81
  38. The Hickory House restaurant opens in downtown Hillsborough E. W. Godfrey's Hickory House opened to the public at noon on a Saturday after an informal inspection the night before, and became a regular meeting place for town merchants and clubs. In May 1948 it installed air conditioning, which the paper called a first for a Hillsboro business.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, February 27, 1947, p. 6 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 6, 1948, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 27, 1947, p. 4
  39. Dr. S. A. Nathan opens the Curve Inn, a curb-service stand on Strowd Hill Dr. S. A. Nathan opened the Curve Inn, a curb-service place on the Durham road halfway down Strowd Hill, with his son Marx as co-manager. It sold beer, sandwiches and fried chicken and was known for the pronto pup, a batter-dipped hot dog. People: S. A. NathanSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 4, 1947, p. 8 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 4, 1947, p. 4
  40. The Terrace View supper club opens a new building beside its first one George J. Captain, who ran the Terrace View, held the official opening of a new building with a main floor and a mezzanine, added to the old one, which was kept for private parties. Ads that fall invited students to dine and dance in its "NEW home".Search the index · DigitalNC: Daily Tar Heel, October 2, 1947, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 25, 1947, p. 2
  41. Charlie McAdams and George Crawford Amick open the A & M Grill in Mebane Charlie McAdams Sr., who had sold barbecue from a service station kitchen since 1947, opened the A & M Grill with building owner George Crawford Amick. The name joined their two initials.Search the index · Mebane Enterprise, Karen Carter, "A & M Grill: Slice of life remembered," November 3, 2011 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 2, 1952, p. 10
  42. Ted Danziger opens the Rathskeller in the basement of his father's candy shop Edward Danziger's son Ted opened the Rathskeller in the basement of the Danziger candy store on Franklin Street. The Hall of Fame credits it with being the first local restaurant to serve draft beer.Search the index · Chapel Hill-Carrboro Business Hall of Fame: Edward and Theodore Danziger
  43. Fire guts Pete McPherson's cafe and pool hall in West Hillsborough A fire that started in a defective flue gutted the frame and brick building near the Black school in West Hillsboro where Pete McPherson ran a cafe with a pool and beer hall. Most of the stock was saved, but all the pool tables were lost.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, January 8, 1948, p. 1 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 8, 1949, p. 10
  44. Fowler's Food Store opens its new building on West Franklin Street Fowler's Food Store, successor to the old Model Market, held a grand opening in a new 80-by-200-foot building on West Franklin Street, with a parking lot reaching through to Rosemary Street. Robert L. Fowler of Chapel Hill and Marvin M. Fowler of Durham owned the store.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 23, 1948, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 23, 1948, p. 5
  45. Miltos Tassos buys J. Edgar Merritt's West Franklin property and opens the Cafe Mouza Tassos renovated the building he bought from Merritt, next to 107 West Franklin, and opened it as The Cafe Mouza.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 291
  46. Superintendent Proffit's $1 million school bond pays for a new Efland school for Black children and county lunchrooms The $1,000,000 school bond passed under Superintendent Glenn T. Proffit paid for grounds and a building for the Efland school for Black children, an addition to Hillsboro High School, and lunchrooms at Aycock, Efland, West Hillsborough and White Cross. It also bought a cannery and gymnasium at Aycock and a remodeling and auditorium at Caldwell. People: Glenn T. ProffitSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 129
  47. Andrews and Riggsbee sell their Carrboro grocery to two other men named Andrews and Riggsbee The partners Andrews and Riggsbee sold their Carrboro grocery to two men also named Andrews and Riggsbee, who kept the store's name. The sellers kept the tractor business they had bought from Bruce Strowd, which was moving into a new building on Greensboro Street. People: Bruce StrowdSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 24, 1950, p. 6 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 30, 1959, p. 5
  48. B. S. Carr Grocery reopens as Carr's Super Market, Hillsboro's first supermarket After a full renovation, the B. S. Carr Grocery reopened as a self-service supermarket with an open meat counter, refrigerated produce cases and parking for 50 cars. The paper called Carr the owner of the first supermarket in the Hillsboro area. People: Brodie S. CarrSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, March 2, 1950, sec. 2 p. 1 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 9, 1961, p. 13
  49. The Terrace View Supper Club is advertised for foreclosure sale After Efthimios and Virginia Mariakakis defaulted on a deed of trust, a trustee advertised the 32.5-acre tract "commonly known as the Terrace View Supper Club" for auction on the premises on December 9, 1950. A second trustee advertised a sale for December 30 under another deed of trust.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 10, 1950, p. 7 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 15, 1950, p. 13
  50. The Hong Kong, an American-Chinese restaurant, opens in the former Curve Inn The Hong Kong, advertised as an American-Chinese restaurant, held its grand opening on the site of the former Curve Inn on the Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 17, 1952, p. 7
