Index of Local History Research Collection CHATHAM ...

Index of Local History Research Collection 30Aug2017 1

Index of Local History Research Collection

CHATHAM COMMUNITY LIBRARY, PITTSBORO, NC revised 30 August 2017

NOTEBOOK 1 AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL FAIR

ARCHITECTURAL PRESERVATION

ARTISTS

NOTEBOOK 2 ARTS COUNCIL BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS

BLACK HISTORY

NOTEBOOK 3 CARNIVORE PRESERVATION TRUST/ CAROLINA TIGER RESCUE

CEMETERIES CENSUS

NOTEBOOK 4 CHATHAM COUNTY Year in Review Pittsboro Herald/Chatham Herald

NOTEBOOKS 5-8

CHURCHES (alphabetical by name)

NOTEBOOK 9 CIVIC GROUPS CIVIL WAR

NOTEBOOKS 10-14

COMMUNITIES Bear Creek Bennett Bonlee Buckhorn Falls Bynum Carbonton Cumnock Egypt Goldston Gorgas Gulf


Harper's Crossroads

Haywood Lockville Matthews Crossroads

Merry Oaks Moncure Morningsville Mt. Vernon Springs

Ore Hill Pittsboro Businesses Holly tree Maps Library Bicentennial National Register Nominations (Pittsboro)

Siler City National Register Nominations (Siler City)

Silk Hope Staley

NOTEBOOK 15

CHATHAM COUNTY COURTHOUSE

COURTHOUSE CLOCKS

NOTEBOOK 16

DEVELOPMENT Astoria Briar Chapel Chatham Park Cole Park Plaza Fearrington Governor's Club Henley's Mill Pittsboro Redbud

NOTEBOOK 17

EDUCATION Schools and Academies 1790-1840

Miscellaneous education

Thompson School, Siler City

Bennett School Bonlee Chatham Central Chatham Charter School

Goldston


Goldston High School

Goldston -- J. S. Waters

Goldston Negro School

Haywood School Moncure High School

Pittsboro Elementary

Pittsboro High School

Horton High School

Horton Middle School

Northwood High School, Pittsboro

Siler City High School--later Chatham Middle School

Jordan Matthews High School, Siler City

Siler City Elementary

Siler City High School

Silk Hope Willow Oak Montessori Public Charter School

One-room schools

NOTEBOOK 18

ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS

FOLKLIFE/FOLKLORE

HUNTING INDUSTRY Boling Chair Chatham-Siler City Advanced Manufacturing Site (formerly called Megasite)

Kepco Mills Pace's Mill Mines and Mining Miscellaneous Power; Utilities Strata Solar

NOTEBOOK 19

JORDAN LAKE LAW ENFORCEMENT/CRIME/HANGINGS

NOTEBOOK 20

LIBRARY (General and Chatham Community Library)

MAPS MEDICINE / HEALTH / DOCTORS

MISCELLANEOUS Fire Department Other NATURAL HISTORY ORAL HISTORY


Oral History techniques

Interviews St. Bartholomew's Programs

Friends of Pittsboro Library programs

NOTEBOOKS 21-23

PEOPLE (alphabetical by name)

NOTEBOOK 24

POLITICS POST OFFICES RECREATION / SPORTS

REVOLUTIONARY WAR

RIVERS Cape Fear River

NOTEBOOK 25

RIVERS (continued) Deep River Haw River Miscellaneous Rocky River SOCIAL SERVICES TRANSPORTATION BRIDGES Bynum Bridge Chicken Bridge

Cumnock Bridge

Rocky River Truss Bridge

Other bridges RAILROADS ROADS General Pittsboro bypass

Miscellaneous VETERANS WWII


LOCAL HISTORY FILES index/finding aid

Chatham Community Library, Pittsboro updated 30 Aug 2017

C - newspaper clipping (source is noted on clipping if known; represented are the Chatham Record, Durham Sun, Sanford Herald,

News & Observer, and others.) A special commemorative issue of the Chatham Record, 20 Sep 1962, contained many articles of

historical interest.

B - brochure, flyer, booklet, document, or other material not clipped from newspaper or magazine

type date in text

format description

NOTEBOOK 1: AGRICULTURE -- ARTISTS

AGRICULTURE

C Jun/Jul 1948 "It's Chatham Grit"

C 13 Jan 1952 R.G. Bryant and son Wilbur (African-American), dairy farm (photo)

C 14 Nov 1952 photo: Negro farm agents tour Chatham

C 21 Nov 1952 W.B. Morgan column on history: 70 years ago, contest for bringing in first cotton bloom

C 10 Nov 1960 statistics from farm census of 1959

C 20 Sep 1962 feature: poultry industry, by Carl Outz, county agricultural agent (photos)

C 20 Sep 1962 feature: Webster Poultry Co. (James A. Webster) (photo)

C 20 Sep 1962 overview of Chatham agriculture by J. B. Snipes, county agricultural agent

C 20 Sep 1962 feature: Siler City Mills (feed and flour), history (photos)

C 15 Nov 1962 Annual Achievement Program, Negro Home Demonstration Club

C 22 Nov 1962 photo: County Home Demonstration leaders

C 27 Dec 1962 agricultural overview of year by J. B. Snipes, county extension chairman

C 14 Feb 1963 Farmers School Planned at Siler City Saturday

C 14 May 1964 Strowd Dairy Uses Special Feeder for Milk Cows

C 13 May 1971 Tobacco farmers may expect $3 million crop

C 9 Sep 1971 Tobacco farmers harvest their crop and make ready for '72

C 9 Sep 1971 Chatham farmers and their 1971 tobacco crop…

C 30 Sep 1971 Gross farm income in Chatham, $23,724,000

C 21 Oct 1971 County's cattle takes most awards at Fair

C 20 Apr 1972 Tara Farm where love of horses reigns supreme

C 25 May 1972 Trend toward protectionism is threat to farm exports

C 20 Jul 1972 Chatham Holstein Breeders, 4-H'ers take part in state dairy shows

C 7 Sep 1972 New Carolina Stockyard gets off to big start with grand opening and open house

C 12 Apr 1973 County dairymen meet; several herds honored

C 12 Jul 1973 Tobacco suffering from excessive rainfall

C 26 Jul 1973 County Holstein Breeders fare well in district dairy shows

C 2 Aug 1973 Tobacco referendum passes by 98 percent

C 9 Aug 1973 Photo of 4-H members

C 16 Aug 1973 Harvested croplands down in Chatham during 1972

C 18 Oct 1973 State 4-H Dairy Team finished 3rd nationally

C 25 Oct 1973 Chatham dairy exhibitors big winners at NC Fair

C 25 Oct 1973 Local farm income $26, 732,000 gross

C 27 Mar 1974 photo: mule and plow

C 10 Apr 1975 Chatham leafgrowers designate high yield

C 27 Oct 1976 photo: 1924 corn husker


C 30 Jun 1976 photos: Burnist Whitaker with mule and cabbage; Raymond Hart and cabbage

C 27 Apr 1977 Chatham steers win awards for 4-Hers at Durham Livestock Show (photos)

C 28 Nov 1979 feature: David and Steve Phillips of Silk Hope own state’s largest layer house (photos)

C 3 Sep 1980 feature: Tommy Estridge and other young bull riders (photos)

C 23 Nov 1981 Rural Advancement Fund/National Sharecroppers Fund open headquarters office in Pittsboro (photo)

C 27 Feb 1985 feature: Chris Sparrow and plowing with his mule Jake (photos)

C 4 Jun 1985 feature: Horace Mann and dairy (photos)

C 16 Jul 1985 photos: mule-drawn cart

C 26 Nov 1985 feature: Belted Galloway calves at Fearrington (photos)

C 30 Apr 1987 feature: Rural Advancement Fund (photos)

C 9 Jul 1987 feature: Chatham growers at Carrboro farmers market (photos)

C 9 Jul 1987 Carl Outz, county extension agent for 32 years, and Frances Johnson, secretary for county extension,

retire (photos)

C 9 Jun 1988 feature: sheep dog trials on Clarence Durham farm (photos)

C 24 Aug 1989 feature: contract poultry farming (photos)

C 5 Jul 1990 photo: misspelled Tabacco Road road sign

C 13 Jun 1991 feature: Ron Dameron and ostrich farm (photos)

C 25 Jul 1991 photo: 1942 tractor

C 12 Mar 1992 feature: hog farming (photo)

C 7 Oct 1994 feature: “Red” Parker and pumpkin farm (photos)

C 7 Jan 1995 Residents oppose large hog farm near Bennett

C 7 May 1995 feature: Harvey Harman and Bear Creek community farm (photos)

C 1 Aug 1995 feature: Henry Sparrow and others selling produce along 15-501 north of Pittsboro (photos)

C 24 Sep 1995 feature: pumpkins; includes Betty Parker (photo)

C 8 Oct 1996 “Red” Parker and pumpkins

C 16 Jul 1997 feature: Fleming and Britt Pfann’s Celebrity Goat Dairy/Farm (photos)

B 2003 Guide to Local and Organic Food in the Triangle

C Sep 2004 photo: 406-lb. pumpkin wins prize at county fair

B farm tours sponsored by Chatham County Extension

C 1 Feb 2009 "Chatham's farmers are a special breed" from Chatham County Line

C 10 Sep 2009 "Dairy farmer 'holding on' in economy"

C 11 Feb 2010 "Six awarded first ever Agriculture Hall of Fame awards in Chatham"

B 2010 Placemat from Homemakers Club annual meeting 2010

B 5th annual Piedmont Farm Tour brochure

C ? "Strawberry picking"

C 18 Aug 2011 "Poultry growers meet to discuss future"

B Dec 2011 Conserving Chatham County's Garden of Eatin' in Triangle Land Conservancy's Conservation

Connection [John Dykers New Hope Farm]

C Apr 2013 Piedmont Farm Tour Set for Saturday, Sunday

C 2 May 2013 Weather holds up for part of Piedmont Farm Tour

C 19 Sep 2013 County Commissioners approve schematic design for Ag-Civic center

C Mar 2014 RAFI celebrates 17 years of farmer driven innovation in NC

C 24 Apr 2014 Pittsboro board approves new Ag center site

C Spring 2014 Conserving forever in Triangle-- Land Conservancy's Spring Newsletter 2014 (Andrews farm near

Terrell's Creek)

C Spring 2014 Conserving forever in Triangle-- Land Conservancy's Spring Newsletter 2014 (Bonlee-Tick property)

C Spring 2014 Conserving forever in Triangle-- Land Conservancy's Spring Newsletter 2014 (Lindley family farm--Silk

Hope area)

C 15 May 2014 Officials break ground on new Ag/conference center


C Jun 2014 A day at the Chatham Mills Farmer's Market

C 3 Jul 2014 Chatham Central FAA students earn top honors

C 25 Sep 2014 County ok's Ag Center bid

C 20-Nov-14 Farmer tells story at Silk Hope Ruritan Club

C 25 Dec 2014 Site work started on county facility…

C 26 Feb 2015 CCCC student farm ranks high

C 12 Mar 2015 Farmers seek support for rabbit processing facility

C 19 Mar 2015 Hippity-hoppity local farmer reviving historic county commodity

C April 2015 Growing heirloom tomatoes and bringing them to market

C 30 Jul 2015 CCCC holds sustainable culinary arts, farm tours

C 6 Aug 2015 Taking shape… (photo of Chatham County Agriculture and Conference Center)

C 7 Jan 2016 Organic dairy farm permanently conserved

C 11 Feb 2016 Chatham announces photo display contest

C 17 Mar 2016 Work continues on County Ag Center

C Spring 2016 Chatham County students selected as state FFA officers

C 4 Aug 2016 Ag Center set for fall opening

AGRICULTURAL FAIR

C 9 Sep 1971 22nd Chatham County fair set to begin September 13

C announcement of premiums awarded in Pittsboro, copied from 1826 Carolina Observer

C 23 Aug 1973 Plans near completion for county fair events

B 1980 History of Chatham County Colored Agricultural Fair Inc. (photo)

C 5 Sep 1952 Negro fair opens in new building (photo)

C 23 Aug 1962 Negro Agricultural Fair to be held on Labor Day

B 20 Mar 1993 program of Founders Day Celebration, Chatham County Agricultural and Industrial Fair Association

C 1962-2006 announcements of fair and program, features, copies of premium books (not complete file) (photos)

C 1 Sep 2011 "61st annual Chatham County Fair gearing up for festivities"

C 25 Sep 2014 Attendance good at Chatham County fair last week

C 9 Oct 2014 County fair pageant winners

ARCHITECTURAL PRESERVATION

B Fact sheets about National Register of Historic Places, from State Preservation Office

B Kelvin - copies of mimeographed reports re Kelvin, St. Bartholomew’s, William Hardin

C Taylor Hill plantation, between Moncure and Pittsboro, photocopy

C 26 Jun 1949 feature: Historic houses near Pittsboro, by W. B. Morgan

C 30 Sep 1961 Aspen Hall (Alston House)

C 20 Sep 1962 Historic houses in Pittsboro (photos)

C 22 May 1969 photo: moving Manly law office to Masonic St.

C 20 Nov 1969 photo: moving Exline Hotel to Mann’s Chapel area

C 4 Dec 1969 photos: Masonic Lodge

C 1970 Manly Law Office

B 1970 Bynum area houses, copy from mimeographed copies, poor reproduction

C 19 Apr 1972 photos: abandoned Goldston School and Bennett Christian Church

C 28 Mar 1973 photo: Burns Hotel moved to Chatham St.

C 12 Sep 1973 "Historic chimney finally destroyed"

C 3 Apr 1974 feature: Blair Hotel (partial, with photos)

C feature: Landmarks of Chatham County: Harris-Farrell store, Bynum; Fields Store, Gulf; Gordon’s Gulf,

near Cole Park Plaza; Bonlee Shell; Baxter’s, Bennett; Harold’s, 64 & 902

C c. 1975 Masonic Lodge Pittsboro (photos)

C 27 Nov 1975 feature: Aspen Hall (photos)


C c. 1975 feature: Bridges house restored on Moncure-Pittsboro Rd. (photos)

C 22 Sep 1976 "Pittsboro gets old RR depot"

C 16 Feb 1977 Hall-London House (photo)

C 17 Aug 1977 photo: Bynum Methodist parsonage moving to Pittsboro

C 4 Nov 1981 feature: Joseph B. Stone house restored (photo)

C 4 Aug 1982 county-wide survey of historic houses begun by Rachel Osborne

C 27 Oct 1982 Pittsboro houses nominated to National Register: Kelvin, A.P. Terry, Hall-London, Lewis Freeman,

Luther Clegg, McClenahan, London Cottage, Moore-Manning; researched by Ruth Seldin-Sturgill

C 31 Aug 1983 photo: Unique interior.. New county social services building

C 7 Sep 1983 photo: Prize winner.. County's new social services building

C 8 Feb 1984 "New DSS building awarded again"

B 1984 “Bygones and Survivors”: historic houses in and near Pittsboro by John London (photos)

C 31 Oct 1984 Hall-London house for sale (photo)

C 8 Jan 1985 Taylor house on Fayetteville [Credle] St. burns to ground (photos)

C 11 Jun 1985 William Patterson and Greg Talbott move historic house to Harnett Co. (photos)

C 27 Aug 1985 Wade Barber Jr. renovates Hall-London house (photo)

C 11 Feb 1986 progress report on survey of historic houses for book, Architectural Heritage of Chatham County

C 18 Feb 1986 photo: chimney of tenant house in field at Mt. Gilead Church Rd. and 15-501

C 27 Apr 1986 Baldwin’s mill threatened by road construction (photo)

C 3 Oct 1986 feature: Baldwin’s mill (photos)

C 27 Nov 1986 Smith store moved and restored on Dewitt Smith Road (photos)

C 23 Apr 1987 Homes tour in Pittsboro

C 24 Jul 1987 Mann’s Chapel Preservation Society (photos)

C 1990-1991 feature articles publicizing Architectural Heritage: Tarpin Slide School, Goodwin farm, Jordan house,

Gregson-Hadley house (photos)

C 13 Jun 1991 Osborn to sign Architectural Heritage Book

C Apr 1992 Old-house lover speaks out

C 22 Oct 1992 Masonic Lodge gets siding (photo)

C 28 Mar 1993 "Aunt Bee slept here"

C 18 Aug 1994 Haughton-McIver house in Gulf to be restored (photo)

C 1995 series of articles about efforts to save and eventual destruction of Kelvin (photos)

C 25 Jun 1995 Old guest book tells history of house

C Jul 1995 Application for grant to prepare nomination for Pittsboro Historic District

C 6 Mar 1997 Siler City High School/Paul Braxton School conversion to apartments; subsequent articles for 4 Sep 97,

30 Jul 98, 25 Nov 99 (photos)

C 9 Feb 1998 Deconstruction of Rectory/Chester House by Rural Advancement Fund International; also Nov 98

(photos)

C 24 Sep 1998 "Pittsboro seeks historical consultant"

C "Pittsboro looking to gain listing as historic district" (photo of Lewis Freeman house)

C 5 Nov 1998 This old house gets new life in Pittsboro

C 14 Apr 1999 "Mill makeover keeps history in mind: Chatham Mills' owner respects heritage of site as office space

develops"

C 27 May 1999 CCHA appeals to county commissioners to preserve St. Lawrence, Taylor, McClenahan houses

C 1999-2002 Marshall log houses donated to CCHA, joint restoration project with County Fair Association (photos)

C 9 Mar 2000 CCHA inviting participants to reconstruct old log house

C 2000 Log projects will help teach county history

C 31 Aug 2000 Pittsboro Dry Cleaners torn down and replaced with office building (photo)

C 28 Dec 2000 L.N. Womble house renovated for B&B (photos)

C 22 Jun 2002 Pittsboro groups giving new life to two rundown historic log cabins


C 24 Mar 2003 Bringing down the house

C 10 Nov 2003 Elegance, ambiance make historic Gulf home an event destination

C 27 Jun 2005 "Preservation society celebrates Chatham County's historic sites"

C 12 Aug 2010 "Hickory Mountain spring seeped in good water, history"

C 23 Dec 2010 "Frosty's Trading Post changes hands"

C 14 Apr 2011 "Company prepares to move historic houses in Pittsboro"

C 12 May 2011 "Moving on out: Historic houses moved in a day"

C 7 Jul 2011 "Restoration underway of vintage Coca-Cola mural in Siler City" (photo)

C 4 Aug 2011 "Relatives restore 1860 home to its pre-Civil War glory"

C 7 Jun 2012 "Historic building has new windows"

C 14 Jun 2012 "Restoration complete on old window"

C 9 Aug 2012 "Couple restoring home built in 1787 in Pittsboro"

C 4 Sep 2012 "Improved economy boosts preservation work"

C 6 Sep 2012 "Materials from Boling building in Siler City will be used for recycling"

C 20 Sep 2012 photo: The old comes down… old Boling Chair Company Building demolished

C 23 Sep 2012 "Big plans for Small Street: Couple to give Pittsboro's oldest house a complete restoration"

C 27 Sep 2012 "Old Siler City school up for sale"

ARTISTS

C 7 May 1964 Mrs. H. A. Bynum is commended for art work

C 26 Apr 1973 Dwayne Walls, journalist, to speak to Friends of Pittsboro Library (photo)

C 11 Oct 1973 Artist in residence at Bladen Tech (Dempsy Calhoun)

C 30 Jun 1975 Bluegrass Experience, band (Tommy Edwards, Snuffy Smith, others), in Finland (photos)

C 11 Apr 1979 Howard Cotton, musician (photos)

C 18 Apr 1979 photo: Rev. R. V. Horton, poet (“Can These Bones Live?”)

C 26 Sep 1979 Jace Hobbs, wood and metal design (photos)

C 24 Oct 1979 Joyce Bryan, potter (photo)

C 3 Oct 1981 Frank Marsden London, artist (photo)

C 10 Oct 1984 John Amero, metal sculpture (photos)

C 17 Oct 1984 Thurman Maness, dollmaker (photos)

C 26 Mar 1985 Mark Hewitt, potter (photos)

C 16 Apr 1985 Bluegrass Experience, band (photos)

C 19 Nov 1985 Doris Betts, writer (photo)

C 18 Jun 1987 Mark Hewitt, potter (photos)

C 25 Jun 1987 Carol Klevay, actor, playwright (photo)

C 13 Aug 1987 Catherine Porteous-Sutton, painter (photos)

C 28 Jul 1988 Clyde Jones, sculptor, painter (photos)

C c. 1990 Clyde Jones, example of exploitation of outsider artists (photos)

C 10 Nov 1988 Richard Amlung, sculptor (photos)

C 1 Apr 1990 Lawrence Naumoff, author (photo)

B book jacket: Naumoff’s Night of the Weeping Women

C 25 Oct 1990 Brick Alan (Dwain Smith), singer (photos)

C Apr 1991 Mark Hewitt, potter (photos)

C Aug 1991 Jenifer Fisher, quilts (photos)

B 22 Feb 1992 recital program, Jocelyn Scurlock

C 9 Apr 1992 bluegrass/country western music at Charlie Bouldin’s barn (photos)

C 28 May 1992 A.C. Overton, musician, receives award (photo)

C 24 Sep 1992 James Carnahan, artist, producer, builds Rock Rest Amphitheater (photos)

C 27 Jan 1996 iron sculpture (Mike Roig, Gaines Steer, Ruffin Hobbs, Joseph Anderson) (photos)


C 21 Mar ? Mark Hewitt, potter (photos)

B Apr 2011 Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival program

C 5 Nov 2011 Bluegrass Experience 39th Anniversary Concert flier

B 2011-2012

Chatham pottery draws rave reviews -- Rising from the Clay in Chatham Living Magazine [Siglinda

Scarpa, Joyce Bryan, Mark Hewitt, Janet Resnik, Lyn Morrow, Salinda Dahl, Phillip Ashe, Darren

Powers (Johnny Glaze)]

B 2011-2012

The Bluegrass Experience turns 40 in Chatham Living Magazine [Paul Beane, Don Beane, Tommy

Edwards, Thomas "Snuffy" Smith, "Fiddlin" Al McCanless, Charles Conrad, Stan Brown, Mike

Aldridge]

C 20 Sep 2012 "It was a toe-tapping foot-stomping good time at the 6th annual Hoppin' John Bluegrass Fiddlers'

Convention"

C 1 Nov 2012 "Colorful chicken mosaic honors building's past" [LaNelle Davis]

C 15 Nov 2012 Bluegrass Experience to Mark 40 Years of Songs

C 15 Nov 2012 Dream turns into reality for writer [Nora Gaskin Esthimer]

C 17 Jan 2013 Pittsboro Mural Work finishes [Michael Brown]

C 7 Feb 2013 Chatham Blues Singer Competes in Memphis [Rhonda Robichaux]

C 25 Apr 2013 Shakori Hills crowd weathers rainy conditions

C 16 May 2013 And the winner is…. [Michael R. Thorpe]

C 6 Jun 2013 J-M junior finalist on Rising Stars competition

C 4 Jul 2013 Local author pens new thriller [Larry Rochelle]

C 18 Jul 2013 Shakori Hills plans annual NC Stars in the round

C 18 Jul 2013 Pittsboro artist wins "Best in Show" [Kim Werfel]

C 1 Aug 2013 Local authors showcase work in Siler City

C 8 Aug 2013 Siler City author [Danielle Siler] to hold book signing

C 22 Aug 2013 Native author [Danielle Siler] releases new novel, returns to hometown for book signing

C 26 Sep 2013 Book signing to feature local author September 28 [ Caroline Taylor]

C 28 Nov 2013 Local authors to sign books in Southern Pines [Erika Hoffman and Connie Riddle]

C 28 Nov 1913 Local Chatham County author, Hogan [Judy Hogan], publishes two new books

C 29 May 2014 Artists team up to create mosaic mural (LaNelle Davis and Beth Goldston)

C 12 Jun 2014 JAM camp to be exciting fun-filled time

C 26 Jun 2014 JAM camp

C 16 Oct 2014 Chatham artists (Julia Kennedy) wins Goat Parade

C 16 Oct 2014 Weather doesn't stop Shakori Hills festival

C 16 Oct 2014 It's the people that make Shakori special

C 4 Dec 2014 Celebration marks Pittsboro mural completion (LaNelle Davis and Beth Goldston)

C 12 Feb 2015 (Mark) Hewitt pottery wins recognition

C 19 Feb 2015 Local painter (Jan DeWitt) creates masterful portraiture

C 9 Apr 2015 Shakori Hills event has sustainable focus

C 9 Apr 2015 Fearrington artists inviting public view

C 24 Sep 2015 African Children's Choir calls Chatham home

C 15 Oct 2015 Shakori Hills a music lover's paradise

C 22 Oct 2015 Creating a work of art--Pittsboro man (Shay Garrick) builds violins from scratch

C 12 May 2016 Schedule change proves good move for spring Shaokori Hills festival

C 12 May 2016 Young authors honored at award ceremony

C 7 Jul 2016 Father, son merge talents to created unique art work (Scott and Bob Meyer)

C 14 Jul 2016 Bonlee family wins big at gospel singing competition (The Walter's family)

NOTEBOOK 2: ARTS COUNCIL -- BLACK HISTORY

ARTS COUNCIL

C 1973-1977 Organization of Pittsboro Arts Council, sponsored artists and events, assortment of column articles


C 1982-1987 Organization of Chatham County Arts Council and assortment of events

B 1988 Special Report of Chatham County Arts Council (photos)

B Fall 1993 brochure for studio tour

C 5 Jun 1994 feature on the arts in Chatham County (photos)

C 10 Dec 1998 Sixth annual studio tour

B Dec 2011 19th Chatham Studio Tour

C 22 Nov 2012 Chatham Studio Tour set for first weekends in December

B Dec 2012 20th Chatham Studio Tour

B Dec 2013 21st Chatham Studio Tour

B Dec 2014 22nd Chatham Studio Tour

C 19 Feb 2015 Chatham Arts Council names art grant recipients

B Dec 2015 23rd Chatham Studio Tour

C 7-Jul-16 Chatham Arts Council holds open house, meeting

BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS

B 1971 booklet: 200 Years of Progress, with history of county and communities, celebration events, sponsors,

contests, county officials (photos)

C 1971 photo: (faded) Preparations for a busy week

B 1971 Bicentennial program

C 21 Jan 1971 Cooper to lead bi-centennial

C 11 Feb 1971 J. M. High in Siler city to be setting of Chatham's bi-centennial play

C 25 Feb 1971 June Wrenn, mayors buy shares to mark beginning of sale of stock

C 25 Feb 1971 Telephone directory marks Chatham's bi-centennial year

C 25 Mar 1971 Chatham bi-centennial "kickoff" set for April 2

C 1 Apr 1971 Cooper: Don't forget bi-centennial "kickoff"

C 8 Apr 1971 Kickoff starts county's 200th birthday

C 15 Apr 1971 Mayor Hamlet proclaims Bi-centennial Belles

C 13 May 1971 Bi-centennial director is 'all show business'

C 27 May 1971 Casting for pageant set for this Friday

C 10 Jun 1971 Kangaroo Kourt

C 17 Jun 1971 Activities schedule complete for county's bicentennial week

C 17 Jun 1971 Bicentennial Queen Contestants

C 24 Jun 1971 Baptists to sponsor bicentennial supper

C 24 Jun 1971 More activities set as bicentennial begins

C 24 Jun 1971 It's bicentennial time

C 24 Jun 1971 Tour of old homes scheduled for Sunday

C 24 Jun 1971 Pittsboro Jaycees, Jaycettes sponsoring horse show Sunday

C 1 Jul 1971 Fall schedule planned for last three days of county bicentennial

C 1 Jul 1971 Time capsule buried

C 1 Jul 1971 Governor Scott crowns queen as pageant begins week run

C 15 Jul 1971 Chatham's bicentennial was a profitable event

C 14 Oct 1971 It's time to redeem bicentennial stock

C 15 May 1974 general themes set for 1976

C 27 Mar 1975 Plans for bicentennial celebration shaping up

C 16 Apr 1975 Bicentennial plans shaping up

C 23 Jun 1976 Activities begin

B 23 Jun 1976 Pittsboro land use and historic tour notes

BLACK HISTORY See also individuals in PEOPLE section

B no date Black history, oral history and genealogy by Alex Haley


B Feb 1984

From Slavery to Distinction, by Billie Lee Rogers. A biographical dictionary of African-American

families “who have made unusual contributions to the growth and development of Black communities

and Black people in Chatham County,” prepared to accompany an exhibit for Black History month.

about 20 pages of assorted clippings, title pages, reprints about George Moses Horton

C Funeral-Ribbon Quilts of Chatham County

C 13 Jun 1952 R.G. and Wilbur Bryant and their dairy farm (photo)

C 6 Dec 1962 Mitchell community wins award

C 3 May 1972 Chatham-Lee Credit Union; Bishop Leach (photo)

C 27 Jun 1973 feature: Elizabeth and Manley Cheek (photo)

C 30 Jan 1974 Mr. Loula B. Watson at 99

C 19 Jun 1974 (photo) AMEZion Durham District Officers

C 31 Jul 1974 Lee Family of Chatham (photos)

C 5 Jan 1977 17th annual Freedom Day program (photos)

C 19 Jan 1977 Historical feature announced (part of article missing)

C 6 Apr 1977 Chatham Lee Credit Union

C 7 Sep 1977 28th annual Chatham County Fair; Milliken cabin used as Black history museum (photos)

C 28 Sep 1977 Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. to speak in Siler City (photo)

C 12 Oct 1977 Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. keynotes Black Awareness conference (photos)

C 7 Dec 1977 Herb healers John and Hattie Lee of Moncure (photo)

C 17 Jan 1979 Chatham-Lee Credit Union holds 21st annual meeting (photo)

C 13 Feb 1980 Chatham’s Black Churches, by Evelyn B. Harris [see also individual church articles, under “Churches”]

C 4 Jun 1980 Siler City Seniors have their day

C 15 Nov 1990 feature: Football helped ease transition of integration

B 24 Feb 1994 Panel to talk at Pittsboro library for Black history month (also clippings announcing meeting 17 Feb

1994)

C 6 Mar 1997 First celebration of African American history by Black Historical Society of Chatham County

C 13 Mar 1997 Black History celebration at Horton Middle School

C 3 Apr 1997 brief article about 15 Mar celebration of African American history

C 12 Mar 1998 Black Historical Society and Arts Council sponsor programs

B 1998 revised version of brochure about Milliken log cabin

C 22 May 2003 Elizabeth Edwards honored by Bennett College

C Jun 2005 Sign honors university founder (Atkins)

B 2004

Questionnaires for Rosenwald Schools in Chatham County (Gees Grove, Zion, Haywood, Mitchel’s

Chapel, Piney Grove, Pittsboro [Horton], Gum Springs, Siler City [Chatham H.S.], Gulf, Goldston)

(maps)

B 1998 “Caught Up in the Violent Whirlwind of Lynching” by Patrick J. Huber, in North Carolina Historical

Review, April 1998. The 1885 Quadruple Lynching in Chatham County, NC. (photos)

B Martha Hope Smith notes: records of Black citizens recorded in St. Bartholomew’s register, 1833-1895

C 7 Feb 2013 Poet George Moses Horton was South's inspirational bard

C 7 Mar 2013 Black Historical Society plans meeting

C 27 Feb 2014 Chatham funeral programs tell story of county's black community

C 5 Feb 2015 Chatham County historical association presents lecture [on Dr. Mansel Philip McCleave]

C 18 Feb 2016 Collection of funeral programs tell local stories

NOTEBOOK 3: CARNIVORE TRUST -- CENSUS

CARNIVORE PRESERVATION TRUST/ CAROLINA TIGER RESCUE

C 21 Jul 1976 Escaped jaguar captured after 3 days (photos)

C 26 Jul 1976 Dr. Michael Bleyman’s study of wild animals questioned by neighbors (photos)

C 8 Sep 1976 County to pass ordinance regulating wild animals (photos)

C 22 Sep 1976 Commissioners want citizen input for wild animal ordinance


B brochures: Carnivore Preservation Trust

B Typescript description of CPT program

C 1 Oct 1985 feature: CPT (photos)

C 11 Jun 1987 Exotic bears added at animal preserve (photos)

C 13 Aug 1987 Wildlife artist Charles Frace visits CPT (photos)

C 1 Oct 1987 Hold that tiger (photo)

C 11 Feb 1988 Spectator feature: CPT (photos)

C 18 May 1988 Sandpaper feature: CPT (photos)

C 9 Jun 1988 Chatham Record feature: CPT (photos)

C 2 Feb 1989 First grisons born in captivity (photo)

C 5 Apr 1990 500 trees planted at CPT (photos)

C 19 Apr 1990 Wildlife photographer Leonard Lee Rue visits CPT (photos)

C 17 May 1990 Chatham Record feature (photos)

C 26 Jul 1990 Bleyman to appear on PBS (photo)

B Jan 1993 The State feature: CPT (photos)

C 1996 Noted conservationist Michael Bleyman dies (photo)

B May 1997 CPT cares for exotics (photos)

C 20 Apr 1999 Schonwalter resigns as director of CPT

B Mar 2001 Discover article: “Wild Cats in Carolina”

B Spring 2013 The Paw Print

C 3 Oct 2013 Top non-profit award goes to Carolina Tiger Preserve

C 21 Aug 2014 Carolina Tiger Rescue acquires two new tigers

B Fall 2015 The Paw Print

B Winter 2015 The Paw Print--Wishing You the Joy of the Season

B Winter 2015 The Paw Print--New Tigers Tasha and Leah

B Spring 2016 The Paw Print

CEMETERIES

C

Copy of letter to editor of The Antique Trader objecting to identification of gravestones as “collectibles”

and asserting that Association of Gravestone Studies will attempt to prosecute anyone attempting to sell

one

B 1992 NC archives brochure about statewide cemetery survey; summary of protective statutes

B Copy of NC statutes protecting cemeteries

B Excerpts from books and articles regarding care of gravestones and graveyards: rubbings, cleaning,

restoration, photographing, recording, etc.

B Symbolism in the carvings on old gravestones: bibliography and selection of examples

B Forms for description of cemetery and for gravestone markers used in state inventory

C 3 Mar 1976 “Chatham Jack” Alston cemetery: tangle of weeds, granite & history (photos)

C 14 Jul 1988 Grave robbery at Tick Creek cemetery (photos)

C 30 Jan 1992 County dotted with old cemeteries; plans to inventory markers by CCHA (photos)

C 2 Apr 1992 Vandals strike old cemetery (Pittsboro Colored Cemetery) (photo)

C 6 Aug 1992 Vandals attack Macedonia church and cemetery (photos)

B Aug 1993 Inventory of Siler, Scotch-Ever McIver, Pittsboro Methodist cemeteries in Lee Co. Genealogical Society

C 9 Nov 2000 Gee Family cemetery cleaned up by Confederate veterans history group (photos)

C 20 Dec 2001 Gravesites of Chatham County published by CCHA

C 2002 Property owner wants to move abandoned Poor House cemetery to build house

C 6 Oct 2005 Col. John Randolph Lane Society cleans up Beckwith cemetery

C 21 Apr 2011 "Once removed gravestones returned after 30 years"

CENSUS

B explanation of identification numbers that appear on census pages for the various census years


B history of census, with summary of information found in each census year

B 1974 “North Carolina Census Records, 1784-1900” by Ellen C. McGrew. Description, summary of

information

B Description of and hints on how to use the 1850 census

B c. 2000 Maine project to recreate 1890 census

B 1860 census form, showing headings

B 1880 census of Chatham County: partial index prepared by J. M. Cooper (Albright, Baldwin, Center,

Hadley, Hickory Mountain, Matthews)

C 21 Jan 1971 Census shows 10 percent gain in Chatham County during last decade

C 25 Feb 1971 Census places Chatham population at 29,554

NOTEBOOK 4: CHATHAM COUNTY

CHATHAM COUNTY

B 1815 1815 Tax List of Chatham County, compiled by William Perry Johnson

C 1884 Branson's Business Directory

C 1890 Branson’s Directory for 1890; copied from Lee County newsletter (1996)

B 1932 “A History of Chatham County, NC” by Walter D. Siler transcribed by Steven E. Brooks, 2002

B 1934 “Old Chatham County Wills” by J. F. Matthews in The State magazine

C c. 1950 “Chatham Manufacturing Textiles and Furniture” (headline, but contains more general information;

photos)

C 11 Jul 1952 County Board approves $567,493 Record Budget

C 11 Jul 1952 Annual Welfare Report highlights

C 7 Nov 1952 County Board receives three road petitions

C 5 Dec 1952 photo: Board of Commissioners taking oath of office

C 1 Jan 1954 County Library Circulation totals 15,421 since July

C 10 Nov 1960 Tax collections by Sheriff Emerson break records

C 4 Oct 1962 County gets two million dollar increase in valuation

C 10 Jan 1963 Is 'Big Hole' part of coast-to-coast underground cable system for AT&T?

