2002
Spring 2002: Groundworks Masonry Service completed the Preservation Walk through the front lawn of the Horace Williams House. The Preservation Society sells commemorative bricks with inscriptions to remember, appreciate and celebrate friends, family and those associated with the Preservation Society and Chapel Hill.
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2004
December 2004: The annual Holiday House Tour explored “Life on Historic Franklin Street,” and included visits to the Horace Williams House, the Chapel Hill Museum, and the President’s House (above).
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2006
October 2006: The first copies of The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1795-1975 by Dr. Ruth Little were published. Significant funding from the Preservation Society made the project possible.
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2007
July 2007: The Preservation Society, with support from the Downtown Partnership and the Historical Society of Chapel Hill, began an effort to raise awareness and funds to restore Michael Brown’s Chapel Hill murals. The campaign eventually became known as the Painted Walls Project. Pictured above: Musical Youth Mural at Studio Supply on East Franklin Street.
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2008
June 2008: The Preservation Society began efforts to preserve the Altemueller Farmhouse for adaptive reuse. The house was built sometime before 1879, and the site retains its full complement of outbuildings and a collection of several 200-year-old white oak trees, a rarity in Chapel Hill.
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2009
November 2009: The Preservation Society partnered with the Town of Chapel Hill to fund a ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistivity study of a portion of the African American section of the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery to locate unmarked graves. The study discovered 30-40 previously unknown African American graves.
2010
September 2010: The Preservation Society launched an effort to raise money for restoration of the Strayhorn House in Carrboro. The House was built around 1879 by former slaves Toney and Nellie Strayhorn and stands as a testament to one African American family’s success in the midst of racial violence that consumed Orange County during Reconstruction.
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October 2010: The Preservation Society offered the first annual Voices from the Grave living history tour of the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery.
2011
May 2011: Archaeologists conducted a study of the Barbee-Graves Cemetery in Chapel Hill. The largely unknown cemetery was donated to the town of Chapel Hill in 1979 and contains a number of unknown African American burials. The study was conducted through funding from the Town of Chapel Hill.
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December 2011: The annual Holiday House Tour featured the Greenwood Neighborhood and brought in record attendance making it one of the most successful fundraisers in Preservation Society history.
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