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Collection Overview
| Size | 4.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2600 items) |
| Abstract | The collection contains organizational records of the historic preservation advocacy group Friends of Old Carrboro, Inc., founded in 1981 in Carrboro, Orange County, N.C. Records created and collected by the organization's president Jay Bryan include files about preservation of historic Carrboro mill town architecture, historical surveys, renovation of Carr Mill, development of downtown Carrboro, construction of Weaver Street Market, preventing a Franklin Street extension road and related demolishment of homes, and other efforts to influence town planning and zoning policies. Also documented are the organization's efforts to establish height limits on buildings, traffic calming solutions, historic district designations, neighborhood protection zones, and vernacular architectural standards. Audiovisual materials include 200 color slides made for an architectural study done by Claudia Roberts Brown, a VHS tape with content about local photographer Mack Watts, and interviews conducted in the 1980s with long-time residents and recorded on eight audiocassette tapes. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection. |
| Creator | Friends of Old Carrboro, Inc. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Encoded by: Laura Smith, January 2024
Updated by: Davia Webb and Laura Smith, April 2024
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Historical Information
The town of Carrboro in Orange County, N.C., lies west of and adjacent to the town of Chapel Hill, N.C., and the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Historically, Carrboro was an industrial town for workers in the local textile mills during the early twentieth century.
Friends of Old Carrboro, Inc., was a historic preservation advocacy group based in Carrboro, N.C. and formed in 1981 by town residents whose chief concerns were the preservation of Carrboro's mill town architecture, town planning and development, traffic calming, and zoning. White North Carolinian Jay Bryan served as president of the nonprofit organization. Bryan created, collected, and maintained the bulk of organizational records and other materials in the collection.
Jay Bryan is a lawyer, former Carrboro town alderman from 1987 to 1997, retired district court judge in Orange and Chatham Counties, N.C., and poet who served as the town of Carrboro's poet laureate from 2010 to 2013.
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Scope and Content
The collection contains organizational records of the historic preservation advocacy group Friends of Old Carrboro, Inc., founded in 1981 in Carrboro, Orange County, N.C. Records created and collected by the organization's president Jay Bryan include files about preservation of historic Carrboro mill town architecture, historical surveys, renovation of Carr Mill, development of downtown Carrboro, construction of Weaver Street Market, preventing a Franklin Street extension road and related demolishment of homes, and other efforts to influence town planning and zoning policies. Also documented are the organization's efforts to establish height limits on buildings, traffic calming solutions, historic district designations, neighborhood protection zones, and vernacular architectural standards. Audiovisual materials include 200 color slides made for an architectural study done by Claudia Roberts Brown, a VHS tape with content about local photographer Mack Watts, and interviews conducted in the 1980s with long-time residents and recorded on eight audiocassette tapes.
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Organization records and materials, 1970s-2000
| Box 1 |
Organization records, circa 1982-1987Includes newsletters, newspaper clippings, articles, meeting minutes, notebooks, and other miscellaneous materials, circa 1982-1987. |
| Box 2 |
Organization records, circa 1982-1989Legal documents, committee meeting minutes, clippings, notes, and other materials related to commercial zoning, preservation, and history of Carrboro, circa 1982-1989 |
| Box 3 |
Organization records, circa 1982-2006Clippings, meeting minutes, notes, brochures, and other materials related to Carrboro's traffic, history, and preservation. Also includes materials related to the Blue Ribbon Task Force, David Price's 1985 campaign for the United States Congress, and Rolland Wrenn Day, circa 1982-1990. There are also materials for the memorials of Irvine Watkins, the former treasurer of Friends of Old Carrboro, 2002, and Catherine Groves Peele a volunteer for The ArtsCenter and Volunteers for Youth in Carrboro, 2006. |
| Image Folder PF-70171/1 |
Slides from the architectural study of the mill town, Claudia Roberts. |
| Image Folder PF-70171/2 |
Slides from the architectural study of the mill town, Claudia Roberts. |
| Image Folder PF-70171/3 |
Photographs |
| Audiocassette C-70171/1 |
Daphne Athas |
| Audiocassette C-70171/2 |
Daphne Athas |
| Audiocassette C-70171/3 |
Mrs. Parlin, Mrs. Merritt, Mrs. Poole, 14 January 1984 |
| Audiocassette C-70171/4 |
Talk-Robert Burns |
| Audiocassette C-70171/5 |
Interview of Wilbur Partin by Claudia Roberts, 13 May 1982 |
| Audiocassette C-70171/6 |
Interview of Wilbur Partin by Claudia Roberts, 13 May 1982 |
| Audiocassette C-70171/7 |
Tape of Felita(?) Poole and Donna Madona |
| Audiocassette C-70171/8 |
Mrs. Watts and Carl Ellington- Informal Interview by Gary Sronce(?), 10 March 1982 |
| Audiocassette C-70171/9 |
Informal interview of Mrs. Beulah Watts and Carl Ellington by Gary Sronce(?) and Claudia Roberts, 10 March 1982 |
| Videotape VT-70171/1 |
Carrboro-Watts EvansVideotape about Mack Watts Evans, a local photographer. |
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