C 11 Apr 1963 Contracts to be let on structure for 'Big Hole'

C 9 May 1963 Fuel oil pipeline is 'hush-hush'

C 16 May 1963 Big Hole' to get $4,000,000 building

C 30 May 1963 All-County telephone system is suggested

C 12 Mar 1963 Plans announced for polio clinics in Pittsboro

C 26 Mar 1963 17,500 county citizens receive polio vaccine

C 16 Apr 1963 Social Security checks increasing in Chatham

C 30 Apr 1964 Construction of 'Big Hole' moving rapidly

C 14 May 1964 Big Hole (photo)

C 14 May 1964 Abernathy urges use of zip code

C 7 Jan 1971 Chatham County now registers voters on full-time system

C 7 Jan 1971 Chatham County's first under-21 voter registers

C 28 Jan 1971 Chatham site for zoo still being highly considered

C 11 Feb 1971 Chatham's site for NC Zoo gets closer look

C 4 Mar 1971 Commissioners choose 'Dumpster' waste disposal system

C 24 Jun 1971 More home ownership in Chatham County

C 8 Jul 1971 Proposed county budget increases by half million dollars

C 15 Jul 1971 County sheriff's department raids liquor still behind house across from Love's Creek Church

C 29 Jul 1971 Largest still ever found in Chatham destroyed

C 23 Sep 1971 Public hearing set on CP&L's plans to build nuclear plant

C 23 Sep 1971 Meat consumption up in Chatham County

C 14 Oct 1971 Lottery number 125 celling for drafting Chatham men


C 21 Oct 1971 County buys 79 acres for sanitary landfill

C 21 Oct 1971 Bigger auto population in Chatham County

C 25 Nov 1971 Incomes more upward in Chatham County

C 2 Dec 1971 458 businesses listed in Chatham County

C 16 Dec 1971 Local savings reach $4,383,000 in year

C 17 Feb 1972 Direct distance dialing start in county, Sunday

C 15 Jun 1972 Chatham County fails to match growth in per capita income

C 13 Jul 1972 Average family income is $7, 182 in Chatham

C 10 Aug 1972 Commissioners adopt budget with $1.20 tax rate

C 10 Aug 1972 Story of seven jails

C 31 Aug 1972 Average Chatham family is insured for $15,750

C 22 Mar 1973 Commissioners plan countywide zoning at special meeting Monday

C 19 Apr 1973 Baldwin, Williams zoning renewed by county board

C 10 May 1973 Sales tax increase likely

C 31 May 1973 Commissioners approve sales tax

C 21 Jun 1973 County Board tries to hold tax rate while trimming budget

C 19 Jul 1973 Largest in Chatham's history… County budget approved

C 26 Jul 1973 Chevron seeking oil in Chatham?

C 23 Apr 1973 County economy climbing

C 30 Apr 1973 Chathamites consume sodas galore

C 11 Oct 1973 Chatham almost certain to feel oil pinch

C 8 Nov 1973 Housing subdivisions moving into northeast Chatham

C 9 Jan 1975 Work set for application of blight control funds

C 9 Jan 1975 County, Siler City to seek blight rehabilitation funds

C 16 Jan 1975 County sets priorities on blight control funds

C 16 Jan 1975 "Blight" priorities set

C 13 Feb 1975 Cost of government here cheaper than other areas

B 1984 “Chatham '84”, 64-page booklet with advertising, articles, photos

C Dennis Rogers’s follow-up column after Margaret Pollard arranged a tour after a negative column in

N&O

C 10 Feb 1995 “Wonders abound in Chatham County” column by Blair Pollack, Chapel Hill News

B Spring 1995 1995 Resource Guide for Chatham County and Surrounding Area in County Life Magazine

C Mar 1996 Chatham County Historical Tidbits

B 23 Jun 1996 Chapel Hill Herald supplement about Chatham County

C Jan 1998 “Charming Chatham” by Dave Hart in The State magazine

C 10 Sep 2000 Heritage Trail group developing guide to attract tourists

C Jan 2000 "Hispanic wave forever alters Chatham County town"

B 17 Mar 2005 Transcription of lecture by Gene Brooks on Chatham history, part of series sponsored by CCHA

B

“Abstracts of Some Early Chatham County Wills” by Nancy Bruns (Marsh, Robert Sr.; George, William;

Edwards, William; Stewart, James; Stewart, Charles; Dorsett, Francis; Duty, William Sr.; Headen, John;

May, Joseph; Sellars, James; Moffitt, Hugh; Ward, Rachel; Williams, Burwell; Rives, Seley; Cook, John

Lett; Cook, John; Cook, Henry; Cook, Abraham; Cook, Mary; Fooshee, Joseph; Fooshee, Simon; Stone,

Francis; Stone, Ann; Stone, John; Stone, Thomas; Stone, John S.; Hackney, Joseph (1801, 1839);

Hackney, John; Peoples, Hugh; Adcock, Joshua; Adcock, John; Ward, Martha; Headen, John; Headen,

Sarah; Headen, Elizabeth; Headen, Dolly; Headen, Isaac; Headen, Isaac B.; Bynum, Luke; Bynum,

Turner; Bynum, Mark; Horton, William; Williams, Ezekiel; Kemp, Josiah; Kemp, Joseph; Kemp, Joseph;

Kemp, Susannah; Dorsett, Solomon; Jones, Edmond; George, William; West, Thomas (1807, 1808);

West, Isaac; Ward, William; Smith, Ambrose

B District Health Department brochure, services, hours, schedule

C May 1999 Chatham chooses first flag design


C 21 Oct 1999 Dedication for new county flag

C 2000 “When the rabbit rescued Chatham” by Fred Vatter

C 5 May 2011 Groundbreaking ceremony Chatham County Judicial Center program

C 21 Jun 2012 "Roadside signs point way to local historic people, places"

B 4 Jan 2103 "Ribbon cutting and grand opening Chatham County Justice Center"

C 22 Aug 2013 Growth in visitors to county helps boost local economy

C 22 Aug 2013 Elected officials meet to discuss Land Use Plan

C Sept 2013 Water powered mills were economic and social centers

C 26 Sep 2013 County fair attendance good despite unsettled weather

C 24 Oct 2013 9-11 memorial finds home

C Nov 2013 Two Chatham County Tories met very different fates

C 28 Nov 2013 County jail construction well underway; opening 2014

C 26 Dec 2013 County approves 9-11 memorial concept

C 20 Feb 2014 Winter storm lots of fun, just glad it's over and done

C 20 Mar 2014 County commissioners present positive State of the County

B Spring 2014 Chatham

C 17 Apr 2014 Music event to raise money for county fair

C 24 Apr 2014 Record setting trees found in Chatham

C 12 Jun 2014 CCEC (Chatham Citizens for Effective Communities) offers rebuttal to State of County report

C 24 Jul 2014 New county jail work to be completed by November

C 31 Jul 2014 County considers zoning options

C 28 Aug 2014 County officials welcome new data on increased visitor spending in Chatham

C 28 Aug 2014 Dedication planned for 9/11 memorial

C 28 Aug 2014 CCHA receives grant funding for veterans

C 4 Sep 2014 United Way awards sheriff

C 11 Sep 2014 9/11 memorial dedicated; features Ground Zero beam

C 9 Oct 2014 Rural internet service expands

C 9 Oct 2014 Chamber of Commerce holds annual meeting

C 10 Oct 2014 Same-sex marriage comes to county after court ruling

C 23 Oct 2014 County reviewing zoning options

C 23 Oct 2014 Chatham's AAA bond rating places county in select group

C 23 Oct 2014 With economy on mend, annual meeting strikes upbeat tone

C 30 Oct 2014 Chatham election officials earn high achievement

C 30 Oct 2014 Search is on for big Southern Magnolias in Chatham County

C 10 Dec 2014 County ranked first in most prosperous in North Carolina

C 12 Feb 2015 Transportation facility to break ground

C 5 Mar 2015 Newspaper staffers win at NCPA event

C 26 Mar 2015 Ancient crocodile once roamed Chatham area

C 7 May 2015 County continues to earn statewide honors

C 28 May 2015 New Chatham detention center state of the art

C 28 May 2015 Detention center state of the art, capable of 300 inmates

C 18 Jun 2015 County OK's budget with no tax increase

C 23 Jul 2015 GTOC finds Grand Magnolia's in Chatham

C 20 Aug 2015 Chatham County continues tread of increased visitor spending

C 3 Sep 2015 Officials discuss recent growth

C 12 Nov 2015 County hearing Monday on capital needs funding

C 19 Nov 2015 County begins process of zoning

C 26 Nov 2015 Zoning will take months to prepare


C 17 Dec 2015 Report examines top health issues in Chatham County

C 14 Jan 2016 New data projects Chatham's aging population

C 10 Mar 2016 New tobacco policy goes into effect on Chatham County properties

C 24 Mar 2016 Hearing set on county zoning

C 31 Mar 2016 Chatham moves ahead with 25-year plan

C 7 Apr 2016 Building comes down… (Hart's furniture store)

C 5 May 2016 County proposes first tax hike in seven years

C 9 Jun 2016 Zoning hearing draws crowd

C 16 Jun 2016 County sets planning meetings

C 7 Jul 2016 Celebrating the 4th

C 4 Aug 2016 Zoning vote possible Aug 15

C 11 Aug 2016 County aims to lure hotel

C 16 Aug 2016 County enacts zoning

Year in Review

C 1 Jan 1954 “Much progress is shown here during past year”

C 27 Dec 1962 “ ‘Big Dam’ and ‘Big Hole’ are top stories of 1962"

C 30 Dec 1971 Bicentennial in July is Chatham's top news story in 1971

C 28 Dec 1972 Closing Mathiesen Clinic is year's top story

C 2 Jan 1975 Capsule look at 1974

C 2 Jan 1975 Police controversy was top story of 1974

C 1 Jan 1998 “[Pittsboro] got new leaders, home in 1997"

C 1 Jan 1998 “Chatham County recorded number of ‘almost’ during year just ended”

C 31 Dec 1998 “Local politics, water and hogs top Chatham news last year”

B 30 Dec 1999 “Growth issues top concerns in 1999. . .”

B 28 Dec 2000 “Land issues dominated Chatham County in 2000"

C 3 Jan 2002 “Chatham County saw history-making events”

C 2 Jan 2003 “From drought to ice storm, Chatham saw it all”

C 1 Jan 2004 “2003 was a year of growth”

C 30 Jan 2004 “Chatham’s top 10 stories in 2004"

C 29 Dec 2005 “Drought at the head of the list in area’s top 12 stories”

C 2 Jul 2009 2009 Chatham County Annual Highlights -- from Chatham County Manager's Office

C 30 Dec 2010 "Courthouse fire tops Chatham County news from 2010"

C 22 Nov 2012 New county judicial center six weeks ahead of schedule

C 29 Nov 2012 Opening set for judicial center

C 3 Jan 2013 New Justice Center opens in Pittsboro

C 3 Jan 2013 Top stories of 2012

C 7 Feb 2013 County wins coveted budget award

C 21 Feb 2013 County chooses site for memorial

C March 2013 Chatham County--200 Years of Progress

C 18 Apr 2013 2013: The State of Chatham County

C 2 Jan 2014 A look back at 2013's top news stories

C 1 Jan 2015 2014 A year of changes for Chatham County

C 7 Jan 2016 2015 A look back

Pittsboro Herald/Chatham Herald

C 14 Aug 1974 (Pittsboro) Herald reaches 5000 circulation

C 6 Nov 1974 Most read paper in county

C 6 Nov 1974 (Pittsboro) Herald opens office in Siler City

C mid-1970s Staff photos--Pittsboro Herald


C before 1975 Photo of President and Managing Editor

C April 1975 Bob Gunn resigns as Herald Pres.

C 7 Jul 1976 Herald moves to new office in Pittsboro

C c. 1976 Herald loses co-editor

C Guide to Newspapers on Microfilm in the NC State Archives (Pittsboro & Siler City)

C early 1980s Life without the Herald

C early 1980s Herald turns corner, but still has a ways to go

C early 1980s Help--Explaining the bottom line

C 1 Sep 1982 Herald needs your help to continue

C 25 Jun 1984 Ownership takeover at paper

C 12 Jul 1984 Broaddus takes reins at Chatham Herald/ It's up to you to make the Herald accountable

C 12 Jul 1984 "Sad songs… they say so much!"

C 25 Jul 1984 Ex-editor ask understanding

C 25 Jul 1984 We're pleased to meet you/ New guy in town?

C 15 Aug 1984 How can 3 or 4 Herald-Tribune reporters cover all of Chatham?

NOTEBOOKS 5-8: CHURCHES

CHURCHES

C 23 Jan 1997 feature: Church names (photos)

C May 1996 Quakers were earliest settlers in Chatham County

B Dec 1995 Bibliography of Baptist church records in Chatham County

B 1984 Historical Directory of Methodist churches in Chatham County

B 1994 Notes (Will Heiser) about deeds recording 8 Methodist churches at unknown locations

B 1997 Historical Sketch of Wesleyan Churches in Chatham County

B Apr 2003 Descriptions of Chatham County churches excerpted from 19th century publications; from Lee Co.

Genealogical Society newsletter

C 21 Nov 1972 Antioch Baptist Church (photo)

C 7 Feb 1973 Antioch Christian Church (photo)

B Jan 2003 from Lee Co. “Times”: Asbury Methodist Church

Asbury Methodist Church (from Pittsboro “Herald”) (photo)

B 1987 Bear Creek Baptist Church (history prepared for 200th anniversary) (photo)

C 15 Nov 1972 Bells Baptist Church (photo)

C 1953 photocopy of photo: Congregation of Bethany Baptist Church, Gulf, 1953

B History of Bonlee Baptist Church by Mrs. Ina Andrews

C ? photo: New Brown's Chapel church

B 2002 History of stained glass windows, Browns Chapel United Methodist Church (photos)

B 1974 Brush Creek Baptist Church (photo)

B 2004 Brush Creek Baptist Church 1824-2004, 180 Years

B c. 2003 Shadows of Buckhorn, A History by Evelyn Cross (illustration)

C 4 Oct 1972 Bynum United Methodist Church (photo)

B 1985 A History of Bynum United Methodist Church

C 11 Oct 1972 Chatham United Methodist Church (photo)

C 13 Dec 1972 Church of God (photo)

C 12 May 2016 Local leaders heop Pittsboro church begin new facility (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

C 27 Apr 1972 Cornerstone ceremony set for April 29 (Ebenezer AME Zion Church)

B 1979 Ebenezer Log Church (photos, illustrations) extensive study for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

C 9 Aug 1972 Ebenezer Church County Landmark, by Sims Poindexter

C 31 Jan 1973 Ebenezer Methodist Church (photo)

C 29 Nov 1973 A new home, a new era… Ebenezer Methodist Church


C 28 Jun 1990 “Log church is featured in book” (photo)

C 7 Nov 1996 “Locals unveil marker to remember history” Ebenezer Methodist Church

C 20 Apr 1977 “Church dissatisfied with Corps graveyard work” Ebenezer Methodist Church and others (photos)

C 29 Apr 1977 “Corps, contractor, church confront in cemetery” (photos)

C 12 Sep 1972 Emmaus Baptist Church (photos)

C 27 Jul 1983 Emmaus . . . celebrates 150 years (photo)

B 11 Mar 2003 Emmaus Baptist Church, 1833-1983

C c. 1972 First Baptist Church, Siler City (photos)

C 11 May 1989 photos: centennial celebration proclamation, First Baptist Church, Siler City

C 25 May 1989 First Baptist Church, Siler City, 100th Anniversary (photos)

C 27 Dec 1972 First United Methodist Church, Siler City (drawing)

B 1980 First United Methodist Church, Siler City, Church History: 1886-1980

C 11 Apr 1902 photo: Flint Ridge UMC

C 12 May 1988 Flint Ridge Church gets new lease on life (photo)

B 1952 History of Gees Grove A.M.E. Zion Church

C 28 Mar 1952 photo: Goldston Baptist Church

C 7 Mar 1973 Goldston Baptist Church (photo)

B c. 1984 History of Goldston UMC

C 10 Jan 1984 Gulf Presbyterian Church (photo)

C c. 1981 Gulf Church Repainted, “Reborn” (photos)

B 1979 News release for 150th anniversary of Gum Springs Baptist Church

C 1 Nov 1972 Mrs. Lillie Eubanks Lee honored at Hamlet Chapel Church

C 24 Jan 1973 Hamlet Chapel Church (photo)

C 6 Sep 1972 Hanks Chapel Church (historical photo, photo)

C 13 Jun 1994 Haw River Mountain Church

B Sep 1993 Inventory of gravestones at Haywood Church

C c. 1971 Hickory Mountain Baptist Church celebrates 98 years (photos)

B Hickory Mountain Baptist Church--from Justice family publication

B 2000 Lambert Chapel Missionary Baptist Church Dedication Service (photos, drawings)

C 27 Aug 1975 Loves Creek Baptist Church’s 150th anniversary (photos)

C 3 Apr 1985 Mann’s Chapel getting new life (photo)

[see also “Mann’s Chapel Preservation Society” 24 Jul 87 under Architectural Preservation]

C c 1972 Mann’s Chapel Church

C 12 Apr 1990 “Hollywood Comes to Chatham County” at Mann’s Chapel Church

C 7 Jan 2006 “Neighbors rally to preserve Mann’s Chapel”

C 19 Nov 2015 Saving an old friend (Manns Chapel Church)

B 31 Mar 1911 Dedication of Historical Marker at Martha's Chapel by National Society of Colonial Dames--program

B 2011 History of Martha's Chapel from Historic Sites Marked by NC Society Colonial Dames

C 7 Apr 2011 "Historical marker dedicated at church [Martha's Chapel]

B 5 Aug 1990 Welcome to Mays Chapel Baptist Church

C 1 Jan 1992 Mays Chapel Baptist Church almost 200 years old (photos)

C 8 Aug 1984 Meronies [Meroney’s] UMC celebrates 200 years

B 16 Oct 1994 Merritts Chapel United Methodist Church -- booklet prepared for Homecoming Sunday, 16 Oct 1994

C 7 Aug 1974 Merry Oaks Baptist (photo)

C 19 Jun 1974 Mitchell’s Chapel hosts AMEZ Church convention (photo)

C 27 Feb 2014 Mitchell Chapel AME Zion Church honors heroes of past and present

C 1 Nov 1972 Moncure UMC (photo)

C Mar 1973 Moncure UMC (photo)


C 29 Jun 1989 photo: Moon’s Chapel’s 140th anniversary

B 2000 Moon’s Chapel Baptist Church Directory (photos)

B Moon’s Chapel Album Directory (photos)

B 1979 Moon’s Chapel 130th anniversary directory (photos)

C 12 Sep 1973 Mt. Gilead Baptist Church (photo)

B Mt. Pleasant Historical Note by Lamont Norwood

B Mount Pleasant church rolls, 1841, 1908

C 3 Apr 1984 Mount Pleasant Church, Chatham County, from N.C. Christian Advocate

B photocopy of pages from Bishop Asbury’s journal

C 11 Sep 1987 feature article on Mount Pleasant church (photo)

C "Our Historic Churches--Mount Pleasant Church Chatham County" (photo)

C 21 Mar 1973 Mt. Sinai AME Church (photo)

B 7 Sep 1941 Homecoming program at Mt. View AMEZ Church

C 20 Dec 1972 Mt. Zion Baptist Church (photo)

B Sep 1928 History of Mount Zion M. E. Church, South of Chatham County

B 27 Sep 2009 Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church 156th Homecoming Anniversary

C 2012 History of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church

C 28 Oct 2012 Mount Zion United Methodist Church celebration worship service

C 25 Oct 1972 New Elam Christian Church (photo)

C 17 Jan 1973 Oakley Baptist Church (photo)

C 26 Jul 1973 Old Providence Methodist Church torn down (photos)

C 20 Sep 1962 Pittsboro Baptist Church was organized in 1847 (historical photo, photo)

C 23 Aug 1972 Pittsboro Baptist Church (historical photo, photo)

C 26 Sep 1962 Pittsboro Presbyterian Church formed in 1848 (historical photo, photo)

B 1971 History of the Pittsboro Presbyterian Church by Wade Barber, Sr.

C 10 Aug 1998 Pittsboro Presbyterian turns 150 (photos)

C 20 Sep 1962 Pittsboro Methodist was first church organized here (historical photo, photo)

B Pittsboro Methodist Church directory (photos)

B 30 Sep 1984 History of Pittsboro UMC

B 1990 Directory of Pittsboro UMC

C 3 Oct 1991 photo: Alston memorial window, with St. Bartholomew’s section

C 11 Jun 1992 Pittsboro’s oldest church celebrates 177th birthday (photo)

B 1995 Pittsboro UMC directory (photos)

C 19 Nov 2015 PUMC celebrates bicentennial

C 3 Jan 1973 Pleasant Hill Baptist Church (photo)

B 1971 History of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church by Gladys Thomas

C 6 Dec 1972 Pleasant Hill Methodist Church (historical photo)

B 2002 Memorial to Mrs. Rosser Ferguson Cockman

B 1968 History of Pleasant Hill Methodist Church (photos)

B 1988 1988 Directory of Pleasant Hill UMC (photos)

B 2000 Updated history of Pleasant Hill UMC (photos)

B 1934 copy of Church Book of Rives Chapel Church, 1832-1861 from original at Wake Forest College

B Chronological History of Rives Chapel Church (compiled from church minutes)

C 11 Mar 2010 "[Will] Lambert earns Eagle Scout rank"

C 21 Nov 1972 Rock Springs Baptist Church (photo)

C 21 Jul 1976 Rocky River Baptist Church celebrates bicentennial (photos)

C 12 Jun 1953 Rocky River Friends to observe bicentennial (photos)

C 20 Oct 1976 Rocky River Friends observe old-fashioned Quaker Sunday (photos)


C 12 Jun 2003 Rocky River Friends celebrates 250th anniversary (photos)

C 28 Feb 1991 Rocky River Methodist Church victim of vandalism (photos)

B 1996 Rose Hill Church

B Russell Chapel Church History

B photo: Helen R. London memorial window, St. Bartholomew’s

B photo: Good Shepherd memorial window, St. Bartholomew’s

C 15 Feb 1934 Episcopal Church Ministers Meet [at St. Bartholomew’s] (historical photos)

B Feb 1939 St. Bartholomew’s, from The State magazine

C Oct 1958 St. Bartholomew’s plans 125th anniversary (photo)

C 2 Oct 1960 St. Bartholomew’s celebrating 127 years (photo)

B Sep 1960 Informal history of St. Bartholomew’s by the Rev. Charles R. Greene

C 20 Sep 1962 St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church was erected here in 1833 (photos)

C 16 Mar 1972 Local church (St. Bartholomews) bells used by Confederacy for cannon

C c. 1980 Church register shows occurrence of diphtheria between 1857 and 1866

B 5 Jun 1983 St. Bartholomew’s 150th anniversary church bulletin

B 1983 St. Bartholomew’s Parish, 1833-1983 [church history] (photos)

C 3 Dec 1987 St. Bartholomew’s getting facelift (photos)

C 17 Nov 1988 St. Cecilia window at St. Bartholomew’s on greeting card (photo)

C 3 Oct 1991 St. Bartholomew’s windows designed by Frank Marsden London

C 2003 map and index of St. Bartholomew’s cemetery

C 20 Oct 2009 Oyster Supper St. Mark’s at Gulf (1809)

C 3 Nov 2009 (1809) St. Mark’s Episcopal Church at Gulf

C 19 Feb 1953 Historic Church to be rebuilt [St. Mark’s] (photos)

C 3 Dec 1953 Dedication in remodeled church [St. Mark’s] (photos), from Chatham News

C 4 Dec 1953 Dedication is held in remodeled church (photo), from Chatham Record

C 30 Mar 1977 photo: abandoned St. Marks Episcopal Church

C 18 Jul 1979 Chatham chapel [St. Mark’s] becomes historical artifact

B Mar 1983 How St. Marks Came to Mordecai, from The State magazine (photos)

B c. 1983 Martha Smith notes about St. Mark’s, Gulf

C 24 Jan 1988 Circuit ride of 1847 chapel ends in Raleigh [St. Mark’s] (photo)

C 4 Aug 1994 [St. Mark’s] cemetery victim of the elements (photo)

C 9 Aug 1994 ‘Assuming responsibility for the past’ in an old graveyard [St. Mark’s]

C 3 Nov 1994 Historic Gulf cemetery is rededicated [St. Mark’s] (photo)

C Nov 1994 Rededication of St. Mark’s cemetery, Gulf (photos)

B Nov 1994 “St. Mark’s Chapel: Migratory and Enduring” by Wade H. Hadley

C Jan 1997 photo: gravestone at St. Mark’s

B 17 Oct 1976 76th anniversary program for St. Matthews AME Zion Church Pittsboro 1900-1976

C 18 Oct 1972 Sandy Branch Baptist Church (photo)

B 1981 Sapling Ridge UMC (photo, sketch)

C 12 Jun 2012 photo: of old Sapling Ridge Church, built c. 1830

C 20 Sep 1962 Pittsboro Seventh-Day Adventist Church was dedicated Dec. 30, 1950 (photo)

C 20 Sep 1972 Seventh Day Adventist Church (photos)

C 14 Feb 1973 Siler City Chapel (photo)

C 11 Apr 1952 photo: South Fork Friends

C 25 May 1989 photo: Tyson’s Creek Baptist Church homecoming

C 13 Feb 1980 Union Grove AMEZ Church dedication of educational wing (photos)

C "West end UMC to celebrate 100 years"

C 27 Mar 1974 West Grove Friends Meeting (photo)


NOTEBOOK 9: CIVIC GROUPS -- CIVIL WAR

CIVIC GROUPS

B 1962 History of the Chatham Rose Society, 1952-1962

C 14 Feb 1963 Historical Projects

C 14 May 1964 History Society to Meet Today

C 28 May 1964 Chatham Horse Show is Set for Saturday (Kiwanis Club)

C 28 Oct 1971 Kiwanis Club Fair Booth

C 30 Dec 1971 Evening Star Chapter of Order of E. Star has Christmas banquet

C 18 Oct 1973 Photo: Pittsboro Kiwanis Club

B 1978 Backyard Garden Club, Pittsboro, N.C.: 30-Year History, by Doris Goerch Horton

C 1 Jun 1983 "PTA Thrift Shop off to fast start" (photos)

C 10 Jan 2006 Historic Masonic apron given to Chatham Historical Museum

B Mar 1976 Ten Years and Just Beginning--Joint Orange Chatham Community Action, Inc [JOCCA]

B 29-30 Sep South Chatham Ruritans Present 19th Annual Pumpkin Festival 2012

C 28 Feb 2013 Museum preps for opening [Chatham County Historical Association]

C 7 Mar 2013 Edwards presents music at Historical Association event

C 21 Mar 2013 PTA Thrift Store celebrates 30th anniversary

C 22 Aug 2013 Habitat opens new office in Siler City

C 26 Sep 2013 Hunger walk to have Halloween theme Oct 27

C 3 Oct 2013 Record amount raised by PTA Thrift Stores

C 31 Oct 2013 November PTA Thrift Shop Month

C 29 Dec 2013 Local nonprofit merging with entity to help students

C March 2014 Chatham County Together! Celebrates 25 years of service

C 7 Mar 2014 Gardeners gearing up for CORA

C 13 Mar 2014 Masonic Lodge--four sets of brothers

C 13 Mar 2014 Masonic Lodge installs officers

C 20 Mar 2014 Chatham Habitat busy at building homes

C 27 Mar 2014 First responders holding ground breaking at site

C 17 Apr 2014 Empty bowls event to benefit CORA

C 24 Apr 2014 Siler City Lodge #403 elects officers

C 24 Apr 2014 Eastern Star installation

C 8 May 2014 Masons dedicate courthouse stone

C 26 Jun 2014 Siler City Lions club installs officers

C 10 Jul 2014 Six-week blitz to build Habitat house

C 17 Jul 2014 Historical society to hold tour of historic homes in Pittsboro

C 31 Jul 2014 Historical Society to have home tour in Pittsboro

C 14 Apr 2014 Small home coming along… (Habitat)

C 4 Sep 2014 CDC benefits community with two programs

C 25 Sep 2014 Communities in Schools holds first meeting after CCT merger [formerly Chatham County Together]

C 6 Nov 2014 Annual hunger walk draws large crowd

C 6 Nov 2014 Smokehouse to be salvaged by Historical Association

C 13 Nov 2014 CCHA to host volunteer coffee at historic courthouse

C 18 Dec 2014 Chatham Habitat wins NAACP Humanitarian Award in November

C 15 Jan 2015 CISCC (formerly CCT) celebrates Mentoring Month

C 5 Feb 2015 Chatham County historical association presents lecture

C 5 Feb 2015 Fourth graders meet the past at museum (Historical Association)

C 19 Feb 2015 Non-profit (CISCC-formerly CCT) begins pilot program in county schools

C 12 Feb 2015 27th Cake Bake-off satisfies sweet cravings, raises funds for Council on Aging


C 5 Mar 2015 Dance helps raise funds for FVRC's new shelter

C 12 Mar 2015 West Chatham food pantry awarded grant

C 26 Mar 2015 Eastern Star installs 2015-2016 officers

C 2 Apr 2015 Friends of CORA garden receives $5000 grant

C 9 Apr 2015 Nonprofit donates solar array to Habitat for Humanity

C 16 Apr 2015 Tapas fundraiser helps out Communities in Schools

C 23 Apr 2015 Empty bowls fundraiser set for May 3rd (CORA)

C 23 Apr 2015 Local food banks maintaining stocks

C 14 May 2015 Grant for $3,500 to help repair historic property

C 21 May 2015 Museum field trip sponsors thanked

C 18 Jun 2015 Group (Sustainable Prosperity) pushes for affordable housing in Chatham County

C 2 Jul 2015 CORA Food Pantry feeling constraints of small facility

C 23 Jul 2015 Time capsule removed, opened from old Masonic cornerstone

C 20 Aug 2015 (Chatham Cares Community) Pharmacy helps those in need with meds

C 10 Sep 2015 Closure will leave gap in services (Hispanic Liaison)

C 10 Sep 2015 Habitat begins new community

C 10 Oct 2015 Chatham Habitat opens two new homes

C 5 Nov 2015 Hunger walk proceeds with gusto despite dreary weather (CORA)

B Winter 2015 Communities in Schools holds first meeting after CCT merger [formerly Chatham County Together]

C 4 Feb 2016 Bonlee Masonic Lodge names officers…

C 31 Mar 2016 Volunteers to help feed hungry county teens

C 24 Apr 2016 Chatham Empty Bowls

C 28 Apr 2016 Spring for Literacy luncheon raises funds to help non-profit

C 5 May 2016 County to help fund Hispanic Liaison

C 5 May 2016 Day of the Books held Saturday at Bray Park

C 5 May 2016 Habitat spelling bee a r-o-u-s-i-n-g success

C 19 May 2016 Chatham Habitat finished up four new homes

C 19 May 2016 Teams raise funds to fight cancer

C 9 Jun 2016 Chatham Trades ears honors from State Labor Commissioner

C 18 Aug 2016 Build a backpack drive turns up big (United Way)

CIVIL WAR

B 1865 Typewritten copy of letter from H. A. London Jr. to his father, from H. A. London papers, Southern

Historical Collection, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

C “Gold of Desolate Meadows,” story of lost Confederate treasury

C c. 1890s

“Chatham’s War History,” by Henry A. London, a series from Chatham Record, including “Chatham

Rifles,” “Chatham Guards,” “Co. G, 26th Regiment,” “Haw River Boys,” “Co. E, 44th Regiment,” “Co. G,

48th Regiment,” etc.

B Compilation of soldiers listed in “Chatham’s War History” by John Cooper

B “Chatham County Militia,” by John H. Emerson

B Copy of letter in Charles S. Brown Papers at Perkins Library, Duke University

B Nov 1976 Capt. James Waddell and the Shenandoah

B 1830 2 pages from a chapter on slavery in an unidentified, photocopied book

B c. 1923 “Civil War Record of John Joe Hackney,” mimeographed copy of transcript of a letter to the editor of the

Chatham Record

B Feb 1925 War Record from 1862 to 1865, by H. C. Clegg, Sr., published in Chatham Record

C 20 Sep 1962 “Courier London Carried Gen. Lee’s Cease-Fire Order at Appomattox”

C 20 Sep 1962 “Capt. James Iredell Waddell . . . Captured 38 Union Ships During Voyage of his Famous Cruiser. . .”

C 20 Sep 1962 “Unveiling of Confederate Monument. . .in 1907. . .”

C 13 Sep 1972 “Rose O’Neal Greenhow, Secret Agent for the Confederacy”


C 21 Nov 1972 “Confederate Women, the Staunchest Rebels”

C 20 Dec 1972 “How the Rebels from North Carolina Took the Fort”

C 18 Oct 1973 Winnie Davis Chapter of UDC 75 years old

B 1978 “Unfinished Arsenal and Foundry of the Confederate States Located in Chatham County” by Wade

Hadley (near Little Bear Creek; photographs)

B Mar 1983 “The President’s Daughter,” [Varina Anne (Winnie) Davis] in The State magazine

C 28 Nov 1984 “Civil War Book Published” [Yesterdays by Zeb and Martha Harrington] (period engraving)

C 26 Oct 1989 photo: “Capt. Henry Clay Albright remembered . . .” reenactment ceremony (photographs)

C 1990 “Soldier’s letters reveal local living conditions during Civil War”

C 20 Jun 1991 Sons of Confederate Veterans seek Siler City chapter

C 28 Jul 1991 “Civil War battlefield visitors will be able to trace ancestors” (photograph)

C 10 Nov 1991 “Civil War veterans likely ancestors” [genealogy research column by Myra Vanderpool Gormley]

C 15 Dec 1991 “High-tech aid assists Civil War project” [genealogy research column by Myra V. Gormley]

C 8 Feb 1996 SCV compiling roster of Civil War veterans

C 3 Jul 1996 “Civil War, death rolls provide wealth of genealogical data” [column by Myra Gormley]

C 4 Aug 1996 “Find legacy of Blue, Gray in black, white” [Civil War research by columnist Myra Gormley]

C 19 Nov 1992 photo: Mrs. Henry Neal (nee Minnie Veil Beal) and Sadie Mimis

B 1994 Civil War Pensioners, from Chatham Record of 4 Jun 1885

C 19 Sep 1995 "Confederate father left legacy of healing, caring, education"

C 6 Mar 1997 “Gravesites are sought” [for Civil War veterans in Chatham County]

C 8 May 1997 “Registry being established from sites of Confederate burials”

C 28 Jun 1997 “Project calls the roll of fallen Confederates”

C 3 Jul 1997 SCV commemorates John Robert Horton at Mt. Gilead church

C 22 Apr 1999 SCV repairs grave of Marion B. Merritt

C Nov 1999

"Civil War Reenactor [Richard Sailey] Portrays Role of Great-Granddad [Joe Dan Hackney]" in Civil

War Reenactment News

B List of members of Co. E, 26th Regiment, “Pettigrew’s Brigade”

B photocopied page about John M. Brooks [from Ida Gellam’s Brooks and Kindred Families?]

B Spring 2001 “Family Remembrances of James T. Rogers” by Angus McKay Cameron in Cartersville Crossroads

B Fall 2001 “James T. Rogers: His Civil War Diary, Part II,” annotated by Dennis Brooks

B Spring 2002 “James T. Rogers: His Civil War Diary, Part III,” annotated by Dennis Brooks

C Mar 2002 "Pittsboro gave 'bummers' the bum's rush"

C 16 Jun 2013 1865 Confederate CSA Civil War Letter Fort Holmes Co. G 40th Troop

NOTEBOOKS 10-14: COMMUNITIES

COMMUNITIES

Bear Creek

C 23 Sep 1999 “Bear Creek, circa 1925, remembered fondly” (photos)

C 23 Dec 2000 "A small business glazed with success" [Southern Supreme Nutty Fruitcake and Gourmet Confections]

C 31 May 2001 “Church, community remembers its veterans in monumental way” (photos)

C 20 Dec 2012 From humble beginnings, a thriving fruitcake business

C 11 Jul 2013 Celebrating the Fourth….

