The History of Chapel Hill's 'Color Line'

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Special thanks to Assistant Professor Javier Arce-Nazario of the UNC-CH Geography Department for teaching me how to use Leaflet and code javascript. Students at UNC may wish to take his Geovisualizing Change class (Geog 456), which is where I learned this.

Also special thanks to the staff of the North Carolina Collection at Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill - without whom nothing!

Sources -
Carter, H. D. (with Julia Hooper Graves and Lucy Phillips Russell), Map of Chapel Hill as it was in 1875-1885, unpublished manuscript map at the Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, UNC, produced in 1934.
Chilton, Mark, A Chorus Silenced: The community of color at the University of North Carolina, July 1850, a map submitted for the GIS Day Map Competition, Fall 2023.
Freeman, Charles Maddry, Growth and plan for a community: a study of Negro life in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, North Carolina, Masters Thesis, UNC Department of Sociology, 1944.
[Map of Chapel Hill], 1852 with annotations by Professor Grady in 1880 & some other annotations thought to have been made by UNC President Kemp Plummer Battle, North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Orange County Deed Books, office of the Orange County Register of Deeds, Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Plan of the Village of Chapel Hill on a scale of 200 yards to an Inch--Copy from a Plot in the Possession of William Pannill which was taken from the Plot of John Craig, Esq., circa 1817. A hand-drawn map at the University Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill.
United States Census Bureau, the Orange County Manuscript Census of 1880, Washington, D.C., accessed via Ancestry.com.