A Look Into Chatham's Past

A Look Into Chatham’s Past A Girl Scout Gold Award

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A Look Into Chatham’s Past is a podcast series part of a Girl Scout Gold Award project focused on promoting community identity in Chatham County, North Carolina by teaching local history. Hosted by Ella Sullivan.

07/22/2021

Mildred “Mama Dip” Edna Cotton Council

Mildred “Mama Dip” Edna Cotton Council was born in the Baldwin Township of Chatham County. In her youth, she worked with her parents as sharecroppers; however, she knew from a very young age cooking was her calling. She worked in countless kitchens around Chapel Hill, eventually opening her own restaurant. Her restaurant would go on to receive love from influential people like Michael Jordan and President George W. Bush. Council also published two cookbooks and a line of food products.
07/06/2021

James Iredell Waddell

James Iredell Waddell was born in Pittsboro, North Carolina in 1824. He would go on to become a lieutenant in the Confederate Navy after resigning from his post in the United States Navy. Waddell’s time as captain of the Shenandoah would make him notorious for his continued fighting after the end of the Civil War.
07/06/2021

Clarence Hamilton Poe

Clarence Hamilton Poe was born in 1881 and would go on to become a household name within the farming community. He owned the Progressive Farming Company and was editor of the Progressive Farmer for the majority of his life, helping to increase circulation of the magazine from 5,000 to 1,400,000 copies.
07/06/2021

Wilkins Perryman Horton

Wilkins Perryman Horton was born in 1889 in Kansas City, Kansas. By three, the Horton family had relocated to Pittsboro, North Carolina, where Horton would from then on spend most of his life. Horton was a lawyer with different practices in Pittsboro at varying points in his career. He also was a politician, serving as a state senator and as North Carolina’s lieutenant governor from 1937 to 1941 before running for governor.
07/06/2021

Simon Green Atkins

Simon Green Atkins was born in Haywood, Chatham County to two former enslaved people. He went on to co-found the North Carolina Negro Teachers’ Association. Later, he created Slater Normal and Industrial School which in time would become Winston-Salem State University.
07/06/2021

Jon Condoret

Jon Condoret moved to Chatham County later in life but prospered during his time in the county. Condoret was a Paris-trained architect who combined North Carolina modern architecture with European sensibility. Condoret is most notably remembered for his work as Chief Architect for Fearrington Village.
07/06/2021

Mary Myrtle Siler

Mary Myrtle Siler was North Carolina’s First Female Sheriff. A member of one of Chatham County’s oldest families, she was appointed to finish the previous sheriff’s term by the county’s all-male Board of Commissioners. Her appointment was covered by newspapers across the state.
07/06/2021

Francis J. LeClair

Francis J. LeClair was born in Belgium, but later emigrated to the United States. Working in many nurseries across the nation, LeClair developed his horticulture and botany skills. Later, after finding employment with the United States Government, LeClair traveled to North Carolina. During his time in North Carolina, LeClair resided on his farm in the Oakland Township outside of Pittsboro, located now is called Holly Ridge Road. LeClair also worked for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at one point being promoted to the university’s landscape architect. LeClair not only created many natural settings at the university including the Morehead Planetarium’s Rose Garden but also developed new variations of hollies such as the “Pearle LeClair,” named after his wife.
07/06/2021

George Moses Horton

In 1797, George Moses Horton was born enslaved in Northampton County. His enslaver relocated to Chatham County during Horton’s childhood. Throughout his life, Horton worked the fields of his enslaver’s tobacco plantation while creating poems in his head. Eventually, Horton journeyed to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and found some allies that would later help him publish his poetry. Throughout his life, he published three collections of poetry. For the last 17 years of his life, Horton lived as a free man in Philadelphia after the end of the Civil War. His poetry touched on many subjects including where he spent his childhood, rural Chatham County.
07/06/2021

Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels was a North Carolina musician who found national success with hits such as “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” However, Daniels’ teen years were spent in Gulf, Chatham County where he founded his first band, The Misty Mountain Boys, at Goldston High School.
07/06/2021

Doris Betts

Doris Betts was an accomplished writer and short story author who spent her later life in Pittsboro. Born in Statesville, North Carolina, Betts attended but did not graduate from college. Despite not having a degree, she became a distinguished professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and went on to publish many works that received praise across the state and some nationally.

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A Look Into Chatham’s Past is a podcast series part of a Girl Scout Gold Award project focused on promoting community identity in Chatham County, North Carolina by teaching local history. Hosted by Ella Sullivan.

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2021
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