C 5 Feb 2015 Quality, not quantity says local brewery

Bennett

B North Carolina Yearbook entries: 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916

C 22 Jul 1971 Chatham County Little League All-Stars

C 19 Apr 1972 Historical photos: abandoned Bennett Christian church; Angela Karen Cotten

C 31 Aug 2000 “Flatwoods Festival next month;” “Special stamp, print at the Flatwoods Festival”

C 13 Apr 2006 “Lucy Pugh is link to Bennett’s past”


C 16 Oct 2008 "Historical picture collection shows early days of Bennett" (photo: Bennett Christian Church 1918

Sunday School class)

C 26 Jul 2012 "Bennett Speedway: Ghostly track is all that remains"

C 7 May 2015 Popular Bennett restaurant closes after 44 years

C 17 Sep 2015 Flatwoods Festival draws large crowd

Bonlee

B North Carolina Yearbook entries: 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916

B Jul 1970 History of Bonlee, N.C. by Ina D. Andrews

C 13 Apr 1995 “Rainbow Tavern once drew packed house”

C 14 Jan 1999 “Pioneer [John Dunlap] helped bring education to rural area” (historical photos)

C 8 Jul 1999 “Old store, poultry plant fading from scene” (historical photos)

Buckhorn Falls

B 28 Jun 1995 “A place in Chatham history” by John Hairr

Bynum

C Wachs column: “More than just a store”

C 21 Jan 1971 The old Bynum Schoolhouse

C 18 Feb 1971 Covered bridge and grist mill at Bynum

C 16 Dec 1971 Bynum's post office is ordered closed

C 23 Dec 1971 L.M. Durham's store

C 30 Dec 1971 Rural mail service to start for Bynum

C 12 Apr 1972 “Chatham County’s communities: Bynum” (photos)

C 8 Oct 1972 “Bynum to lose its post office” (photos)

C 25 Jul 1973 historical photograph of river and mill

C 23 May 1973 historical photograph of new and old bridges, about 1921

C 13 Jun 1973 historical photograph of unidentified men on porch

C 5 Nov 1975 “Bynum has a real haunted house!” (Photo)

B 1980 Mimeographed condensed thesis “Traditional culture and community in a Piedmont textile mill village”

by Douglas DeNatale

C early 1980s “An institution in Bynum” [photo of Frank Harris]

C 17 Dec 1981 “Tuscarora Yarns makes Odell plant proud”

C photo: L. M. Durham’s store

C 28 Apr 1985 “Bynum remembers its boom long after mill shut its doors” (photos)

C 15 Feb 1987 “Invasion of experts, reporter miffs ‘town dying of cancer’ “ (photos)

C 1 Oct 1987 “Luboff: music and serenity in Bynum” (photo)

C 3 Dec 1987 “Luboff concert draws crowd” (photo)

B 18 Feb 1988 In Bynum: Life after the Mill in The Leader Magazine

C 13 Oct 1988 “Remembering a man who remembered Bynum” (photo: Henry Carter)

C 24 Jan 1991 “Bynum - mill village traditions are dying” (photo of Garland “Pete” Tripp, Mill Hill)

C 23 Aug 1992 “No longer a busy thriving mill town, Bynum settles into country lifestyle” (photos)

C 16 May 1996 “General store changes, remains the same” (photo: Tuck’s)

C “Odell plant closed for good” (photo)

C 18 Sep 1997 “Bynum store carries on name and community life” (photos)

C 6 Mar 1998 “History of Bynum 1872-1979” (photos)

C 20 Jul 1998 “The fabric of the past” (photos)

B 1999 “Bynum Community Survey: issues on development and conservation of the Haw River”

C 21 Oct 1999 “Old Bynum mill burns in fire” (historical photo)

C 2001 Bynum (photos) first part missing

C 17 Feb 2003 "Envisioning a town of Bynum" (photos)

C 26 Jan 2006 “Struggling Bynum general store to drop postal service” (photos)


C 13 Apr 2006 “Jones’ love of life and learning prompt celebration in Bynum resident’s name” (photo)

B 14 Apr 2005 Transcript of Walter Harris talk, “Bynum and its mill”

C 19 May 2011 "Bynum store hits 75th anniversary birthday" (photo)

C 12 Jun 2011 "In Bynum the music plays on" (photos)

C 7 Jun 2012 "Bynum Community Garden gets grant for roof upgrade" (photo)

C 11 Apr 2013 "Good weather draws crowd to Clydefest"

C 2 May 2013 "ClydeFEST 2013 was a record-breaker festival"

C 10 Apr 2014 Sunny skies bring out crowd to Clydefest

C 1 May 2014 Bynum Front Porch names 2014 grant winners

C 7 May 2015 ClydeFEST is a creative field day for kids and parents

C 7 Jul 2016 Bynum property sold to developer

Carbonton

C Old photograph of dam at Carbonton.

B 1990 “Carbonton, 1754-1756” [excerpts from newspapers from 1812 to 1917, in Lee Co. Genealogical &

Historical Society Newsletter]

B Dec 1991 Carbonton, Chatham and Moore Counties, NC from Central North Carolina Journal

B 1996 “Carbonton” [article from 1939, in Lee Co. Genealogical & Historical Society Newsletter]

C 9 Mar 2006 “Carbonton landmark likely to stand after dam removal is complete” (photo)

C Sept 2015 Carbonton's "Big Flood," August 1908

Corinth

C 13 Apr 2006 “Harringtons are historians of Southeastern Chatham” (photos)

Cumnock

B 1997 “Cumnock mining property bid in by bondholders” [1933 article in Lee Co. Genealogical & Historical

Society newsletter]

B 1996 “Why Egypt was named Cumnock” [1878 article, in Lee Co. Genealogical & Historical Society

Newsletter; also list of Chatham Co. post offices]

B 2004 “A letter about Egypt” [1928 letter, in Lee Co. Genealogical & Historical Society Newsletter; also 1869

letter about mining, list of Chatham mines from 1890 Branson’s Directory]

Egypt

B Sep 1992 Egypt, Chatham County, North Carolina from Central North Carolina Journal

Goldston

B Branson’s Business Directory entries for 1869, 1890, 1896; North Carolina Yearbook entries for 1902,

1905, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916

C 1 Apr 1971 Goldson Girl Scouts presented donation

C 6 May 1971 Goldston school lease gets education board nod; agreement now in hands of Goldston town board

C 28 Oct 1971 Goldston community center to be named for McLaughlin

C 18 Apr 1972 Historical photograph: The Old Goldston School

C 27 Apr 1972 Proposed new center honors former school supervisor

B Jun 1976 “Main Street Study” prepared by Triangle J Council of Governments

B 1987 Application for National Register listing of Goldston Commercial Historic District

C 25 Jul 1988 “Friends of Goldston library work hard to improve Chatham facility”

C 28 Feb 1991 “Fire hazard or historical treasure?: Goldston’s oldest store” (photos)

C 1991 Letter to editor: “Preserve the frame building”

C 22 Aug 1991 photo: opening of Goldston community center; demolition of old Townsend feed mill

C 22 Apr 1999 “Goldston fire department remembers” (photo)

C 26 Aug 2010 "Sharpe's store music celebrates anniversary"

C 1 May 2014 Proposed quarry a growing concern

C 8 May 2014 Residents speak out against Goldston quarry

C 17 Jul 2014 Goldston still fighting quarry


C 16 Oct 2014 Crowd turns out for 27 annual Goldston Old Fashioned Day

C 16 Oct 2014 Crowd fills the street in 14th annual event

C 15 Oct 2015 Rain puts damper on Goldston Old Fashion Day

C 5 Nov 2015 Old train depot finds new home

C 19 Mar 2016 Goldston completing waste water treatment

Gorgas

B Fall 2002 Twenty Years Later, Gorgas Remembers Spraying Disaster in PESTed News, a publication of the

Agricultural Resources Center Pesticide Education Project

Gulf

B Branson’s Business Directory entries for 1867-68, 1872, 1884, 1890, 1896; North Carolina Yearbook

entries for 1902, 1905, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916

B Sketch maps of Gulf area

B 1963? Article about Gulf area by J. M. McIver

C 23 Jan 1974 “Gulf’s early history: boatmen discover it; farmers and miners settled there” (photo)

C 23 Jan 1974 “A small town that neither grows nor dies” (photo of railroad station)

C 23 Jan 1974 “Gulf’s economy: from small town services to regional industries” (photos)

B 30 Oct 1988 “Historical background of the Gulf area” by Nancy McIver Griffin

B 30 Oct 1988 “[Chronological list of] events associated with the village of Gulf” by Nancy Griffin

C 11 Apr 1991 “Margaret Jordan Ellis” (photos)

C 11 Apr 1991 “[coal] Mining regs and the changes” (photos)

B 28 Apr 1992 Gulf Historic District placed on state’s Study List

B 1 Nov 1993 [Historical background of the Gulf area by Nancy McIver Griffin, slightly revised]

B 21 May 1995 “Haughton-McIver House” by Nancy McIver Griffin

B 15 Nov 1998 Letter from Daniel Pezzoni to Margaret Jordan Ellis re Historic District

C 25 May 1995 “River gala big success” (photos)

C 30 May 1996 “Deep River Park Festival, ice cream social mark history” (photos)

C 29 Jan 1998 “Siler City woman has model hobby of county architecture [McIver House]” (photos)

C 11 Jan 1999 “Railroad says it will be good Gulf neighbor” (photos)

C 13 Apr 2006 “Historic Haughton-McIver House enjoys renewed life” (photo)

Harper’s Crossroads

C 26 Apr 1972 Chatham County’s communities: Harpers Crossroads (photos)

C 17 Oct 1979 “Harpers Crossroads Community Center: A dream is realized” (photo)

C 23 Nov 2000 “Crossroads history on display” (historical and modern photos)

C 27 Oct 2005 “Businessman [Raymond Brewer] high on community” (photo)

C 13 Apr 2006 “Harper’s Crossroads is definition of community” (photos)

Haywood (see also Moncure)

B Branson’s Business Directory entries for 1867-68, 1869, 1872, 1878, 1889-1890, 1896; North Carolina

Yearbook entry for 1905

B 7 Mar 2002 “Haywood: Lost town at the headwaters of the Cape Fear River” by Dennis F. Daniels, Research Branch,

Office of Archives and History; (incomplete)

B 2004 “Haywood articles” from early newspapers, in Lee Co. Genealogy. & Historical. Soc. Newsletter

B List of homeowners in censuses 1850-1930

B summary of census listings for Haywood, 1850-1920

B photocopy of Haywood census pages, 1930, 1920, 1910, 1900, 1880, [1870 list only], 1860, 1850

Lockville

B Branson’s Business Directory entries for 1867-68, 1869, 1872, 1877-78, 1884, 1890, 1896; North

Carolina Yearbook entries for 1902, 1905, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1915

C 29 May 1953 “Olden days at Lockville recalled by Mrs. Hackney” (photo)

C 1953 "Lockville, Ghost Town on Deep, nearly stole Yorktown's role"


C 1957 photocopy of Sanford Herald article "Lockville Recollections: When Mill Wheel Turned" (photos)

C 11 Apr 1963 "8 millstones steeped in history are salvaged from Ramsey's Mill"

C 1963 "Carolina history comes alive in nearby Moncure"

C 13 Apr 2006 “92-year-old twins are founts of area history” (photo)

B 23 Jul 2009 Printout of blog entry by Mark Chilton "Going back to Lockville" piedmontwanderings.blogspot.com

Matthews Crossroads

B [community that became Siler City]

Merry Oaks

B Branson’s Business Directory entries for 1872, 1877-78, 1884, 1890, 1896; North Carolina Yearbook

entries for 1902, 1905, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916

C 5 Jul 1978 “History of Merry Oaks Part II” (photos) [part I missing]

Moncure

B Branson’s Business Directory entries for 1884, 1890, 1896; North Carolina Yearbook entries for 1902,

1905, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916

C 1 Jan 1950 “Stories of Old Moncure lingering” (historical photos); “Moncure welcomes children”

C 17 May 2009 "Chatham History comes alive in nearby Moncure" Sanford Herald

C 27 Apr 1960 "Route two news"

C "Moncure news"

C 22 May 1969 "Moncure news"

C 20 Nov 1969 "Moncure news"

C 4 Dec 1969 "Moncure news"

C 15 Jul 1971 CP&L Moncure plant has unique systems for generating power

C 17 Mar 1971 Cape Fear electrical plant demolition nearing completion

C 27 Jun 1973 photo: old depot in Moncure

C 2 Jan 1988 “Can Moncure [water] plant be self-supporting?

C "Chatham plantation restores memories" (Taylor Hill)

C 25 Apr 1996 “Moncure/Haywood: the communities that would be a town” (photos); “Area almost had capital,

university”

C 13 Apr 2006 “Moncure residents take pride in local offerings” (historical photo)

C 13 Apr 2006 “Estill leads drive toward bio-diesel fuel” (photo)

C 28 Aug 2014 Duke Energy demolishes smokestacks in Moncure

C 4 Sep 2014 Manufacturer to lay off 175 at Moncure plant

C 8 Jan 2015 Moncure youth center open after many years

C 11 Jun 2015 Sprott Youth Center celebrates opening

C 11 Jun 2015 Moncure coal plant imploded

C 30 Jul 2015 Moncure megasite needs more work

C 19 Nov 2015 Coal ash truck traffic concerns Moncure residents

Moringsville

C 16 Oct 1997 “Durham man finds artifacts from early local community”

Mt. Vernon Springs

B Branson’s Business Directory entries for 1867-68, 1869, 1872, 1887-88, 1884, 1889-90, 1896; North

Carolina Yearbook entries for 1902, 1905, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1916

B photo: historical photo from Chatham Historical Museum

C “Mount Vernon Springs still noted for water” (historical photo)

C 4 Apr 1971 “Mt. Vernon Springs hotel gone, but mineral water still flows” (historical photos)

C 1 Feb 1975 “Healing mineral waters still flow at Mt. Vernon Springs” (photographs)

C 13 Mar 1975 A chapter in our history and heritage is fading away But nature's clear mineral springs continue to flow

C 28 Feb 1991 “Looking back to a busier time” (historical photos)

B Mar 1992 Mount Vernon Springs, Chatham County, NC from Central North Carolina Journal


B 1994 Mt. Vernon Springs and Ore Hill, paper by Jason H. Clark, Bonlee 8th grade. Contains photos and

photocopies of advertisements.

C 26 Sep 2002 “Family to help with Mount Vernon Springs facelift” (photos)

C 15 May 2003 “Spring facelift still underway at Mt. Vernon”

C 13 Apr 2006 “Reputed healing powers of Mount Vernon Springs, water long a part of Chatham lore, still intriguing

generations” (photos)

C “Believers tap into springs’ power” (photo: Eugene Foust and Doris McCracken)

C 11 Jul 2013 Vandals damage property around Mt. Vernon Springs

Ore Hill

B Branson’s Business Directory entries for 1872, 1884, 1889-90, 1896; North Carolina Yearbook entries

for 1902, 1905, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916

Pittsboro

B Fact sheet, prepared by Becky Henley for summer reading program tours

B from State Records of NC, vol. 24, p. 882: act establishing town of Pittsboro on lands of William Petty as

laid off in previous act establishing town on Scurlock land (also copied, from vol. 24, p. 774)

B May 2016 Chatham County petition for establishing a town [Pittsborough] on the lands of William Petty.

Transcription and list of petitioners. From NC Genealogical Journal, vol 24, number 2, pp. 128-133.

B Early draft- walking tour map of Pittsboro Historic District

B Growing up in Pittsboro by Wayne Cotton, PHS '53

C c. Apr 1922 probably p. 3 of Chatham Record, with local news and advertisements

C 12 Jul 1934 "Pittsboro to have Community House"

C 2 Aug 1934 "Sketch of Pittsboro Community House"

C 18 Apr 1935 "Public is cordially invited to attend the opening of the Community House 21 Apr 1935"

C 25 Apr 1935 "Pittsboro Community House now thrown open to public"

C 2 Dec 1937 “History of Pittsboro” from pamphlet published by Henry Armand London in 1876

C 19 Dec 1961 "Threat of flames to town halted"

C 1962? "Pittsboro to celebrate its 175th anniversary Saturday." (photo)

C 20 Sep 1962 photos: Pittsboro Bar in 1906; Pittsboro Bar in 1962

C 20 Sep 1962 “This is the story of seven jails”

C "The last guest at the Blair Hotel"

C photo: finishing touches put on Pittsboro town hall

C 14 Feb 1963 Pittsboro promoted as retirement center

C 14 Nov 1963 Pittsboro applies for water bond election

C 23 Apr 1964 Engineers recommend pipe line to Haw River

C 28 Jan 1971 1971 goals set for Pittsboro's 'new' Chamber of Commerce

C 6 May 1971 Town board adopts ordinance creating five new zoning areas

C 6 May 1971 Voters return Cotton, Crutchfield to board; Earl Dark, James Boone, Carl Yates win seats

C 10 Jun 1971 Powell plans A.B.C. vote, city limit extension; Yates is mayor pro tem, Gunn town attorney

C 8 Jul 1971 Proposed budget tops quarter-million mark

C 22 Jul 1971 Colonial fronts continue

C 5 Aug 1971 Anti-A.B.C. forces announce two programs

C 12 Aug 1971 Dry' forces continuing with heavy campaign

C 12 Aug 1971 Heavy vote expected in alcohol referendum

C 12 Aug 1971 Pittsboro ABC vote seems likely to pass

C 19 Aug 1971 Alcohol referendum wins 3-2 in heavy vote

C 16 Sep 1971 That's al that's left

C 30 Dec 1971 For Pittsboro, 1971 was a year of many changes

C 10 Feb 1972 Alarming need for hospital voiced at town meeting

C 24 Feb 1972 Mathiesen Clinic may close if financial need remains


C 6 Apr 1972 The Mathiesen Clinic

C 18 May 1972 June 15, Mathiesen Hospital will close

C 15 Jun 1972 A big part of Pittsboro has passed on; Mathiesen Hospital has closed its doors

C 15 Jun 1972 Town Commissioners hear new report for water and sewer plan

C 3 Aug 1972 Town Board approves '72-'73 budget; Pittsboro tax rate set at $1.30

C 12 Oct 1972 "Concerned Citizens" care about Pittsboro

C 1 Feb 1973 Police department gets two additional patrol cruisers

C 8 Mar 1973 Town changing to manager-type city government

C 22 Mar 1973 Durham firm to develop low cost housing here

C 18 Apr 1973 photo: mule at stop sign at Thompson and Masonic Streets

C 10 May 1973 Water, sewage bond issues before electorate June 26

C 17 May 1973 Pittsboro merchants dislike parking meters

C 17 May 1973 Meters regulate parking

C 24 May 1973 $500,000 loan approved for sewage improvement

C 24 May 1973 Oops! (regarding parking meters)

C 31 May 1973 Photo--New radar equipment

C 6 Jun 1973 photo: Cooper-Harris, Inc

C 7 Jun 1973 Future uncertain

C 14 Jun 1973 Recreation program begins

C 5 Jul 1973 Failure of water-sewer referendum would be tragedy

C 11 Jul 1973 photo: aerial view of Pittsboro

C 12 Jul 1973 Proposed bond issues explained by town officials

C 19 Jul 1973 Fate of water-sewer bond issue decided Friday

C 26 Jul 1973 Water-sewer bonds passed

C 26 Jul 1973 Bond approval elates officials

C 2 Aug 1973 Public meeting set to discuss establishment of hospital here

C 2 Aug 1973 SCL Railroad building here to be closed

C 6 Sep 1973 Recreation commission adopted by town board

C 20 Sep 1973 Efforts made to get home mail delivery

C 22 Nov 1973 Water supply running out

C 29 Nov 1973 Pittsboro faces the energy crisis

C 9 Jan 1975 House destroyed by fire Friday

C 16 Jan 1975 Public hearing called on 201 plan

C 16 Jan 1975 New animal ordinance adopted

C 20 Feb 1975 Town's sewer project gets public approval

C photo: looking North on 15-501 S toward Pittsboro

C 25 Feb 1976 "Drawing of Pittsboro's newly adopted town seal designed by C. Moore Patterson"

C 8 Aug 1979 "New businesses transform old Jerome homeplace"

C 8 Aug 1979 "Pittsboro showing new life" (photo: Elizabeth Anderson and Mimi Sharp in Pittsboro General Store"

C 11 Feb 1981 "Pittsboro families want sidewalk"

C 13 Oct 1982 "Leaky roof my force Pittsboro into temporary home"

C 26 Dec 1991 photos: Christmas in Pittsboro

C 6 May 1995 "Point of interest: Woman wants to cash in 1924 bond" in N&O

C May 1995 "Pittsboro asked to redeem old bonds; would cost town over $125,000"

C 1995 "Face of Pittsboro changing"

C 27 Jan 2005 "Building rezoning could create commercial space"

C "New parking area at sheriff's office underway"

B 8 May 2012 Letter from Lula Hinton Hoskins--reminiscences about Pittsboro, businesses, arts, her father E. R. Hinton


C 26 Jul 2012 "Public hearing set for Chatham Park rezoning"

C 9 Aug 2012 "Couple restoring home built in 1787 in Pittsboro"

C 14 Feb 1913 Chocolate cake bake-off celebrates 25 years

C 28 Mar 1913 Pittsboro hires first town engineer

C 28 Mar 1913 Pittsboro named certified NC retirement destination

C 9 May 2013 Pittsboro gains new retirement designation

C 13 Jun 2013 Pittsboro proposes budget that raises property taxes

C 12 Sep 2013 Night work in Pittsboro

C 19 Sep 2013 Pittsboro population passes 4,000

C 10 Oct 2013 Good weather smiles on annual Pepper Festival

C 24 Oct 2013 Annual Pittsboro Street Fair Saturday

C 24 Oct 2013 First Pittsboro Antiques fair draws steady business

C Feb 2013 Tarheel Town Pittsboro

C 3 Apr 2014 Memorial work now underway

C 15 May 2014 Beam erected on 9/11 memorial in Pittsboro

C 22 May 2014 Pittsboro relay raises $36,000

C 10 Jul 2014 Uncovering Pittsboro history (photo of M. A. Pickett Department Store)

B 2014 Pittsboro Map and Business Directory

C 31 Jul 2014 Changes planned for traffic circle

C 21 Aug 2014 Group works to save historic Pittsboro home

C 4 Sep 2014 State permit allows more discharge into Robeson Creek

C 18 Sep 2014 Pittsboro travels back in time during historic home tour

C 30 Oct 2014 Turnout strong for street fair

C 6 Nov 2014 Pittsboro seeks Jordan Lake water allocation

C 20 Nov 2014 Ain't agonna need this house much longer

C 14 May 2015 Pittsboro green lights new downtown park

C 9 Jul 2015 Pittsboro residents help fund new park

C 9 Jul 2015 Courthouse circle revamp work about a year away

C 23 Jul 2015 Work resumes on 9-11 memorial

C 30 Jul 2015 Morman church planned in Pittsboro

C 1 Oct 2015 Pittsboro water contains "likely carcinogen"

C 1 Oct 2015 Hot time at Briar Chapel Pepper Festival

C 8 Oct 2015 Pittsboro seeks loan to advance sewer plans

C 15 Oct 2015 Pittsboro tweaks plan for water system upgrade

C 15 Oct 2015 Pittsboro Board of Commissioners holds workshop on conservation ordinances

C 15 Oct 2015 New gathering spot celebrated in town

C 15 Oct 2015 Leaders issue statement on Pittsboro water

C 29 Oct 2015 Pittsboro Street Fair one of biggest, best

C 26 Nov 2015 Town holds tree lighting

C 24 Dec 2015 Christmas spirit was alive and well during 1946 crash-landings

C 23 Jun 2016 First ever Summer Fest set July 3

C 30 Jun 2016 Pittsboro board approves 2016-2017 budget

C 7 Jul 2016 Pittsboro throws big bash

C 7 Jul 2016 Property owner says he'll preserve historic home in zoning request

C 14 Jul 2016 New affordable rentals open in Pittsboro

Pittsboro Businesses

C Apr 1922 “Sprinkling the streets”

C Jun 1930 "Brooks Eubanks close their doors"


C 25 Aug 1957 “Farm industry institutes expansion program” (5 pages; photos)

C 1952 “Pittsboro town budget approved”; “Chatham’s share of beer tax is over $12,000”

C Sep 1952 “Miss Peggy Hawkins, Earl Lemons are wed in rites in New York” [on television]

C 15 Aug 1952 “Architect’s drawing of new Pittsboro High School”

C 1952 columns by W.B. Morgan, “Chatham Chatter”: Finer Carolina contest for local beautification; courthouse

painted red; concrete street markers

C

20 Sep 1962 Justice Motor Company. . .Mathiesen Clinic. . .Bank of Pittsboro. . .Carolina Power & Light. . . Sam

Griffin shoe shop. . .McNeill & Roberts, building supply. . .Barber Roscoe Wilson. . .Barber Grady

Pickard . . . Bron’s Auto Supply. . .Sun Valley Market. . . Vaughn’s Motor Service Co. . . Henry

Sparrow’s restaurant. . . Dan McCrimmon Drug Co. . .Earl Dark hatchery. . .Roberts Jewelry. . .Modern

Appliance Center [Langley] . . . Pittsboro Poultry. . .Pittsboro Hatchery. . .Cooper-Harris autos. .

.Pittsboro Cash Groceries. . .Thomas Brothers furniture. . .Pickett’s Dept. Store. . .Arthur's Men’s Store. .

.Town Shop. . . Oldham’s Tire Service . . .First Federal S&L. . .Telephone Co. . . Henry Blair’s hardware.

. .Bennet Nooe, pioneer lumberman. . . Farrell’s Gulf station. . . (photo of 1899 Pittsboro Scientific

Academy pupils). . . City Electronics . . .Harry Henderson service station. . . Baldwin-Stout. . .C.E. Jones

Appliances . . . Pittsboro Florist. . .Shenandoah restaurant [Bolejack] . . .June Smith electrical contractor

. . . Chapin Family [physician]. . . Chatham Mills . . .Kayser-Roth . . .Pittsboro Ice & Fuel. . . Economy

Furniture [Colon Shaw]

C

20 Sep 1962 photos: Old Central Hotel. . . West Street. . .Pittsboro’s baseball team. . .family swimming pool [private] .

. .Fourth of July party in 1919. . .Pittsboro, Indiana. . .Did King George VI visit Pittsboro?. . .town well. .

. fillers taken from early newspapers. . . union organized in 1933. . .photo at Gideon Alston home. . .new

charter calls for manager/council system. . .Cooper-Harris with gas pump, unpaved street. . .players on

1907 baseball team

C 1962

articles from commemorative issue of 27 Sept. 1962: Kennedy sends greetings. . .parade photos. . . fire

department. . . summary of history. . .academy . . .Henry A. London and the Chatham Record. . .Henry

Adolphus London, with photo of grandson Arthur H. London. . .Pittsboro town officials. . .Alston family

and Theodosia Burr. . .Prof. R. P. Johnson. . .postal service. . .CP&L contest

C 28 Mar 1963 Merchants to support program of Chamber

C 4 Apr 1963 Making progress

C 4 Apr 1963 Chamber of Commerce sets forth Pittsboro Retirement home plans

C 18 Apr 1963 Chamber of Commerce launches industry hunt

C 30 Sep 1971 Opening date for ABC store being planned for October 6

C 14 Oct 1971 Pittsboro's ABC store opens

C 28 Dec 1972 New branch (Central Carolina Bank)

C 29 Mar 1973 Opening soon (First Citizen's Bank and Trust)

C 23 Aug 1973 Photo of site of new building to house First Federal Savings and Loan Association

C 12 Sep 1973 “Historic [oil mill] chimney finally destroyed” (photos)

C 20 Aug 1975 photo: Shakerag Bluegrass Band at Pittsboro's Fall Festival, shows Griffin Shoe Store

C May 1976 “Pittsboro, Haywood were [early towns]” (incomplete)

C 30 Jun 1976 "Patterson presents paintings to Pittsboro"

C 18 Oct 1979 “Pittsboro La Sertomas hold charter banquet”

C 21 Feb 1979 Photo: Wind, sleet, snow, rain or a blizzard can't keep a banker home Pittsboro Herald

C 6 Jun 1979 "Cold beer sipped Monday in Pittsboro"

C 22 Sep 1982 "County-Pittsboro sign mall agreement"

C 22 Sep 1982 "Arts, crafts, antique displays needed for Pittsboro Fall Street Fair"

C 20 Oct 1982 "Pittsboro street fair coming Oct 29, 30" (1st annual Fall Street Fair)

C 16 Mar 1983 "Pittsboro downtown tree planting begins"

C 1984 photos: “Fair Day in Pittsboro”

C 29 Oct 1985 “Annual Fair fun for all” (photos)

C 11 Dec 1986 photos: “Here comes the parade!”

C 27 Feb 1987 “Grand dining in a setting that’s simple” [Hilltop restaurant; photos]


C 22 Oct 1987 photo: Kiwanis Club ham biscuit booth at state fair

C 29 May 1990 “Kiwanians celebrate 40 years in Pittsboro” (photos)

C 1990 column by Cassie Horton Wasko: “Another happy day” [birthday reminiscence]

C 17 Jan 1991 "Trees will be replaced slowly"

B 1992 Address display ordinance

C 27 Apr 1995 “Pittsboro takes steps for historic district”

C 3 Apr 1997 “Mixed drinks vote next week”

C 9 Oct 1997 photo: Pittsboro Fire Dept.

C 23 Oct 1997 “Soda shop back on main street” (photo)

C 4 Dec 1997 “Pittsboro looking to gain listing as historic district” (photo Lewis Freeman House)

C 25 Jun 1998 “Pittsboro working on historic district”

C 4 Feb 1999 “Pittsboro board approves historic district contract”

C 25 Jan 2001 photo: “On the National Register. . .” historic district sign

C 2001 “Master Gardener volunteer project beautifies grounds at courthouse” (photo)

C 10 May 2001 Doris Huneycutt column about courthouse plantings project

C 26 Sep 2002 “Pittsboro Christian Village marks 50th year”

B 9 Nov 2003 “Discovering Pittsboro” from Birmingham Alabama News (color photographs)

C 19 Aug 2004 “Pittsboro grows into antiques mecca” (photos)

C 2 Feb 2006 “Remembering the yesterdays when ice house was a place, not a drink” [Bob Wachs column]

C 2 Feb 2006 “Old Pittsboro business torn down” [Ice & Fuel] (photo)

B Jul 2007 Mock-up of Pittsboro at PHS reunion (photos)

C "Orchids by Hanks Chapel Greenhouse"

C 9 Sep 2010 "Barber shop is Pittsboro's oldest downtown business" (photo)

C 30 Sep 2010 "Starrlight Mead brings new beverage to Chatham County"

C 9 Dec 2010 "Pittsboro business owners mostly women" (photo: Gia Miele, Emma Caberera, Samantha Birchard,

Catherine Mills, Ginna Earl and Mariah Wheeler)

C 9 Dec 2010 "New bed and breakfast opens in Chatham" [458 West B&B] (photo)

C 11 Jul 2011 "Couple plans bed and breakfast for Pittsboro"

C 18 Aug 2011 "Iconic local business [General Store Café] files for bankruptcy" (photo)

C 8 Dec 2011 "Music studio opens in county"

B 2012 Stroll through Pittsboro North Carolina -- merchant's brochure [MISSING]

C 23 Feb 2012 Pope's Hardware, original Cole Park tenant to close

C 29 Nov 2012 Main Street program shows results in Pittsboro

C Jan 2013 Our State Magazine--Travel Pittsboro

C 23 Jan 2013 Now that's a wall of books [Circle City Books]

C 14 Feb 2013 Pittsboro has a new pizza restaurant

C 21 Feb 2013 Ag Center to be built in Pittsboro

C 14 Mar 2013 Biofuels facility first to receive accreditation

C 14 Mar 2013 Pittsboro Chevrolet building getting facelift

C 28 Mar 2013 Woodwright's school thrives in downtown Pittsboro

C 4 Apr 2013 Antique wood tool store finds niche in Pittsboro

C 23 May 2013 Last of its kind… [Old Pittsboro Antiques]

C 20 Jun 2013 New Walmart opens

C 4 Jul 2013 New Pittsboro facility to add 50 local jobs

C 18 Jul 2013 Small Business Center helps Circle City Books launch

C 18 Jul 2013 Allen and Son BBQ is a hometown favorite

C 15 Aug 2013 Medical facilities planned

C 15 Aug 2013 New barber shop opens in Pittsboro


C 15 Aug 2013 Phoenix Bakery opens in downtown Pittsboro

C 26 Sep 2013 Business makes living selling stained glass

C 17 Oct 2013 Graphic business moves to downtown Pittsboro

C 25 Oct 2013 New coffee shop opens in Pittsboro

C 5 Dec 2013 Good ol' Chatham dirt used to make building blocks

C 19 Dec 2013 New senior care center opens in Pittsboro

C 30 Jan 2014 New assisted living facility breaks ground

C 20 Feb 2014 Local organic growers help Pittsboro business blossom

C 24 Apr 2014 Pittsboro cigar-maker plans grand opening

C 22 May 2014 Bojangles opens up in Pittsboro

C 5 Jun 2014 Distillery to hold grand opening in Pittsboro

C 19 Jun 2014 Pittsboro distillery to hold grand opening Friday

C 3 Jul 2014 Pittsboro micro-distillery begins production

C 10 Jul 2014 Firearms store set to open in Pittsboro

C 12 Jul 2014 In Pittsboro and beyond, pining for floors from old tobacco barns

C 16 Oct 2014 New firearms store opens in Pittsboro

C 16 Oct 2014 Cackalacky tasting room opens up

C 6 Nov 2014 Natural parenting store opens in downtown Pittsboro

C 29 Jan 2015 PACE facility celebrates 1 year

C 2 Apr 2015 Rabbit processing facility meets goal

C 11 Jun 2015 New pet supply store planning fall opening

C 25 Jun 2015 Solar double cropping succeeds in Pittsboro

C 23 Jul 2015 New craft beer store opens in Pittsboro

C 23 Jul 2015 Chatham Ridge assisted living holds open house

C 3 Sep 2015 Fair Game Beverage wins big at Asheville wine festival

C 10 Mar 2016 Studio 17 design workshop opens in Pittsboro

Pittsboro Holly tree

C 2 Jan 1975 photo: “Justice Motors: Please spare that tree!” [also Stedman house]

C 8 Jan 1975 Letter to editor: “Justice holly tree revealed as rarity”

C 16 Jan 1975 What is fate of old holly tree?

C 22 Jan 1975 “Pittsboro’s rare old holly tree” with house debris

C 12 Feb 1975 “Justice agrees to save tree”

C 13 Feb 1975 Holly tree to be saved, beautified

C 19 Feb 1975 “Meeting scheduled to discuss landscaping of holly tree”

C 20 Feb 1975 A kiss on Valentine's Day

C 26 Feb 1975 “Justice and citizens’ group meet over landscaping of holly tree” (photos)

C 27 Feb 1975 Working to save the holly tree

C 7 Oct 1981 “Pittsboro’s historic holly tree threatened again” (photo)

C 14 Oct 1981 “Mayor hands holly tree fate to new car dealer” (photo)

C 14 Oct 1981 “Old holly tree agreement unfulfilled” (old photo)

C 21 Oct 1981 “Saving the holly tree is good business” (editorial)

C 21 Oct 1981 “Holly tree lease keeps Justice in charge. . . not threatened by lease”

C 10 Jul 1908 "Old Holly tree clings to life in downtown Pittsboro"

C 11 Sep 2008 "Old Holly tree taken down"

C 18 Sep 2008 "Some trees grown on you"

C 2009 "Old holly's age to be revealed"

C 2009 "Pittsboro's famous holly said to be world's oldest"

Pittsboro Maps


B 1984 Historical buildings and streets superimposed on map of current town plan; from booklet “Bygones and

Survivors” by John London

B Original town lots, redrawn

B Pittsboro town limits, points of interest

Pittsboro Library (See also Library for county library news and Chatham Community Library)

C c. 1970 “Pittsboro Library Friends set kickoff for new library” (photo: Marvin Reeves)

C 5 Mar 1970 photo: library building fund underway

C 4 Nov 1971 Dr. Eugene Grace to speak at meeting of Library Friends

C 25 Nov 1971 Mrs. McAllister chosen to head Friends of Pittsboro Library

C 2 Dec 1971 Mrs. Noe to retire Jan 1 as Pittsboro Library librarian

C 20 Jan 1972 Friends of Library set membership drive

C 24 Feb 1972 Preschoolers hear stories

C 23 Mar 1972 $60,000 offered to Pittsboro for library

C 20 Apr 1972 Friends of the library name fund raising chairman

C 15 Jun 1972 “Community chorale to kick off library fund raising drive”

C 8 Nov 1972 “Library finance committee report”

C 30 Nov 1972 Plans for new Pittsboro library reveal a modern, adequate facility

C 16 May 1973 editorial: Let’s build a library

C 17 May 1973 “Library plans complete, prints sent to builders”

C 12 Jul 1973 “Library Friends plan flea market project”

C 19 Jul 1973 “Flea market appears headed for success”

C 1 Aug 1973 “Friends of Library finalize plans for Saturday event”

C 2 Aug 1973 Library site flea market is Saturday

C 9 Aug 1973 Library ground breaking ends an era of anxiety

C 9 Aug 1973 Anew and modern Pittsboro Library--It's finally becoming real

C 16 Aug 1973 editorial: “A fine accomplishment”

C 22 Aug 1973 “Miss Bookworm contest”

C 6 Sep 1973 Reynolds Price, author-professor, addresses Library Friends Monday

C 13 Sep 1973 Price speaks to Friends

C 31 Oct 1973 “Community chorale sings”

C 13 Dec 1973 Town donates $5,000 to new library

C 2 May 1974 “Music, films, book sale highlight Pittsboro Library’s ‘May Festival’ “

C 23 May 1974 “Allied Chemical donates $5,000 to library fund” (photo)

C 29 May 1974 “Allied donates $5,000” (photo)

C 13 Nov 1974 “Library dedication attracts hundreds” (photo)

C 15 Oct 1975 “Library inherits $15,000”

C 20 Feb 1980 “Alamance Co. withdrawal proposal threatens library system”

C 21 Feb 1980 “Alamance may withdraw from library system”

C 20 Mar 1980 “Alamance board asked to stay in system”

C 23 Jul 1980 “Regional library head resigns”

C 17 Mar 1982 “Library gets microfiche card catalog”

C 11 Apr 1991 “Friends of Library plan special production” (photo of Carol Klevay)

C 28 Apr 1991 “Salute to Becky Henley draws large crowd to town”

C 2005? “Desk serves 30 years at Pittsboro Library” (photo of Roger Boyles at new desk)

Bicentennial

C 27 Nov 1986 "Bicentennial events outlined..birthday celebration plans in Pittsboro and Siler City"

B 6 Jan 1987 “Happy Birthday Pittsboro!” (original and copy; Annie Bynum painting) (photos)

C Jan 1987 “McAllister to speak at kick-off event”


C 8 Jan 1987 “McAllister says town is destined to grow” (photos of banquet program)

B 26 Feb 1987 “Special edition features history” (articles and photos, some repeats from 1962)

C 26 Feb 1987 “Bicentennial activities coming up”

C 16 Apr 1987 "Homes tour planned of historic Pittsboro"

C May 1987 "The people speak: letter to the editor from Pittsboro Tour of Historical Buildings Committee"

C 2 Jun 1987 photo: Barbershop quartet

B 1987 Bicentennial calendar (historical photographs)

C 10 Sep 1987 "Activities set for Pittsboro bi-centennial celebration"

C 24 Sep 1987 photo: Northwood High School band concert

National Register Nominations

Multiple Resource Nomination, 1981

B 1981

sections: partial inventory of historic and architectural properties; architectural description; significance

(general history); individual buildings (Luther Clegg, Moore-Manning, Hall-London, Lewis Freeman, A.