  51. Matthew Strum takes over Dud's Tavern Dud's Tavern advertised that it was under the new ownership and management of Matthew Strum, offering home-cooked food along with gas, oil and auto service.Search the index · DigitalNC: News of Orange County, March 5, 1953, p. 8
  52. Robert Rhinehart sells the Hill Bakery to Thell Jernigan, who renames it Thell's Bakery Rhinehart, who had bought the East Franklin bakery in 1943 from Mrs. William Brumfield Neal, sold it to Jernigan, and the new owner put his own name on it. Thell's Bakery stayed in business into the mid-1980s.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 303
  53. The Marathon Restaurant leaves its East Franklin Street building The Marathon, a sandwich shop and restaurant in the building later numbered 115 East Franklin Street since the 1930s, gave up the building in the week before June 4, 1954. The College Cafe's owners had bought it from the J. T. Durham estate.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 4, 1954, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 7, 1959, p. 2
  54. Dud's Tavern reopens after a July fire Mr. and Mrs. Dud Walters thanked the Hillsborough and Mebane fire departments for helping save Dud's Tavern from a July fire and announced that business would resume on Sunday, August 1.Search the index · DigitalNC: News of Orange County, July 29, 1954, p. 3
  55. The College Cafe moves across Franklin Street into the former Marathon building Max Yarbrough and Jesse West moved their College Cafe from the Robbins building across Franklin Street into the former Marathon Restaurant, which they had bought and rebuilt. It reopened next door to Rose's store with new equipment and seats for 40.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 20, 1954, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 13, 1954, p. 1
  56. Harry Macklin comes back to Chapel Hill to reopen Harry's Grill in the old Campus Cafe Harry Macklin, who had run Harry's Grill until 1944, bought the Campus Cafe two doors from the post office and reopened it as a new Harry's Grill and delicatessen. The town board granted him a beer and wine permit.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 17, 1954, p. 1
  57. Mrs. Marvin Ivey reopens Ivey's Cafe in Carrboro after her husband's death Ivey's Cafe, run for 29 years by Marvin C. Ivey and his wife, closed for eight months after his death the spring before. Mrs. Ivey reopened it herself in May 1955.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 6, 1955, p. 15 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 15, 1949, p. 3
  58. Stuart Adler buys and runs Hillsboro's Hickory House restaurant Stuart Adler, in the restaurant business since 1928 and for seven years with Harry Stern at Harry's in Chapel Hill, bought the Hickory House and took over running it, with his wife to join him from Washington.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 23, 1955, p. 5
  59. Aldermen rezone part of the Porthole lot so the restaurant can expand Over the objections of University officials, the Chapel Hill aldermen rezoned 6,400 square feet of the Porthole restaurant's lot from residential to business use so that owner M. M. Timmons could enlarge the restaurant. It had been a nonconforming use on land zoned residential near the campus.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 16, 1955, p. 16
  60. The Tempo Room, a basement beer and sandwich lounge, opens on East Franklin Street The Tempo Room opened at noon in the basement space next to Town and Campus that had held the Baby Shop, selling beer and sandwiches in a room designed by Hank Gifford for about 75 people. J. D. Wright ran it.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 11, 1956, p. 6 · Also: Chapel Hill News Leader, May 3, 1956, p. 6
  61. Gooch's Café serves its last meal and becomes Green's Cafe Gooch's Café, a Chapel Hill fixture for more than half a century and owned since the 1940s by Clarence Simmons, served its last meal under that name. The next morning Charles T. Green of Durham took it over as Green's Cafe.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill News Leader, December 20, 1956, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 29, 1949, p. 3
  62. Sophie Livas sells the Carolina Coffee Shop to Donald Belton Sophie Livas, who had run the Carolina Coffee Shop since her husband George's death in 1956, sold it to Donald Belton, who took over on February 1, 1957.Search the index · Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): Local Restaurant Changes Hands, January 15, 1957, p. 1
  63. Watts Restaurant holds its grand opening on the Pittsboro highway south of Chapel Hill The new Watts Restaurant, a concrete-block building a mile south of town on the Pittsboro highway with counter, booths and private dining rooms, advertised its gala opening in mid-August 1957 after first advertising as Chapel Hill's newest restaurant in early July.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 13, 1957, p. 7 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 13, 1957, p. 6; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 5, 1957, p. 5
  64. Wes and Nancy Thompson hold a grand opening of the South 501 Restaurant under their ownership Under the new ownership and management of Wes and Nancy Thompson, the South 501 Restaurant on the Durham highway bypass, across from the Valley Drive-In, announced its grand opening, with steaks, curb service and a tap room.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 23, 1957, p. 7 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 20, 1957, p. 5
