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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27F3_strowd-building_Chapel-Hill-NC.html
Constructed in 1923 by Robert L. Strowd, replacing an earlier building owned by Adele Tankersley. James L. Sutton and J. L. Alderman opened Sutton's Drugstore here in 1923. Robert Foister operated a photography store in this building next to Sutto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27DP_university-florist_Chapel-Hill-NC.html
Chapel Hill's first bakery, Hill Bakery, moved to this space in 1920. In 1946, Thell Jernigan bought the bakery, renaming it Thell's Bakery, and James H. Davis bought the University Florist in the Pick Theatre Building next door. This building was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PC3_silent-sam_Chapel-Hill-NC.html
To the Sons of the University
who entered the War of 1861-65
in answer to the call of their
country and whose lives
taught lessons of
their great commander that
duty is the sublimest word
in the English language.
Erected under the ausp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MH0_carolina-coffee-shop_Chapel-Hill-NC.html
John Sprunt Hill bought this block of buildings in the 1920's and donated it in parcels to UNC from 1947-51 with the stipulation that rent monies fund the North Carolina Collection at the library of the University which is still in effect to this …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BR4_journey-of-reconcilation_Chapel-Hill-NC.html
In 1947 the Congress of Racial Equality & local citizens, black & white, protested bus segregation. Setting out from Washington, D.C. "freedom riders" tested compliance with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring segregation on interstate buses. On A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKIS_harriet-m-berry_Chapel-Hill-NC.html
Champion of good roads. Her intensive lobbying led to 1921 law creating modern state highway system. Born 8 mi. N.