Orange County, NC Photographs

Page Two
Left: Bruce Strowd, abt. 12 years old, in his twin steer calf cart on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, abt. 1903.  This cart preceded his Strowdmobile, pictured below.

With special thanks to Bebe Fox, Mr. Strowd's granddaughter, for sharing this photo with us! 

The drawing below was done by William Prince Smith, from a description provided by Mr. Strowd, who built the Strowdmobile when he was 16 years old.         
Bebe gives us this info about the background in the photo above: "I believe that was the old Seaton Barbee house across the street, the house was replaced by the Carolina Coffee Shop, I don't know when the house was razed. To the left of the house was the original University Methodist Church.  That building was replaced in about 1937.  The small amount of brick building you can see to the right of the Barbee house remains and has been Julian's, a men's clothing store."  
John W. Canada School in
Chapel Hill abt.1898
Locomotive and crew on yard in Carrboro abt.1905, Capt. Smith, Engineer Nesbitt
and "Neighbor" Sparrow
White Cross School abt. 1906
Franklin Street, Chapel Hill: J. M. Whitaker, Chief of Police, Robert A. Eubanks, Sr., later Postmaster of Chapel Hill.  
Hayes Drug Store in Hillsboro abt.1896
William Faucett who drove a hack for
about 40 years in Hillsboro 
Smith's Bar in Hillsboro abt.1896
"Professor" Thomas Dunston and
his horse "Nellie Bly" 
Eno Cotton Mill Baseball Team abt.1904; standing: Roberson, Barton, Stutts, Graham, Dixon, Hunter, Mallett and Boone; seated: Hughes and Davis   
Carrboro Baseball Team abt.1913; Brockwell, Pearson, Ray, Crabtree, Andrews, Thrift, Bowden, Ray, J. Gilmore and G. Gilmore
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Brockwell, owners of the first movie theatre in the county, and friends in an early Cadillac 
Chapel Hill Baseball Team, abt.1905;
Strowd    Temple   Lloyd    Raney
    Hearn               Mincey
Harris        Pickard      Lloyd
A bus of the Chapel Hill and Durham
Line (C. S. Pendergraft) abt.1918
Hillsboro Post Office group abt.1906; Davis, Walker, Haley, J. S. Rosemond, C. G. Rosemond, Postmaster, and Durham
Dr. H. H. Bradshaw and others at a
Sunday School picnic
Storm Damage, Franklin and Columbia
Streets, Chapel Hill, January 26, 1906 
Nash-Kollock School, Hillsboro, from
sketch by Hope S. Chamberlain
Old Burwell School, Hillsboro
With the exception of the photograph contributed by Bebe Fox, all photos are from
"Orange County, 1752-1952" edited by Hugh Lefler and Paul Wager      

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