  65. J. K. Ellis reopens his East Franklin Street grill as the Village Cafeteria After a summer of renovation, J. K. Ellis reopened his Village Grill as the Village Cafeteria, the last step in turning the old four-lane bowling alley he had bought in the mid-1940s into a full restaurant.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 7, 1958, p. 6 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 6, 1963, p. 2
  66. La Pizza holds its grand opening on Carrboro's West Main Street La Pizza opened on Friday, November 8, 1957, selling only pizza, in eight kinds and two sizes, under candlelight with checkered tablecloths. Chuck Gerke ran it as operator.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 8, 1957, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 8, 1957, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 15, 1957, p. 1
  67. Ted Danziger opens the Zoom-Zoom, a carryout restaurant on West Franklin Street Ted Danziger opened Zigger's Zoom-Zoom, a carryout and home delivery restaurant managed by Hal Sieber, a block from his Rathskeller. Its menu ran from rotisserie chicken to lasagna in casseroles.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 21, 1960, p. 7 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 7, 1960, p. 11; Chapel Hill Weekly, January 28, 1960, p. 10
  68. Lincoln High students picket Colonial Drug and sit in at the Bus Station Cafe The day after the sit-in, nearly 100 Black high school students picketed Colonial Drug after manager John Carswell roped off its booths, while others filled the counter at the Bus Station Cafe until proprietor Leo Eliadis closed it and were served standing at the Long Meadow Dairy Bar. People: Harold Foster, Hilliard CaldwellDigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, March 3, 1960, p. 1
  69. The Gormleys take over Dud's Tavern as Gormley's Truck Stop and Restaurant Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Gormley, who had run the Castle Steak House in Durham, took over Dud's Tavern on Highway 70 and advertised it as Gormley's Truck Stop and Restaurant.Search the index · DigitalNC: News of Orange County, February 25, 1960, p. 2
  70. James Freeland's General Sherman Restaurant opens at US 70 and Interstate 85 The General Sherman Restaurant, built by James Freeland across the highway from his General Joseph E. Johnston Motel, opened around the clock and was billed as Orange County's newest. Its advertising placed it a mile and a half from Bennett Place, where Johnston surrendered to Sherman in 1865. It became a common place for Democratic Party dinners and club luncheons in the early 1960s. People: James J. FreelandSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, March 2, 1961, p. 6 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 9, 1961, p. 8
  71. Leo Eliadis closes his bus station grill and opens Leo's Restaurant on West Franklin Street After a Duke student sat in the Black section of the Chapel Hill bus station grill in June 1961 and was arrested at Leo Eliadis's request, Eliadis shut the grill. By early September he had opened Leo's Restaurant on West Franklin Street.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 4, 1961, p. 1 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 21, 1961, p. 2
  72. Dud Walters reopens his old tavern as Dud's Fish House J. Dud Walters and his wife reopened the former Dud's Tavern and Truck Stop after renovations as Dud's Fish House and Restaurant, serving fish and seafood with curb service and take-home orders.Search the index · DigitalNC: News of Orange County, November 9, 1961, p. 8
  73. T. P. Smith and his wife take over the General Sherman Restaurant T. P. Smith, just retired after 20 years in the State Highway Patrol, and his wife Betsy, who had supervised the Cameron Park School lunchroom, took over running the General Sherman Restaurant on Interstate 85 at US 70. In May 1963 she was named lunchroom manager for the new Orange High School.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, February 1, 1962, p. 9
  74. James Riley opens the Hillsboro Fish Market in the old Godfrey's store on Highway 70 James Riley opened the Hillsboro Fish Market on Highway 70 West, in front of Kenan Oil Company in the former Godfrey's Home Supply store, selling fresh fish cleaned free. By August 1962 it had moved to his old market next to Eno Methodist Church.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, February 22, 1962, p. 9 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 1, 1962, p. 8; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 2, 1962, p. 12
  75. Neal's Restaurant opens beside the Dixie Motor Inn south of Hillsborough Neal Humphries, a Durham restaurant man for 15 years, opened Neal's Restaurant next to the new Dixie Motor Inn at I-85 and NC 86. It seated 75, stayed open around the clock and served steaks, seafood and fried chicken.Search the index · DigitalNC: News of Orange County, September 27, 1962, p. 2 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 27, 1962, p. 6
  76. Student pickets begin marching outside the segregated College Cafe The Student Peace Union and the NAACP put pickets in front of the segregated College Cafe on East Franklin Street, saying they would keep on until it integrated. The picketing led to the forming of the Committee for Open Business that May.DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, April 7, 1963, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 22, 1963, p. 1
  77. Gerard Tempest opens Villa Tempesta, an arts center and café, on East Franklin Street More than 2,000 people toured artist Gerard Tempest's Villa Tempesta, an Italian-style villa built from pieces of the old Duke and Watts mansions in Durham, at its open house; its studios and espresso café opened for regular business the following Thursday.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, May 9, 1963, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 19, 1963, p. 14