P. Terry, Patrick St. Lawrence, London Cottage, Reid House, McClenahan House, Kelvin; location map

B 1999 flyer: “A proposed listing of historic places for the National Register” (map)

C 14 Oct 1999 “Historical tours set in Pittsboro”

C 21 Oct 1999 “Town working towards historic district”

C 2000 “Historic signs considered”

C Jul 2000 “Pittsboro Historic District approved”

C 22 Jul 2000 “Town’s center enters [National] Register” (photos)

B Feb 2000

sections: description (narrative, followed by information for individual contributing structures); statement

of significance (general history); “Community development and historic architecture context,” comparing

Pittsboro and Hillsborough; bibliography

Siler City

B 1890 1890 Branson's Business Directory--Siler City

C 22 Aug 1952 Radio Station WNCA Now In Operation

C 6 Sep 1962 Bored? Read the telephone book

C 18 Apr 1968 "Six blasts on trumpet told how many persons were on stagecoach"

C 22 Mar 1973 Durham firm to develop low cost housing here

C 15 Nov 1973 Nursing home to be built in county

C 22 Nov 1973 Architects' drawing of nursing care center

C 29 Nov 1973 Siler City gaining fame as horse trading center

C 4 Jul 1974 Siler City Jaycees parade tops July 4th celebration

C 4 Jul 1974 29th annual July 4th celebration plans complete

C 27 Feb 1975 Siler City Nursing Home opens

C 13 Aug 1975 Farmers Alliance Stockholders Still Convene

C 12 Nov 1975 Wren Landscaping Given as Memorial

C 14 Jul 1976 "In Siler City--Library gets reference books from memorial fund"

C 9 Aug 1978 Farmers Alliance Celebrates 90th Year

C 4 Oct 1978 Downtown Siler City: bright future but needs help

C 6 Dec 1978 The Hadley Hotel gets a facelift

C 6 Jun 1979 Chamber of commerce honors Siler City's oldest business

C 13 Jun 1979 Farmers Alliance and the Hardware Store survive city competition

C 14 Jan 1981 No loafing here…

C 8 Oct 1985 Good morning Siler City

C 27 Nov 1986 "Bicentennial events outlined..birthday celebration plans in Pittsboro and Siler City"

C 22 Jan 1987 Siler City Centennial kicks off with essay contest

C 24 Feb 1987

"Siler City residents celebrating 100 years, know there's no place like home" notes Wade Hadley's

history of Siler City


C 12 Mar 1987 100th Birthday - Siler City Celebrates

C 20 Aug 1987 Introduction to special edition of The Chatham News commemorating Siler City’s 100th year (illustration:

town seal)

C 20 Aug 1987 Dedication of special edition to Wade Hadley; brief biography; history of Siler City (photo)

C 20 Aug 1987 “Summit Savings Bank was once Sanford Savings” (photo: 1957 July 4 parade)

C 20 Aug 1987 “A thumbnail review of Siler City history up to 1987, 100 years”

C 20 Aug 1987 “July 4 always been a big day for Siler City” (photo: Dan McMasters, 1957)

C 20 Aug 1987 “Siler City in 1927 small but pleasant” (1950 article by C. A. Shelton) (photos)

C 20 Aug 1987 photos: 1954 July 4 parade; Ed Kidd’s café in early 1930s

C 20 Aug 1987 “First newspaper printed in 1888” (photos: George McMasters in 1926; Blanche McMasters Roberts in

1972

C 20 Aug 1987 “Siler City’s BB&T began in mobile office;” “Chatham Foods has grown” (photo: Ed Clapp on tractor,

1940)

C 20 Aug 1987 “Farmers Alliance Store almost as old as the town of Siler City;” “Chatham Motors, Inc. began business

in 1937”

C 20 Aug 1987 “Local Ford dealership got its start in 1917” (photo Elder Motor Co. staff)

C 20 Aug 1987 photos: Reitzel Beverage Co. delivery trucks; Virginia Huddleston Paschal, 1932; N. Chatham Ave at

Raleigh St.

C 20 Aug 1987 “Clapp Brothers celebrates 50 years” (photos from 1952 open house)

C 20 Aug 1987 photo: hauling and unloading silage in early 1940s

C 20 Aug 1987 photos: Siler City’s current Masonic Temple; Jessie Ruth Seagroves, 1971. “Quality Molded started

small”

C 20 Aug 1987 “Oval Oak Manufacturing Co was national industry leader” (1916 photo)

C 20 Aug 1987 “Boling into fourth generation of family;” “Siler City Mills began in 1910” (photos: Mrs. Hattie Andrew;

Jean Gaines)

C 20 Aug 1987 “Brothers began Basic;” “Zimmer here past two years”

C 20 Aug 1987 “Town’s oldest bank now First Union” (photo: Elder Hardware)

C 20 Aug 1987 “Collins and Aikman will become world leader;” “Cable group began in 1986”

C 20 Aug 1987 “Chatham Novelties Co. survives huge fire” (photo: 1947 Town Board)

C 20 Aug 1987 “Smith and Buckner operates on corner where it began;” (photo: early ambulance; pre-remodeling funeral

home); “A. J. Schneierson & Son has grown over years”

C 20 Aug 1987 “Wrenn Brothers traces history to Davidson County in the ’20s” (photo: Elder Hardware)

C 20 Aug 1987 “Newspapering. . .” [continuation of missing page]; “History of town seal” (illus.)

C 20 Aug 1987 photos: “Trains don’t run anymore;” “When the tractors came to down”

C 20 Aug 1987 photos: “1954 July 4th parade;” “Ed Kidd’s Cafe”

C 20 Aug 1987 “Library has long history” (photo: Pony Express Boys, banjo and guitars, 1950)

C 20 Aug 1987 photo: Henry Siler School about 1935

C 20 Aug 1987 photo: Joseph Joshua and Louise Dunn Adcock and nine children in 1908

C 20 Aug 1987 photo: July 4 celebration in early 1900s

C 20 Aug 1987 photos: 1976 bicentennial celebration; Charlie Winford Burke and Nancy Ann Johnson Burke historical

photo

C 20 Aug 1987 “First Methodist Church same age as the town” (photo: Mozelle Brower, Miss Siler City of 1933)

C 20 Aug 1987 photo: Wheat field where Second Street is now

C 20 Aug 1987 photo: Siler City fifth grade in 1926; Thompson Military Academy about 1890

C 20 Aug 1987 photo: Debating Society of Siler City Institute, 1914

C 20 Aug 1987 “Siler City Schools” (photo: winter snowstorm)

C 20 Aug 1987 photos: School band; home economics class at Paul Braxton, 1951

C 20 Aug 1987 photo: Students at Siler City Institute

C 20 Aug 1987 “First hospital opened in 1937”

C 20 Aug 1987 photos: town hall, Methodist church, post office, high school postcards


C 20 Aug 1987 photo: “Groundbreaking for Masonic Lodge 403;” “Masons long been active”

C 20 Aug 1987 photo: Masonic Lodge 403, 1889

C 20 Aug 1987 photo: 1950 July 4 celebration; “Volunteer fire department started with $20 ladders”

C 20 Aug 1987 photo: James Spence and Frank Justice count cash paid for lot in Homewood Acres

C 1987 photo: Capsule buried

C 3 Mar 1988 History burns in practice fire

C 9 Jun 1988 Airport Closes for final clearing, paving

C 28 Jul 1988 The last picture show has run at drive-in

C 6 Oct 1988 Siler City celebrates 75 years of electricity

C 1 Nov 1988 Belks bringing "big city" style to Siler City store

C 3 Nov 1988 Work progressing on airport improvements in Siler City

C 13 Sep 1990 Siler City Landmark destroyed in blaze

C 13 Sep 1990 "Fire destroys Siler City mill building"

C 6 Jun 1991 Siler City hardware moving back to new old building

C 19 Apr 1993 "Open House" at Wren Library

C 13 Mar 1997 Planning board okays conditional permit

C 31 Oct 1997 Does anyone know what happened to this sign?

C 29 Jan 1998 A good look … (photo of post office renovation)

C 16 Apr 1998 Old Store going strong with new generations

C 16 Jul 1998 "Big Bill" Collins café in 1927

C 5 Nov 1998 Fund-raising starts for gym renovation project in Siler City

C 10 Dec 1998 Fund-raiser for Paul Braxton gym gets into full swing

C 17 Dec 1998 "Mudtown" was home to boys of Siler City in the '30's and '40's

C 9 Sep 1999 Holt, Hadley remember the blacksmithing in Siler City

C 23 Dec 1999 Shortly after World War I…

C 2000 Appeal made to Siler City on behalf of after-school program

C 26 Apr 2001 Downtown ripe for revitalization

C 29 Dec 2005 In a room with a view, now-defunct club once was a hot spot for teens

C Jun 2010 Claxton Johnson is Siler City Burgermaster

C 7 Jul 2011 "Siler City company showcases new building material"

C 4 Apr 2013 Siler City ok's downtown plan

C 4 Apr 2013 Town approves river trail plan

C 11 Apr 2013 Smithy to open up shop on West 2nd street in Siler City

C 18 Apr 2013 Siler City Lions Club celebrates 75 years

C 9 May 2013 Couple uses part of history to make home walkway

C 23 May 2013 Western film festival fills streets with gunfights, cannon fire

C Sep 2013 Community garden grows in downtown Siler City

C 5 Sep 2013 Ace Hardware celebrates 100 years of business

C 12 Sep 2013 Out with the old to make room for the new…

C 24 Oct 2013 And the walls came tumbling down (old Boling Chair Building torn down)

C 28 Nov 2013 Oldest store in operation to celebrate 125 years

C 12 Dec 2013 County store makes 125th birthday

C 12 Dec 2013 Same corner, same place for 125 years

C 2 Jan 2014 Old school may see new use

C 20 Mar 2014 First little free library to be planted during Third Friday

C 27 Mar 2014 First ever Third Friday music series kicks off

C 22 May 2014 Colorful new bench now adorns community garden in Siler City


C 22 May 2014 Festival brings taste of old west to downtown Siler City

C Jun 2014 NC Arts Incubator--Siler City's hidden treasure

C 3 Jul 2014 County arms store opens in Siler City

C 21 Aug 2014 Town of Siler City plans to rebuild public swimming pool

C 28 Aug 2014 Hope seen for Siler City Townsend facility

C 25 Sep 2014 Third Friday honors Hispanic Heritage Month

C 13 Nov 2014 Historical talk to be at Siler City Courthouse

C 8 Jan 2015 Citizens to discuss Loves Creek tributaries

C 12 Feb 2015 Artists creating mural in Siler City

C 19 Feb 2015 Artists revive Siler City mural society

C 26 Feb 2015 April cleanup set for Siler City area

C 12 Mar 2015 A fresh coat… (Coca-Cola mural)

C 12 Mar 2015 Work proceeds on Greenway

C 19 Mar 2015 Siler City set for large art extravaganza

C 26 Mar 2015 Big crowd enjoys downtown art event

C 23 Apr 2015 Annual BBQ plate sale makes money for Siler City fire department

C 7 May 2015 Engineering firm partnering up to hire 100

C 21 May 2015 Western Festival draws cowpokes to town

C 21 May 2015 Old West comes alive at Siler City film festival

C 21 May 2015 Third Friday brings visibility to LGBT community with art show

C 13 Aug 2015 Siler City planners give approval to solar farm

C 20 Aug 2015 Solar farm ok'd for west Chatham

C 27 Aug 2015 Historical group offering tours of Siler City

C 27 Aug 2015 New look coming for Wren Library in Siler City

C 24 Sep 2015 Tickets available for tour of historic Siler City locations

C 1 Oct 2015 Small town of the year--honor goes to Siler City

C 1 Oct 2015 Construction to open up space at Wren Library

C 15 Oct 2015 Walking tour lets group see historic Siler City homes

C 4 Feb 2016 County seeks new purpose for old school in Siler City

C 18 Feb 2016 Siler City approves solar farms

C 25 Feb 2016 City Hall trees come down in Siler City

C 17 Mar 2016 After 65 years, scrap metal plant closing

C 28 Apr 2016 Airport Authority moving forward with improvements

C 12 May 2016 Poultry plant will re-open in Siler City

C 12 May 2016 Next steps planned in reviving poultry plant in Siler City

C 2 Jun 2016 Wren Library renovations near completion

C 14 Jul 2016 Mural finished

C 28 Jul 2016 Mountaire moving ahead with Siler City plant plans

C 11 Aug 2016 Night Out a big hit for residents in Siler City

C 11 Aug 2016 National Night Out!

Siler City National Register

C 6 Oct 1994 Siler City Commissioners want historic district grant

C 16 Feb 1995 Planning board to talk about Historic district

C 30 Mar 1995 Town works on ordinance to create historic district

C 5 Oct 1995 Preservation group set to look at buildings

C 2 Nov 1995 Siler City looking at historic preservation districts

C 13 Nov 1997 Planning board okays conditional permit

C 9 Oct 1997 Wade Hadley produces book about buildings in downtown Siler City


C 22 Jan 1998 Siler City sites to be considered for places on National Registry

C 3 Aug 1998 Town makes move toward historic district

C 31 Dec 1998 Siler City sites on register list

C Siler City making move to create historic district

C 30 Sep 1999 Over 100 Siler City structures nominated for National Register

C 10 Feb 2000 Historic districts talk planned

C 10 Feb 2000 Meeting planned on proposed historic area

C Siler City nears draft on Historic District plan

C Planning board reappoints members

B 2000 Nomination Document for National Register of Historic Places

Sections of document:

East Raleigh Street Historic District

North Third Avenue Historic District

Siler City Commercial Historic District

Cadmus N. Bray House

High Point Bending and Chair Company

C 24 Aug 2000 Part of Siler City neighborhood put in National Historic Register

C 15 Oct 2001 Signs up for new historic districts

B 19 Sep 2004 Historical Tour of Siler City

C 23 Sep 2004 Weekend historical tour offers view of one dozen Siler City locations

Silk Hope

C 1953? "Silk Hope Ruritan charter night exercises Monday"

C 30 Aug 1973 Engine failure cited in crash

C Sep 2009 "Attendees see how it used to be at 34th annual festival"

C 25 Sep 2010 Silk Hope Community Building Open House Dedication program

C Sep 2012 "From far and wide they all came to the Silk Hope Old-Fashioned Farmer's Day"

C 4 Apr 2013 Silk Hope Ruritans' Spring event successful

C 5 Sep 2013 Weather ideal for annual Farmer's Day

C 24 Apr 2014 Silk Hope Ruritans celebrate 60 years

C 4 Sep 2014 Old-fashioned Farmers Day a chance to look back

C 4 Sep 2014 Old-fashioned Farmers Day draws big crowd over holiday weekend

C 26 Jul 2015 A community moved by steam

C 10 Sep 2015 Old Fashioned Farmer's Day celebrates 40th anniversary in Silk Hope

C 10 Sep 2015 Silk Hope Old-Fashioned Farmer's Day

Staley, Randolph County

B A Brief History of the Town of Staley, NC

NOTEBOOK 15: CHATHAM COURTHOUSE -- COURTHOUSE CLOCKS

CHATHAM COUNTY COURTHOUSE

B 1881-1882 transcript of Chatham Record articles about courthouse bricks, move to new court house, praise for new

court house; commissioners paying bills for court house

B 1881 specifications for building new court house, Deed Book BC, p. 216-227

C 19 Oct 1933 "Commissioners plan work on courthouse"

C 7 Dec 1933 "Commissioners change plans, will apply to CWA for needed remodeling of courthouse"

C 14 Nov 1952 “Courthouse undergoes face lifting” (photo)

C 1950s Morgan column about pigeons, work on courthouse

C 7 Feb 1960 “Courthouse costing $10,000 is remodeled for $102,000” (photo)

C 23 Feb 1961 “Pitt Portrait Unveiled at Chatham Courthouse” (photo)

C 20 Sep 1962 “Roof of court house blows off in storm”


C 20 Sep 1962 Mrs. Ralph Roberts, artist of courthouse sketch

C 23 Apr 1964 Courthouse may be restored to original color

C 12 Jul 1973 photo: Chatham County Courthouse

C 15 Nov 1973 photo: Chatham County Courthouse

C 23 Apr 1975 “Commissioners vote to move county offices to Hwy. 64 Pittsboro School site”

C 23 Apr 1975 editorial: “County’s decision to move. . .has merit, but hasty”

C 23 Apr 1975 letter to editor by John London about county office move

C 7 May 1975 “County offers corner lot to Pittsboro for $58,725”

C 28 May 1975 “County offers lot to Pittsboro again”

C 27 Sep 1972 photo: Courthouse cupola deteriorating

C Oct 1975 “Pittsboro to bid on county land”

C 22 Oct 1975 “30 protest county land sale” (photo)

C 22 Oct 1975 “Gordon White determined to move ‘symbolic’ courthouse”

C 19 Nov 1975 “County delays school demolition ’til summer”

C 19 Nov 1975 “Wade Barber addresses Kiwanis on history of courthouse”

C 26 May 1976 “A new courthouse begins taking shape”

C 3 Nov 1976 “County office building cost twice funds available”

C 3 Nov 1976 “White furious over ‘lie’ on courthouse staff”

C 17 Nov 1976 photo: group of 30 people choose committee of 5 to work on zoning

C 22 Dec 1976 “Commissioners get first glimpse of new courthouse” (schematic floor plan)

C 16 Feb 1977 “$1.9 million courthouse plans get general approval”

C “County to decide jail architect soon”

C (continuation of articles about courthouse and Pittsboro)

C 15 Feb 1978 “County pushing courthouse bond for May primary;” “Courthouse may eat up Pittsboro tennis courts”

C 3 May 1978 “Dunlap gets votes for ‘courthouse’ committee”

C 21 Jun 1978 “Courthouse committee stacked with opposition” (photo: John London)

C 27 Sep 1978 “Courthouse site fight set for tonight”

C 4 Oct 1978 “Moody, London near blows on courthouse”

C 4 Oct 1978 “Commissioners to discuss manager, courthouse site at special meeting;” “Little substance discussed

(before committee vote on courthouse site)”

C 11 Oct 1978 “Courthouse committee ‘subgroup’ wants to develop plan”

C 10 Oct 1979 “Compromise proposed for county offices” (sketches of proposed office design)

C 24 Oct 1979 editorial: “Light shed on courthouse debate”

C 5 Nov 1979 “County rushing ahead on school site building”

C 7 Nov 1979 “County to get Keener’s (previous architect) view of courthouse”

C 14 Nov 1979 “Jail to be built ‘immediately’ ”

C 13 Feb 1980 photo: What’s wrong with this picture?

C 20 May 1981 photo: courtroom before renovation

C 14 Jan 1982 “Pittsboro, county agree on government mall” (photo: jail and lot south of courthouse)

C 21 Jan 1982 “County/Pittsboro bargain on gov’t mall in closed session” (sketch of plan)

C 28 Jan 1982 “Pittsboro bending to keep mall downtown” (photo: Charles DeVinney, mayor)

C 4 Feb 1982 “Pittsboro accepts county’s mall offer”

C 7 Feb 1983 “Court annex, county office approved [by commissioners]”

C 9 Mar 1983 “County debate school, courthouse rehab. need,” photo: demolition of jail

C 8 Jun 1983 “County unlikely to fund courthouse renovation”

C 1983 photos: construction of courthouse annex

C c. 1983 “Commissioners compromise on $250,000 courthouse renovation”

C 26 Dec 1984 photo: wreaths on deteriorating courthouse doors


C 9 Jul 1985 photo: old courthouse from new courthouse annex

C 22 Jul 1986 “Chatham County courthouse rich in folklore” (photo)

C 21 Oct 1986 photo: Confederate statue and downtown Pittsboro

C 4 Dec 1986 “New commissioner challenges plans”

C 10 Sep 1987 “Exterior renovation recommended”

C 17 Mar 1988 “Courthouse renovation advancing”

C Jun 1988 “Confederate soldier will rise again next week” (photo)

C “Bidding schedule set for county courthouse [renovation]”

C 23 Jun 1988 “Courthouse repairs to run $500,000”

C 23 Jun 1988 “Confederate monument repair set”

C 7 Jul 1988 “Courthouse renovation bed okayed”

C 4 Aug 1988 “Soldier out for repair” (photos)

C 1 Aug 1988 “Chatham courthouse facelift project is about to get going” (photo)

C 4 Aug 1988 “McIver dies; statue work to continue;” “Confusion accompanies moves” (photo)

C 8 Sep 1988 photo: courthouse renovation

B 30 Sep 1988 copy of letter to Mary Hayes Holmes from Alma W. Thomas, recalling courthouse

C 20 Oct 1988 photo: courthouse renovation

B 14 Nov 1988 letter to Gene Brooks from James Vann Comer with references to early articles in the Chatham Record

about 1881 courthouse construction

C 24 Nov 1988 photo: Confederate statue back in place

B 29 Nov 1988 letter to Mary Hayes Holmes from A.L. Honeycutt, State Historic Preservation Office, with

recommendations for courthouse renovations

C Mar 1989 photo: installing copper roof on courthouse

C 10 Aug 1989 “Courthouse Committee meets”

C 29 Jan 1990 “Cost, construction problems plague courthouse renovation;” “Long life not fortune of earlier

courthouses” (photos)

C 1 Mar 1990 “Too few bids come in on courthouse”

C 12 Jul 1990 “Courthouse renovation running on schedule”

B 1990s Index prepared for newspaper clipping file on courthouse

C 3 Jan 1991 photos: courthouse renovation

B 6/26 Apr, 16

May 1991 Letters to Jane Pyle from Wade Hadley about courthouse sketch

C 2 May 1991 Sketch of courthouse, plea for help in identifying artist

B Jun 1991 “The Chatham County Court House” by Wade Hadley, Chatham Historical Journal

B 1991 information about courthouse for preparation of flyer, prepared by Marti Dreyer

C 3 Oct 1991 photo: pigeons on courthouse cupola

C 10 Oct 1991 “Courthouse renovation nearing completion”

C 17 Oct 1991 “Courthouse is filled with stories, history;” open invitation to open house

B 20 Oct 1991 flyer about courthouse for open house

C 20 Oct 1991 “Chatham courthouse completed; dedication set”

C 20 Oct 1991 "Chatham courthouse completed, dedication scheduled for today" Chapel Hill Herald

C 24 Oct 1991 photos: open house at newly renovated courthouse

C 24 Oct 1991 “Courthouse put on public display” (photos); “First event at renovated courthouse”

C 18 May 1992 “County to spend $5,000 on courthouse yard”

C 10 Dec 1992 photo: courthouse cupola

B Feb 1996 The State magazine feature on historic courthouses

C 24 Mar 1996 Photo of courthouse from Pittsboro Herald

C 23 Jul 1998 photo: scaffolding up to paint courthouse trim

C 18 Mar 1999 “Architect, committee favor site of convenience store for courthouse” (photo)


C 9 Jul 1999 photographs: Chatham County Courthouses

C 31 Mar 2010 "Marshal: soldering iron ignited the fire" (photos)

C 1 Apr 2010 "Fire guts courthouse" several articles in section A

C 1 Apr 2010

"Chatham vows to rebuild its icon; courthouse's walls deemed sound" (photo of museum materials drying

out in Chatham Mills

C 15 Apr 2010 "Clean-up crews make progress" (photo)

C 15 Apr 2010 "In fire's aftermath firefighters recall courthouse blaze" (photos)

C 22 Apr 2010 "County seeks public help on rebuilding"

C 29 Apr 2010 "Congressional resolution honors courthouse" (photos)

C "Catastrophe at the courthouse" from Chatham County Line

C 20 May 2010 "Board resolution thanks firefighters for effort to save county courthouse"

C 19 Aug 2010 "Courthouse restoration underway"

C 16 Sep 2010 "County hires adjustor to find replacement value"

C 7 Oct 2010 "Superior Court to return [to damaged courthouse]

C 28 Oct 2010 "Looking a bit more like its old self…" (photo)

C 18 Nov 2010 "County residents gather to share stories, memories of courthouse" (photos)

C 19 May 2011 "Restored items from courthouse returned to historical museum" (photo)

C 7 Jul 2011 "Reconstruction set for fall on burned historic courthouse"

C 8 Dec 2011 "Restoration begins on courthouse"

C 23 Feb 2012 "Courthouse reconstruction progresses" (photo)

C 31 May 2012 "Roof work underway on county courthouse"

C 26 Jul 2012 "Historic repair to be corrected" (photo)

C 1 Nov 2012 Photograph: Testing fitting cap on historic courthouse

C 13 Dec 2012 Courthouse work to be completed in February

C 3 Jan 2013 Building to display original colors

C 10 Jan 2013 Courthouse clock installed…

C 31 Jan 2013 How's the view….

C 14 Feb 2013 Top level of scaffolding removed

C 7 Mar 2013 Renovation work nearly completed on courthouse

C 7 Mar 2013 Scaffolding removed…

C 17 Mar 2013 Courthouse almost back in session

C 26 Mar 2013 Work progresses in Pittsboro

C 28 Mar 2013 Events planned for reopening of Courthouse

C 11 Apr 2013 Events set for return of Pittsboro landmark

C 21 Apr 2013 Chatham historic courthouse reopens

C 25 Apr 2013 Silent sentinel…

C 25 Apr 2013 "It's a great day" Historic Courthouse opens back up amid celebration

C 18 Jul 2013 BOC talks pedestrian safety

C 1 Aug 2013 Event to host artist of Earl of Chatham's painting

C 27 Feb 2014 Courthouse reconstruction wins AGC Pinnacle award for contractor

C 20 Mar 2014 Court to resume in courthouse

C 27 Mar 2014 Court resumes in historic courthouse for first time since 2010 fire

C 24 Mar 2014 Courthouse cornerstone dedication set May 3

COURTHOUSE CLOCKS

C 29 Oct 1998 “County Historical Association wants board to change vote on clocks for courthouse”

B 12 Nov 1998 materials provided to county commissioners from John Blair about proposal to install clocks on

courthouse

C 5 Nov 1998 “Commissioners talk more about clocks at courthouse”

B 17 Dec 1998 presentation by Cindy Edwards to county commissioners


C 17 Dec 1998 “New board member has concerns about clocks on courthouse”

C Jan 1999 “It’s about time Chatham got its clock, donor says” (photo)

C 4 Jan 1999 “A clock for Chatham’s courthouse?” (Photo)

C 4 Feb 1999 “Courthouse to get new look” (photo)

C 22 Nov 1999 “Historic building to get 4 clocks” (photo)

C 25 Nov 1999 “Way clear for courthouse clock installation”

C 10 Feb 2000 photo: clock installation

NOTEBOOK 16: DEVELOPMENT

DEVELOPMENT

C 8 Dec 1976 “Many from Williams & Baldwin attend public meeting [re zoning, land use]”

C 31 Jul 1987 “Chatham Debates Growth”

C 25 Aug 1995 “Rural migrants presenting new challenges in Chatham County”

C 26 Mar 1995 “Testing the water in Chatham”

C 23 Jul 1995 “NE Chatham water lines due”

C 8 Aug 1995 “Chatham water plan delayed”

B Apr 1998 “Chatham County at the crossroads”

C 3 Jan 1997 “Chapel Hill, Chatham seek border truce”

B Dec 2004 “Out of control Chatham development: Where will it end?”

Astoria

C 10 Apr 1997 “Proposed development near Jordan Lake gets close scrutiny”

C 4 May 1997 “Zoning rules apply to developers, too” [letter to editor]

C 7 May 1997 “Chatham planning board nixes Astoria”

C 19 May 1997 “Chatham board set to vote on Astoria bid”

C 20 May 1997 “Plan for Astoria subdivision gets nod”

C 21 May 1997 “Ripples follow lake vote”

C 28 May 1997 guest column by Raymond Greenlaw criticizing commissioners approval

C 3 Jun 1997 “Astoria opponents appeal Chatham subdivision vote”

C 31 Jul 1997 “Astoria golf course subdivision loses developer”

C 1 Aug 1997 “Developer says option got too pricey”

C 6 Aug 1997 “Astoria opponents lose their first round in court”

C 3 Sep 1997 “Astoria foes appeal ruling”

C 7 Apr 1998 “Chatham officials rethink Astoria”

C 6 Aug 1998 “Court upholds Chatham’s approval of Astoria”

C 7 Aug 1998 “Astoria ruling should attract developer, landowners say”

C 29 Sep 1998 “Opponents of Astoria throw in the legal towel”

Briar Chapel

B 12 Apr 2014 A drive, walk and talk of the Briar Chapel Community

C 9 Oct 2014 Popular Pepper Festival attracts hundreds to Briar Chapel Sunday

C 10 Sep 2015 Construction booming at Briar Chapel development

C 10 Mar 2016 Commercial phase begins at Briar Chapel

C 30 Jun 2016 Briar Chapel offers age qualified housing section

Chatham Park

C 26 Jul 2012 Public hearing set for Chatham Park Rezoning

C 28 Feb 2013 Town expands ETJ to include Chatham Park

C 28 Mar 2013 Pittsboro agreeable to new district

C 25 Apr 2013 Chatham Park officials review plans at meeting

C 23 May 2013 Chatham Park completes master plan for 7,100 acre site, moves toward rezoning

C 30 May 2013 Pittsboro planners begin review of massive project


C 13 Jun 2013 Hearing set for Chatham Park

C 20 Jun 2013 Hearing set for Chatham Park

C 27 Jun 2013 Large crowd for hearing on Chatham Park

C 18 Jul 2013 Chatham Park technology hub would redefine Pittsboro

C 25 Jul 2013 Crowd packs second Chatham Park hearing

C 25 Jul 2013 Developer to buy poultry plant property

C 8 Aug 2013 Chatham Park meeting Monday

C 15 Aug 2013 Crowd packs meeting on Chatham Park

C 18 Aug 2013 Developer makes case to Pittsboro

C 29 Aug 2013 Pittsboro board reviews Chatham Park rezoning

C Sep 2013 Will Chatham Park enhance or destroy our rural paradise?

C 12 Sep 2013 Chatham Park raises concerns

C 12 Sep 2013 Pittsboro staff raise concerns about Chatham Park

C 10 Oct 2013 Subcommittee reviews plan for Chatham Park

C 17 Oct 2013 Concerns aired over Chatham Park

C 24 Oct 2013 Chatham Park submits new master plan

C 7 Nov 2013 Crowd attends forum on Chatham Park

C 21 Nov 2013 Town, developer work with revised plan

C 21 Nov 2013 Chatham Park seeks clarity on review process

C 28 Nov 2013 Board tables decision on Chatham Park

C 5 Dec 2013 EDC supports Chatham Park

C 5 Dec 2013 Chatham Park vote could come in February

C 19 Dec 2013 Group holds citizen work shop on Chatham Park

C 2 Jan 2014 Pittsboro continues work on Chatham Park

C 27 Feb 2014 Development could see spring ok

C 13 Mar 2014 Pittsboro votes on Chatham Park recommendations

C 20 Mar 2014 Chatham Park responses to consultant expected soon

C 27 Mar 2014 Pittsboro wants more Chatham Park input

C 17 Apr 2014 Chatham Park hearing set May 12

C 1 May 2014 Chatham Park revises plan

C 15 May 2014 Chatham Park hearing set May 20

C 22 May 2014 Crowd packs Chatham Park public hearing

C 25 May 2014 Chatham Park nears final vote

C 29 May 2014 Chatham Park vote expected next month

C 5 Jun 2014 Pittsboro parks advisory board seeks conditions for Chatham Park approval

C 5 Jun 2014 Chatham Park vote June 9

C 12 Jun 2014 Chatham Park approved

C 19 Jun 2014 First building set for Chatham Park

C 3 Jul 2014 Developer to pay Pittsboro for planning

C 10 Aug 2014 Opponents file suit to halt Chatham Park development

C 7 Aug 2014 Lawsuit challenges Chatham Park

C 18 Sep 2014 Chatham Park keeping county in loop on progress

C 25 Sep 2014 Chatham Park to build overpass

C 23 Oct 2014 Chatham Park office now open

C 13 Nov 2014 Hearing set on Park expansion

C 20 Nov 2014 Chatham Park revisions set for Monday hearing

C 11 Dec 2014 Chatham Park breaks ground on development's first project

C 11 Dec 2014 New rezoning ok'd for Chatham Park


C 25 Dec 2014 Second lawsuit filed challenging Chatham Park

C 15 Jan 2015 Lawsuit seeks to overturn Park ok

C 29 Jan 2015 Chatham Park to generate $154 billion--study projects 40-year economic impact

C 5 Feb 2015 Chatham Park paid EDC to commission study

C 19 Feb 2015 Pittsboro mayor urges plan for Chatham Park

C 26 Feb 2015 Chatham Park offers water, sewer options

C 19 Mar 2015 Residents voice zoning concerns

C 26 Mar 2015 Chatham Park starts payments to Pittsboro

C 2 Apr 2015 Group seeks halt to road work at Chatham Park

C 9 Apr 2015 Pittsboro Matters continues Chatham Park block effort

C 16 Apr 2015 Group seeks to halt Chatham Park

C 23 Apr 2015 County stays out of Pittsboro ETJ in Chatham Park discussion

C 30 Apr 2015 Judge dismisses Chatham Park work injunction

C 7 May 2015 Interest grows in Chatham Park space

C 14 May 2015 Pittsboro ok's first subdivision for Chatham Park

C 4 Jun 2015 Chatham Park plans elevated water tank

C 11 Jun 2015 Chatham Park PDD zoning map

C 11 Jun 2015 Pittsboro annexes 29 acre Chatham Park property

C 25 Jun 2015 Residents speak out against Chatham Park master plan

C 9 Jul 2015 New private school planned

C 23 Jul 2015 Developers present school plans for Chatham Park

C 30 Jul 2015 Chatham Park well underway

C 30 Jul 2015 Pittsboro board seeks more review of water tank

C 13 Aug 2015 Pittsboro ok's 3rd master plan for Chatham Park

C 20 Aug 2015 County, Chatham Park discuss future schools

C 27 Aug 2015 Group planning third Chatham Park lawsuit

C 27 Aug 2015 Chatham Park meets with residents to discuss project

C 10 Sep 2015 Pittsboro Matters prepares third lawsuit

C 17 Sep 2015 Pittsboro adopts development review proposal

C 24 Sep 2015 Mayor, commissioners at odds over Chatham Park

C 22 Oct 2015 Group files new lawsuit against Chatham Park

C 5 Nov 2015 Chatham Park takes lead with reclaimed water

C Dec/Jan 2015 Preserving Pittsboro

C 4 Feb 2016 County, Pittsboro discuss special tax district

C 24 Mar 2016 Boards meet with Chatham Park

C 29 May 2016 Chatham Park takes shape after lengthy wait

C 16 Jun 2016 Mayor proposes Chatham Park committee

C 7 Jul 2016 Pittsboro Board receives update on Chatham Park Additional Elements review process

Cole Park Plaza

C 8 Oct 1980 “Small shopping center proposed for N. Chatham”

C 15 Oct 1980 “Shopping center rezoning approved”

C 22 Oct 1980 “Commissioners view shopping center on 15-501 as a beginning; commissioners say no to 15-501

shopping center” (photos: Gus Murchison, Tom Hudson, Henry Dunlap)

C 14 Jan 1982 “Planning board wants zoning changes before shopping center approval” (photos)

C 17 Mar 1982 “Northern Chatham shopping center finally OK’d” (photos)

Fearrington

C Jul 1974 “200 years of Fearrington family farm begins end” (photos)

C 24 Jul 1974 “Will Chatham County meet the challenges of growth?” (photo)


C 21 Aug 1974 “County approves Fitch N. Chatham Subdivision”

C 1 Aug 1974 “County hears more PUD details and protests”

C 4 Sep 1974 “Commissioners delay PUD decision”

C Aug 1974 editorial: “PUD needs to be a tough bargaining proposition”

C 28 Aug 1974 “PUD decision expected at next meeting”

C 18 Sep 1974 “Commissioners okay PUD”

C Jul 1976 “N. Chatham residents protest blanket PUS business o.k.”

B 10 Nov 1976 advertisement for Fearrington

C 10 Nov 1976 photo: house at Fearrington

C 10 Nov 1976 “Planning board approves phase II of PUD over planner’s objections”

C 9 Mar 1977 “Planning board gets sewage treatment assurances from PUD”

C 19 Jul 1978 “Fearrington PUD review scheduled for Wednesday”

C 24 Jul 1991 “Fearrington 14 years old, still growing”

C 23 Jan 1980 “Fearrington ‘private roads’ gets another opponent” (photo)

C Aug 1980 “PUD approval delayed” (photo)

C 13 Aug 1980 “Fearrington IV preliminary plan ok’d”

C 11 Nov 1981 “Planning board allows Fearrington PUD a 20-acre addition”

C 2 Dec 1981 “PUD committee favors greater leeway for Fitch”

C 9 Dec 1981 “Fearrington private streets debated”

C 10 Sep 1985 “Good down to earth fun at Fearrington” (photos)

C 26 May 1989 “Stay away, crowd tells DOT” (widening 15-501)

C 1990 “Wicker outlines reasons for change for residents” (incorporation)

C 14 Jun 1990 “Fearrington wins expansion okay”

C 19 Jul 1990 “Fearrington association considers incorporation” (photo)

C Jul 1990 “Variety of issues arise in discussion [of incorporation]”

C 9 Aug 1990 “Majority opposed to incorporation”

C 6 Nov 1990 “Fearrington won’t incorporate”

C Aug 1991 “Life care facility planned” (map)

C 13 Feb 1992 “Fearrington House earns special awards”

3 Nov 1988 “Fearrington House named to group”

C 15 Oct 1992 “Fearrington House in only DiRoNA winner in N.C.”

