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UNC, Chapel Hill, and Carborro History

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Zoo_View said:
Cousin Chub Seawell?

From Carthage in Moore County.
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@SmilingJack Said:

Pretty sure his name was Bob Windsor?
Years ago I was told he developed Heritage Hills off Smith Level and Rangewood off 54 west. All the septic fields failed and OWASA had to run emergency lines. They said he was banned from Orange County as a builder/developer after that. The pub grift is a party tradition.
 
@grimes70 said:

Starpoint - somewhere along the line people started calling it the congested area.
 
heelinhell said:
I once lived next door to the grill at Starpoint. A fellow named Percy ran and cooked at the grill and fixed the best ribs I ever put in my mouth😋
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@donbosco said

That house there behind the "other" building at Starpoint? I went to parties there in the early 1980s.
 
donbosco said:
That house there behind the "other" building at Starpoint? I went to parties there in the early 1980s.
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@heelinhell said:

I think the building you are referring to was a building that housed a business for washing and drying clothes.

I lived in many different Chapel Hill/Carrboro places back in the day and challenge folks to match or surpass my record:

1) Ruffin Dorm
2)Kingswood Apts
3)University Garden Apts
4) double wide at the top of Wave Road
5)Park and Stay Trailer Park
6)Estes Park Apts
7)trailer park on Airport Road (can't remember the name)
8)house on Barclay Road
9) house on Justice Street
10)Apt under a house on MT Carmel Church Road
11)Gatewood Apts
12)duplex on Hillsborough in Carrboro
13)Sharon Heights Apts
14) house at Starpoint

And since 1982 I have lived in two homes in Carrboro as a semi-responsible adult with my wife and family :)
 
heelinhell said:
I think the building you are referring to was a building that housed a business for washing and drying clothes.

I lived in many different Chapel Hill/Carrboro places back in the day and challenge folks to match or surpass my record:

1) Ruffin Dorm
2)Kingswood Apts
3)University Garden Apts
4) double wide at the top of Wave Road
5)Park and Stay Trailer Park
6)Estes Park Apts
7)trailer park on Airport Road (can't remember the name)
8)house on Barclay Road
9) house on Justice Street
10)Apt under a house on MT Carmel Church Road
11)Gatewood Apts
12)duplex on Hillsborough in Carrboro
13)Sharon Heights Apts
14) house at Starpoint

And since 1982 I have lived in two homes in Carrboro as a semi-responsible adult with my wife and family :)
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@Calheel said:

Let me try
1. House on Emory Rd in Briarcliff
2. House on Sourwood Circle in Morgan Creek
3. Laurel Ridge Apartments
4. House on Hatch Rd out by University Lake
5. House on Mears Rd in Lake Forest
6. House on Shadylawn Rd in Lake Forest
7. House on Bennett Memorial Rd in Durham
8. Alexander Dorm
9. Kingswood Apartments
10. House on Elizabeth St off East Franklin
11. House on Waterford in the Oaks II
12. Condo on Olde Coach Rd by 40

That gets 0-23
 
heelinhell said:
I think the building you are referring to was a building that housed a business for washing and drying clothes.

I lived in many different Chapel Hill/Carrboro places back in the day and challenge folks to match or surpass my record:

1) Ruffin Dorm
2)Kingswood Apts
3)University Garden Apts
4) double wide at the top of Wave Road
5)Park and Stay Trailer Park
6)Estes Park Apts
7)trailer park on Airport Road (can't remember the name)
8)house on Barclay Road
9) house on Justice Street
10)Apt under a house on MT Carmel Church Road
11)Gatewood Apts
12)duplex on Hillsborough in Carrboro
13)Sharon Heights Apts
14) house at Starpoint

And since 1982 I have lived in two homes in Carrboro as a semi-responsible adult with my wife and family :)
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@donbosco said:

I'll give it a go...