  78. Karen Parker is arrested at a sit-in at Leo's restaurant Parker, UNC's first Black woman undergraduate and a CORE member, went with other demonstrators to Leo's, a segregated restaurant in downtown Chapel Hill, where they were arrested and taken to jail. She described it in her diary entry of December 18.Search the index · UNC University Archives, History on the Hill: Karen Parker: A Woman to Remember
  79. Watts Restaurant protests Sit-ins at the segregated Watts Restaurant and Motel on South Columbia Street began on January 2, 1964. Over the next days demonstrators were urinated on, hosed and struck with a broom handle, and Duke and UNC faculty were among those arrested. The owners held out after the Civil Rights Act and desegregated on July 10, 1964.Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): January 7, 1964, page 1
  80. Thirty-nine demonstrators are arrested sitting on the steps of Brady's Restaurant On a Sunday night, 39 demonstrators, seven of them white, were arrested after sitting three deep on the front steps of the segregated Brady's Restaurant and blocking the door. The night before, 53 had been arrested in sit-downs in front of Brady's and the Rock Pile.DigitalNC: Daily Tar Heel, February 4, 1964, p. 1
  81. A Burger Chef hamburger stand opens at 337 West Rosemary Street A Burger Chef franchise opened at 337 West Rosemary Street at 11 a.m. on May 6, 1964, selling 15-cent broiled hamburgers, shakes and fries. A week later it was advertising for more help.Search the index · DigitalNC: Daily Tar Heel, May 5, 1964, p. 4 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, May 13, 1964, p. 4
  82. Austin Watts and his staff attack civil rights testers at Watts Restaurant The night after the Civil Rights Act was signed, a mixed group of testers seeking service at Watts Restaurant was turned away and, the testers said, attacked with fists and clubs, and owner Austin Watts was charged with striking Pete Leak. Watts was convicted of assault in Chapel Hill Recorder's Court on July 21 and fined the costs of court.DigitalNC: Daily Tar Heel, July 9, 1964, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, July 9, 1964, p. 7; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 23, 1964, p. 3
  83. The Ku Klux Klan calls a rally in a field across from the General Sherman Restaurant Robed Klansmen handed out bills in Hillsborough for a night rally at Interstate 85 and US 70, where scores of hooded members were expected in a field across from the General Sherman Restaurant.DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, July 22, 1965, p. 4
  84. James J. Freeland opens the Daniel Boone Inn and restaurant at South Churton Street and I-85 A 1966 plat of the "Daniel Boone Inn and Restaurant Tract", eleven acres lying behind the Shell station on the northeast side of the interchange, shows a pond, a general store, a restaurant later known as the D. B. Cafeteria and a long two-story motel. It was the start of Daniel Boone Village. People: James J. FreelandSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 21
  85. Pete Galifianakis opens Hector's Restaurant on East Franklin Street Hector's opened in 1969 under the slogan 'Famous Since 1969'. After a fire left only its outer walls, it was rebuilt and reopened in the mid-1990s.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 335
  86. UNC food workers' strike On February 23, 1969 food service workers at UNC's Lenoir Hall left their counters and sat down at the cafeteria tables, and by the next morning nearly 100 dining hall employees had refused to report for work. The strike ended on March 21 when the University agreed to raise the hourly minimum from $1.60 to $1.80, pay roughly $180,000 in back wages, and appoint a Black supervisor. People: Mary Smith, Elizabeth Brooks, J. Carlyle Sitterson, Robert W. Scott, Julius L. Chambers, Preston DobbinsUNC Libraries: Foodworkers' Strike, I Raised My Hand To Volunteer
  87. An early-morning fire guts the Tempo Room on East Franklin Street A fire found at 4:15 a.m. destroyed Pete Galifianakis's Tempo Room in the basement under Town and Campus, which took smoke damage; three fire trucks had it out within an hour. Within days a "new" Tempo Room was serving beer in a basement at another spot.Search the index · DigitalNC: Daily Tar Heel, April 29, 1969, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, May 2, 1969, p. 2
  88. UNC hands campus dining to the SAGA Food Service contract Two months after settling the spring strike the University signed a contract with SAGA Food Services on May 19, 1969, ending its own management of campus dining. SAGA laid off many temporary and part-time workers within weeks, which set up the second strike that autumn.UNC Libraries: Foodworkers' Strike, I Raised My Hand To Volunteer
  89. UNC foodworkers strike a second time About 250 of UNC's 275 cafeteria workers, organized as the UNC Non-Academic Employees Union, struck SAGA Food Services on November 7, 1969 over pay, job reclassification, and the firing of workers for union activity. They voted on November 21 to affiliate with AFSCME, and the strike was settled in December after Ralph Abernathy visited the strikers and Black students from across the state threatened to converge on the campus. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Mary Smith, Elizabeth BrooksUNC Libraries: Foodworkers' Strike, I Raised My Hand To Volunteer
  90. Restaurateur Edward "Papa D" Danziger is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Edward "Papa D" Danziger (1893-1972), whose Chapel Hill restaurants fed generations of students, was buried in the cemetery. People: Edward G. DanzigerSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, National Register nomination (OR0496), p. 23