C 3 Aug 1993 “Chatham commissioners exempt 2 developments from 911 plan”

C 27 Feb 1994 “Village of Fearrington: 20 years and growing”

C 17 Aug 1994 “Fitches revel in ‘ongoing project’ ”(photo)

C 21 Apr 1994 “It’s no Farrington, but Fearrington Village on the map”

C 29 Jan 1995 “In rural Chatham County, AAA inspectors found a country inn that ranks with the best anywhere”

(photos)

C 12 Feb 1995 “Villagers balance country, city life” (photos)

Governor's Club

Henley's Mill

B Sales brochure

Redbud

B 1988? Sales brochure with maps

NOTEBOOK 17: EDUCATION Schools and academies, 1790-1840

B 1801

photocopy of Raleigh Register and North-Carolina State Gazette 8 July 1801, includes "Pittsborough

Academy Examination"


B 1867 photocopies of three issues of “The School-Girl,” published by students at Locust Hill Academy in

Pittsborough

B 1894 photocopy of program presented at Mineral Springs Academy, 27 May 1894

B 1905 photocopy of invitation to and program for closing exercises at Hickory Mountain Academy, Lindhurst,

N.C., 4 May 1905

B 1915

p. 34-49 of Charles L. Coon, North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, published in 1915;

includes Pittsborough Academy, Female Academy and Kelvin, Haywood Academy, Pleasant Hill

Academy; handwritten biographical note about Mrs. Cobia of Cobia’s Select Female School

Miscellaneous education

C 11 Jul 1952 “Moncure and Bells to lose teachers;” “Contracts let for new school [in Pittsboro]”

C 5 Sep 1952 “Bells School will be retained”

C 19 Dec 1952 “Feeding school kids is big business”

C 9 Jan 1953 “School insurance highlights”

C 23 Aug 1962 “Record enrollment of 1200 students expected at Pittsboro High School”

C 30 Aug 1962 “Spruce Pine educator is named temporary school superintendent”

C 30 Aug 1962 editorial about J.S. Waters contributions to education

C 13 Sep 1962 “Program of action for schools planned by new superintendent”

C 16 May 1963 Chatham school survey recommends changes

C 26 Mar 1964 616 Chatham School Children go without lunch for lack of cash

C 30 Apr 1964 School report stresses need for science labs

C 28 May 1964 Schools get $24,000 for science education

C 11 Jun 1964 $529,000 school budget is requested for this year

C 4 Feb 1971 Report shows schools largest county employer

C 18 Feb 1971 Chatham school buses roll up the miles

C 1 Apr 1971 Harrison issues open letter; disruption policy adopted

C 12 Aug 1971 Chatham desegregation plan fully approved

C 24 Oct 1971 12 high school students chosen to county advisory committee

C 9 Dec 1971 Jack Wilkie chosen school board head

C 7 Jan 1972 “Mrs. Brown has seen kindergarten students come and go” (photo)

C 3 Feb 1972 Chatham school children part of mass immunization program

C 10 Feb 1972 Goldston school property sold

C 13 Apr 1972 County School Board hears reports that new Northwood High School will soon be completed

C 11 May 1972 Bi-racial committee important to schools

C 29 Jun 1972 Enrollment in county schools is declining

B 10 Aug 1972 [report of how bond money was spent]

C 31 Aug 1972 School enrollment drops slightly in Chatham County

C 26 Apr 1973 More students in Chatham continue education

C 21 Jun 1973 Kindergartens for five-year olds established in local communities

C 6 Feb 1975 Corporal punishment policies revised

C 17 Mar 1976 “Day of the handwritten report card is over”

C 15 Aug 1979 “Leach Educational Fund holds 5th meeting”

C 1984 “P.T.A. profits benefit Chatham schools” (photos)

B 2 Jun 1982 Graduation section

C 25 Jan 1996 photograph: Triangle School [getting new life]

C 8 May 1997 “Room may change but memories don’t” [Bob Wachs column]

C 7 Jun 2012 "Graduation 2012" special section with class photos

C 13 Jun 2012 "Project Graduation 2012"

C 6 Jun 2013 Graduation 2013

C 17 Apr 2014 County dropout rate continues to decline


C 12 Jun 2014 Class of 2014

C 26 Jun 2014 Teacher Assistants of the year

C 26 Jun 2014 Teachers of the year

C 26 Jun 2014 2014 retirees from county school system

C 9 Oct 2014 CCCC stands out in adult education

C 9 Oct 2014 First Read to Achieve results in for Chatham

C 12 Feb 2015 County schools score 'C' or better

C 11 Jun 2015 Graduation 2015

C 27 Aug 2015 8,279 students back to campus as school begins

C 10 Sep 2015 Fourteen county schools meet, exceed growth

C 31 Dec 2015 School board plans new NE high school

C 31 Mar 2016 CCS dropout rate under state average; crime rises

C 28 Apr 2016 School board expands new school capacity


C 16 Jun 2016 Chatham grads receive diplomas

C 16 Jun 2016 2016 grads receive diplomas, set the course for the future

C 23 Jun 2016 School board honors educators

Thompson School, Siler City

B 27 Jun 1979 “Thompson School at Siler City, North Carolina: 1887-1897" by Wade Hadley (photos; photocopied

program of commencement program, 28 May 1901)

Bennett School

C 13 Jun 1990 photograph: Class of 1955

C 2 May 1991 photograph: Class of 1959



C 11 Apr 1991 “At Bennett. . . School began in 1914” (photographs)

C 27 Oct 2005 “Community’s request rooted in history”

C 22 Nov 2012 Bennett teacher of exceptional children teacher of the year

C 19 Dec 2013 photograph: Class of 2958

C 3 Jul 2014 Bennett High School 1964 Class meets

C 23 Oct 2014 Bennett High School Class of 1962 Reunion

C 1 Oct 2015 Bennett High School celebrates 53 years

Bonlee


C 12 Jul 1990 photograph: Class of 1943


C 9 Nov 1989 photograph: Class of 1949

C photograph: Class of 1951

C 27 Oct 2011 photograph: Class of 1951

C 28 Jan 1999 “[Bonlee] School founder had vision” (photo of 1927 baseball team)

C 15 May 2014 Bonlee school to celebrate 100 years

C 19 Jun 2014 Bonlee school celebrates 100 years

Chatham Central

C 17 Feb 1972 Chatham Central School closed due to school demonstration

C 10 Aug 1972 “Chatham Central High School completed . . .” (photos)


C 6 Aug 1992 photograph: Class of 1962

C 7 Jun 2012 photograph: Class of 1962 celebrates 50 years


C 14 Sep 1989 photograph: Class of 1964

C 1 Nov 2012 photograph: Class of 1965 (47th reunion)

C 30 Sep 2010 photograph: Class of 1975 (35th reunion)





C 18 Sep 2014 Chatham Central Class of 1964 Celebrates 50th year reunion

C 26 Nov 2015 Chatham Central students bring festive poinsettias to life

C 17 Dec 2015 Chatham Central Class of '70 Class Reunion

C 24 Mar 2016 Chatham Central wins big at State FBLA Event

C 2 Jun 2016 Chatham Central High School Class Reunion (1966)

C 16 Jun 2016 Chatham Central Seniors Graduate on home turf…

C 16 Jun 2016 Central "walks" on home soil

Chatham Charter School

C 3 Jan 2013 New charter high school to offer college transfer program

C 1 Aug 2013 Chatham Charter High School to open doors for first time August 14

C 3 Oct 2013 Chatham Charter celebrates expansion

C 20 Aug 2015 Chatham Charter first graduating class begins school year with head start

C 12 May 2016 Chatham Charter graduates first ever senior class

Chatham High School

C “Chatham High’s class of ’55 reunite (photograph)

C “Class of 1941 has reunion”

Goldston


C 30 Apr 1992 photograph: Class of 1942


C photograph: Class of 1944

C 30 Jul 1992 photograph: Class of 1951; Class of 1952

C 12 Apr 1955 “Charlie Daniels went down to Goldston. . .” (photos)

Goldston High School

C “Class of ’39 reunited Sunday” (photograph)

C 24 May 2012 photograph: Class of 1955 (57th reunion)

C 7 Jun 2012 photograph: Class of 1957 (55th reunion)

C 6 Jun 2013 photograph: Class of 1953 (60th reunion)

Goldston - J.S. Waters


B J.S. Waters School brochure

C 1 May 2014 J.S. Waters is national Beta School of Distinction

Goldston Negro School

C 2 Oct 1953 "Goldston Negro School gutted by fire Saturday" (photo)

C 16 Oct 1953 "Despite fire school goes on as usual at Goldston"

Haywood School

C 12 Jun 2013 Monument honors Haywood School

Moncure High School

C 23 Apr 1964

C 11 Nov 2010 photograph: Class of 1960 (50th reunion)

Pittsboro Elementary


C 13 Mar 2014 Pittsboro Elementary is model school

C 18 Dec 2014 Pittsboro Elementary named signature school

Pittsboro High School

C

"P.H.S. Faculty of 1913" photograph of Mrs. Mary Barber, Mrs. Mattie F. Thompson, Principal F. M.

Williamson, Mrs. Victor R. (Nellie Pilkington) Johnson, and Miss Maggie Whitley.

C 30 May 1973 photograph: class of 1928

B 1929 Yearbook (photos)

B 1929 photocopy of page from Pittsboro HS yearbook, 1929, includes photos of school board and other news

C 15 Aug 1952 Architect’s drawing of new Pittsboro High School

C 14 May 1964 P.H.S. class of 1944 holds reunion

C 30 May 1963 Twentieth Reunion

C 4 Jun 1964 55 P.H.S. Graduates are Given Diplomas

C 4 Jun 1964 Many awards presented during P.H.S. finals

C 29 Jul 1971 49 graduating class of Pittsboro holds 40th reunion

C 23 May 1979 “Class of ’29 - neither flappers nor flops” (photos)

C 14 Jul 1976 "Old Pittsboro High goes down in blazes" (photo)


C 7 Feb 1979 photograph: Class of 1933

B 2 Jul 1938 photograph: Pittsboro High School

C 22 May 1969 Class of 1939



C 30 Jul 1992 Class of 1947

C 1996 Class of 1961

C Elizabeth Campbell’s 6th grade, 1959-60 and list of students

C 27 May 1999 Class of 1969

C 27 Jun 2002 “A school reunion with class(es)” (photos)


C 3 Jul 2014 Pittsboro High School Class of 1956 meets

C 29 Oct 2015 Pittsboro High School Class Celebrates 60 years

Horton High School

C 25 Nov 1952 “Horton High News Notes”

B mimeographed history of Horton Middle School

C 30 Aug 1962 “1,241 enrolled at Horton High; faculty listed”

C 4 Jun 1961 51 get diplomas at Horton High School

C 20 Aug 1987 photograph: parade for Horton High School annual reunion

C 23 Aug 1990 photographs: Horton High reunion parade

C 13 Jul 2000 “Horton School building torn down” (photograph)

C 13 Jul 2000 “Horton School bricks available to the public” (photo)

Horton Middle School

C 10 Jun 1971 Outstanding students honored at assembly at Horton School

C 14 Jun 1973 Volunteers make Horton system work

Northwood High School, Pittsboro

C 18 Feb 1971 Northwood High School

C 25 Mar 1971 Student fight at Northwood results in suspension of two

C 19 Aug 1971 School policies to be strict; Campbell explains new laws

C 10 Aug 1972 Special Report: “Three years, $3.6 million later” (photos)

C 10 Aug 1972 Doors ready to open


C 10 Aug 1972 Three years…$3.6 million later

C 23 Aug 1972 “New Northwood High School Open House. . .” (photo)

C 3 May 1973 Tallidata and Lester Hill Corporation simulated business office

C 17 May 1973 Choruses "sing hearts out" in Broadway Salute Thursday

C 24 May 1973 Record class receives diplomas during Northwood commencement

C 6 Mar 1975 Northwood Concert Choir invited to perform at Constitution Hall

C 11 Sep 2014 Two county schools top high school list [Northwood and Jordan-Matthews]

C 3 Sep 2015 Northwood band feels the surge

C 14 Apr 2016 School board backs Northwood traffic plan

C 16 Jun 2016 Northwood seniors celebrate milestone in Chapel Hill

Siler City High School - later Chatham Middle School

C 10 Aug 1972 “Addition to Chatham Middle School. . .” (Photos)

Jordan-Matthews High School, Siler City

C 10 Aug 1972 “Construction on Jordan-Matthews High underway. . .” (photos)


C 1996 photograph: Class of 1959

C 30 Sep 2010 photograph: Class of 1965 (45th reunion)

C 16 May 1979 “Class of 69 remembers ‘the way we were’ ” (photos)

C 16 May 2013 photograph: Class of 1963 holds 50th year reunion


C 11 Sep 2014 Two county schools top high school list [Northwood and Jordan-Matthews]

C 20 Nov 2014 JMHS Class of 1964 celebrates 50 years

C 30 Apr 2015 Jet Robotics team shines at state competition

C 29 Oct 2015 Jordan Matthews High School Class of 1965

C 12 May 016 Jordan-Matthews High School class reunion for class of 1966

C 16 Jun 2016 Jordan-Matthews' Class of 2016 leaving home away from home

C 30 Jun 2016 Eight students picked for summer fine arts camp

Siler City Elementary

C 13 Mar 1975 Construction to begin by summer on new Siler City school

Siler City High School

C 22 Sep 2005 “Siler City nearing ownership of Ernest Ramsey gymnasium” (photo)


C 1996 photograph: Class of 1939





C 31 Dec 1998 photograph: Class of 1953




C 2014 Siler City HS Class of 1956 reunion

Silk Hope

C 4 Jun 1964 Silk Hope Consolidation to take effect in 1965

C 19 Apr 1973 Silk Hope '43 class reunion held

C 25 Apr 1991 “Silk Hope faculty, alumni and community to share a part of history” (photos)





C 14 Jun 1996 photograph: Class of 1940 as second graders

C 4 Jul 1996 photograph: class of 1943



C 10 Nov 2011 photograph: Class of 1961 (50th)



C photograph: 52nd reunion

C 14 Feb 2008 "Silk Hope School celebrates centennial"

C 25 Sep 2014 Silk Hope High School 50th year reunion

Sage Academy

C 24 Apr 2008 "SAGE Academy introduces 'Triple A' awards for students"

Willow Oak Montessori Public Charter School

C Nov 2013 Willow Oak Montessori Public Charter School opens house

One-room Schools

C 31 Aug 2006 “One- (and two-) room schoolhouses once were norm in county” (photos)

C 28 Sep 2006 “Bennett High School reminisces at 50th reunion”

C 14 Apr 1976 “160 gather for Marley Mill Reunion” (photo)

C 15 Sep 1976 “Students, teachers meet again at reunion” [photos: Watering Branch School]

C 27 Oct 1977 “A reunion of the old time 3-R’s” [Chestnut Hill School] (photos)

C 1 Jun 1995 “Harpers Crossroads had its own school early in the century” (photo: McManus)

C 9 May 1996 “Welch School a great one-roomer” (photos)

C 10/17 Oct 1996 “Former students remembers schooldays” [Fall Creek] (photos)

C 27 Mar 1997 “[Burke] one-room schoolhouse standing today near Pittsboro” (photo)

C 11 Mar 1999 “Students of long-ago [Burke] school gather to remember” (photo)

C 29 Apr 1999 photograph: “Fall Creek Two-Room Schoolhouse – 1914”

C 1 Jul 1999 “Long-time ago school [Mudlick] at Silk Hope had colorful past. . .” (Photo)

C 15 Apr 2004 “Old school [Biscuit Hill] holds one last reunion” (photo)

C 19 Aug 2004 “. . . historic two-room schoolhouse [Rives Chapel]. . .” (photo: Thomas family)

C 30 Dec 2004 “Hilliard School operated in early 1900s” (photo)

C 29 Dec 2005 “One-room school house [New Zion]. . .near Rocky River”

C 24 Apr 2008 "Former student recalls last year of Meadow Creek [school]"

Rosenwald School forms

NOTEBOOK 18: ENVIRONMENT -- INDUSTRY

ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS

C 12 Aug 1971 Federal study on Cape Fear explained to Chatham leaders

C 25 May 1972 County landfill site to be operable soon

C 26 Apr 1973 County sanitary landfill dedicated this Sunday

C 3 May 1973 Make Chatham more beautiful

C 10 Apr 1974 “Chatham County does have an endangered species after all”

C 30 Jan 1975 Deer stocking begins

C 9 Jun 1988 “Joint meeting will work out town, county water needs”

C 17 Aug 2000 “Chatham needs to be in mix for lake water”

C Summer 2000 “Neighbors protest quarry” [proposed Luck Stone on County Landfill Road]

C 27 Aug 2000 “Waste site now history” [proposed radioactive waste site at Wake/Chatham border]

B Miscellaneous material regarding proposed radioactive waste site

B Jul 2009 Voice of the Haw. Newsletter of the Haw River Assembly.


C Nov 2011 Natural gas exploration: Hydraulic Fracturing (paper by Mary Ann Barnett, NCCU)

B Dec 2011 Voice of the Haw. Newsletter of the Haw River Assembly.

B Aug 2012 Information from USDA regarding gas leases

C 27 Jun 2013 County protests threat to Jordan Lake rules

B Aug 2013 Voice of the Haw. Newsletter of the Haw River Assembly.

C 1 Aug 2013 Legislature delays Jordan Lake rules

C 20 Mar 2014 Pumping at area coal ask pond draws concern

C 27 Mar 2014 Boaters did not trespass

C 27 Mar 2014 DENR cites Duke Energy for illegal dumping at Moncure coal ash site

C 3 Apr 2014 Duke repairs cracked dam

C 15 May 2014 Duke Energy hosts info meeting

C 3 Jul 2014 Grassroots solar revolution comes to Chatham

B Aug 2014 Voice of the Haw. Newsletter of the Haw River Assembly.

C 20 Nov 2014 Duke Energy plans coal ash storage

B Dec 2014 Voice of the Haw. Newsletter of the Haw River Assembly.

C 11 Dec 2014 County considers solutions to holding coal ash

C 11 Dec 2014 Coal ash meeting Thursday

C 18 Dec 2014 County takes stand against disposal plan

C 18 Dec 2014 Opposition grows on coal ash

C 10 Jan 2015 In Chatham and Lee counties, opposition rises against coal ash disposal plan

C 22 Jan 2015 Solarize Chatham' ranks at top in the state

C 5 Feb 2015 Officials discuss plan for coal ash storage in Chatham

C 19 Feb 2015 Reives co-sponsors bill to disapprove state fracking rules

C 26 Feb 2015 Duke Energy faces charges for coal-ash handling

C 12 Mar 2015 County board opposed fracking

C 19 Mar 2015 Moratorium of fracking lifted

C 2 Apr 2015 Vigil held against coal ash plans

C 9 Apr 2015 Bill takes aim at forced pooling

C 16 Apr 2015 Coal ash public hearing Thursday

C 16 Apr 2015 County weighs coal-ash options

C 23 Apr 2015 Speakers voice coal-ash opposition at hearing

C 7 May 2015 Chatham joins environmental group in fracking challenge

C 28 May 2015 Haw River Assembly wins injunction to stop fracking

C 4 Jun 2015 State probing possible environmental violations

C 11 Jun 2015 State issues permit to store coal ash

C 18 Jun 2015 County, Duke Energy reach coal-ash monitoring agreement

C 25 Jun 2015 More coal ash coming to county

C 23 Jul 2015 County considering fracking moratorium

C 13 Aug 2015 Coal ash water certifications approved

C 13 Aug 2015 Group files second legal challenge to coal ash

C 20 Aug 2015 County enacts two-year fracking ban

C 20 Aug 2015 BOC addresses contamination site in Pittsboro

C 8 Oct 2015 Bill won't affect local fracking moratorium

C 29 Oct 2015 Coal ash being moved to Brickhaven mine

C 3 Dec 2015 Some wells near coal ash site unsafe

C 10 Dec 2015 Judge questions "beneficial use" of coal ash pits

C 17 Dec 2015 Judge to determine coal ash matters

C 14 Jan 2016 Environmental groups expand coal ash complaint


C 10 Mar 2016 Hearing Thursday on coal ash ponds

C 17 Mar 2016 Leachate treated in Sanford

C 5 May 2016 Festival focuses on sustainable, green practices

C 30 Jun 2016 Three environmental groups file coal ash petition

C 21 Jul 2016 Coal ash storage continues in Chatham County

C 16 Aug 2016 Solar Bees removed from lake

FOLK LIFE/FOLKLORE

C 16 May 1973 “The Original ‘Oldtimers’ ” (photo: Pittsboro’s baseball team)

C 27 Mar 1974 photograph: plowing with a mule

C 16 Mar 1977 “Log cabin raising returns to county” (photos)

C 25 May 1977 photograph: Johnny Saunders loading hay in mule-drawn wagon

C 18 Oct 1978 photograph: Wilbur Bryant with cane mill

B 1980 "The Devil's Tramping Ground" by Richard Walser, NC Division of Archives and History.

C 27 Feb 1985 “Gee’s and Haw’s of old-time plowing” (photos)

C 1 Sep 1988 photos: Western Days - Milo Holt films

C 30 Oct 1988 “Progress spooks Halloween custom” [photo of Chicken Bridge pumpkins]

C Oct 1988 “Pumpkin parade bids old ‘Chicken Bridge’ farewell”

C 1 Jan 1989 “Black-eyed peas for the New Year” (photo)

C 29 Jun 1989 “Bride, groom can get carried away” (photos - horse-drawn carriage)

C 7 Mar 1991 “Recalling the gentlemanly ways of moonshiners and revenuers” (photos)

C 23 May 1993 “Clowning is more than fun in Chatham” (photo)

C 1 May 2003 “Reno Sharpe store closes its doors following 120 years of service” (photos)

HUNTING

B 10 Dec 1904 photocopy of article from New York Times: “H. Mortimer Brooks [New York] shot while in Chatham

County; wounds serious”

C 15 Dec 1904 photocopy of Chatham Record of Brooks accident

C 28 Aug 1980 “Recalling history” - Brooks accident (photos of Bynum houses involved)

B 28 Aug 1980 typewritten notes from articles about Brooks accident

C 29 Mar 1972 “Chatham County Hills ring with the sound of ‘Tally Ho’ ” (photos)

C 20 Nov 1973 “Turkey Hunting.... you can’t bring that old tom home for Thanksgiving anymore”

C 12 Dec 1973 “Bird hunting through Chatham County’s history” (photo of Gurney Farrell)

C 19 Dec 1973 “Bird hunting with Gurney Farrell - Part II” (photo)

C 23 Feb 1977 “A dog named Blue wins at Rocky River coon hunt” (photos)

C 7 Feb 1979 “coon huntin’ southern style” (photos)

B Dec 1986 “Quail paradise in the Piedmont” from Wildlife in N.C. (Drawings)

C 19 Dec 1991 “Small game hunters ask for change in laws;” “Hunting traditions in county could be a thing of the past”

(photos)

C 12 Feb 1999 “Chatham property fetches big bucks” (for hunt club near Moncure)

B Apr 2012 Rabbit Fever! From Our State Magazine.

B Summer 2012 "Boomtown Rabbits" The rabbit marker in Chatham County, NC, 1880-1920

INDUSTRY

B Aug 1983 “Beginning at Buckhorn” (electric plant near Corinth) (photos)

B Feb 2005 Checklist of early Chatham County potters (compiled by Linda Carnes-McNaughton)

Boling Chair

B 1981 “Boling - the story of a company and of a family” by John Harden

C 20 May 1981 “Boling - the story of a company and of a family” (photos)

C 20 Sep 2012 "The old comes down…" Boling Chair Company Building demolished

C Apr 2015 Demo crews begin to tear down old Boling Chair structure

Chatham-Siler City Advanced Manufacturing Site [formerly Megasite]


C 2 May 2013 Utility selects megasite for readiness program

C 25 Jul 2013 Report shows megasite potential

C 22 Aug 2013 County earmarks $1.1 million for megasite

C 12 Sep 2013 Groups wooing auto plant

C 19 Jun 2014 Megasite receives certification from state

C 26 Jun 2014 Residents come together to help megasite effort

C 26 Jun 2014 Leaders celebrate megasite certification

C 7 Aug 2014 Megasite group focusing on Siler City's strengths

C 21 Aug 2014 CCCC plans workforce training for megasite

C 15 Jan 2015 Mega site changes name; mission remains the same

C 12 Mar 2015 Planners vote yes to rezone megasite land

C 19 Mar 2015 Town rezones megasite land for industry

c 24 Mar 2016 County proposes megasite purchase

C 21 Apr 2016 Board ok's option on megasite

C 7 Jul 2016 Megasite recertified

C 18 Aug 2016 Town seeks grant for megasite work

Kepco

C “Kepco ground breaking” (photo)

B “Narrative description of the project: Joint venture company: Kepco, Inc.”

Mills

C 1 Jan 1954 “600 attend Chatham Mills Christmas party”

C 11 Apr 1963 "8 Millstones steeped in history are salvaged from Ramsey's Mill" Sanford Herald

C 28 Oct 1971 N. Chatham, Pittsboro depts. prevent fire damage at mill

C 5 Aug 1976 “Pittsboro’s Chatham Mills among oldest industries”

C 6 Mar 1985 “Odell plant closed for good” (photo)

B 1992 flyer for Old Mill Crank-Up Day at Baldwin’s Mill

C 16 Apr 1992 “Baldwin Mill holds annual ‘crank-up’ ” (photographs)

C 18 Apr 1991 photographs: Old Mill Crank-Up Day at Baldwin’s Mill

C 28 Apr 1992 photographs: Baldwin’s Mill; Hadley’s Mill

C 3 Oct 1996 “Former superintendent remembers when mill stood strong in Pittsboro” (photo of Ralph Riddle)

Pace’s Mill

B 17 Nov 1988 “Queen of the Mountain” by Clyde J. Morris, placed at Pace’s Mill

Mines and Mining

B “Mines and Minerals of Chatham County” (notes for museum display)

B photocopied excerpts from “Metallic mineral deposits of the Carolina Slate Belt” by P. Albert Carpenter,

1981

C 15 Feb 1934 “North Carolina and Chatham Co. rich in mineral resources”

C 27 May 1973 “The day 53 died in mine” (Coal Glen mine disaster of 1925) (photos)

C May 1976 “Did General Greene make a stop at Egypt to warm feet with coal?”

C 10 Mar 1987 “Black diamonds still lure dreamers back to Deep River”

C Apr 1987 “Fears cause Chatham residents to resist mine”

C 9 Apr 1987 “Crowd rallies to oppose mine” (photo)

C 25 Jun 1987 “Fight has just begun [over coal mining near Gulf]”

C 7 Jul 1987 “Permit to allow Chatham coal tests suspended”

C 9 Jul 1987 “OSM suspends permit for Gulf mining venture”

C 10 Jul 1987 “Permit for exploratory coal mining reinstated”

C 17 Jul 1987 “Exploratory coal mining permit upheld in Chatham”

C 19 Jul 1987 “Chatham residents resisting mine because ‘little is left’ ”


C 15 Aug 1987 “Coal near Gulf is of high quality, owner says” (photo)

C 27 Aug 1987 “Judge says mining permit OK”

C 26 Nov 1987 “Prehistoric finds may affect mine”

C 10 Dec 1987 “Citizens oppose use of land for coal mining”

C 10 Nov 1988 “Coal mine down but not out” (photos)

C 1 Sep 1988 “Permit is returned”

B Aug 1993 “Disasters at the Egypt coal mines”

C 23 Aug 1995 “Company seeks permit to mine near Pittsboro”

B 1998 report of Lee County Genealogical & Historical Society program on Egypt mine

B 2004 article in 1869 Eagle on Egypt coal, Chatham mines from 1890 Branson Directory

C 12 Jan 2006 “Area was site of worst mining accident in NC” (photos)

C 11 Oct 2012 "Coal mining once big in Chatham County" (photo)

C 17 Jan 2013 "Pittsboro barber remembers coal mine disaster"

Miscellaneous

C 1851 advertisement for Gorman & Barbee, coach makers in Pittsboro

C 20 Dec 1962 “Company makes announcement on Chatham County ‘Big Hole’” (photo)

C 13 Dec 1962 “Residents speculating on AT&T secret site”

C 13 Apr 1972 Odell Manufacturing to change to blends

C 10 Aug 1983 “PTA thrift shop hires three employees” (photo of Paty Williams)

C 27 Feb 1992 “Neon signs ‘gas’ for Pittsboro company” (photos)

C 25 Jan 1996 “Old school getting new life as home for two businesses” (Neon Impressions; EMJ) (photos: Triangle

School)

C 30 Jan 1997 “Have anvil, will travel” (photos: Jim Clemente)

C 3 Apr 1997 “Griffin’s funeral home joins with Durham service”

C 13 Dec 1997 “Chatham’s timber industries play big role in local economy” (photos)

C 23 Dec 2000 “A small business glazed with success” (Southern Supreme, photos)

C 5 May 2011 "300 to lose jobs at Townsend plants"

C 29 Dec 2011 "Townsend closing tops county news of 2011"

C 29 Dec 2011 "Acme-McCrary brings hope to local economy"

C 28 Jun 2012 "First of its kind biodiesel plant opens in Pittsboro" (photo)

C 22 Nov 2012 Omtron bankruptcy may take months to resolve

C 6 Jun 2013 Court: Omtron asset sale set for July 15

C 18 Jul 2013 Poultry assets sold at auction

C 25 Jul 2013 Developer to buy poultry plant property

C 26 Sep 2013 Poultry plants assets to be sold

C 12 Dec 2013 Walmart's distribution center in Alamance to create 450 jobs

C 24 Jul 2014 County adopts policy to lure big industry

C 21 Aug 2014 Making plastic perfect

C 4 Sep 2014 CEO expands on poultry proposal

C 25 Sep 2014 Moncure land to prep for development

C 9 Oct 2014 Chicken processing plant starts operation

C 16 Oct 2014 Chicken plant begins production

C 20 Nov 2014 Waste transport may help Super Park

C 20 Nov 2014 Consultant reports strengths, weaknesses of Moncure Super Park

C 18 Dec 2014 Poultry plant clears hurdle to reopening

C 8 Jan 2015 Poultry plant clears hurdle to reopening

C 29 Jan 2015 Siler City tables poultry grant

C 12 Feb 2015 Effort continues to open plant in Siler City


C 19 Mar 2015 Effort to open quarry underway

C 31 Mar 2016 County leaders tour local businesses

Power and utilities

C 29 Nov 1972 “Towns in county mark 50 years of electricity”

C 15 Nov 1978 “Chatham group meets to fight CP&L nuclear plant” (photo)

C 7 Sep 2000 “Heritage Trail public meeting finalized”

C Sep 2000 “Chatham takes first steps to seek more tourists”

Strata Solar

C 19 Dec 2013 Strata solar moves headquarters to Chatham County

C 26 Mar 2014 Solar farm planned in Pittsboro

C 22 May 2014 Strata solar completes 4.5 MW project

C 29 Jan 2015 Large solar farm on hold

NOTEBOOK 19: JORDAN LAKE -- LAW

ENFORCEMENT/CRIME/HANGINGS

JORDAN LAKE

C 28 Mar 1963 New Hope Dam is 'Plaything' Says Cooley

C 30 Apr 1964 New Hope Residents go on with farming plans

C 20 Nov 1966 “New Hope comes in dribbles for on-again, off-again dam” (photo, map)

C 1 Apr 1971 Ebenezer Church, State Road 1008- What to do?

C 8 Apr 1971 Chatham refuses, state fails to abandon road

C 29 Jul 1971 New Hope Dam project progressing smoothly

C 12 Aug 1971 Conservationists file suit to halt New Hope project

C 9 Sep 1971 State's Senators promise New Hope support

C 28 Oct 1971 Army files New Hope environment statement

C 10 Feb 1972 Judge Gordon to consider New Hope Dam injunction

C 17 Feb 1972 Federal judge denies motion for injunction on New Hope

C 9 Mar 1972 Conservationists to appeal New Hope project decision

C 6 Apr 1972 New Hope Dam injunction sought

C 11 May 1972 Perry Harrison explains new educational pilot program to Recreation Commission

C 17 Aug 1972 What a site!

C 21 Dec 1972 New Hope Dam flooding is worst since 1945

C 1 Feb 1973 New Hope construction continues… but $$$ needed

C 15 Feb 1973 Court orders halt to New Hope Dam project

B 5 May 1982 newspaper section: “Welcome to Chatham’s Jordan Lake”

B Shadows from the past; 25 years of archaeological and historical investigations at the B. Everett Jordan

Lake Project (published by US Army Corps of Engineers)

B Summer 1999 Jordan Lake Voice (published by Jordan Lake State Recreation Area)

C “12 counties are now supporting soil conservation plan of multiple dams”

C 23 Aug 1962 “Dam appears doomed in Congress this year”

C 30 Aug 1962 “Farm Bureau urged to support small dam plan”

C 18 Oct 1962 editorial: New Hope Dam

C 18 Oct 1962 “New Hope dam project is rejected by Congress”

C 29 Mar 1972 “Memories of Yesteryear: Moses Clark’s Crossroads Store” (photo)

C 17 May 1972 “Work goes on at the New Hope dam in Moncure” (photos)

C 24 May 1972 “New Hope article answered”

C 27 Sep 1972 “New Hill has senators jumping to save road”

C 6 Dec 1972 editorial: “New Hope emerging from uncertainty”

C 9 Aug 1973 “New Hope dam named in honor of Jordan”


C 20 Sep 1973 The uprooting of the New Hope people

C 21 Feb 1974 Amendment to compromise sought for construction of county park

C 4 Jul 1974 Photo of B. Everett Jordan Lake sign

C 15 Sep 1974 legal advertising: land condemnations for Jordan Lake (originals and copies)

C 6 Feb 1975 Work on Chatham Park could begin by April

C 20 Mar 1975 Flooding to continue before it gets better

C 27 Mar 1975 Flooded Farrington begins to dry out

C 9 Jul 1975 “Reburying our ancestors’ remains” (photos)

C 27 Aug 1975 “New Hope residents-environmentalists come a little closer in road dispute”

C 30 Dec 1975 “CCNC disputes rosy Corps’ Jordan Lake water quality report”

C 21 Jun 1976 “CCNC to fight Jordan Lake filling”

C 4 Feb 1976 “Neither delay nor go-ahead of filling Jordan Lake voted [by Council of Governments]” (photo)

C 25 Feb 1976 “Corps lets contract for county park”

C 11 Feb 1976 “Kiwanians endorse dam fill-up now”

C 22 Sep 1976 “Army Corps petitions to fill Jordan dam reservoir”

C 9 Mar 1977 “Chatham Park replanning could take a long time” (photo)

C 27 Apr 1977 “Corps, contractor, church confront in cemetery” (photos)

C 3 Aug 1977 “Jordan Lake filling approved”

C 2 Nov 1977 “County approves park plans”; “Jordan Lake work to proceed”

C 26 Jul 1978 “[state road] 1008 is aired in Jesse [Helm]’s office”

C 20 Sep 1978 “Corps to show plans for county park”

C 27 Sep 1978 “New Hill has senators jumping to save Pea Ridge” (photo)

C 27 Sep 1978 photos: clearing land, equipment, top of dam

C 4 Oct 1978 “County wants input into Pea Ridge Road study”

C 11 Oct 1978 “Planner asked to be Pea Ridge ‘watchdog’” (photo)

C 1 Nov 1978 “Large crowd tells Corps they want Pea Ridge saved” (photos)

C 8 Nov 1978 “Corps backs down on more county park promises”

C 15 Nov 1978 photo: “Chatham energy source going up in smoke prematurely”

C 29 Nov 1978 “Industries support Pea Ridge protest”; “Public agencies support Pea Ridge”

C 6 Dec 1978 “Pea Ridge consultants start work”

C 13 Dec 1978 “Nearly 200 brave rain to run for Pea Ridge” (photos)

C 13 Dec 1978 “Jordan reservoir decision at least two months away”

C 27 Dec 1978 “Pea Ridge study delayed”

C 20 Nov 1979 “Wading through the bureaucracy [on Pea Ridge road]”

C 16 Jan 1980 “Jordan Lake delayed at least a year”

C 2 Sep 1981 “Jordan Lake filling” (photos)

C 9 Sep 1981 photo: “[dam gates] didn’t stay closed long”; “Filling her up in a hurry”

C 31 Dec 1981 “Jordan Lake impoundment continues next week”

C “Tough lake restrictions ok’d” (photo)

C 7 Jan 1982 “Commissioners call for Jordan Lake zoning”

C 11 Feb 1982 “Reagan to impound Jordan recreation funds” (photo)

C 28 Mar 1982 “Planners still can’t agree on Jordan Lake development restrictions”

C 25 Apr 1984 photo: “One vote short [from reducing development restrictions]”

C 7 Mar 1984 “State control threatened if local governments don’t protect Jordan”

C 25 Apr 1984 “Phosphorus cleanup will cost OWASA $1.32 million”

C 7 Jun 1984 “Let’s be realistic about Jordan Lake” (article and letter to editor)

C 6 Feb 1985 “Jordan zoning regulations still uncertain”

C 7 May 1985 “Jordan Lake: How clean is it?” (photo)


C 30 Jul 1985 “Bald Eagles”

C 10 Sep 1985 Jordan Journal column: “Fish taking the bait at Jordan Lake”

C 24 Sep 1985 Jordan Journal column: “Wildlife rescue center provides proper care”

C 10 Dec 1985 “Wildlife commission asks for Corps eagle study”

C 17 Dec 1985 “Bland discusses Jordan Lake [and Board recommendations]”

C 23 Jan 1988 “Large number of eagles return to Jordan Lake”

C 30 Jun 1988 “Sugar Lake born of work done at Jordan” (photo)

C 13 Jan 1992 “Building habitats for the fish [with Christmas trees]” (photos)

C 16 Jan 1992 photo: “All that water”

C 23 Jan 1992 “Crosswinds campground scheduled to open in May” (photos)

C 13 Feb 1992 “Volunteers sink trees to make homes for fish in the lake” (photo)

C 14 May 1992 “County moves toward making Jordan Lake an asset” (photo of intake structure)

C 8 Jun 1995 “Jordan Lake: boon or bust?” (photo)

C 5 Jun 1996 “Land beneath the lake” [CCHA videotape] (photos)

C 7 Nov 1996 “Locals unveil marker to remember history” [Ebenezer church] (photos)

C 9 Jan 1997 “State delays decision on Jordan Lake water”

C 12 Mar 1998 “Jordan Lake documentary has official showing Sunday”

C 26 Dec 2013 New technology to be used to combat nutrients in Jordan Lake

C 17 Jul 2014 Solar Bees' to help clean Jordan Lake

B Dec 1975 Draft supplement to the Final Environmental Statement, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

B Mar 1996 Application for license for the Jordan Hydroelectric Project, Hydro Matrix P., Ltd.