Between 1976 and 2008 (with 1983-86 spent in Boone and 1990-91 in Guatemala)
1.Everett Dorm
2.I-9 Old Well Apartments, Carrboro
3.A-1 Oak Terrace Apartments
4.Booker Creek Apartments
5.100 Old Pittsboro Road, Carrboro
6.In a house way down Merritt Drive off of 15-501
7.House on Pritchard Avenue Extension
8.Boarding house on McCauley Street
9.House at 1512 E. Franklin Street
10.House at 1510 E. Franklin Street
11.#3 Oakwood Drive in Glen Lennox
12.A Shack on Dodson’s Crossroads, out HGWY 54
13.1202 N. Greensboro, Street, Carrboro
14.House at 102 Plant Road
15.Condo on Elizabeth Street
16.44 Dogwood Acres Drive

After Dogwood Acres I moved to Greensboro, then Asheville, then Weaverville, and now split my time between NYC and Fairview -- that adds 6 more abodes to the list.

BTW...that laundromat, i.e., "other" building was also a bar at least once and on another occasion a "massage" parlor.
 
@TarSpiel said

Come for the erudite political discussion, stay for the Carrboro ****-measuring contest...lol, I love this board.

FWIW, I only lived in 2 places there, Dogwood Acres for a couple months, then for a long time a garage apt on Bolin Creek Drive.
 
@heelinhell said:

ok, you forced me to derail one last time

Did you rent your apt. from Lee and Lori Graves ? If so then I was your next door neighbor :cool:

I'm done now for good...I promise nycfan...I really really do !
 
heelinhell said:
ok, you forced me to derail one last time

Did you rent your apt. from Lee and Lori Graves ? If so then I was your next door neighbor :cool:

I'm done now for good...I promise nycfan...I really really do !
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@TarSpiel said

Holy crap! That's exactly who I rented from!!

If they're still there, please send them my love (lived there from 2000-2007). Such great, great people. And Anna and Haley, how are they?! God they must be in their 20's now.

Aaw man, okay. Sorry for the further thread derailment. If they're still there, can you send me a PM?
 
donbosco said:
Back in the 1960s and '70s heading back home to Chatham County from Long Beach late on a Sunday meant night driving for Deddy. It also meant that as we drove old highway 87 homeward that we passed over the railroad tracks at Maco. So we had to slow way down and look look look down the track as we crossed the railroad there at Maco on the way back from the beach to spy the light of Old ‘Joe’ Baldwin’s lantern as he searched for his missing head. I’m sure I saw it at least once. In college once I even trekked down the trail there in pursuit and on another occasion some very peculiar things transpired along that desolate stretch of highway.

On January 4, 1856 Conductor Charles Baldwin was mortally injured in a train accident near Wilmington. From this tragedy was born the Ghost Tale of The Maco Light and headless ‘Joe’ Baldwin a-searching along the tracks, light in hand. The clipping below is from ‘The Wilmington Daily Journal’ January 11, 1856.

www.dncr.nc.gov

Origins of Maco Light Legend Date to 1856

On January 4, 1856, a train accident on the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad occurred near Wilmington, giving rise to an enduring North Carolina legend. In the neighborhood of Hood’s Creek, about 8 miles outside of Wilmington, the locomotive on the night mail train was using steam faster than...
www.dncr.nc.gov www.dncr.nc.gov
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It’s funny but we were vacationing at LongBeach when we’re drove up to to Maco to seethe light…
 
mpaer said:
It’s funny but we were vacationing at LongBeach when we’re drove up to to Maco to seethe light…
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As a young boy I swore that I had seen The Gray Man as a hurricane bore down on my family and I in our house at Long Beach. We rode it out -- why I do not know -- and the roof blew off of the house across the street. I chalked it up to that North Carolina Ghost Story despite the fact that he is supposed to only haunt The Outer Banks or Pawley's Island (depending on which story you want to go with).
 
From the March 1979 ‘Carolina Alumni Review” - A Walk Down Franklin Street




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When I was an Explorer Scout and after I had my license, I was able to borrow my grandfather's car and a whole car load of Explorers drove down to some event somewhat remotely close to where the Maco Light was supposed to be. I have no idea if we were even within five miles of the supposed location. But at least two other guys in the car swore we were in exactly the right place. We saw nothing. I tried to lie my way out of coming home late, but my father wasn't buying it. Finally, he said he had done the same thing when he was my age, with the same results. So he told me not to worry about his father, claiming his father would have been disappointed if I had of gotten home on-time.
 
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