  91. The Burger Chef in downtown Chapel Hill closes The downtown Burger Chef shut in December 1972, one of several eating places the 1973 merchants survey found changing hands or going out of business.Search the index · Robert M. Leary and Associates, Central Chapel Hill (1973), scan p. 30
  92. Spanky's Restaurant takes the place of Sloan's Drugstore on East Franklin Street Sloan's, open since 1948, gave way to Spanky's, one of eight restaurants that opened on East Franklin in these years.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 345
  93. The produce stand Rachel Crook started at Merritt Mill Road gives way to a used-car lot After about 35 years, the stand at the corner of West Franklin and Merritt Mill Road closed, and Brooks & Tobin put a used-car lot there. Crook's Corner later opened on the same corner.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 345
  94. Mickey Ewell opens Harrison's, a basement bar with a dress code, on Franklin Street Harrison's, a downstairs bar in downtown Chapel Hill named for its owner Harrison "Mickey" Ewell, opened with a doorkeeper and a dress code aimed at an uptown crowd, and turned away men in tank shirts on its opening night.Search the index · DigitalNC: Daily Tar Heel, June 12, 1975, p. 12
  95. Work begins on the shopping mall in Carr Mill and its new grocery and drug store building The first phase of the mill's redevelopment, the ground-floor shopping mall, the new grocery and drug store building and site work, began in August 1976. It was paid for with a $1.2 million construction loan from Mutual Savings and Loan of Charlotte, and Wooten-Brawley and Company of Statesville was the contractor.Search the index · Margaret A. Thomas, Carr Mill, Carrboro, North Carolina: A Rehabilitation Project under the Tax Reform Act (1979), scan p. 10
  96. A Western Sizzlin' steakhouse opens at 324 West Rosemary Street and draws neighborhood pickets The Western Sizzlin' Steakhouse opened on a Friday at 324 West Rosemary Street. Two days later about ten residents of the nearby Amity Court area picketed it in the rain over century-old trees felled for it and the traffic it brought.Search the index · DigitalNC: Daily Tar Heel, November 22, 1976, p. 1
  97. Mama Dip's Kitchen opens Mildred "Mama Dip" Council opened Mama Dip's Kitchen in November 1976 in a small, failing 18-seat restaurant on Rosemary Street in Chapel Hill, starting with $40 for food and $24 for change. The restaurant moved to a new building in 1999 and closed in July 2025 after 49 years. People: Mildred CouncilSearch the index · Mama Dip's Kitchen: Mama Dip
  98. David Bacon opens the Pyewacket, a vegetarian restaurant on West Franklin Street The Pyewacket opened in 1977 as a vegetarian café on West Franklin Street, run by David Bacon. By 1980 it had moved across the street into the Courtyard at 431 West Franklin, the former Farmers Dairy building, and added seafood, a bar and live jazz.Search the index · DigitalNC: Daily Tar Heel, September 5, 1985, p. 16 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, January 26, 1979, p. 8; The Daily Tar Heel, September 1, 1983, p. 15
  99. Martini's, a Northern Italian restaurant, opens at 206 West Main Street in Carrboro Martini's served Northern Italian food, with a bar and an outdoor patio, in the West Main Street building that had housed La Pizza. In 1989 it said it had been serving Chapel Hill and Carrboro for 12 years.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, October 5, 1989, p. 17 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, May 29, 1980, p. 4
  100. Planning begins for Carrboro’s farmers’ market UNC organizing and town funding efforts supported a formal market.Search the index · Carrboro Farmers’ Market — Mission & History
  101. Bill Dow and Laura Heise found the North Carolina Agricultural Marketing Project Physician and farmer Bill Dow and Laura Heise founded the North Carolina Agricultural Marketing Project, modelled on the farmers' markets Dow had helped start in Tennessee. The project led directly to the Carrboro Farmers' Market.Search the index · UNC Libraries: William W. Dow Papers, 1940s-2016
  102. Carrboro Farmers’ Market is established After organizing and planning in 1977, the Carrboro Farmers' Market began business in 1978, once the town amended its permit in February 1978 to allow the market at Carr Mill.Search the index · Carrboro Farmers’ Market — Mission & History · Also: Margaret A. Thomas, Carr Mill, Carrboro, North Carolina
  103. Carrboro amends the Carr Mill permit to allow a weekend farmers' market in its parking lot At the town's request and with the developers' consent, Carrboro amended the permit to let a farmers' market use the mill's second parking lot on weekends. A permanent open-air shelter was built with a $25,000 state matching grant, with the town supplying the site.Search the index · Margaret A. Thomas, Carr Mill, Carrboro, North Carolina: A Rehabilitation Project under the Tax Reform Act (1979), scan p. 12
  104. Four Corners Restaurant, named for Dean Smith's stalling offense, replaces the Rendezvous The new East Franklin restaurant took its name from the four-corners keep-away offense of UNC basketball coach Dean Smith.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 355
  105. The last phase of Carr Mill, a restaurant and offices in the north, east and office wings, is finished With permanent financing in hand, the partners redeveloped the rest of the mill, its north, east and office wings, as a restaurant and offices, with 80 percent leased before work began. A second $500,000 loan from Connecticut Mutual paid for it, and the work was finished in mid-1979.Search the index · Margaret A. Thomas, Carr Mill, Carrboro, North Carolina: A Rehabilitation Project under the Tax Reform Act (1979), scan p. 10
