Chapel Hill/Carrboro History

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Not at much history but why on earth is 86 35mph all the way into town??? It's wild that a 5-lane road isn't 45
 
Don Bosco my wife's hair dresser is changing location in Carrboro and says she is opening in the oldest building in Carrboro? She's making everyone guess. Any ideas?
 
aGDevil2k said:
Not at much history but why on earth is 86 35mph all the way into town??? It's wild that a 5-lane road isn't 45
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It used to be 45 mph from Estes to Homestead…..when it was 2, 3, and then 4 lanes.

Why is Weaver Dairy 25 mph from Airport Road/MLK Boulevard to Homestead?
 
I bet you are right the Friendly Barbershop. When I had hair that was my favorite. I do recall Mac Snipes under Hectors where Time Out is now on the corner. I think he charged $2.10 for a cut.
Grady at Friendly Barbershop gave my son a Eric Montrose cut.
 
donbosco said:
Two guesses…


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Cliff’s Meat Market is at 100 and 102 West Main Street. Buildings date to about 1950 according to the Walking Tour on the Town of Carrboro’s site.

The brick building housing the barber shop was originally wood and those buildings burned in the 1920’s. The building housing Bank of America is the first commercial brick building in Carrboro - built in about 1924. Odds are most of that stretch of brick buildings dates to about then.

The Flatiron Building (Spotted Dog) dates to the 1920’s.

The Lloyd Gristmill (2-story brick building on the east side of the railroad tracks just north of The Station) dates to the 1880’s; but, it burned in 1916 and was re-built “shortly after.”

The original Strayhorn House on Jones Ferry Road was built in 1879, three years before what became Carrboro was first settled and decades before West End/Venable/Carrboro was incorporated in 1911. It’s the oldest house in Carrboro. Built by two former slaves, Toney and Nellie Strayhorn. House is still owned by their descendants. According to the Carrboro site, it’s the oldest in town.

So, what is the oldest building in Carrboro?
 
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At the celebration of the bicentennial of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on October 12th, 1993, CBS news anchor Charles Kuralt delivered an address to the crowd of state dignitari…
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This belongs here as well as the #OTD thread...


April 16, 1865

"The Confederate Army abandoned Chapel Hill about 2 PM on 16 April 1865. Cornelia Phillips Spencer’s The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina relates: “A few hours of absolute and Sabbath stillness and silence ensued. The groves stood thick and solemn, the bright sun shining through the great boles and down the grassy slopes, while a pleasant fragrance was wafted from the purple panicles of the Paulownias.”

Toward the end of the day, the Union Army arrived and a delegation led by UNC President David L Swain went out to meet the first Union officer – to discuss the protection of the village and campus. Swain brought to this meeting one of the 17 people he enslaved, a twenty-five year old man named Wilson. But President Swain did not bring home a slave. For at this meeting, the Union officer read them the following words:

“…all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free…”

The last slave would not be liberated by the Emancipation Procalamation until 19 June 1865. But emancipation arrived in Chapel Hill nine weeks earlier – on Easter Sunday – the 16th of April 1865.

One hundred and sixty years ago today, Wilson Swain Caldwell became a free man. He would go on to become the first African-American public official in Chapel Hill, the first black landowner in what we now call the Northside neighborhood, the father of NC’s first African American Medical Doctor, and the grandfather, great grandfather and great-great grandfather to hundreds of people who live here today." (H/T to friend Mark Chilton)

Wilson Caldwell (1841-1898) · Slavery and the University · Carolina Story: Virtual Museum of University History
 
BTW...Billy once ran the grill that was in the recently demolished gas station at Starpoint upon which the Dean Smith mural was located.
 
donbosco said:
BTW...Billy once ran the grill that was in the recently demolished gas station at Starpoint upon which the Dean Smith mural was located.
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I just can't say how bummed I am if local iconic Starpoint turns into a Circle K
 
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