Chatham County, NC, Historical Association

Photo Galleries
These photos were found in the files of the website. Thanks to the prodigious knowledge of Jane Pyle, most of them have been identified. If you have any further information to add, please email the webmaster.

See also our Preservation Photo Gallery

Gallery 1- Part 1

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Bynum - Bynum baseball team, printed in the Chatham Historical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, August 1989, photograph courtesy of Sally Abernathy Fowler
Bynum Bridge and Mill - Widely reproduced photograph of Bynum’s mill with covered bridge, printed in Chatham County, 1771-1971 without attribution.
Siler City Commissioner Larry Cheek as identified by Tony Siler

Agricultural Teacher and Student - This is H. G. Johnston, agriculture teacher at Pittsboro High School from the 1930s until his death.
Parade in Downtown Pittsboro - The picture was copied by Duane Hall for the Pittsboro High School reunion committee.

Original may be in North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library, UNC-CH.

He is shown here with an unamed student. The picture was copied by Duane Hall for the Pittsboro High School reunion committee. On CD in Chatham Historical Museum.

On CD in CHatham Historical Museum.

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Bynum - Bynum baseball team, printed in the Chatham Historical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, August 1989, photograph courtesy of Sally Abernathy Fowler

Gallery 1- Part 2

Schoolhouse - newly constructed Pittsboro High School (grades 1-11), 1901; a postcard version of this is in the Chatham Historical Museum.
Math Class - Geometry class, Pittsboro High School, 40s. The picture was copied by Duane Hall for the Pittsboro High School Reunion Committee.
Teenagers - Bynum social life on Sunday afternoon; photograph and identification by Lora Sparrow.
Mill - Hadley Mill on Landrum Creek.
Typing Class - Pittsboro High School, 40s. The picture was copied by Duane Hall for the Pittsboro High School reunion committee.

It is printed in Chatham County, 1771-1971 without attribution; original may be in North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library, UNC-CH.

On CD in Chatham Historical Museum.

Printed in the Chatham Historical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, October 1989.

Photo printed in the Chatham Historical Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1991, courtesy of Wade Hadley.

On CD in Chatham Historical Museum.

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Schoolhouse - newly constructed Pittsboro High School (grades 1-11), 1901; a postcard version of this is in the Chatham Historical Museum.

It is printed in Chatham County, 1771-1971 without attribution; original may be in North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library, UNC-CH.

Gallery 1- Part 3

Mule Farmer Near Farrington - thanks to sharp eyed website visitor, Christy Ferguson, we now know this photo is by Frank Delano.
Harmon Sears - photograph accompanying article, "Chatham Soldiers: Chatham Masons" by Ernest Dollar.
WWI Soldier - photo of William Jesse Pennington.
Locomotive - The Chatham locomotive, photograph and information from Wade Hadley.
Women with Umbrellas - Snow Camp Foundry dam in what is now Alamance County, picturing three Dixon sisters, Annie Armitage, and Mary Henly.

Harmon Sears - photograph accompanying article, Printed in the Chatham Historical Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3, September 1994, photo courtesy of Thomas Harmon Sears. According to Sears' descendant Nash Herdon of Cary, NC, Harmon Zachariah Sears was a First Sergeant in the Sixth NC Regiment, and was wounded in the war.

Printed in the Chatham Historical Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, October 2000 as supplement to the two-part article, "Chatham County People in Military Service, World War I," from November 1999, photograph courtesy of Norma Pennington.

Printed in the Chatham Historical Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1988.

Printed in the Chatham Historical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, August 1989; photograph courtesy of John David Hadley and Wade Hadley.

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Mule Farmer Near Farrington - thanks to sharp eyed website visitor, Christy Ferguson, we now know this photo is by Frank Delano.

Delano's mule farmer photos may be seen in the Library of Congress Archives:
http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8c02557/
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000022097/PP/

Gallery 2 - Farm Security Administration Photos
All the photographs below were shot on a Saturday afternoon in Chatham County in July of 1939. The world was on the brink of war but small home town Chatham was as peaceful as the 'good old days' could be. All the photographs were shot by Dorothea Lange on assignment from Farm Security Administration.

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Street encounter on a Saturday afternoon. Pittsboro, North Carolina.
Chatham County farmers in town on Saturday afternoon. Pittsboro, North Carolina.
Street encounter on a Saturday afternoon. Pittsboro, North Carolina.
Shopping and visiting on main street of Pittsboro, North Carolina. Saturday afternoon
Man who was mayor of Siler City, North Carolina, in 1914. Looking at old photographs of the town.
Appliquéd embroideries for sale on street in front of ten cent store. Saturday afternoon. Siler City, NC.

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Street encounter on a Saturday afternoon. Pittsboro, North Carolina.

Gallery 3 - Mt. Vernon Springs
This is a collection of photos and documents about Mt. Vernon Springs, around 1911. Again, if you help put proper captions to these, please email the webmaster.

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Mt. Vernon Springs 1
Mt. Vernon Springs 2
Mt. Vernon Ad
Mt. Vernon Postcard

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Mt. Vernon Springs 1