  106. The first Festival for the Eno is held The Eno River Association held the first Festival for the Eno on July 4, 1980, at West Point on the Eno, a Durham city park on the river. The yearly festival of traditional music, crafts and trades raises money for land protection in the Eno River basin.Eno River Association: ERA Through the Eras, Creation of the Eno River State Park and West Point on the Eno City Park
  107. Biscuit Towne, USA opens in the former Roy Rogers at 106 Mallette Street After the Roy Rogers roast beef restaurant at 106 Mallette Street closed in the summer of 1981, Biscuit Towne, USA opened in its building in August. It specialized in biscuits and stayed open 24 hours.Search the index · DigitalNC: Daily Tar Heel, August 24, 1981, p. 35 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, July 30, 1981, p. 5; The Daily Tar Heel, September 10, 1981, p. 1
  108. Stephen's...after all opens as a cafe and supper club in Village Plaza Stephen Barefoot opened Stephen's...after all, a cafe and supper club in Village Plaza, the former Kroger Plaza on Elliott Road, which booked singers such as Barbara Cook, Mark Murphy and Joe Williams in its first year with Carol Sloane as artist-in-residence.Search the index · Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), October 1982, p. 7
  109. The Upper Deck tavern opens above the Porthole restaurant Barry Huff opened the Upper Deck, a tavern in the Porthole restaurant's old second-floor storage space, in November 1981. John Hartley left the Carolina Theatre to manage it.Search the index · DigitalNC: Daily Tar Heel, November 13, 1981, p. 3 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, August 31, 1984, p. 1
  110. Bill Neal and Gene Hamer reopen Crook's Corner Bill Neal, a former manager of La Residence, and Gene Hamer leased Crook's Corner, a West Franklin Street barbecue restaurant opened by Cam Hill in 1978 and closed in November 1981, and planned to reopen it in February 1982 serving Southern-style meals. Under Neal and later chef Bill Smith it became nationally known.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, January 29, 1982, page 2
  111. Francis Chan opens the Jade Palace Chinese and Seafood Restaurant on East Main Street in Carrboro Francis Chan, a biomedical engineer who ran the restaurant on the side, opened Jade Palace at 103 East Main Street in November 1982; he and his wife Jenny marked its 25th year in 2007. In 1985 it was the only Chinese restaurant in the area that delivered.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, February 11, 1983, p. 4 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, February 22, 1985, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, February 19, 2007, p. 1
  112. Herbert Chu opens the Four Five Six Chinese restaurant at 118 East Franklin Street Herbert Chu, who had opened the House of Chu in 1970 and was a partner in the Hunam restaurant, opened Four Five Six, a cafeteria-style Chinese restaurant, in the space Blimpie's had left.Search the index · DigitalNC: Daily Tar Heel, February 11, 1983, p. 4 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 6, 1983, p. 8
  113. Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen opens Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen, a drive-through biscuit restaurant from a small chain begun in Henderson and Louisburg in 1977 and 1978, was operating at 1305 East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill by September 1983.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): breakfast guide naming Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen at 1305 E. Franklin St., September 1, 1983
  114. The Upper Deck closes after the Porthole building owner ends its lease The Upper Deck tavern above the Porthole closed on July 31, 1984, after building owner Willard Marley declined to renew its month-to-month lease. Owner Barry Huff said Marley thought the bar was hurting the Porthole's business.Search the index · DigitalNC: Daily Tar Heel, August 31, 1984, p. 1
  115. Six writers read at the Hardback Cafe to raise money against the Shearon Harris nuclear plant Joe Ashby Porter, Jill McCorkle, Clyde Edgerton, Lee Smith, Garrett Epps and Elizabeth Spencer read from their work at a $50-a-plate benefit dinner at the Hardback Cafe, raising over $2,000 for the Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris. Organizers turned away 30 ticket requests because of the room's fire-code limit. People: Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkleSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, July 24, 1986, page 1
  116. Weaver Street Market opens Weaver Street Market, a cooperative grocery owned by both its customers and its workers, opened in Carrboro in June 1988. Start-up money came from a Center for Community Self-Help loan, a $200,000 Community Development Block Grant from the Town of Carrboro, and shares and loans from local supporters.Search the index · Cooperative Grocer (issue 21, February-March 1989): Weaver Street Market: A modern day co-op story
  117. Fowler's Food Store closes and gives way to the 306 Shopping Center The West Franklin grocery shut, and its site became a strip of shops set sideways to the street that opened with seven stores.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 375