C 24 Jul 2014 Technology put to use to help clean Jordan Lake

C 28 May 2015 Jordan Lake has long, interesting history

C 31 Dec 2015 Jordan Lake swells with heavy rain

C 18 Feb 2016 Jordan Lake attendance sets new record

C 10 Mar 2016 Solar Bees ineffective in improving Jordan Lake water

C 5 May 2016 County seeks removal of Solar Bees

C 12 May 2016 Solar Bee removal from Jordan Lake planned

C 2 Jun 2016 Grant will help keep Jordan Lake clean

C 28 Jul 2016 Trail workers provide work at Jordan Lake

LAW ENFORCEMENT/CRIME/HANGINGS

B Jul 1885 The Finch's Murder, 4 July 1885. Transcript of Raleigh News and Observer article about the murders of

Edward Finch, his sister and a negro boy in Chatham Co.

B 1925 Pittard house and family; this is where Horton murder took place

C c 1962 Chatham crime on increase; arrests down as jail costs hit new high

C 20 Sep 1962 “5,000 persons swarmed into Pittsboro on March 28, 1890 when Shackleford died in Chatham County’s

last hanging”

C 25 Oct 1962 "Catching bootleggers sometimes waiting game"

C “Story of seven jails” [specifications for first county jail]

C 16 Sep 1971 Deputies will receive patrol cars on or prior to November 15

C 11 Apr 1973 “Know your law enforcement officer: Michael J. McArthur” (photo)

C 18 Apr 1973 “Know your law enforcement officer: Coy D. Blackman” (photo)

C 25 Apr 1973 “Know your law enforcement officer: Thomas L. Scott” (photo)

C 2 May 1973 “Know your law enforcement officer: W. H. Long” (photo)

C 16 May 1973 “Know your law enforcement officer: Chuck Wheeler”

C 23 May 1973 “Know your law enforcement officer: James R. Stevens” (photo)

C 20 Jun 1973 “Know your law enforcement officer: Lonnie Sexton, chief jailer” (photo)

C 27 Jun 1973 “Know your law enforcement officer: Merle Frye” (photo)

C 1 Aug 1973 “Know your law enforcement officer: Bobby G. Goins” (photo)


C 27 Jun 1974 Huge marijuana crop destroyed by deputies

C 9 Jan 1975 Crime in Chatham up sharply in 1974

C 26 Nov 1980 “Harpers Crossroads folks recall 1898 lynching” (photos)

C 20 May 1981 “The most tragic hangin’ I ever heard of” [unnamed murderer and victim]

C 28 May 1985 “Chatham County’s last hanging drew thousands of spectators”

C c 1990 “Poole, wife downplayed the dangers, enjoyed the thrills” [bootlegging] (historical photos)

C 3 Dec 1992 “Face of local law enforcement has changed through the years” (photos)

C 7 Apr 2005 “Early county law era discussed” (photo of John H. Emerson)

B 28 Apr 2005 John Emerson lecture: “Law Enforcement comes of age in Chatham County” (photo)

C 30 Jul 2009 "A peek into the past: History of former sheriffs chronicled on office wall"

C 18 Aug 2016 Church, community say 'thanks' to area law enforcement officers

NOTEBOOK 20: LIBRARY -- ORAL HISTORY

LIBRARY (See also library info under COMMUNITIES)

B 1833 Act of incorporation, Farmers Library Association of Chatham County. Printout of digital copy from

Laws of North Carolina 1833.

C 25 Dec 1975 New library director promises innovation in Bicentennial Year

C 25 Dec 1975 Bicentennial programs libraries will present

C 14 Jul 1976 Bell design looked good over N. Chatham Library

C 9 Aug 1912

"Rare book collector finds Chatham inside" Farmers Library Association book plate in old book leads to

discovery of the early Chatham library association. (photos) Also see article on

http://www.chathamhistory.org

B May/Jun 2005

Talking with The Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini: Going to Afghanistan, How 'The Kite Runner'

opened our eyes, broke our hearts, and changed our lives in Chatham County, North Carolina. In The

Village Rambler. 2005 Community Read

C 17 Jun 2010 "Wanted: Copies of the following newspapers …"

B Winter Spring

2010

Friends of the Pittsboro Memorial Library Book Remarks: Our Chatham Community Library is becoming

reality!

C 23 Sep 2010 "New library, CCCC building officially open with ceremony" (photos)

C 25 Nov 2010 "Board acts to ensure student library cards"

B Mar/Apr 2011 A Library that Words Can't Describe. In ArtSee.

C 7 Apr 2011 "Book sales thrive at new library" (photos)

B Summer/Fall

2012 Book (RE)Marks. Newsletter of the Friends of the Chatham Community Library.

C 24 May 2012 "Genealogy, local history info available at Community Library"

C 1 Aug 2012 "Solar system to fly into Community Library"

B Spring/Summer


B Fall/Winter


C 26 Sep 2013 Book sale begins Thursday at Community Library

C 3 Oct 2013 Book sale benefits Chatham Community Library

C 27 Mar 2014 Spring book sale coming soon to Community Library

C 3 Apr 2014 Need a good book? Spring book sale begins Thursday at Community Library in Pittsboro

C 10 Apr 2014 Book dealers go high tech at FotCCL book sale

B Fall/Winter


C 16 Oct 2014 Semi-annual book sale draws crowd at library

C 22 Jan 2015 Community library sets spring book sale

C Spring/Summer


C 2 Apr 2015 Book sale raises big money for library


C 24 Sep 2015 Claudia's Corner a special place at the library book sale

C Fall/Winter


C 14 Apr 2016 Friends of the Library host successful book sale

C Spring/Summer


MAPS

B 1 Jan 1994 Order form and price list for Stout Historical Maps and indexes

B Index to Stout’s Historical Map of Chatham County (2 versions)

B 1978 Chatham County circa 1777 by McB, from NCGS Journal, p. 88

B c. 1935 Chatham County road map

B 1770 photocopy of enlarged portion of 1770 map of NC from Cumming’s NC in Maps

B 1808 enlarged portion of Price-Strouther 1808 map of NC from Cumming’s NC in Maps; enlargement of

Chatham County

B 1833 enlarged portion on MacRae-Brazier 1833 map of NC from Cumming’s NC in Maps

B 1861 enlarged portion of 1861 Johnson & Browning from Cumming’s NC in Maps

B 1861 Chatham portion of Colton 1861 map of NC from Cumming’s NC in Maps

B 1865 enlargements of Chatham County portion of 1865 Coast Survey from Cummings NC in Maps

B 1896 photocopy of portion of 1896 postal routes from Cumming’s NC in Maps; enlarged version of Chatham

County only

B three enlargements from Cumming’s NC in Maps

B 1870 1870 map of Chatham County

B 1870 “Ramsey 1870 Map Reprinted by CCHA” with page-size copy

B Location map of Jordan Lake from Ebenezer Church publ. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

B “Colonial land holdings in area of survey” from Ebenezer Church, published by U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers, showing portion of Chatham County from Markham map

B “Chatham County Townships”

B 1912 1912 Map of Bonlee

B 1912 North Carolina counties in 1912 from Formation of North Carolina Counties

B 1935 redrawn plat of Pittsborough showing original lot numbers

B 1900 segment of Rand-McNally Map, c. 1900 from Lee Co. Genealogical & Historical Society 1998

B redrawn map of Pittsboro showing historical houses

C “Bike map highlights routes for riders through Chatham County” [map in museum]

B c. 1921 North Carolina State Highway System showing routes through Chatham County

MEDICAL, HEALTH, DOCTORS

B 1850 1850 census list of Chatham County doctors

C 14 Jul 1976 "Ground finally broken for Goldston Med. Ctr."

MISCELLANEOUS

Fire Department

C 29 Apr 1971 Fire Department to receive requested tanker

C 20 Sep 1973 New fire truck provides instant water supply

C 15 Sep 1976 “Beginnings of N. Chatham Fire Dept.” (Photo)

C 15 Sep 1976 “N. Chatham shows off new building” (photo)

C 8 Dec 1974 “Volunteer fire departments tradition in Chatham” (photo)

Other

B 1870 Political broadside from Democratic Conservative Party of Chatham County

B 1876 Fourth of July celebration poster

C 28 May 1948 “‘Poppy Day’ to be observed here Saturday”

C 28 May 1948 “County board gives aid to T.B. patients”


C 19 Apr 1972 “Old Rock Pier [at Lockville on Deep River]” (photo)

C 31 May 1972 “N. Chatham Sertoma Club is organized”

C 30 May 1973 photo: c. 1907 Gideon Alston home with people identified

C 18 Jul 1973 photo: “Empty and forlorn: a number of these old buildings are in the county”

C 12 Sep 1973 photo: original stock certificate issued by Chatham Cotton Oil Co. in 1905

C 1974 “Alston Chapel community center to soon be a reality” (photos)

C 6 Feb 1974 “A salute to Chatham’s Boy Scouts” (photos)

C 11 Dec 1974 “Old records of deeds to be retired”

C 14 May 1975 photograph of unidentified person, perhaps lawyer from Siler City

C 23 Dec 1975 “Don’t mess with my post office [Bonlee, Gulf, Bynum]” (photo at Bynum]

C 6 Dec 1978 map: “Chatham land values by areas”

C 23 Nov 1981 “Antiques tell state history” (photos)

C 25 Feb 1982 “Board pay ranges from $36 a year to thousands” [detailed list for county and Pittsboro]

C 4 Aug 1982 “History sleuth needs help” (Rachel Osborne and architectural history”

C 1 Sep 1982 photo: flood, weather records on Parham house in Lockville

C 9 Nov 1983 “ABC wins: beer, wine lose [Siler City]” (photo)

C 14 Jun 1984 “Beer and wine sales began Monday in county”

C 6 Mar 1985 “Aerial survey will decide county line [Orange/Chatham]”

C 20 Mar 1985 “Disabled Vets start first Chatham unit”

C 14 May 1985 photos: DAV charter members

C 11 Jun 1985 Rays of Hope adds to local economy [solar energy workshops]

C 23 Jul 1985 “Expansion of Chatham County”

C 30 Apr 1992 “Land grant records give historian fresh look at colonial period” (photo - Pat Bailey)

C 31 Dec 1992 “Children’s living farm submits land use application” (photo)

C Dennis Rogers column: Chatham’s charms reviewed

C 4 Feb 1999 1927 photograph of Siler City bus station and Daniel Boone monument

C 24 Feb 1999 “Public to get say on American Tobacco Trail” (map)

C 31 Aug 2000 “Driving the county’s bookmobile teaches volumes on life, human nature” (photos)

C 7 Sep 2000 “Pittsboro couple hopes to put state on national rodeo map” [Sam and Terry White]

C Mar/Apr 2001 Fred Vatter column: “The vanishing country store” (photo)

C 29 Mar 2001 “History museum opens new exhibit [of Native American artifacts]” (photo)

C Feb 2006 Fred Vatter column: “Masons came to Pittsboro early” (photo)

NATURAL HISTORY

B “Chasing Chatham Whitetails in 1830" [photocopy of incomplete article reprinting article from American

Turf Register, no source given but probably Wildlife in NC] (photographs)

C 9 Apr 1967 “A significant discovery in Chatham” [fossil near Gulf] (photos)

C 19 Mar 1967 “Chatham dinosaur is an international find”

B c. 1970 Map and transects showing geomorphology and bedrock geology of Jordan Lake, from “Cultural

Resources Survey of Proposed Recreation & Wildlife Areas. . .”

C 19 Jul 1978 “Buckhorn Creek polluted by nuke plant construction” (photos)

C 30 May 1978 “Eagle watchers have vantage point at lake” (photo, map)

C Jul 1985 “Bald eagles cause a reassessment of Jordan development” (map)

C 10 Dec 1987 photograph: “spread eagle”

C 15 Jun 1989 “Nature preserve dedicated” [White Pines]

C 17 Sep 1992 “Kudzu will get you if you don’t watch out” (photos)

C 14 Jan 1993 “Wildlife board may give large part of county special designation” [Rocky River] (map)

C 14 Jan 1993? “Biologist says habitat idea best way to preserve water quality” (photo)

C 12 Nov 1995 “Deal sets aside land for bald eagles”

C 9 Jul 1995 “Bald eagles sighted at Jordan Lake”


C 23 Jul 1997 “For history, it’s the pits” [fossils near Gulf] (photo)

C 27 May 1998 “Help with water sought [by Chatham commissioners]”

C 31 May 1998 “Chatham floats water proposal”

C 8 Apr 1999 “Board acts on Chatham water plan”

B Fall 1999 “Genealogy . . . Geology . . .” from Lee Co. Genealogical & Historical Society Journal [c1852 letter

describing geological reconnaissance of Deep River by Dr. S. McClenahan]

C 4 Nov 2010 "Chatham fossil in New York museum" About Chatham phytosaur Rutiodon carolinensis. (photo)

C 27 Sep 2012 "Found in Chatham, old bones receive honor" About Chatham phytosaur Rutiodon carolinensis.

ORAL HISTORY

B Inventory of audiotapes in Chatham Historical Museum, Pittsboro

The inventory includes the following. Please note the tapes are not at any county library.

Oral history techniques

1981 Della Coulter, Rachel Osborn, “Archiving, Storage, File Systems” by Bill Mansfield, “The Voice of the

Past: Oral History and Historical Research” by Jacquelyn Hall

Interviews

1981 Old time farm days, Silk Hope

1978; 1980 John London, interviewed by Gary Freeze; Durham family interviewed by Jerry Markatos

1981-9182

Wade Hadley interviewed by Jane Pyle; Rev. Rufus Horton, interviewed by John London; Ruth Horton,

interviewed by Jane Pyle; John London, interviewed by Doug DeNatale; Lacy Johnson, interviewed by

John London

St. Bartholomew’s programs

1981 Void Brothers gospel music concert; concert at dedication of renovated tracker organ; informal

reminiscences by John London, Caroline Stewart, and others

1989; 1990 Informal reminiscences

Friends of Pittsboro Library programs

1982-1994 Ruth Selden-Sturgill: Chatham County’s Architectural Survey of Pittsboro

Marjorie Hudson and Ralph Earle: poetry readings from their works

Roberta Silman: poet and novelist

Paul Larke concert

Clyde Edgerton, with Susan Ketchin

Wally Kaufman

Thomas Berry

Panel discussion: “Growing Up in Chatham County: A celebration of Black history and achievement”

B 1998 “Designing an Oral History Project;” “Notes on Interviewing;” “10 Tips for Interviewers;” “Statement on

Interviewing for Historical Documentation;” “Budgets, equipment, materials for an oral history project”

B 1998 Sample forms: interview agreement; agreement with restrictions; life history form; field notes; tape log;

tape index; transcriber’s guidelines (format, content, editing)

B Oral History Bibliography

NOTEBOOKS 21-23: PEOPLE (alphabetical by surname)

PEOPLE

C 7 Nov 2013 "Commissioner, vet [Sam Adams] remembers service fondly"

C 28 Nov 2013 "Siler City commissioner honored for 16 year service [Sam Adams]"

C 11 Jul 1994 “Leaping into danger” [James ‘Smokey’ Alexander] (photos)

C 7 Apr 2016 [Auburn] Allen is recipient of teaching fellows scholarship

C 10 Jul 2014 CCCC provost retiring [Karen Allen]

C 31 Jul 2014 WWII vet hopes to reconnect [George Allred]

C 27 Feb 1985 “Hats Off to Carrie Alston” (photo)

C 24 Nov 1898 John Alston and invention

C 21 Sep 1998 Alston -- Rich in relations

C 2000 “Chatham soldier gets his medal” [Raymond W. Alston] (photos)


C 17 Aug 2000 “Northwood student [Theresa Alston] brings home silver in national event” (photo)

C 28 Jul 2016 [Vanessa Albarez] Siler City student one of first to graduate from CCCC accelerated program

C 3 Sep 2015 Former J-M principal Murray Andrew dies

C 3 Sep 2015 Murray Milton Andrew

C 7 Nov 2013 "Vietnam led to [Darrell] Andrews' starting trucking company"

C 21 Apr 2016 Siler City Veteran to join upcoming charity ride on 2,150 mile journey [Darrell Andrews]

C 19 May 2016 County resident celebrates 100 years [Fallie Andrews]

C 14 Dec 1972 (Ike) Andrews is official winner in congressional seat race

C 2 Dec 1971 [Ike] Andrews announces candidacy for Congress

C 28 Jan 1999 “Teacher [Ina Andrews] gave 40 years to school” (photo)

C 30 Jul 2015 Celebrating birthdays at Senior Center (Arlene Ash)

C 27 Apr 1972 Three local students go to Girls State (Gail Ashworth)

B 1939 “Simon Green Atkins” from Five North Carolina Negro Educators by N.C. Newbold (photo)

C 20 Feb 2014 Book tells story of inner Civil War in NC [William T. Auman]

C 23 Jul 1954 “Grain storage elevators erected by Negro farmer [Charlie Baldwin]” (photo)

C 1 Dec 1976 “Chatham’s black leader, Charlie Baldwin, 81 dies” (photo)

C 1976 Editorial: “Charlie Baldwin was a man of class” (photo)

C 8 Dec 1976 letter to editor: “Baldwin family wants more info”

C Mar 2008 "Farmer Charlie Baldwin was example to many" from Chatham County Line

C 24 Jun 1971 Lee Otis Baldwin

C 12 Jan 1977 photo: “Mrs. Nettie Baldwin celebrated her 95th birthday. . .”

C c 1993 "Former town attorney T. Fleet Baldwin, dies" (photo)

C 12 Jun 2014 Baldwin receives CCS ERA Award for May [Randy Baldwin]

C 10 Apr 2014 Orchid Gallery cultivates popular exotic blooms [Rita and Jeff Baldwin]

C 21 Oct 1971 Wade Barber elected president of Chatham County YDC

C 18 Aug 1973 “Pittsboro lawyer [Wade Barber, Sr.] recalls the young Sam Ervin” (photos)

C 18 Nov 1973 Wade Barber resigns as county attorney

C 19 Nov 1975 “Wade Barber addresses Kiwanis on history of courthouse”

C 9 Sep 1982 “Long-time political leader dies” [Wade Barber, Sr.]

C 8 Sep 1982 “County leader Wade Barber dies” (photo)

C 5 Dec 1984 “Barber to open private practice in Pittsboro” [Wade Barber, Jr.] (photo)

C 6 Feb 2014 Longtime barber Gene Barker remembered in Pittsboro

C 12 Feb 2015 Wildlife officer honored (Reggie Barker)

C 11 Oct 1973 Town gets mementos of ship named after Pittsboro native [James D. Barlowe]

C 18 Oct 1973 All for a commander [James D. Barlowe]

C 26 Feb 2015 First Responder of the Year… (Jerry Barlow)

C 20 Nov 1973 “Turkey hunting. . .” [Bruce Barnes] (photo)

C 21 Aug 2014 Moncure woman celebrates 101st birthday [Mary Crutchfield Barnes]

C 16 Apr 2015 Former county leader (Patrick) Barnes dies after cancer bout

C 23 Apr 2015 County board honors (Patrick) Barnes in resolution

C 20 Oct 2014 Local dentist [Laura Barringer] fairly certain children learning good habits

C 17 Jun 1971 Three are selected for Boy's State trip [David Barrington]

C Jun 1971 "Dr. Baxley killed in accident south of Liberty Wednesday" died 17 Jun 1971 (photo)

C 17 Jun 1971 Dr. Baxley killed in accident south of Liberty Wednesday

C 20 Apr 2015 With the military [Kenneth E. Beane]

C 11 Oct 1973 Airman Tony N. Beck

C 2 May 1979 “Teasel and tansy and rosa rugosa” [Betty Bell] (photo)

C 21 Jan 2010 "Pastor find success after childhood paralysis" [Javier Benitez] (photo)


C 1 Aug 1984 “A visit with Chatham’s Howard Bennett” (photos, including Fairview School)

C 2012 "County resident loved North Carolina" [Doris Betts]

C 31 May 2012 "Chatham resident wins United Way award for volunteer work" [Blaike Bibbs] (photo)

C 22 Aug 2013 "[Angela] Birchett achievement recognized by county"

C 20 Aug 1992 “Funeral services held Friday for Henry Blair” (photo)

C 9 Oct 1997 “Dr. Blair celebrates 50 years of county dentistry practice” (photo)

C 7 Apr 2016 [Megan] Blair nominated for student leadership award at CCCC

C 16 Feb 2012 "Dentist, civil leader Mott Blair passes away"

B 1 Apr 1968 “[Capt. Johnston] Blakely, hero of a sea mystery” (photo; from The State magazine)

B 18 Mar 1944 “Wards of North Carolina” [Udna Maria Blakely, daughter of Johnston Blakely, from The State

magazine]

C 20 Sep 1962 “When United States was young and her Navy was an infant, Capt. Johnston Blakely of Pittsboro was a

seaman’s hero” (photo of highway historical marker)

C 1992 “Pittsboro youth [Cynthia Rae Bland] reads to Senate” (photo)

C 4 Feb 1988 photo: “Cindy S. Bland . . . to compete in moot court”

C 27 Apr 1972 Three local students go to Girls State (Sally Bland)

C 19 Nov 2013 "NW principal [Chris Blice] stated out as band teacher, winds up as principal of the year"

C 1 Aug 2013 "[Gary] Blankenship looks back on his career as retirement time nears"

C 4 Aug 2016 Student [Andrew Bonomolo] wins award

C 11 Apr 1963 Rev. Geo Boone named missionary to Brazil [Rev. and Mrs. George Boone]

C 26 Mar 1964 Missionary [George C. Boone] tells of experiences in Brazil

C Dec 2008 "Chatham County's unsung resource" [J. Edward Booth and others] from Chatham County Line

B “William Elias Boudinot” [typescript by Martha Smith, with attachments]

C 26 May 1976 “Mrs. Jewel Bouldin [becomes cooking columnist for paper]” (photo)

C 28 May 1990 “Bouldin’s country store goods auctioned” (photos)

C 28 Jul 2016 [Sydney] Bowman chosen for USA elite select futures team

C Mar 2014 Emily Boynton of Fiddlehead Farm preparing for the future

C 7 Jan 1971 Richard H. Bradley begins job as county asst. extension agent

C 9 Dec 1981 “Pittsboro woman [Etta Perry Bradshaw] savors 100th birthday party”

C 11 Dec 1987 “Celebrating her 105th birthday” [Etta Bradshaw]

C 10 Dec 1980 “The preacher had ten kids” [ Frances Bradsher (photo)]

C 15 Nov 1975 Highest scouting honor [Billy D. Brady]

C 6 Aug 1980 “Bennett honors 100 year old ‘Uncle John’ Brady” (photo)

C 18 Mar 1971 Chatham boys win dairy prize [Glenn Braxton]

C 26 Jan 1995 “Siler City native [Bun Bray] had long, varied public career” (photo)

C 17 Jul 2014 Clestor "Shorty" Bray

C 18 Apr 1979 “Carolina Stockyard president, John Henry Brewer, dies” (photo)

C Dec 1998 “Pre-World War II childhood memories are still strong” (photo) [James Lambe Brewer]

C 10 Mar 2016 Local 4-H team wins honors at state-level competition [Raegan Brinkman]

C 18 Feb 1971 Chatham men in uniform [Nelson K. Broaddus]

C 7 Nov 1973 “Squirrel Dogs . . A hunting man’s best friend” [Charlie Brooks (photo)]

C 6 Jun 1979 “Mr. Charlie Brooks and chicken pie”

C 10 Sep 1992 “[Dennis] Brooks to present view of Civil War” (photo)

C 1983 "Mr. and Mrs. [E. N.] Brooks honored" 50th anniversary (photo)

C 25 Oct 1972 “Chatham County is Gene Brooks classroom; he seeks students everywhere”

B May 1958 "James Edwin Brooks, M.D., Founder of the North Carolina State Sanatorium for the Treatment of

Tuberculosis: A Biographical Sketch" Parts I and II. (photocopy)

C May 2012 "CEMC honors longtime board member [Jim] Brooks" (photo)

C 3 May 1973 Leah Brooks is named winner of National Merit Scholarship


C 19 Mar 1980 “Paul Brooks still learning [basketmaking]” (photo)

C 27 Feb 1985 “Thomas Brooks, Chatham Hospital founder, dies” (photo)

C 20 Sep 1912 "Siler City town manager Joel Brower to retire Jan. 1" (photo)

C 2 Jun 2016 United Way honors volunteers [Mindy Brown]

C 2013 "Deacon/clerk/elder/reverend Samuel "Sam" Brown"

C “Mrs. Mary Brown has seen kindergarten students come and go” (photo)

C 6 Apr 1972 Two Northwood students to go to Governor's School [Amelia Bryan]

C 27 Dec 1973 Quilting bees find place during energy-less times [Mrs. Edd Bryant]

C photos: “4 generations of the R.G. Bryant family;” “Lee family reunion”

C “Fair’s survival wasn’t enough for R.G. Bryant” (photo)

C 13 Jun 1952 “Teamwork pays off in farming” [R.G. and Wilbur Bryant (photo)]

C 22 Jul 1971 Steve Bryant honored by Army

C 11 Jul 1991 photo: Wilbur Bryant selling corn

C photo: Wilbur Bryant grinds sugar cane for old fashioned molasses

C 7 Sep 2006 “Singer [Yolanda] Bryant a local ‘treasure’ “

C 6 Oct 1988 “[Helen] Buckner is given highest distinction in Siler City”

C 22 Feb 1990 “[Helen] Buckner named to commission in Siler City” (photo)

C 1 Dec 2011 "Outgoing Siler City Commissioners honored" [Helen Buckner, Patricia Perry] (photos)

B "Abraham Van Wick Budd, A.B., M.D." Obituary transcribed from North Carolina Medical Journal, Vol.

28, 1891, p.62.

C 24 Mar 2016 Siler City resident celebrates 100th birthday [Margaret Budd]

B Aug 1993 “A school dropout [Hazel Burke] returns to finish school”

B 16 Aug 1993 “[Hazel Burke], 61, fulfills yearning for learning” (photo)

C 23 Nov 2000 “[Joe] Burke recalls life as son of tenant farmer”

C 6 Feb 1980 “Red Burnette carries a powerful [dowsing] stick” (photo)

C 24 Apr 1908 "Resident celebrates 103 years of living" [Thelma Burnette] (photo)

C 14 Apr 1911 "Resident celebrates 106 years of living" [Thelma Burnette] (photo)

C 18 Apr 2013 "Chatham resident [Thelma Burnette] turns 108 years old"

C 24 Apr 2014 Oldest resident turns 109 [Thelma Burnette]

C 4 Apr 1963 Two contestants enter Miss Pittsboro contest [Ann Burns]

C 20 Nov 2003 “Phyllis Burns paints what she loves” (photo)

C 21 May 2015 (Leslie) Burwell named Chatham County School's Teacher of the Year

C 1 Nov 1972 “Candle in the Dark Award given to county health nurse [Elva Butler] for public service” (photo)

C 26 Jun 1974 “Annie L. Bynum - painter of history”

C “Main Street Pittsboro in 1895 as painted by Mrs. Bynum” (photo)

C 29 Feb 1984 “101-year-old Pittsboro music instructor [Annie Bynum], history painter dies” (photo)

C 12 Apr 1973 Two county students chosen to attend Governor's school [Betty Louise Bynum]

C 14 May 1980 “99 year old ‘Mother of the Year’ [Caroline Bynum] runs to keep pace with descendants” (photo)

C 3 Oct 2013 "Man makes old saying come true when it comes to coffins [Don Byrne]"

B Nov 1991 “Great Old-time Southern Apples” [Lee Calhoun] (photos) from Country Journal

C 3 Mar 2011 "He [Lee Calhoun] Keeps Apples Fresh and Crisp" (photo)

C 1992 “Apples grow into a hobby” [Lee Calhoun] (photo)

C 16 Apr 1992 “[Catherine] Cameron named ‘Woman of Distinction’ “

C 23 Sep 1971 Mrs. [Clara] Camp enjoyed being a public health nurse

C 6 Dec 2012 "Local woman wins national recipe honor" [Brenda Camp]

C 31 Oct 2013 "Santa releases new book [Al Capehart]"

C 19 Jan 2013 "Tar Heel of the Week: Woman [Kim Caraganis] helps youths on path to success"

C “Henry Carter: 73 years in Bynum” (photo)


C 15 Jun 1972 Local students win nursing scholarships [Pamela Sue Cash]

C 17 Feb 2011 "Five decades of firefighting: Richard Caviness is Siler City's longest serving volunteer fireman"

B 29 Sep 1934 from The State magazine: “[John Chavis] the greatest of all Negroes”

B 6 Oct 1934 from The State magazine: “The Career of John Chavis” in Seawall article

C 16 Dec 2010 "Chatham history museum receives [John] Chavis biography"

C 27 Jun 1973 “The Manley Cheeks - a team” (photo)

C 19 May 2016 Pittsboro man calls in the ring, gets inducted into Carolina Boxing Hall of Fame [Bill Clancy]

C 26 Jun 2014 Chatham native a pillar of Duke medicine [James R. Clapp]

C 21 Jul 1976 Adolphus D. Clark, Russell Chapel founder of Chatham County Ushers’ Union

C 27 Apr 1972 Three local students go to Girls State (Ann Clark)

C 18 Feb 1971 Chatham men in uniform [Alvin E. Clark]

C 21 Jan 2016 Former sports editor [Donald Clark] inducted into Hall of Fame

C 14 Nov1963 Home demonstration clubs honor merit mothers [Mrs. E. J. Clark]

C 17 May 1973 Dr. James Cline, surgeon, to practice in Siler City

C 25 Aug 1980 Phyllis Knight Coates becomes first black female Sheriff’s deputy (photo)

C 9 Jan 1997 “Mrs. [Rosser] Cockman doesn’t go very far from home” (photo)

B 2002 “In Memoriam - Mrs. Rosser Ferguson Cockman”

C 21 Apr 2016 Deputy honored with Live Saving Award [Will Cockman]

C 8 Aug 2013 "County health director [Holly Coleman] retires"

C 24 Apr 2014 County board honors retiring DSS director [Sandy Coletta]

C 18 Nov 1981 “Park named for Bill Collins”

C 17 Jan 2013 Pittsboro police chief retires [David Collins]

C 4 Jun 2015 (Wes) Collins wins in song competition

C 10 Mar 2016 Local 4-H team wins honors at state-level competition [Grace Conerly]

C 27 Nov 2014 Maintenance worker gets award [Sandra Cook]

C 20 Dec 2012 "Longtime county extension agent [Al Cooke] retires

C 16 Jan 1982 “Sowing the seeds of peace” [Bill and Cathy Coolidge] (photo)

C 7 May 2015 Barber (Cadle Cooper) forced to close Bynum shop

C 16 Jan 1982 “John Cooper chairs Chatham 400th birthday committee”

C 14 Oct 2004 “Jim Cooper fondly recalls ‘days of yore’ in 1930s Staley” (historical photos)

C 13 Aug 1998 Staley once eastern cattle town (J.M. Cooper)

C 17 Oct 2013 "Auto dealer Cooper passes away" [Kent Wilson Cooper]

C 2 Apr 1972 Three from Northwood High chosen to go to Boys State (Sammy Cooper)

C 28 Apr 2016 Former board member [Max] Cotton dies

C 12 May 2016 Pittsboro BOC passes resolution honoring [Max] Cotton

C 10 Mar 2016 Local teen [Amber Cotton-Geer] honored by Girls and Boys Club

C 9 Jun 2016 Boys and Girls Club announces recipient [Amber Cotton-Geer] of annual scholarship

C 18 Jun 1985 feature: Nannie Dorsett Cotton, retired teacher (photo)

C 18 Apr 1963 Two more girls enter Miss Pittsboro Pageant [Barbara Council]

C 2002 “With new book published, Mama Dip [Mildred Council] greets admirers, signs copies” (photo)

C 14 Feb 2008 "Old photo find prompts need for readers' help" [Bessie Councilman]

C 5 May 2016 Democrats honor Mike Cross

C 6 Jun 2011 "Local author [R. T. Crowley] pens new book"

C 23 Aug 2012 "Moncure twins celebrate 99 years" [Mae Crutchfield Poe and Mary Crutchfield Barnes]

C 22 Aug 2013 "[Percy] Crutchfield is new Pittsboro police chief"

C 28 May 2015 Veteran (Talton Crutchfield) hero recalls time in WWII

C 23 Jun 2016 [Phil] Culberson honored

C 8 Nov 1973 With the military [Eddie L. Currie]


C 14 Jul 2016 New Goldston mural honors Charlie Daniels

C 9 Apr 1985 “[Earl Dark: Looking forward to his third century” (photos)

C 30 Aug 1962 photo: Earl Dark hands check retiring old bonds to Thomas Morgan

C 12 Apr 1990 “[Earl] Dark, 91, dies” (photo)

C 14 Jul 1982 "[Derrick Keith] Taylor and [Gary] Dark at Boys' State" (photo)

C 30 Jan 2014 County names 911 center for Jack Dark

C 30 Jun 2016 Mitchell Chapel AMEZion celebrates pastor's achievement [Rev. Dr. Anthony Davis]

C 4 Feb 2016 [Brittany Davis] Her hopes high for "picking" music as a career

C 12 Apr 1973 Two county students chosen to attend Governor's school [Marsha Ann Davis]

C 23 May 2013 "Goldston has new postmaster" [Pamela Davis]

C 29 Apr 1971 With the military [James V. Dawson]

C 2 Jun 2016 United Way honors volunteers [Rusty Davis]

C 21 Oct 1971 [W. L. "Bill] Dean gets promotion to bank vice-president

B 9 Dec 1933 from The State magazine: article about meteorologist Lee Denson, son of Capt. C.B. Denson of Pittsboro

(photo)

C 10 Mar 2016 Local 4-H team wins honors at state-level competition [Julie Dickerson]

C 4 Aug 2016 Pittsboro then and now, a local photographer [Francis DiNardo] creates series

B 2015 (Dixon Family) Recipes and Remembrances

C 9 Sep 1999 “Machine shop closes after more than 60 years of business” (photo of T.A. Dowd)

C 7 Feb 1979 “Former Clerk of Court [J. W. Drake] honored on birthday” (photo)

C 18 Jun 1985 “[Nannie Dorsett:] A full and productive life (photo)

C 18 Aug 2016 Local pastor [Terry Dorsey] finds much to be optimistic about

C 28 Feb 2008 "Bill Dow is organic farming mainstay" (photo)

C 8 Dec 2012 "Bill Dow is organic farming mainstay" (photo), the doctor of local food, dies at 67"

C 13 Dec 2012 "Organic farming pioneer Bill Dow dies at age 67"

B Last will and testament of Judith Dowd, 1802, Chatham County (typed transcription)

C 4 Jun 2015 Moncure resident [Zelma Crump Dowd] celebrates 102nd birthday with family

C 30 Jul 2015 Celebrating birthdays at Senior Center (Lillian Drust)

C 4 Apr 1963 Walter Dudley named school superintendent

C 18 Apr 2016 [Dominique C.] Dukes graduates from Columbia

C 1 Jun 1972 "This is your life" program honors retiring Mrs. (Clarice) Duncan

C 8 Jun 1972 Chatham County teachers retire, and are honored (Mrs. Clarice Duncan)

C 2 Jun 1976 “Ella Duncan celebrates 95" (photo; historical photo of Duncan family)

C 9 Jun 2011 "Former Commissioner [Henry Hunter] Dunlap dies" (photo)

C 10 Apr 1974 “Bynum couple [John Manley and Flossie Moore Durham” (photo)

C “Bynum wouldn’t have been same without ‘Mr. Carey’ [Durham]” (photo)

C 16 Dec 1971 Mr., Mrs. [J.M] Durham of Bynum have been married 70 years

C 1942 “William T. Durham, Pittsboro youth, loses life in war” (photo)

C 10 Dec 1980 “Chathamites remember two [William T. Durham, Charles Willis Mann]” (photos)

C 24 Apr 2014 Fire-fighters ear certification at CCCC Fire Academy [Steben McDowell Easter]

C 30 Jan 2014 Moncure girl scout earns high honor for training project [Arin Eddins]

C 17 Sep 1998 “Co-owner [Cindy Edwards] of Pittsboro antique shop recognized”

C 22 May 2003 “Bennett College honors [Elizabeth] Edwards” (photo)

C 11 Mar 1999 “Film on race relations promotes lively discussion at Pittsboro Library” (photos of Elizabeth Edwards,

Geraldine Degraffenreidt, Bonnie Vargo)

C 8 Jul 1999 “County native son [Rob Edwards] honored for work” (photo)

C 20 Aug 1980 “ ‘Sug’ [Roy A. Edwards] ready to retire” (photo)

C 17 Oct 1984 “ ‘Sug’ brings nothing but good news”

C 9 Nov 1995 “ ‘Sug’ Edwards still man on the street” (photo)


C 1996 “ ‘Sug’ Edwards leaves big legacy of service” (photo)

C 20 Mar 1975 ECU coach high on Edwards [Tyrone Keith Edwards]

C 12 Feb 2015 Pittsboro resident [Anne Marie Edwin] going strong at 104

C 23 Apr 2015 Jack Elkins' career covered old, new in law enforcement

C 23 Apr 2015 Former Sheriff Jack Elkins passes away at age 83

C 26 Feb 2015 Firefighter of the year… (Ron Elkins)

C 18 Jun 1985 “[Joe Ellen Jr.] ‘farms’ electricity for 3 years” (photo)

C 19 Nov 1992 “WWII veteran J. V. Ellis honored” (photos)

C 18 Nov 1999 “Margaret Jordan-Ellis awarded conservation medal for efforts” (photo)

C 21 May 2015 Civic leader Margaret Jordan Ellis dies at age 92

C 27 Apr 1972 Three locals students go to Girls State (Pat Ellis)

C Oct 2009 "The life of Margie Ellison" in Hometown News

C 31 Jan 1979 “[Robert] Elmore gets Service to Mankind award” (photo)

B 1 May 2011 Ceremony of Dedication of a marker at the grave of James Emerson, Regulator and Revolutionary War

Patriot.

