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<br /> ; BY ANNE BLYTHE nity," she said recently.
<br /> Staff Writer The downtown neighborhood, which
<br /> VER hear about Benny Booth, the spans north of Rosemary Street beyond
<br /> ,McMasters and west of Church Street to '
<br /> man who used to break open a bo or bar-X the Carrboro border, is one of Chapel
<br /> rel on his head for a quarter? - , *, Hill's r . .' -'Predominantly pie
<br /> ), ' .„,,,, ,/,„,.,■if 0, 4; "';4„,'4,,',.!,,,6",,,0 f f, ' " ' few remaining preoominantiy
<br /> 1. i,,' ,,, ., Are you familiar with the good deeds of
<br /> r," ..;IVIort , 1 , ' '' :' 1 Nurse Compton, the town's first black L •
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<br /> . 1 ' it''''' les" '' t' ' r h arrived here in 1923 in her nurse who arrive ere in African-American comrnunities.
<br /> Longtime , Northside residents say
<br /> 'tthey're worried about losing what was
<br /> white cap and starched uniform ready to once a tight-knit community. Investors
<br /> have been buying many of the . /
<br /> '' "1„, Mq,r' r I. •-''.7ll'' administer care at the churches and
<br /> ave een u n up man o t e low-
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<br /> schools, teach health courses and make ,,- Y1 g 13
<br /> cost homes in the near-campus neighbor-
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<br /> house calls to the ailing who couldn't hood and putting them on the rental mar-
<br /> make it to her clinics? . - - --
<br /> at op dollar,
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<br /> Do you have memories of Bynum
<br /> Weaver's store?
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<br /> r.1 ! ,, , -.. . , , ,r,"We're crying to save it,” said Rosa '
<br /> McMasters Prayloe,If so,there's a community history work: memories of the n who at 85 has many
<br /> ighborhood. She was
<br /> \ -- shop set for Saturday morning you might born there in 1912.
<br /> find interesting. Doris Williams, a profes--.----,,Her father,John McMasters, for whom
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<br /> ,,.. sor at N.C. Central University, will be at 'Mc_IVIasters Street was named,Was one of
<br /> Hargraves Center off Roberson Street at the first to move his family to that area.
<br /> 11 a.m. to offer tips to anyone interested "At first it was the McMasters, the
<br /> in collecting and preserving the history of Caldwells and the Strouds," Prayloe said
<br /> ...._ • , -L.---, --- ,•• the Northsid• .1... .'.
<br /> Simone, h -. who' as she flipped through photo albums she
<br /> The Rev.J.R. Manley,' imone, a p otographer who -
<br /> ter et the first PePtist > -=:':) ' interested in doing a pictorial essay of the and her sister Gertrude filled over the
<br /> years.
<br /> Church, In his younger days. community's history, has been trying to
<br /> ellOchiMlcdMr McMasters played and 10
<br /> = preserve the Northside history with her
<br /> camera lens. Caldwell en all p ay together in
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<br /> their early years; they went to church
<br /> , --.- "I thought it would be valuable to do a
<br /> ..,' history to raise awareness in the conunu- See NORTHSIDE, Page A<#>
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<br /> i together and learned their lessons ,
<br /> x together.
<br /> y In 1924, a school was built near
<br /> the McMasters and Caldwell
<br /> - homesteads.
<br /> "The community commenced to ' ries of the community she grew up There are all kinds of stories,and
<br /> Simone says she's enjoyed gather-
<br /> . build up around it," said Prayloe. in, as do many of her neighbors.
<br /> Houses were constructed near , Take Ed Caldwell, or "Little Ed" ing them.
<br /> - the Orange County Training as Prayloe calls him. She's heard about Adelia
<br /> • Center,and the Northside commu- His step-grandfather, Edwin Compton, or Nurse Compton, and
<br /> • nity started to take shape. Caldwell, a doctor who had an the club she formed to distribute
<br /> "That school meant everything office in Durham, had the first car food,clothes and care to the needy.
<br /> to the community," said Prayloe. in the neighborhood and the first Frances Hargraves told her
<br /> ' McMasters was director of the telephone, about her piano playing-days, and
<br /> Chapel Hill sanitation department "Part of my job was,if somebody how she met her husband.
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<br /> in that day, but he also farmed his got a telephone call, I'd have to go For me," Simone said, "this
<br /> property. and get them," Caldwell said, project and my exhibit is not only
<br /> "We were kind of poor," He remembers Bynum Weaver's
<br /> about a tribute to the untold histo-
<br /> .) Prayloe recalled. "But we could store, which would have been on
<br /> ry of the African-American corn-
<br /> c eat. We had hogs, a cow to milk, Brooks Street. And he fondly munity. It's also about that every-
<br /> 1. corn, cabbage, all kinds of veg- recalls the hamburgers Susie one in Chapel Hill, even people
<br /> „s etables. I can remember my Weaver used to fix. who live in brand new homes on
<br /> — mother putting chicken and three 'You'd get a hamburger and big Weaver Dairy Road, want a town
<br /> some history. "
<br /> n or four vegetables on the table. pickle," he said. Her burgers were with
<br /> Back then, we didn't know any- so popular among the local kids,
<br /> 2-et thing about cholesterol, that you he said, that they skipped off _
<br /> 00 couldn't eat eggs. Every morn- school grounds to get lunch at her
<br /> is- ing, my mother would do a place. . .
<br /> w- dozen eggs."
<br /> Prayloe left Chapel Hill after she
<br /> y, finished her 11 years of school to
<br /> ig seek her "fame and fortune" in
<br /> '11 New York. She stayed there nine
<br /> 75 years, then moved to Connecticut,
<br /> ;- and returned to her homeplace
<br /> 1. after 31 years.
<br /> ...s Prayloe has many fond memo-
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