  118. Walter Faribault Jr. opens Faribault's Pit Cooked Bar-B-Q in Hillsborough Dr. Walter Faribault Jr., a Chapel Hill physician, had opened Faribault's Pit Cooked Bar-B-Q in Hillsborough using a recipe that had been in his family for more than a hundred years. The family had cooked pork barbecue on Faribault Lane for generations, and by 1993 the business was running as a catering service.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, January 10, 1990 (as catalogued), page 6 (UNC physician takes time to help students with emotional problems)
  119. Lizzie Mae Collins opens Lizzie Mae's Southern Kitchen Lizzie Mae Collins opened a restaurant serving Southern cooking and gave jobs to people she knew who were trying to leave crime and drug use behind. By late 1993 she told the Daily Tar Heel the business was struggling and she was running the kitchen alone.Search the index · DigitalNC: Daily Tar Heel, November 17, 1993, p. 5
  120. Maggie's Muffins moves to West Main Street and becomes Maggie's Cafe and Espresso Jane Hamborsky's bakery, open on Weaver Street since 1989, moved to "the corner of Main and Main" in Carrboro in September 1992 and renamed itself Maggie's Cafe and Espresso. The larger space let it add lunch.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, September 16, 1992, p. 3 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 26, 1991, p. 3
  121. Grant supports new farmers’ market shelters Funding enabled preparation of the Town Commons location.Search the index · Carrboro Farmers’ Market — Mission & History
  122. Owens 501 Diner is honored for turning a former gas station into a diner The Chapel Hill Appearance Commission recognized Owens 501 Diner at a Town Council meeting for the creative reuse of a commercial building, a rehabilitated gas station made into a diner. The diner was advertising for staff in all positions in November 1992.Search the index · DigitalNC: Daily Tar Heel, November 2, 1994, p. 3 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 16, 1992, p. 6
  123. Farmers’ Market moves to Town Commons The market opened at its new town-center site.Search the index · Carrboro Farmers’ Market — Mission & History
  124. Sara Foster opens a Chapel Hill branch of Foster's Market Sara Foster opened a second Foster's Market at 750 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Chapel Hill as an expansion of her Durham restaurant.Search the index · The Root Cellar Cafe & Catering: Old Friend, New Name
  125. Kevin Callaghan opens Acme Food and Beverage Company at 110 East Main Street in Carrboro Acme opened in the old Lloyd-Ray Hardware building about March 1998; that November its owner, Kevin Callaghan, joined the yearly RSVVP restaurant fundraiser for the first time. By 2005 it was known for cooking with local and organic ingredients.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, November 16, 1998, p. 2 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 26, 2004, p. 6; The Daily Tar Heel, February 11, 2005, p. 15
  126. Mama Dip's Kitchen moves across West Rosemary Street into a new building at number 408 Mildred "Mama Dip" Council's restaurant, serving Southern country cooking since 1976, moved from across the street into a new building at 408 West Rosemary Street in February 1999. People: Mildred CouncilSearch the index · DigitalNC: Daily Tar Heel, October 29, 1999, p. 22
  127. Fire guts the Jade Palace restaurant on East Main Street in Carrboro A midday fire ripped through the building at 103 East Main Street that housed Jenny and Francis Chan's Jade Palace, leaving the restaurant's future in doubt. The Chans reopened, and the restaurant was still at that address in 2007.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, January 21, 2000, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, May 31, 2007, p. 2
  128. Chef Aaron Vandemark opens Panciuto on South Churton Street Aaron Vandemark opened Panciuto, a restaurant cooking Italian-style food from ingredients grown on nearby farms. Within ten years he had six James Beard nominations for Best Chef: Southeast.Search the index · Our State, Emma Laperruque, "Local Farmers Take Center Stage at Panciuto in Hillsborough," March 30, 2017
  129. The A & M Grill in Mebane closes after 63 years The A & M Grill, run by three generations of the McAdams family, served its last meals at 401 East Center Street. Co-founder George Crawford Amick died three weeks later.Search the index · Mebane Enterprise, Karen Carter, "A & M Grill: Slice of life remembered," November 3, 2011
  130. Foster's Market in Chapel Hill passes to Sera Cuni and Susan White Sera Cuni, who had managed Foster's Market in Chapel Hill since 2008, bought the market with her partner Susan White and later renamed it The Root Cellar.Search the index · The Root Cellar Cafe & Catering: Old Friend, New Name
  131. Radius Pizzeria opens in the old savings and loan building on North Churton Street Mick and Kate Carroll opened Radius Pizzeria, later Radius Pizzeria & Pub, at 112 North Churton Street in downtown Hillsborough.Search the index · Chapelboro.com, December 5, 2024 (Michael Koh)
  132. Cannie Bacon Lloyd and Bob Lloyd open Bacon's Meat Market on North Churton Street Bacon's Meat Market, a family-run meat market, deli and sandwich shop, opened at the corner of North Churton and Corbin streets. Cannie Bacon Lloyd said her father had told her Hillsborough needed one.Search the index · News of Orange, April 30, 2018, "Bacon's Meat Market now Steve's Garden Market" · Also: WRAL Triangle Foodie News, September 4, 2015, Hillsborough "is getting a new meat market called Bacon's"
  133. Cup-A-Joe moves down West King Street to a larger shop at number 112 Owners Brooke Erceg and Ryan Creery moved their coffee shop from 600 square feet at 120 West King Street to 1,600 square feet at 112 West King, former real estate offices, with room to bake on site.Search the index · News of Orange County, October 3, 2016 (Charlie Pogacar)