C 2 Jan 1975 Former sheriff John Emerson dies

C 2 Jan 1975 Nearly 400 attend [John W.] Emerson's funeral

C 7 Jan 1971 Tommy Emerson

C 26 Sep 2002 “Lyle Estill gets Citizen of the Year honors” (photos)

C 17 Oct 2013 "Chronicling change-makers…[Lyle Estill]"

C 23 Jan 2014 Old car restoration keeps [Billy] Eubanks busy

C 17 Feb 2011 "Siler City man among first black Marines" [Roland Eubanks] (photos)

C 24 Feb 2011 "Siler City residents, officials, honor war veteran [Roland] Eubanks" (photos)

C 28 Jun 2012 "Local vet [Roland Eubanks] to receive prestigious medal"

C 13 Oct 2011 "Woodworking Grandpa: Retired veteran turns scrap into useful items" [Ralph Evans] (photos)

C 14 Apr 2016 [Morgan] Fadely receives teaching fellows

C 2 Nov 1941 "There never was a man meaner that Loyalist David Fanning…." Durham Herald Sun (photos)

C 1-Jul-71 Mrs. [Bessie] Farrell and Mrs. Smith get 45 year Chatham Mills pin

C 23 Jan 1997 “Movin’ Around” column: “Losing another good man [Dee Farrell]”

C 17 Mar 2016 Chatham Charter's [Emmi] Farrell selected for 2016 Governor's School

C 12 Sep 1984 “Mr. Gurney [Farrell] - fox hunter” (photo)

C 11 Jun 1992 “Services are Thursday for G. R. Farrell”

C 2 Jun 2016 United Way honors volunteers [James Farrington]

C 11 Apr 1963 Tommie Farrington top exhibitor in Ham Show

C 12 Dec 1973 photo: Dr. R. M. Farrell and Gurney Farrell in the 20s

C Sept 2012 "Chatham has known Fearrington for over 240 years"

C 12 Jun 2014 [Angie] Fields named teacher assistant of the year

C 27 Feb 1990 “ ‘Birthday girl’ [Dallie Fike] has 103 Christmas Days” (photo)

C 8 Oct 2015 Recipients receive awards at Chamber annual meeting (Mark Fink)

C 28 May 1980 “A shepherd’s lot - a morning in the life of Claude Fleming” (photos)

C 1 Feb 1996 “[Doris Flexner] fulfills husband’s writing commitments” (photo)

C 31 Mar 2016 County students selected for Governor's School [Henry M. Flores]

C 21 Apr 2014 Chatham ballerina [Reagan Flynn] sets high goals

C 16 Mar 1977 “C. L. Fore dies at 83; pioneered poultry industry” (photo)

C 18 Feb 2016 [Kevin Alain] Foushee chosen for program

C 17 Dec 1985 “[Gary] Fowler honored” (photo)

C 20 Nov 2014 AT hiker finds himself [Corey Fox]

C 26 Mar 1964 Miss Tennie' [Highfill Fox] believed in education


C 8 Feb 2015 Shooting Haw River rapids becomes tragedy for youth (Fred Fuller)

C 10 Apr 1975 Former Chatham man gets state promotion [Holland C. Gaines]

C 26 Mar 1985 “[Milton Gainey’s] store provides ‘feast’ for shoppers” (photo)

C “Carl Goerch dies at age 83”

C 10 Jun 2014 Gerstner's shine in powerlifting event up in Philadelphia [Joe and Sam Gerstner]

C 12 May 2016 Veteran journalist Milburn Gibbs dies

C 12 May 2016 So long Milburn [Gibbs] it's been good to know you

C 24 Sep 2015 50 Year Award' in masonry… [Charlie Gilchrist]

C 14 May 2015 Local Pharmacist [Lynn Glasser] readies to retire

C 14 Nov 1963 Home demonstration clubs honor merit mothers [Mrs. A. W. Goldston]

C 25 May 1972 Goldston family reunion hosts more than hundred

C 23 Nov 1995 “Librarian [Lilly Beth Goldston] to retire after 30 years service” (photo)

C 8 Nov 1973 With the military [Chester M. Goodman]

C 2 Apr 1972 Three from Northwood High chosen to go to Boys State [Greg Goodwin]

C 23 Apr 1985 “A valiant lady [Nancy Gordon] keeps moving”

C “For a petite woman, she’s [Mildred Gray] got broad shoulders” (photo)

C 8 Nov 1973 With the military [Willie W. Green]

C 10 Mar 2016 Local 4-H team wins honors at state-level competition [Kristen Gregory]

C 9 Dec 1981 "Santa's been everywhere in Chatham" [Burnice Griffin] (photo)

C 11 Sep 2014 Longtime fire chief Griffin dies [Burnice Griffin Sr.]

C 24 Apr 2014 Fire-fighters ear certification at CCCC Fire Academy [Clay Dixon Griffin]

C 10 Dec 1987 "Daryl Griffin named Fireman of the Year" (photo)

C 3 Apr 1975 [Dwight M.] Mack Griffin cited for public service

C 15 Apr 1971 James L. Griffin, school board member, dies in Pittsboro

C 24 Sep 2015 School, life taught lessons well for Pittsboro's oldest Pittsboro High alum [Lacy Griffin]

C 19 Jul 2007 "Brothers are last of a breed" [Lacy Griffin and Red Griffin] (photos)

C 24 Jun 1971 Mr. [Sam B.] and Mrs. [Ada Justice] Griffin celebrate anniversary

C 30 Jan 2014 Jet student Morehead finalist [Christopher Guevara]

C 27 Mar 2014 J-M student awarded Morehead-Cain Scholarship [Christopher Guevara]

C 19 Dec 1973 “ ‘One wet dead man’ and other stories told by Clara Gunter”

C 16 Aug 1973 Chatham teacher makes movies during film institute at UNC [Alice Andrews Hackney]

B Nov 1999 "Civil War Reenactor Portrays Roll of Great-Granddad [Joe Dan Hackney] from Civil War Reenactment

News, vol 1, Nov 1999.

C 9 Oct 1997 “Wade Hadley produces book about buildings in downtown Siler City” (photo)

C 30 Dec 1999 “Historian [Wade Hadley] celebrates his 90th birthday” (photo)

C 10 Apr 2002 Obituary: “Wade Hampton Hadley, Jr.”

C 27 Dec 1973 photograph: Fireplace at Les and Elizabeth Hains’s house

C 30 Nov 2000 “Writing history labor of love for John Hairr” (photo)

C 30 Nov 2000 “Local historian [John Hairr] writes book on Tory David Fanning”

C 12 Feb 2004 “Photography legend [Duane Hall] teaching in Siler City”

C 28 Jan 2016 Local photographer [Duane Hall] has long, interesting history

C 14 Jan 2016 Chatham EDC honors local family as catalyst for social, economic change

C 17 Jun 1971 Three are selected for Boy's State trip [Billy Hamlet]

C 11 Apr 1963 Margaret Hamlet wins first place in UN contest

C 19 Feb 2015 Changes in store for Siler City Police Department following retirements [Bill Harman]

C 11 Feb 1999 “Harvey Harman honored as Farm Steward of the Year” (photo)

C 15 May 2014 Pittsboro teen whistles way into record books [Walker Harnden]

C 1 Dec 1984 “Local couple [Zeb and Martha Harrington] draws the war close to home” (photo)


C 29 Apr 1982 “Author [Martha Harrington] compiles history of Chatham communities” (photo)

C 16 Apr 1982 “Martha Harrington recalls past in book ‘Yesterday’ ” (photo; historical photos)

C 3 May 2012 "Local man [Zeb Harrington] takes hobby to new heights" (photo)

C 20 Feb 1975 Modeling career possible [Carolyn Harris]

C 9 Jul 1985 “[Frank Harris] an institution in Bynum” (photo)

C 11 Feb 1988 “[Greg] Harris named Pitcher of the Year again” (photo)

C 31 Mar 1988 “[Greg] Harris sent to Las Vegas” (photo)

C 7 Jul 1988 “[Greg] Harris selected as AAA All-Star” (photo)

C 22 Sep 1988 “[Greg] Harris becomes a Padre” [incomplete]

C 6 Oct 1988 “An interview with a Padre [Greg Harris]” (photo); “Harris shuts down Astros for second win”

C 29 Dec 1988 “Chatham County’s sporting best in 1988;” “Harris first to play in Show” (photo)

C 19 Apr 1990 “[Greg] Harris off to quite a start with Padres” (photo)

C 18 Jul 1991 “Oh, so close! [Greg] Harris returns to hurl one-hit gem” (photo)

C 22 Aug 1991 “[Greg] Harris steps back into the record book” (photo)

C 6 Dec 2012 "Chamber honors [Linda] Harris for outstanding work in community"

C 31 Oct 1991 “[Greg] Harris overcomes the challenges of another ‘rookie’ season” (photo)

C 21 Apr 2005 “[Walter] Harris delivers last of association’s ‘talks’ [on Bynum]” (photo)

C 25 Mar 2004 photo: Walter Harris and limousines; “Chatham man caters to his ‘pride and joy’ ”

C 22 Feb 1990 “County school chief [Perry Harrison] lifts doodling to an art” (photos)

C 26 Nov 2015 Longtime superintendent Perry Harrison dead at 83

C 14 Oct 2013 "Honesty, business acumen have served retailer Harold Hart well"

C “[George Headen] dies after 105 years in Chatham County” (photo)

C 15 Jul 1965 "Four generations [of Hearne family--Mr. and Mrs. Herbert, Arthur Lee, Marlin, Melanie Diane, and

Michelle Dawn]

C 15 Jun 1972 Local students win nursing scholarships [Sharon Vernelle Hearne]

C 31 Mar 2016 County students selected for Governor's School [Sara S. Heilman]

C Oct 2003 Will Heiser: cemetery documentarian, activist [dies]”

C 14 Nov 1963 Home demonstration clubs honor merit mothers [Mrs. Herbert C. Henley]

C 11 Apr 1963 Chatham's Mrs. Mary Henley still shocked at Mother-of-the-Year Award

C “ ‘Salute to Becky Henley’ draws large crowd to town”

C 30 Jan 2014 Sheriff awards staff at annual event [Jonathon Hensley]

C 1 May 2014 Pittsboro writer [Laura] Herbst wins prize for fiction

C 8 Jun 1972 Chatham County teachers retire, and are honored [Mrs. Bertha S. Herndon]

C 20 Feb 2014 [La Shonda] Hester ready for challenge of being new principal

C 4 Apr 2013 "Author Carol Hewitt to sign books in Pittsboro"

C 14 Dec 2013 "Co-founder of NC's local food lending movement recognized" [Carol Peppe Hewitt]

B 19 Oct 1997 “Mark Hewitt now makes his mark as a Carolina potter” (photos)

C 3 Dec 2015 Pittsboro potter [Mark] Hewitt awarded national honor

C 13 Dec 2015 Mark Hewitt plays the blues--as potter

C 8 Jan 2015 Local man [Tom Hildebrand] develops artesian well

C 1 Apr 1971 Barbara Hillard is runner-up in state Miss YR contest

C 2 Feb 2006 “Civic leader [Pem] Hobbs dies at age 81” (photo)

C 29 Mar 1972 “Meet the candidates’ wives: Mary Hayes Holmes” (photo)

C 24 Oct 2013 "Local author to read, sign books in Siler City" [Judy Hogan]

C 8 Jan 2015 [Judy] Hogan to hold book signing at Paperbacks Plus

C 22 Oct 2015 Pittsboro Girl Scout earns highest honor [Rose Holden]

C 22 Aug 2013 ""[Tommy] Holden achieves rank of Eagle Scout"

C 30 Jul 2015 Celebrating birthdays at Senior Center [Wilma Holland]


C 13 Aug 2015 Barber Holmes named new CCCC Foundation president

C 6 Apr 1972 Pittsboro attorney [Edward S. Holmes] elected as President of Bar Association

C 18 Jun 1973 Freshmen legislators [Edward Holmes] already busy at work

C 7 May 1986 “Chatham elects woman [Mary Hayes Holmes] Commissioner” (photo)

C 4 Dec 1986 “First woman seated, Dunlap elected chairman” (photo of Holmes taking oath)

C 4 Mar 1993 “Commissioner [Mary Hayes Holmes] named to state roads body” (photo)

C “[Mary Hayes] Holmes given ‘Distinguished Women’s’ Honor”

C 3 Apr 1997 “[Mary Hayes] Holmes not reappointed to Transportation Board”

C 2 Jun 2016 ECU awards full scholarship to NW senior [Brooks Holt]

C 9 Jul 2015 Dr. Jim Holt stepping down as UNC Hospice Medical Director

C 29 Jul 2004 “Road has figured prominently in [Milo] Holt’s life” (photo)

C 17 May 1972 “Milo Holt takes you back to the Golden Days” (photos)

C “Chatham’s Holt brothers marched, sailed off to war” (photo)

C 29 Oct 1985 “Ghost Riders in . . . Siler City” (photo)

C 30 Dec 2002 “From old-time cowboys, movies and music to local history, Milo Holt is fount of information”

C 2011 Obituary: " Odeal Bathey "Milo" Holt, 30 May 1927-17 Sep 2011"

C Sep 2011 "Really is good thing not to put off 'till tomorrow what you can do today" Tribute to Milo Holt by Bob

Wachs

C Sep 2011 "Western movie enthusiast Milo Holt dies: Siler City resident was historian, musician"

C 2-Jul-16 United Way honors volunteers [Bob and Sandy Holton]

C 25 Apr 2013 "Local [Pauline Hooker] celebrates 103 years"

C 11 May 1976 “[William] Hooper was Chatham’s first court clerk” (photo)

C 2011 "County manager [Charlie Horne] honored by Extension service" (photo)

C 24 Sep 2015 Longtime county manager [Charlie Horne] retiring

C 30 Nov 1972 (Doris) Mrs. Harry Horton gets state post

C 1 Mar 1973 Doris Horton steps down from state school board

C 12 Sep 1984 “Doris Horton, Chatham Civic Leader” (photo) [partial]

C 20 Mar 1943 "Mrs. Horton [Cassandra Mendenhall Horton] is taken by death" from Charlotte Observer and Obituary

from Raleigh Times (photo)

C 18 Jul 1973 “Cooking and household chores a bore for Chatham County woman” (photo of Christine Sexton Horton

operating a roller)

B 18 Nov 2000 The George Moses Horton Project brochure

C 7 Feb 2013 "Poet George Moses Horton was South's inspirational bard"

C 27 Dec 1973 Ronald Horton is head football coach

C 19 Mar 1975 “Rev. [Rufus] Horton receives honorary doctorate from Southern University”

C 16 Dec 2010 "Museum honoree, Ruth Waddell Horton" (photo)

C 20 Sep 1962 “Wilkins P. Horton of Pittsboro was Lt. Governor, Superior Court Judge” (photo)

B 5 May 1934 “Legislative Personalities: Wilkins Perryman Horton” (photo) [The State magazine]

C "Wilkins P. Horton dies in Pittsboro" (photo)

C 8 Aug 1996 “Clip joint still going strong” [Sanitary Barber Shop with Laban Hough] (photos)

C 8 Jan 2015 Officers of the year [Abby Howard]

C 28 Jan 2016 Deputy [Nick Howard] honored for life-saving action

C 31 Aug 1972 Pittsboro youth [Randy Howard] attended Miami to help re-elect the President

C [partial] “Making a grand entrance” (Mercer Hubbard, photo)

B 5 Jun 1988 Program of ceremony naming “Mercer Hubbard Herb Garden” at NC Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill

C 28 Oct 1971 Willa Hubbard will represent Democratic women under 30

C 15 Feb 1973 Chatham youths receive awards for dairy projects [Carol Hughes]

C 29 Nov 1972 “Mrs. Clara Hughes reminisces of yesteryear”

C 25 Nov 1971 Carol Hughes is on NC 4-H dairy team for national contest


C 6 Feb 2014 Chatham county public works director takes job with Apex [David Hughes]

C 8 Jan 2015 Officers of the year [Kimberly Hughes]

C 20 Sep 1962 “Joseph John Jackson was leading citizen”

B “Lucy Jane Worth Jackson”

C “[Odell Jackson] ‘Smiley’ retires - sort of” (photo)

C 20 Jul 1977 “Camelia [London] Jerome dies at 81”

C 28 Jul 2016 [Alora Johnson] Siler City student one of first to graduate from CCCC accelerated program

C 7 Apr 1877 “Death of an old man [Benjamin Johnson, 107] - A sketch of his life”

C 10 Jan 2013 "Siler City Mayor [Charles Johnson] leaves legacy of vision, caring"

C 23 May 2013 "Memorial honors late mayor [Charles Johnson]"

C 9 Apr 2015 (Claxton) Johnson's top cheeseburger in the state

C 25 Apr 1963 Mr., Mrs. H.D. Johnson observe their 69th wedding anniversary

C 23 Jun 2016 Hugh Johnson received award

C 18 Mar 1971 Chatham boys [Jimmy Johnson] win diary prize

C 29 Apr 1971 Kaye Johnson wins in district science in 4-H project

C 11 Aug 1976 “Lemuel R. Johnson dies; Register of Deeds for 23 years” (photo)

C 24 Apr 1974 “Service to honor Pearle Johnson, longtime missionary to China” (photo)

C 18 Feb 1971 Chatham men in uniform [Sampson M. Johnson]

C 20 Sep 1962 “Victor R. Johnson was N. C. Legion Commander” (photo)

C 21 Dec 1972 (Victor) Johnson accepts challenge to upgrade police force

C 25 Apr 1963 Six girls have entered Miss Pittsboro Pageant [Midge Johnston]

C 9 May 1963 Midge Johnston wins Miss Pittsboro title

C 26 Dec 1991 Bob Wachs’ column: “Some of Mrs. Johnston’s lessons came later in life”

C Jul 1974 photo: “Byron Jones”

B Sep-Oct 2005 "Wisdom, Wit, and Wood: At home with folk artist Clyde Jones" from Rambler Magazine (photos)

C Sep-Oct 2005 "Clyde Jones Critter-Creator"

C 23 Aug 2013 "Passion for farming turns into Biofarm for 'Farmer Doug' [Doug Jones]

B from Dictionary of N.C. Biography: Edward Jones (10 March 1762-8 Aug. 1841)

C “George B. J. Jones lauded at St. Luke Center fundraising dinner” (photo)

C 25 Jan 1973 Students love this retiring teacher [Mrs. Marguerite Jones]

C 12 Sep 2013 "Jordan sworn in as school chief" [Derrick Jordan]

C 20 Feb 2014 [Derrick] Jordan to head county schools

C 13 Mar 2014 [Derrick] Jordan takes oath of office

C 15 Feb 1973 Chatham youths receive awards for dairy projects [Norman A. Jordan, Jr. ]

C 10 Sep 2009 "Dairy farmer 'holding on' in economy" [Norman Jordan] (photo)

C photo: Ralph B. Jordan in ancestral home in Gulf

C 4 Feb 2016 Park to honor educator, promote learning and encourage outdoor recreation [Ronnie Joyce]

C Nov 1965 "Frank N. Justice Dies Sunday at Age of 76" (photo)

C 27 Apr 1997 “Activist [Wallace Kaufman] loses faith in environmentalism” (photos)

C 1989 from Orion: “Confessions of a Developer” by Wallace Kaufman

C 6 Jun 2013 "[Vickie] Keck named teacher assistant of the year"

C 10 May 1973 [Michael D.] Key named editor-manager of Record

C 16 Apr 1964 Miss [Jennifer] Kidd wins scholarship to Highpoint

C 23 Nov 1995 “ ‘Bike Doctor’ [Frank Kirby] into re-cycling business” (photos)

C 23 Jan 2014 [Sally] Kost stepping down from county board

C 22 May 2014 Bennett man adds to big trophy collection [Farrell Lambert]

C 12 May 2016 17 and counting [Farrell Lambert]

C 11 Mar 2010 "[Will] Lambert earns Eagle Scout rank" (photo)


C 7 Nov 2013 "John Randolph Lane and the Chatham Boys"

C 1 Jul 1971 Mrs. [Katherine] Lasater recognized for 40 years

C 16 Aug 1973 photo: Bishop Leach

C 18 Sep 1997 “Bishop Leach remembered for many accomplishments” (photo)

B 1998 photo: Bishop Leach

C 24 Sep 2015 Joanna Leach to celebrate 100th birthday in Pittsboro

C 7 Dec 1977 “Herb healing can keep a family together” (photo of John and Hattie Lee)

C photo: 4 generations of the R.G. Bryant family; Lee family reunion

C 31 Jul 1974 “A short history of the Lee family of Chatham”

C Jun 1993 obituary: Laura L. Lee; photo and excerpt from “Funeral Ribbon Quilts”

C 19 Jun 1974 photo: AME Zion Durham District officers; Laura Lee

C 1 Nov 1972 Mrs. Lillie Eubanks Lee was honored by Hamlet Chapel AME Church

C 18 Feb 1971 Chatham men in uniform [Henry L. Lefler]

C 20 Feb 1975 Mrs. Nell Leonard is local nominee for mother award

C 6 Mar 1975 Chatham nominee among finalist for Mother Award [Mrs. Nell Leonard]

C 7 Nov 2013 "Chatham County detention officer named state officer of the year" [Lee Lester]

C 26 Jan 2014 Lett family experiences end of an era [AlexSandra Lett]

C 16 Jan 2014 County resident named mentor of the year [David L. Lindbo]

C 10 Sep 2015 Making folks "Beary" happy [Connie Lineberry]

C 1 Oct 1980 “[Norman] Lisk retires from hospital after 31 years” (photo)

C 30 Jul 1998 “Veteran hospital chief [Norman Lisk] reflects on ‘how it was’ “ (photo)

C 4 Jul 2013 "School superintendent [Robert] Logan to retire"

C 4 Jul 2013 "Chatham superintendent [Robert Logan], Moody retiring"

C 29 Aug 2013 "Superintendent [Robert Logan] receives Order of the Long Leaf Pine"

C 11 Dec 1969 Arthur Hill London dies at age of 95

C 17 Jun 1971 Memorial Hospital Library named for Pittsboro native [Dr. Arthur H. London, Jr.]

C 21 Jan 1988 “[John H.] London, 78 local historian, died” (photo)

B 15 Jan 1988 funeral program for John Haughton London

B 9 Sep 1939 from The State magazine: “Henry A. London” (photo)

B 14 May 1938 from The State magazine: photograph: N.C. Bar Association with Henry M. London, secretary-treasurer

C 1 Oct 2011 "Frank Marsden London was Pittsboro's talented artist" in Chatham County Line (portrait)

C 4 Feb 2016 NC Association of local health directors honors health director of the year, Legislator of the Year [Laton

Long]

C 20 Feb 1985 “Salute to Rev. W. W. Long” (photo)

C 22 Nov 1988 “The evolution of a revolutionary [Barbara Beye Lorie]” (photo)

C 3 Dec 1998 “County woman [Barbara Lorie] wins Reynolds award” (photo)

C 8 Oct 1985 “ ‘Good Morning’ Siler City” [Wade Lowe] (photos)

C 2 May 2013 "[George] Lucier chosen to lead CCCC Foundation Board"

C 28 Jan 1971 Charles Lutterloh in Outstanding Young Farmer

C 21 Sep 1991 “Chatham man’s [Thurman Maness] plants well known” (photo

C 20 Sep 1962 “Pittsboro’s Charles Manly elected Governor in 1848"

B “Charles Manly, 1795-1871”

C Oct 2012 "Charles Manly, last Whig Governor"

C 4 Jun 1985 “Horace Mann - 38 years of dairy farming” (photos)

C 30 Jul 1985 “Margaret Mann. . . A legend in Chatham County” (photos)

C 6 Apr 1972 Two Northwood students to go to Governor's School [Jeff Markham]

C 1997 “Student [Dennis Markatos] wins UNC merit scholarship”

C 2 Apr 1972 Three from Northwood High chosen to go to Boys State [Lynn Marler]


C 25 Nov 1971 With the military [Kenneth J. Marsh]

B 3 Oct 1970 "Program for Civitan Fiddler's Convention--Honoring J. R. 'Chick' Martin"

C 25 Mar 1970 "That's Clawhammer Style!" [Chick Martin] Greensboro Record

C 26 Feb 2015 Former Jet, Eddie Mason pens new book

C 11 Dec 2014 Chatham Middle teacher awarded regional title [JoAnna Massoth]

C 1 May 2014 Volunteers vital to Galloway Ridge library [Peggy Masterson]

C 27 Jul 1972 Reception turns out five-hundred to honor Dr. and Mrs. (K.M.) Mathiesen

B Jul 2006 Fred Vatter column: “The doctor [Kenneth Mathiesen] who loved Chatham” (photo)

C Jul 2012 "Silk Hope woman celebrates milestone 100th birthday" [Jessie Joe Mathis] (photo)

C c. 2000 “Who’s behind the sauteed grouper? It’s Fearrington’s Cory Mattson” (photos)

C 12 May 2016 [Cobey] Mauldin receives fellowship for study

C 25 Jul 1991 “[Annie] May retires but impact remains” (photo)

C 20 Jun 2013 "[Steve] Maynor honored with Medal of Valor"

C 5 Dec 2004 obituary: William H. McAllister, Jr.

C 18 Nov 1971 David McCracken is a dairy farmer

C 18 Jun 1992 Bob Wachs’ column: “Dan [McCrimmon] more than the guy I worked for”

C 29 Sep 2001 “Pittsboro man [Michael McCormick] feels out spirit of sticks” (photo)

C 6 Feb 2014 CTR [Carolina Tiger Rescue] loves "The Deer Man" [Ken McEntire]

C 5 Aug 1971 Walter McLaughlin dies following wreck Sat.

C 28 Oct 1971 Goldston community center to be named for [Walter A.] McLaughlin

C 29 May 2014 Bynum man plans to restart hydroelectric plant on river [Andrew McMahan]

C Jan 1992 Mrs. Berta McMasters retired merchant dies

C 22 May 2014 Mac's place a family affair in good country cooking [Pam and Mac McPherson]

C 5 Sep 2013 "Resident [Bernice McRae] celebrates 100th birthday"

C 4 Apr 1963 Two contestants enter Miss Pittsboro contest [Patricia Meachum]

C 1 Apr 1971 Wayne Meachum wins 1971 Reeves Memorial scholarship

C 16 Apr 2015 Author [Annette Meredith] finds success publishing nature books for children

C 19 Feb 2015 Changes in store for Siler City Police Department following retirements [Richard Merritt]

C 23 Sep 1971 [Paul S.] Messick [Jr.] joins staff of attorney Bob Gunn

C “At middle age, [Keith Miller] made his own fountain of youth” (photo)

C 25 May 1995 “Watermelon man [Clarence Moody]” (photos)

C 4 Jul 2013 "Assistant school head [David Moody] announces departure"

C 4 Jul 2013 "Chatham superintendent [Robert Logan], [David] Moody retiring"

C 26 Mar 1964 Jack Moody candidate for reelection to legislature

C 4 Sep 1997 “Firm and fair judge [Lee Moody] started out as teacher” (photo)

C 26 Feb 2015 For 20 years of service….[Steve Moore]

C 16 Apr 1998 “Old store once stood at center of crossroads community and its life” [Moon’s Store, Bear Creek]

C 8 May 2014 Local author wins $10,000 writing mystery [Ruth Moose]

C 14 Nov 1963 Home demonstration clubs honor merit mothers [Mrs. R. W. Morgan]

C 6 Nov 2014 Fearrington mystery writer to sign at Paperbacks Plus [Ruth Moose]

C May 2014 Bennett fireman of the year honored [Brian Morris]

C 30 Dec 1971 John G. Morris, Jr. named man of the year for civic service

B 1978 “Memories of the Good Old Days” by Ina Moses in I Remember When

C 1 Jun 2010 "Crew meets in Siler city for a reunion" [Rudy and Thomas Mullis] (photo)

C 11 Feb 2010 "County woman [Jamie Munn] using sewing machine to help Haiti relief"

C 9 Apr 2015 JM grad, (Alexander) Nona completes EDD school

C 10-Jun-63 Ann Nooe

C Jan 2003 obituary: Jane Highsmith Nooe (photo)


C Oct 2005 “Jane Nooe Remembered” (photo)

C 2 Dec 1971 Mrs. [Louis] Nooe to retire Jan 1 as Pittsboro Library librarian

C 30 Jan 2014 Sheriff awards staff at annual event [Jessica Norton]

C 9 Dec 1971 Jack Wilkie chosen county school board head [Lewis Norwood]

C 23 May 2013 "Former NW grad [Jason G. Nunn] assumes command of unit"

C “Pat O’Connell” [Egypt, Cumnock Mine Disaster]

C 8 Oct 2015 Recipients receive awards at Chamber annual meeting [Lynn Ogden]

C 15 Oct 2015 Lynn Ogden named Chatham County Citizen of the Year for tireless local nonprofit work

C 30 Sep 1971 [Chapin Pierre] Oldham takes position as assistant solicitor of judicial district 19

C 13 May 1973 “Mrs. Jennie Overacre, one of Pittsboro’s oldest mothers” (photo)

C 4 Aug 2016 Local scout [Corena Rebecca Owens] earns high achievement

C 28 Nov 1952 “[John Owen] might have been president”

C 20 Sep 1962 “Gov. John Owen, who could have been president of the United States, now sleeps in ancient St.

Bartholomew’s cemetery here” (photo)

C 20 Apr 1972 History Corner--John Owen

C 23 Dec 1975 Mattie Page wins folklore contest; also reminiscences of Chatham County

C 4 Jun 1980 Dr. Joseph Paige underwrites “Celebration of Aging” at Siler City (photos)

B 1887 photographs: House of Representatives, North Carolina, 1887, with James A. Parham, James T. Paschal

C 18 Nov 1971 Atlas Parker is typical Chatham tobacco farmer

C 7 Aug 2014 House of straw stands strong [Logan Parker]

C 28 Jan 2016 Siler City man [Geobanni Parroquin] returns home to help local youth

C 11 Feb 1976 “Valentine’s Day means 70th anniversary for [Ben and Minerva Partin]” (photo)

C 12 Oct 2006 “Descendants of early settlers gather” (photo of Paschal family at reunion)

C c. 1990 “[Donald Lee Paschal] dispenses justice with humor” (photos)

C 7 May 1992 “Donald Lee Paschal, retired judge, dies” (photo)

C 29 Oct 2015 New county manager [Renee Paschal] brings years of experience to job

C 22 Oct 2015 Chatham Central educator [Eric Patin] wins "Oscars of Teaching" honor

C 2 Feb 1977 Mildred Payton and colored agricultural fair

C 28 Jul 2016 NW teacher [Jane Pendergrast] is NCBT of the year

C 12 Jan 2012 "Chatham native recently celebrated 107th birthday" [Rosa Belle Penney] (photo)

C 18 Apr 1963 Two more girls enter Miss Pittsboro Pageant [Margie Ann Perry]

C 1 Dec 2011 "Outgoing Siler City Commissioners honored" [Helen Buckner, Patricia Perry] (photos)

C 21 Feb 1963 Miss Silk Hope [Sandra Petty]

C 1 May 2014 County teacher selected for "Dream Team" [Amy Phillips]

C 28 Oct 1971 Farm Bureau outstanding young farmer [Lee Phillips]

C 10 Jun 2014 Former Siler City police chief dies [Lewis Phillips]

C 18 Feb 2016 War hero gets medals days before passing [Theodore Phillips]

C 13 Oct 1988 “Bennett honors ‘Mr. [Wayne] Phillips’ “ (photo)

C 9 Oct 1997 “Baseball team honors [Wayne] Phillips” (photos)

C 19 Feb 2015 Knife maker [Daniel Pica] aims for function, fine art

C 20 Sep 1962 “Dr. George R. Pilkington headed N.C. druggists” (photo)

C 5 Dec 2013 "Player of the year [Ti Pinnix]"

B Nov 2002 from The State magazine: “Biography: Clarence Poe” (illustrations)

B 2006 Fred Vatter column: “Clarence H. Poe rooted in Chatham” (photo)

C 26 Nov 2015 Goldston resident [Grace Poe] turns 100

C Dec 2008 "Chatham County's unsung resource" [Wilson Poe and others] from Chatham County Line

B 13 Mar 1973 "Margaret Bryant Pollard, Chairperson" from Ten Years… and Just Beginning, Joint Orange Chatham

Community Action, Inc Tenth Anniversary Banquet Program

B 2005 transcript of talk by Margaret Pollard, “Growing up and coming back to Gorgas”


B 2005 draft of “Growing up and coming back to Gorgas”; overlaps with transcript

C 30 Oct 2014 [Chris] Poston named 2015 Principal of the year

C 25 Dec 2014 PES principal [Chris] Poston snags regional honor

C 22 Dec 1934 from The State magazine: photo of late Congressman Edward W. Pou

C 5 Apr 1971 “[Lea] Powell to be mayor without opposition”

C 22 Aug 2013 "Former Jet [Paul Powell III] jets his way to speed record"

C 6 Jun 2013 "Historian Jane Pyle dies after illness"

C 20 Jun 2013 "Resolution honors life of historian Jane Pyle"

C 29 Jun 1972 Elbert Ramsey, mail carrier in county for 35 years, retires

C 11 May 1972 Pittsboro resident [Mildred P. Ramsey] named as Community Action head

C 14 Jun 1973 Mrs. [Mildred P.] Ramsey resigns as executive director of Community Action

C 2 Aug 1973 Banquet honors former Action Agency head [Mildred P. Ramsey]

C 30 Jul 2015 Celebrating birthdays at Senior Center [Dorothy Rasmussen]

C 7 Nov 2013 "Vietnam era veteran Dale Ray was among last round of draftees to war"

C 17 May 1972 “Chatham’s [Capt.] Cato Reaves takes big step” (photo)

C 31 Oct 1984 “Multi-talented Chathamite [Fleet Reddish] enjoys her job [as Register of Deeds]” (photo)

C 16 Jun 1988 “[Fleet] Reddish is named register of the year” (photo)

B 31 Aug 2000 “Funeral services are held for Fleet Reddish, party leader and former Register of Deeds” (photo)

C 31 Mar 2016 County students selected for Governor's School [Erin A. Reed]

C c. 1980 Kathryn Bruton Rees, biographical sketch and photo

C 18 Oct 1990 “There’s treasure underfoot, and Pittsboro’s history-hunting Reeves (George, Jimmy, and Royce)

brothers know how to find it.” (photos)

C 8 Oct 2015 Recipients receive awards at Chamber annual meeting [Dianne Reid]

C 26 Jan 1977 “Duke football star [Baxter Reitzel] revisited in Siler City” (photos)

C 29 Sep 1962 “[Abraham] Rencher served in Congress; ambassador, New Mexico governor”

B from Dictionary of NC Biography: Abraham Rencher (16 Aug 1798-6 July 1883)

C 23 Jun 2016 Chatham Record editor, publisher Alan Resch dies

C 12 Oct 1972 Brother [Henry Gordon Richardson] and sister [Ethel Lucille Richardson] accept teaching jobs

C 6 Feb 1985 “Salute to J. R. Richardson: educator, musician, artist” (photo)

C 10 Jan 1991 “[Jeanette] Richardson ‘blessed’ with long life and good health” (photo)

C 3 Jan 1991 partial article about Jeanette Richardson; historical photo

C 9 Jan 2010 “[Jeanette Richardson] a ‘young’ woman turns 93" (photos)

C 5 Oct 1983 photo: Harold Henry Richardson delivers anti-welfare speech at Laymen’s Christian Fellowship banquet

C 23 Aug 1978 “Chatting with London Richardson” (photo)

C 7 May 2009 "Lockville, Ghost Town on Deep, Nearly Stole Yorktown's Role" [Cato Riddle] photocopy of Sanford

Herald article

C 20 Nov 2014 Attorney [Chad Riggsbee] takes over law practice in Pittsboro

C 31 Dec 1987 “Sailing trip was a real adventure [for Fred Riggsbee]” (photo)

C 5 Mar 2015 Civic leader [Baxter] Riggsbee dies

C 30 Oct 2014 Attorney [Lunday Riggsbee] tapped for Register of Deeds post

C c. 1975 “Hard times a-comin’ for Lieutenant Riggsbee” (photo)

C 26 Sep 1973 Lieutenant M. Riggsbee farm to be taken for Jordan Lake

C 9 May 2013 "New stamps feature local car [Melvin Ritter]"

C 4 Nov 1971 Sgt. J. [James] E. Roberson in training exercise in Hawaiian Islands

C 26 May 2016 [Mike] Roberson appointed new sheriff by board

C 2 Jun 2016 Sheriff [Mike] Roberson sworn in

C 15 Oct 1959 "For J.C. Roberts [Jay Conrad Roberts] writing lesson is a labor of love" (photo)

C 26 Jun 2014 Lions honor JMHS LEO Club president [Danny Rodas]

C 13 Jul 1972 Pittsboro girl [Martha Lucile Rodgers] chosen Miss Black Wisconsin


C 2 Jun 2016 United Way honors volunteers [Gillian Rogers]

C 29 Aug 2013 "Local agent [Debbie Roos] extends interest in photography to successful business"

C 27 May 1971 Pfc. Janice Roosevelt

C 18 Feb 1971 [Tokyo] Rosenthal brings Americana radio to Pittsboro Roadhouse

C 2 May 1991 “[Dallas Sales]: 73 years young” (photo)

C 28 Jul 2016 [Andrew Sankey] Siler city student one of first to graduate from CCCC accelerated program

C 1 May 2014 Volunteers vital to Galloway Ridge library [Evelyn Savitzky]

C 28 Mar 1992 “Chatham’s oldest resident [Julia Scarborough] sees many changes through the years” (photos)

C 20 Jan 1994 Julia Scarborough honored on 109th birthday (photo)

C 6 Mar 1997 “Goldston native [Julia Scarborough] active at 112" (photo)

C 9 Apr 2015 Janet Scott to lead ED

C 20 Nov 2014 Local attorney awarded [Jennifer D. Scott]

C 8 Oct 2015 Ray Scott has seen a lot since 1957

C 22 Oct 2015 Driver's Ed teacher [Ronald Scott] gets lifetime membership award

C 23 Oct 2014 [Treva] Seagroves to retire Nov. 1

C 14 Jul 1982 "Milton's [Milton Seymour] well-wishers [Pittsboro Volunteer Fire Department]" (photo)

B Apr 2003 “Chatham County’s last public hanging: William S. Shackleford, 1890" from Lee Co. Genealogical &

Historical Society Newsletter

C 19 Jun 2014 New postmaster hired in Siler City [Darin A. Shamberger]

C 7 Nov 1993 “Watchdog [Hope Shand] alerts poor countries to genetic trends” (photo)

C 26 May 2016 NW's [Tessa] Sheets wins gold, CC's Edwards, JM's Mateen place 2nd

C 31 May 1973 Rev. [Steve] Shoemaker leaves Pittsboro

C 7 Jan 1971 Kenneth Shoffner

C 1958 “State’s first woman sheriff [Myrtle Siler] almost became the first in U.S.” (photos)

B Plikard D. Siler in list of Patriot Ancestors of Chapter Members, William Whitley Chapter of DAR,

Williamsburg KY

B 9 Sep 1939 “The Judge [Walter B. Siler] and his cats” (photos)

C 3 Feb 1972 Chatham Sheriff C.A. Simmons dies, funeral services to be held Saturday

C 5 May 1997 “A living link to country medicine” [Candace Street Simmons] (photo)

C 11 Mar 1965 Mrs. Roxie Small, obituary

C 18 Oct 1973 Airman Barry D. Smith

C 6 Feb 1975 Bennett mail carrier honored [Clyde J. Smith]

C 24 Oct 1979 “Pittsboro business leader [D. W. Smith, Jr.] dies” (photo)

C 1 Jul 1971 Mrs. Farrell and Mrs. [Flossie] Smith get 45 year Chatham Mills pin

C 5 Jun 2014 J-M student poised to pursue love of the arts [Heath Smith]

C c. 1995 “Hardwood and hand saws yield exquisite screens” [James Smith] (photo)

C 17 Dec 1981 “Julian Smith - the bionic teacher” (photo)

C 26 Sep 2013 "NW teacher [Leah Smith] receives $5,000 award"

C 13 Mar 2015 Forgotten monument [Mary Ruffin Smith] spurs historian's quest

C 14 Apr 2005 “Pam Smith displays local textile artwork” (photo)

C 23 Oct 2005 “Retired teacher [Ruth] Smith honored” (photo)

C 23 Mar 2000 “Old-time items displayed” [T. J. “Snuffy” Smith and tools] (photo)

C Feb 2006 Fred Vatter column: “Mr. St. Lawrence and his big yellow house” (photo)

C 1 May 2014 Student wins photography awards [Morgan Southern]

C 3 Jul 2014 Bear Creek postal carrier there to help [Sandra Spivey]

C 18 Apr 1963 Rites are held on Friday for Mrs. [Nora Harmon] Stedman, 77

C 24 Apr 2014 Fire fighters earn certificate at CCCC Academy [Dalton John Stone]

C 8 Jun 1972 Claude Stout earns Eagle Scout Badge

B Oct 1944 Grace and Glory, Memorial to Doctor M Eugene Street (photo)


C 2 Apr 2015 Chatham's COA director [Dennis W. Streets] honored by STHL group

C 2 Jul 1992 “Bee farm the ‘original sting operation’ [John Strickland] ” (photos)

C 31 Mar 2016 Pittsboro native serves aboard USS Bataan [Matthew Strong]

C 24 Nov 1988 “[Nell Craig] Strowd dies at age of 86”

C 31 Oct 1979 “Snow Camp’s oldest citizen [Peter M. Stuart] celebrates his 95th” (photo)

C 10 Jul 2014 [Ronda] Stubbs named Chamber ambassador

C 8 Oct 2015 Recipients receive awards at Chamber annual meeting [Ronda Stubbs]

C 19 Dec 2013 "Longtime county clerk retires [Sandra Sublett]"

C 28 Dec 2014 Planning director honored [Jason Sullivan]

B summer 2004 obituary: Catherine Porteous Sutton. from Lee Co. Genealogical & Historical Society Newsletter

C 10 Nov 2005 obituary: Jack Gregory Talbott

B Jul 1989 “ ‘Bone’ Taylor” from Lee Co. Genealogical & Historical Society Newsletter

C 20 Sep 1962 “Influential Taylor family came to Pittsboro from Carolina County, Va.”

C c. 1925 photo: Emily Taylor

C 14 Jul 1982 "[Derrick Keith] Taylor and [Gary] Dark at Boys' State" (photo)

C 27 Jun 1973 “I. E. Taylor named to [Pittsboro] town board” (photo)

C 28 Jun 1973 Isaiah Taylor appointed commissioner

C 5 Jul 1973 [Isaiah] Taylor sworn in

C 16 Jun 1976 “Courtroom drama, scene of tribute to Isaiah Taylor” (photos)

C 16 Jun 1976 Isaiah Taylor honored on retirement from schools

C 24 Oct 2013 "Bonlee's Taylor is POY" [Kimberly Taylor]

C 16 Jun 1976 “Mt. Sinai church completes [Isaiah] Taylor toasts”

C “Reared by an ex-slave, I. E. Taylor has come a long way”

C 16 Jun 1976 “Our thanks to Isaiah Taylor and his 39 years of service as an educator” (photo)

C 16 Jun 1976 “[Isaiah] Taylor and [Lessie] Smith honored by Horton staff at Sanford dinner” (photo)

C “Facing mob bent on a hanging, W. H. Taylor held his ground” (photo)

C 28 May 2010 "Records shed light on life, people in county circa 1700s" [Teague--David, William, Madison, Samuel]

C 31 Jan 1999 obituary: Donn M. Tee

C 12 Dec 2013 "New Pittsboro mayor takes oath of office" [Bill Terry]

C 19 Aug 2004 “[Charlie] Thomas, born and raised in Rives Chapel community, stays near home” (photo)

C c. 1980 “Clara and Edward Thomas remember Old Bynum and the mill” (photos)

C 18 Feb 1971 Chatham men in uniform [Larry M. Thomas]

C 28 Oct 1971 With the military [Larry M. Thomas]

C 25 Apr 1963 Six girls have entered Miss Pittsboro Pageant [Rachel Thomas]

C 15 Apr 1971 Capt. Robert Thomas receives Flying Cross

C 23 Jul 1985 “Carl Thompson is a real achiever” (photo)

C 23 Jul 1985 feature: Carl Thompson, county commissioner (photo)

C 14 Jan 2016 Chatham EDC honors local family as catalyst for social, economic change[Carl Thompson]

C 4 Feb 1971 W. R. [Reid] Thompson assumes power company head

C 26 Mar 2015 Bennett fireman of the year honored [Howard Threatt]

C 26 Feb 2015 Longtime scout volunteer [Rod Tidy] recognized for service

C 10 Apr 2014 Bonlee school employee honored with award [Bebe Tillman]

C 12 Feb 2015 [Nelzie] Toomer celebrates 100th birthday

C 30 Jul 2015 Celebrating birthdays at Senior Center [Nelzie Toomer]

C 11 Feb 2016 EDC welcomes new president [Kyle Touchstone]

C 9 Apr 2015 Emergency Management Director [Tony Tucker] retires

C 28 Jul 2016 [David] Turner joins football staff at Texas A&M

C 4 Dec 1974 “Joe Turner retires suddenly; Black ag agent for 28 years” (photo)


C 26 Jan 1977 First Black county agricultural agent, Joe Turner, appointed in 1947

C 17 Jan 2013 "Goldston scout awarded Eagle award [Daniel Tysor]

C 13 Mar 1975 [Kenneth] Vaughn to leave extension staff

C 27 Mar 1975 Appreciation night held for Kenneth Vaughn

C 21 Aug 2014 Page Vernon Memorial Fund established

C 12 Nov 1975 “Margaret Vestal retires [as Siler City’s town clerk]” (photo)

C 27 Feb 2014 Former J-M student grabs headlines in bid to be UNC student body president [Emilio Vincente]

C 7 Feb 2013 "Pittsboro Mayor elected Democratic Party Chair [Randy Voller]

C 5 Dec 2013 "Pittsboro Mayor Voller ends eight-year term" [Randy Voller]

B 13 Feb 2003 Bob Wachs "Let's look at the papers"

C 16 Feb 1902 Fred Vatter to give talk about James I. Waddell” (photo)

C Jun 2000 Fred Vatter column: “James I. Waddell: Pittsboro’s naval hero”

C 28 Mar 1963 Famous Chatham naval hero's story recalled ["Big Jim" Waddell]

B 1 Apr 1967 from The State magazine: “The very last shot of the war” [James I Waddell] (photos)

C 10 Aug 1972 History for Sale [James I. Waddell]

C 11 Aug 1972 Shipyard to auction Shenandoah painting [James I. Waddell]

C Aug 1972 The Shenandoah [James I. Waddell]

C 30 Sep 2010 "Former Mayor Wafford dies"

C 26 Mar 1964 Pvt. Richard Waldeck

C 30 Jul 2015 Celebrating birthdays at Senior Center [Virginia Waldeck]

C 8 Jun 1972 Chatham County teachers retire, and are honored [Mrs. Lottie G. Walker]

C 13 Jul 2000 “Council on Aging director [Cassie Wasko] dies” (photo)

C 22 Jul 1900 “Council on Aging director [Cassie Wasko] dies at 51"

C “In the Ashes of Beauty” [Louanne Watley’s book about Betty Bell]

C 30 Jan 1974 “Loula B. Watson - 99 years and full of life” (photos)

C 14 Mar 1979 “Chatham’s number one senior [Loula Watson] dies” (photos)

C photograph: Howard Weaver III receiving Eagle Scout award

C 8 Jan 2015 Officer of the year [Richard Webster]

C 28 Apr 2016 Sheriff to announce retirement [Richard Webster]

C 19 May 2016 County board accepts sheriff's resignation [Richard Webster]

C 15 Feb 1934 "Deaths: Mrs. Emaline Welch"

C 23 Sep 1971 County gets addition to Highway Patrol [Charles F. Wheeler]

C 18 Jun 2015 NW student [Tyler Paul Whitaker] awarded $10,000 SECU scholarship

C 29 Apr 1971 Audrey White wins $500 4-H scholarship

C 19 Apr 1973 Gordon White named commissioner

C 3 Aug 1977 “Goldston honors Ms. Inease Wicker” (photo)

C 7 Apr 2016 Siler City resident earns Eagle Scout Award [Andrew J. Wiedner]

C 26 Nov 1999 “Minimalist Art and the Millennial Man [Alex Wilhite]” (photos)

C 3 Apr 2014 Long-time school chair [Robert "Jack" Wilkie] dies

C “Social worker [Anne Williams] named ‘Employee of the Year’ ” (photo)

C 26 Mar 2015 Williams family planning 120th reunion weekend

C 29 Aug 2013 "Butterfly garden honors work of Bett Wilson"

C 30 Aug 1978 “[Noah and Rouse] Wilson pedal to Topsail” (photo)

C 21 Jan 2010 "Dr. Noah Wilson ends long career" (photo)

C 17 Jun 1971 Three are selected for Boy's State trip [Rouse Wilson]

C 30 Nov 1972 (Anthony G.) Wimberly graduates from recruit training

C 19 Aug 1990 “Controversial publisher [Bob Windsor] back in business” (photo)

C 13 Jun 1996 “Political paper publisher [R. G. Windsor] dies”


B 1978 several samples of Bob Windsor’s column

C 25 Oct 2012 "Third grade author [Danny Willett] publishes first book" (photo)

C 11 Apr 1963 [E. E.] Williams has been member of Legion 45 Years

C 10 Nov 2011 "After a lifetime of hardware, Siler City man plans to relax" [Jimmy Williams] (photo)

C 18 Feb 1971 Chatham men in uniform [Jack L. Wimberly, Jr.]

C 12 Feb 2015 Chatham yacht maker completes last boat [Tim Winter]

C 20 Mar 2014 Young farmer of the year award goes to Chatham county family [Tucker and MacKenzie Withington]

C “Rocky River keeper of the dam [Charles Wolfe]” (photo)

C 31 Oct 1979 photo: Miss Burdine Womble receives a pin honoring her 500 hours of service to the Chatham Hospital

Auxiliary

C 24 May 1973 Mrs. [Floyd E.] Womble celebrates ninetieth birthday

C 20 Feb 1974 “The Lacey Wombles” (photos)

C 22 Feb 1996 obituary: Leisel Womble

C 11 Apr 1963 Pittsboro boy [Jerry Woods] wins NC Beta Club post

C 21 Jan 2016 Firefighter takes last ride [Joshua Woods]

C 21 Jan 2016 Siler City fireman laid to rest [Joshua Woods]

C 13 Sep 1990 “Mr. [Forrest James Wrenn, Jr.] dies in Siler City” (photo)

C 2 Dec 1904 obituary: Franklin Lafayette Wrenn

C 6 Nov 2014 Animal services officer receives award [Michael Yarborough]

C 17 Aug 1972 Mrs. G. T. Yates enjoys a happy 95th

C 27 May 1972 “Polly Yow’s music career spans years and places” (photo)

C 2 Jun 2016 United Way honors volunteers [Joan Zollinger]

C 28 Mar 1963 Trapping is a profitable venture for Snow Camp's Dalton Zachary

NOTEBOOK: 24 POLITICS -- RIVERS (partial) POLITICS

C 9 May 1963 Three new men elected town board positions

C 13 Apr 1972 Candidates speak to large group

C 11 May 1972 Chatham County voters support most primary winners

C 22 Jun 1972 Chatham County delegation attends Democratic convention

C 13 Jul 1972 No action taken on realigning precincts in eastern Chatham

C 1 Nov 1973 Town elections, statewide issues decided Tuesday

C 1 Nov 1973 Robert Gunn to get county attorney nod?

C 8 Nov 1973 Yates, McGee, Wafford win seats

C 2 Dec 2010 "Historic change in Chatham: Republican majority sworn in Monday to serve on county board" (photo)

C 23 Feb 2012 "Bock delivers state of county address"

C 18 Jul 2013 County sets path for land use plan

C 23 Oct 2014 Candidates for office address local issues

C 2 Oct 2015 Pittsboro candidates express views at forum

C 12 Nov 2015 Pittsboro elected officials set sights on future

C 7 Jul 2016 Chathamites, young and old, are excited about the Presidential election

C 21 Jul 2016 Pittsboro man headed to DNC

C 21 Jul 2016 Local man delegate at RNC

POST OFFICES

[An excellent online source of information is the National Postal Museum at the Smithsonian Institution,

Washington, D.C.: www.postalmuseum.si.edu/statepostalhistory/Chatham%20county.pdf ]

B Winter 1991-

1992 “North Carolina Post Offices and Postmasters, 1860-1866” from NC Postal History Society Newsletter

B 2004 “1826 Postal Routes” from Lee County Genealogical & Historical Society


B 1988 “Illustrated North Carolina Postal Markings, 1777-1865” by Vernon Stroupe

B Fred Vatter column: “The vanished post offices of Chatham County”

B Oct 2009 State Postal History Chatham County

C 1 Aug 2013 New postmasters welcomed in Bennett, Goldston

RECREATION/SPORTS [See also JORDAN LAKE]

C “Noted players on ‘07 baseball team” (photo)

C 1970s 1970s Siler City Baseball Team (photo)

C 16 Aug 1973 Cooper-Harris 7-6 win captures softball crown

C 25 Feb 1976 “Corps lets contract for county park” (Seaforth park at Jordan Lake)

C 8 Nov 1976 “Corps backs down on more county park promises” (Chatham Herald)

C 11 Feb 1982 "Tuscarora slalom team: Trying to make big splash in paddling world" (photos)

C 25 Feb 1982 "Slalom races attract more than 50 paddlers" (photos)

C 10 Sep 1985 Duckson column: “Fish taking bait at Jordan Lake”

C 5 Jun 1987 “Swimmers, fish, pickup coexist at [Sugar] lake” (photo)

C 30 Jun 1988 “Sugar Lake born of work done at Jordan” (photo)

C 30 Jun 1988 “Jordan Lake...open or closed?”

C 5 Apr 1990 “Recreation areas open” [Jordan Lake]

C 23 Jan 1992 “Crosswinds campground scheduled to open in May” (photos)

C “Lake recreation areas fill up”

B 1993 American Tobacco Trail Master Plan

C 6 Dec 1996 “Where the eagle flies” (photos)

C 6 Feb 1996 Dennis Rogers column: “Chatham’s charms reviewed”

C 13 Mar 1997 “State OK’s grant for canoe trail” [Deep River Park]

C 12 Jan 2003 “Industrial league [Mill League] once only game in town”

C 11 Feb 1999 “Chatham County to meet with Durham County. . . American Tobacco Trail”(map)

C 13 Apr 2006 “Chatham roadways beckon [to bicyclists]” (photos)

C 13 Apr 2006 "Chatham roadways beckon [to bicyclists]" (photos)

C 13 Apr 2006 "Jordan lake serves many purposes” (photo)

C 13 Apr 2006 "Nature’s classroom has many lessons to teach” (photos)

C 13 Apr 2006 "Chatham’s lost corner” (NE corner, Tobacco Trail; photos)

C 13 Apr 2006 "Horses abound around Jordan Lake" (photos)

C Jun 2009 "Ecotourism brings Chatham bounty: birders drop greenbacks by the bundle" (photos)

B 3 Oct 2009 Second Annual Camelback Combo Classic Deep River Fishing Tournament brochure

C 30 Sep 2010 "Pittsboro opens new park named after former county commissioner Holmes" (photos)

C 30 Sep 2010 "Newest county park now in use"

B 19 Aug 2011 Northeast district park grand opening"

C 27 Feb 2014 Bears win 1-A State title

C 6 Mar 2014 Thunder storms into state finals in NCHEAC action

C 6 Mar 2014 Thunder rolls by Storm for title

C 6 Mar 2014 Thunder winners of NCHEA state tournament

C 25 Sep 2014 Honoring an undefeated team [1964 Jordan Matthews Jets]

C 30 Jul 2015 New park at Briar Chapel opens for limited use

C 10 Sep 2015 New county park opening Sep 18

C 9 Jun 2016 Ironman Tri-Athletes invade Chatham

C 4 Aug 2016 12U county team at softball World Series

C 4 Aug 2016 West Chatham 12U team participates in Little Dixie Softball World Series

REVOLUTIONARY WAR


B 1876 “An Address on the Revolutionary History of Chatham County, N.C.” delivered by Henry Armand

London at Pittsborough, 4 July 1876

C 4 Aug 1941 "Cornwallis army camped at Ramsey's Mill" from Sanford Herald

C 1953 "Lockville, Ghost Town on Deep, Nearly Stole Yorktown's Role" photocopy of Sanford Herald article

C 20 Sep 1962 “Lord Cornwallis and his British army spent the night here in 1781 during his retreat from Guilford Court

House battle” (historical photograph)

C 20 Sep 1962 “David Fanning, hated Tory leader, staged raid at Chatham Court House here in 1781 and captured 53

prominent citizens of county” (photo of highway marker)

4 Apr 1963 Millstones recall story of Ramsey's Mill

B 1973 Pyle's Massacre; February 23, 1781

B 1976 “Ore Hill: Source of munitions for American Revolution” by Wade Hadley (photos)

B Regulators from Chatham County present at the Battle of Alamance

C 1 May 1976 “Simple wooden building was center of government” (historical photo)

C 30-May-1909 “Tories faced several choices in last days”

C 1 May 1976 “Did General Greene make a stop at Egypt to warm feet with coal?”

B 1 May 2011 Program for Ceremony of Dedication of a marker at the grave of James Emerson, Regulator and

Revolutionary War Patriot.

C 5 May 2011 "Revolutionary War soldier [James Emerson] remembered, honored"

C March 2016 Dr. Brooks W. Gilmore

RIVERS

Cape Fear River

C 12 Oct 1947 “Cape Fear River combines times and tides of six big streams” (photos)

B 1849 photocopy of document in Southern Historical Collection UNC-CH, Henry Adolphus London papers:

“Organizational meeting of the Cape Fear & Deep River Navigation Company”

B 19 Jan 1952 “Down the Cape Fear in 13 days” (photos)

B 1854 “Report of the Cape Fear & Deep River Navigation Company”

B newspaper excerpts about Cape Fear & Deep River Navigation Company, 1816 - 1829, from Lee County

Genealogy & Historical Society Newsletter

B 1855 “Report of the Committee on Int[ernal] Improvements on the Cape Fear & Deep River Navigation Co.”

B 1980 “The Story of the Cape Fear & Deep River Navigation Company, 1849-1873” (map)

NOTEBOOK 25: RIVERS (cont) -- WWII

Deep River

B The fate of the Deep River is in your hands. Triangle Land Conservancy brochure.

C 13 Dec 1972 “Deep River site selected for state park”

C 19 Apr 2772 photo: “From out of the past” (rock pier at Lockville)

C c 1990 “Carbonton dam, power plant reminiscent of days gone by” (photo)

C 28 Jun 1997 “[Randleman] Dam moves ahead; project on Deep has opposition” (photo)

C 24 Sep 1999 “Dreams of saving the Deep” (photos)

C 1 Nov 2001 “Marker commemorates service of long-ago [Avent] ferry at county line” (photo)

C 13 Apr 2006 “Gulf’s Deep River Park, with historic 1908 bridge, is small county treasure” (photo)

C 12 Jan 2005 photos: “Residents oppose dam removal at Carbonton”

C 1 Dec 2005 “Carbonton dam work on schedule” (photo)

C 6 Oct 2005 “Carbonton dam removal process scheduled to begin in late October”

B 1998 Archaeological Data Recovery at the Lockville Historic Complex (photographs)

Haw River

B 1953 “Navigation on the Haw River” from The State magazine; photos

B 1899

“Papers on the Waterpower in North Carolina” published by NC Geological Survey [See also Chatham

Historical Journal, “Bygone Mills on the Haw . . .” by Herbert Poole, November 1995, with information

from this article]

B 25 Mar 1990 “Haw River Festival to provide awareness for the entire family”


B Apr/May 1995 Haw River Festival brochure with events, descriptions

C 8 May 1994 “Haw River rolls to its own rhythms” (photos)

C 3 Apr 1997 “Meeting set to plan trails on county rivers”

C 30 Apr 1989 “Rep. Hackney’s bill pushes official scenic river status for Haw”

C 6 Jul 1989 “Chatham’s wild whitewater ride” (photos)

C 6 Jul 1989 “Tales of tragedy and ‘stupidity’ on river” (photo)

B 1991 “Festival on the Haw” from Wildlife in North Carolina (photos)

C 13 Nov 1995 “Chatham considering river permits”

C 13 Apr 2006 “Why is it called Chicken Bridge?”

C Dec 2012 Voice of the Haw. Publication of the Haw River Assembly.


C 27 Mar 2014 Volunteers help to clean up Haw River

C 10 Apr 2014 Haw on list of troubled waters

C April 2014 Voice of the Haw. Publication of the Haw River Assembly.

C 10 Jan 2015 Life on the river: The Haw River's past, present and future

C 11 Jan 2015 Coming back

C 12 Jan 2015 Place to play: The future of the Haw River could be in recreational tourism

C Apr 2015 Voice of the Haw. Publication of the Haw River Assembly.

C Aug 2015 Voice of the Haw. Publication of the Haw River Assembly.


C Apr 2016 Voice of the Haw. Publication of the Haw River Assembly.

C 26 May 2016 Kayakers rescued from Haw River

Rocky River

C 25 Oct 1973 Dead fish found in Rocky River

C 16 Jun 1982 “Old Woody’s power plant turned on” (photos)

C 20 Feb 1985 “Rocky River keeper of the dam” (photo: Charles Wolfe)

C 15 Jan 2015 TLC protects more land in Rocky River watershed

C Winter 2015 Water is the future: 607 acres conserved in the Rocky River Watershed

SOCIAL SERVICES

C 6 May 1971 Funding for mental health clinic asked of county commissioners

C 25 May 1972 Chatham Mental Health Center is patient-out-hospital

C 5 Nov 1980 “Sheltered workshop open for business”

C 28 Sep 1983 “DSS building unique, also award winning” (photo of Robert Hall, offices)

B 8 Sep 1994 Chatham County Smart Start Application

B 1995 Working Together: Chatham County 1995 Smart Start

C 3 Dec 1998 “United Way supports early intervention & family services” (photos)

C 14 Feb 1999 “Woman with battered past becomes bastion for Chatham victims” (photo)

C 23 Mar 1999 “UNC Hospitals to buy Hospice of Chatham County”

C 8 Apr 1999 “Hospice readies to move its office” (photos)

C 9 Jul 2015 Groundbreaking set for UNC Hospice House

C 16 Jul 2015 SECU Foundation pledges $1 million toward new hospice facility

C 16 Jul 2015 Ground broken for new hospice

C 3 Sep 2015 Commissioners recognize value of Chatham County senior centers

TRANSPORTATION

Bynum Bridge

B Mar 1979 “North Carolina’s Metal Truss Bridges: An Inventory and Evaluation” by George Fore (photos)

C "Haw River Bridge doomed by old age and progress"


C 10 Jul 1997 “One-lane Bynum bridge scheduled for replacement” (photo)

C 21 Aug 1997 “Bridge groups find support from county commissioners” (photo)

C 26 Feb 1998 “Troubled bridges may stay over waters”

C 6 Mar 1998 “Old one-lane Bynum bridge to go?” (photo)

C 14 May 1998 “Forces conspiring to spare Bynum bridge” (photo)

C 14 May 1998 “Bynum bridge hearing Thursday” (photo)

C 15 May 1998 “Not exactly road rage, but bridge hearing heated”

C 21 May 1998 “Bridge opinions divide community”

C 31 Jul 1998 “Bynum residents reach compromise on bridge”

C 5 Sep 1998 “DOT to close Bynum bridge to all but cyclists, pedestrians”

C 1998 “Old Bynum Bridge to close”

C 1998 photograph: “One small step for DOT, one giant leap for feet”

C Nov 2008 "Bynum's bridges over troubled waters" from Chatham County Line (photos)

Chicken Bridge

C 31 Oct 1984 photographs

C 15 Oct 1985 photograph

C 5 Nov 1987 editorial: “There weren’t any grants”

C 3 Nov 1988 photograph

C 24 Nov 1988 “Work gets started on Chicken Bridge” (photo)

C 9 Nov 1989 “Chicken Bridge coming down” (photo)

Cumnock Bridge

C 19 Jul 1990 “Joint effort could save historic old bridge” (photo)

C 5 Jul 1990 “N.C. DOT to give away bridge” (photo)

C 18 Jul 1991 “Chatham and Lee vie for rights to bridge”

C letter to editor: “The camelback truss bridge”

B 1993 “The camelback truss bridge at Deep River Park”

C 9 Apr 1992 “Historic bridge to remain in Gulf says DOT official”

C 20 Aug 1992 “Park Association making plans for bridge dedication”

C 8 Oct 1992 “Bridge celebration at Cumnock draws hundreds” (photos)

B 3 Oct 1992 program from celebration and dedication

C 29 Sep 1994 “Deep River festival scenes

C 7 May 1995 “Deep River: Old bridge is backdrop for graceful park”

C 28 Sep 1995 “Deep River Park given state award”

B 3 Oct 2009 "Second Annual Camelback Combo Classic Deep River Fishing Tournament"--Deep River Park

Rocky River Truss Bridge

C 26 Feb 1998 “Future of bridges still up in the air”

C 5 May 1998 “Neighbors plead case for historic Chatham steel bridge”

C 7 May 1998 “Community wants to save bridge” (photo)

C 23 Jul 1998 “DOT to let old bridge stand” (photo)

Other bridges

B 19 Feb 1940 handwritten reminiscence of Moore’s Bridge by Mrs. Jeter J. Hackney; with N&O photograph dated

1939

C 14 May 1987 “50-year-old bridge replaced” [15-501 over Rocky River]

B 11 Sep 2008 from Lee Co. Genealogy. & Historical Society Newsletter: article from Sanford Express announcing

replacement of Deep River bridges destroyed by a freshet

C 24 Oct 1973 “1905 bridge celebration recalled” [covered bridge over Rocky River between Sanford and Pittsboro]

(photo)

C 28 Aug 2014 Process..[Rives Chapel Church Road bridge]

RAILROADS


C 20 Sep 1962 “The day the railroad came to town touched off big celebration here” (photo of train crew in 1920s)

C 14 Mar 1984 "Pittsboro-Moncure rail line to be removed in three months"

C 16 Jun 1988 photo: Southern Railway between Staley and Gulf

C 24 Aug 1989 “Catching a ride on the New Hope Valley Railway” (photos)

C 1 Feb 1990 “Rails for Trails Jeopardized” (photos)

C 12 Sep 1991 “Excursion train coming to Gulf” (photo)

C 5 Mar 1992 “Getting ready for another season of train rides [New Hope Valley RR]” (photos)

C 17 Jun 1993 “Railway tracks lessons in history” (photo) [New Hope Valley RR]

B 1991 brochure for New Hope Valley Railway

C 23/30 Mar 1995 “Chatham’s own railroad ran from Bonlee to Bennett”

C 23/30 Mar 1995 photo: Bonlee and Western RR

C 25 Jun 1995 “For this chapter, working of railroad is a labor of love” [New Hope Valley RR]

C 20 Aug 1995 “Bonsal: a yearning to wander, fueled by a passion for trains” (photos)

C 27 Aug 1995 “Oldtime line [New Hope Valley RR] offers trips to past pleasures” (photos)

C 19 Jun 1996 “We’re not just playing trains” [New Hope Valley RR] (photos)

B 1999 brochure with schedule of New Hope Valley Railway

C 26 Aug 2004 “Railroad [New Hope Valley RR] hits 100-year milestone” (photo)

C 26 Aug 2004 photo: Diesel engine on the NHVRR line

C 2 Jun 2005 “New Hope Valley Railway celebrates milestone”

B 1 Aug 2006 New Hope Valley Railway newsletter, Tarheel Telegrapher

C 9 Aug 2012 "New Hope Valley Railroad keeps heritage rolling along" (photos)

C 14 Feb 2013 "Old 110 finds a home"

ROADS

B “North Carolina’s First ‘All-weather’ Roads” compiled by Millard Denson [photocopied typescript]

C 23 Jul 1931 “The Old Plank Road” [article reprinting an article in Sanford Express of 19 Sep 1902]

C 23 Sep 1971 Work progresses on Highway 15-501 relocation

C 10 May 1989 “Fearrington developer sees threat in state road [15-501]”

C 25 Jul 1990 “Chatham rejects proposal for northern bypass road” [partial]

B 5 May 1994 advertisement for Citizens Information Workshop on proposed improvements to US 15-501 from the

proposed Pittsboro bypass to the Chapel Hill bypass

C 15 May 1994 “15-501 project on table”

C 26 May 1994 “DOT officials moving on plan to widen US 15-501”

C 27 May 1994 “Meeting maps wider 15-501”

C 15 Nov 1994 “US 15-501 traffic jams hint at future”

C 5 Oct 1997 “Chatham won’t block Mt. Carmel Church Rd. widening study”

C 27 Dec 1997 “Engineers lean toward urging [Mt. Carmel Church] road widening”

C 3 Feb 1998 “Mount Carmel may be widened”

C 4 Feb 1998 “Neighbors fuming over [Mt. Carmel] road-widening proposal”

C 17 May 1998 “Neighbors [along Mt. Carmel Rd.] fight to keep identity” (photos)

C 21 May 1998 “Group takes [Mt. Carmel] road-widening issue to Chatham commissioners”

C 12 Aug 1998 “DOT caves in on Mt. Carmel road project”

Pittsboro Bypass

C 4 Apr 1963 Pittsboro bypass will get highway approval

C 13 Jul 1972 Public meeting set for discussion of by-pass

C 20 Jul 1972 By-pass system approval stymied; a more thorough study suggested

C 11 Jul 1973 “A by-pass for Pittsboro”

C 28 Jul 1976 “Planners present revised bypass plan for Pittsboro” (diagram)

C 13 Oct 1988 “Hearing slated on proposed Pittsboro bypass”


C 10 Nov 1988 “Hearings on proposed bypass locations set”

C 17 Nov 1988 “Opponents say bypass will hurt rural character here”

C 1 Dec 1988 “Local residents say ‘no’ to road proposal”

C 12 Mar 1989 “A rural county at a crossroads: Chatham girds for four-lane development” (photos)

C 19 Oct 1989 “Bypass committee continues efforts”

C 30 Nov 1989 “US 64 widening likely to be on south side” (photo of Aspen Hall)

C 7 Dec 1989 “Meeting set on US 64 bypass”

C 15 Jan 1990 “Pittsboro bypass undecided”

C 14 Jun 1990 “Pittsboro bypass study delayed”

C 27 Sep 1990 “Two routes for bypass look best” (maps)

C 18 Oct 1990 “Bypass meetings planned”

C 22 Nov 1990 “Bypass hearing draws interest”

C 18 Jun 1992 “County official responds to decision not to widen road”

C 18 Jun 1992 “County, Pittsboro, TAC members respond [to widening US 15-501]”

C 18 Jun 2992 “Widening of US 15-501 scrapped”

C 25 Jan 1999 “Town has no intent to be bypassed” (map, photos)

Miscellaneous

C 4 Feb 1982 "Pittsboro bus stop closes"

C 1 Mar 1990 “Pete Hadley’s ‘Hoovercart’ reminds him of hard times” (photos)

C 30 Jan 1997 “Road signs going, not coming back”

C 21 Apr 1997 “Bus line could provide relief for northern Chatham County”

C 4 May 1997 “Town [Chapel Hill], Chatham discuss links”

C 8 May 1997 “Chatham to consider paying for bus route”

VETERANS TRIBUTES (See also PEOPLE for individual veterans)

C 11 Apr 1963 New V.F. W. home

C 10 Nov 2011 "Veterans Day Nov 11"

C 8 Nov 2012 "Courage, Sacrifice, Dedication, Honor: We salute our veterans"

C 7 Nov 2013 A special salute to our veterans!

C 14 Nov 2013 Veterans Day Parade, service honor those who served

C 29 May 2014 Run for the Wall… Hundreds of cyclists roll through Chatham County

C 28 Aug 2014 CCHA receives grant funding for veterans

C 6 Nov 2014 Special section of Chatham News/Record honoring veterans

C 13 Nov 2014 Siler City honors veterans with parade, memorial

C 13 Nov 2014 Parade honors military veterans

C 13 Nov 2014 Ceremony pays tribute to veterans

C 28 May 2015 On a mission…

C 28 May 2015 Run for the Wall

C 27 Aug 2015 Pittsboro veterans memorial underway

C 5 Nov 2015 Various articles honoring veterans

C 2 Jun 2016 Motorcyclists honor veterans with annual run for the wall

C 23 Jun 2016 Chatham VFW honors soldier [William E. Council]

WORLD WAR II

C 1 Jun 2000 "The crew of LST 345: World War II vets hold reunion in Siler City"

C 1 Jun 2000 "Exercise Tiger still shrouded in mystery"

C 1 Oct 2008 "Chatham took to flight despite tragedy" from Chatham County Line

C 22 Sep 2011 "Chatham vets take part in Triangle Flight of Honor"

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