  134. Bona Fide Sandwich Co. opens at 104 North Churton Street The owners of the Wooden Nickel Pub, LaPlace and Hillsborough BBQ Company opened a sandwich shop at 104 North Churton Street.Search the index · WRAL.com, Kathy Hanrahan, "Hillsborough Sandwich shop to close," October 3, 2017 · Also: Hillsborough Cheese Company blog
  135. Mildred Council receives EmPOWERment's first POWER award At a gala at the Friday Center, basketball coach Roy Williams presented Mildred "Mama Dip" Council with the inaugural POWER award from EmPOWERment Inc., a group promoting affordable housing and economic development in Chapel Hill's neediest neighborhoods. The honor came in the month of her restaurant's 40th anniversary. People: Roy WilliamsSearch the index · UNC-Chapel Hill (University Gazette): Mama Dip celebrates 40 years in the restaurant business
  136. Bona Fide Sandwich Co. closes on North Churton Street The owners announced on October 3, 2017 that that week's lunches would be the shop's last, about a year and a half after it opened. They began serving lunch at the Wooden Nickel Pub instead.Search the index · WRAL.com, Kathy Hanrahan, "Hillsborough Sandwich shop to close," October 3, 2017
  137. Bacon's Meat Market passes to new owners and becomes Steve's Garden Market Justin and Meagan Long of Steve's Garden Market in Graham took over Bacon's Meat Market, planning to take in the laundromat next door and add produce, seafood, beer and wine while keeping the sandwich counter. The store was to reopen under the new name on May 7.Search the index · News of Orange, April 30, 2018, "Bacon's Meat Market now Steve's Garden Market"
  138. The Wooden Nickel pub reopens two doors up in the former bank at 113 North Churton Street After closing its 975-square-foot home at 105 North Churton Street on July 1, the Wooden Nickel opened in the former Bank of America space at 113 North Churton, more than twice the size.Search the index · News of Orange County, July 9, 2018 (Charlotte Wray) · Also: News of Orange County, Jan. 4, 2017
  139. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools launches Food for Students meal distribution CHCCS, the Town of Chapel Hill, PORCH and volunteers began handing out free meals to students as schools closed, starting from about 20 sites. By December 21, 2020 the program had distributed more than 900,000 meals from 37 sites.Chapelboro: CHCCS' Food For Students Distributes More Than 900,000 Meals
  140. Drive-through food distribution at Chapel Hill Public Library serves 576 households PORCH, the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina and the Town of Chapel Hill ran a drive-through food distribution in the Chapel Hill Public Library's lower parking lot, serving 576 households, or 2,391 people, with about 40 volunteers.The Daily Tar Heel: Chapel Hill's drive-thru food distribution adapts in the wake of COVID-19
  141. IFC Commons opens in Carrboro The Inter-Faith Council for Social Service opened IFC Commons at 110 West Main Street in Carrboro, a $6 million building that put its community kitchen, food market and other non-shelter programs under one roof. Its virtual grand opening was held January 21, 2021.In the index: Inter-Faith Council for Social Service (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · Inter-Faith Council for Social Service: IFC Commons Grand Opening (January 22, 2021)
  142. Panciuto reopens after its pandemic closure, now sharing space with the Hillsborough Bakeshop Panciuto reopened with a pared-down service model and no tipping, paying staff at least $15.40 an hour. The Hillsborough Bakeshop, begun as a stopgap during the shutdown, now runs in the same space.Search the index · The News of Orange County, Amanda Boyd, "An old favorite, Panciuto returns anew, and with a bakery," May 26, 2021
  143. Crook's Corner announces its closure On June 9, 2021, the owners of Crook's Corner told customers the West Franklin Street restaurant was closing, saying the COVID-19 crisis had made their position untenable. Gene Hamer and chef Bill Neal opened it in 1982, Bill Smith later led the kitchen, and the James Beard Foundation named it an America's Classic in 2011. People: Bill NealSearch the index · Chapelboro: Crook's Corner Restaurant to Close After Decades in Chapel Hill (June 9, 2021)
  144. Orange County Public Library adds Spanish-language classes and bilingual storytimes Beginning in the 2021–22 fiscal year the library offered Spanish-language computer basics classes with the Family Success Alliance and UNC's Community Workshop Series. By 2023–24 it held storytimes in English and Spanish at Carrboro's Century Center, added Spanish interpretation to free computer classes and ran a health series for Spanish speakers with El Centro Hispano, and in 2024–25 it added bilingual storytimes at the Carrboro Farmers' Market and monthly conversational Spanish programs.Orange County FY 2024-25 Manager Recommended Budget (Library Services, FY 2023-24 highlights, pp. 185-186 of PDF)
  145. Radius Pizzeria & Pub closes after more than eleven years Owners Kate and Mick Carroll closed Radius Pizzeria & Pub at 112 North Churton Street on December 29, 2024, saying they wanted more time with their family.Search the index · Chapelboro.com, December 5, 2024 (Michael Koh)
  146. Food pantries open at the Main Library and the Southern Branch During the 2025–26 fiscal year the library built a permanent food pantry in the Main Library lobby in Hillsborough and worked with a local Girl Scout troop to establish one at the Southern Branch in Carrboro. The Main Library also collected 424 pounds of food for the Orange Congregations in Mission pantry.Orange County FY 2026-27 Manager Recommended Budget (Library Services, FY 2025-26 highlights, pp. 207-208 of PDF)

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