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Interview no. | K-1086 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | K.2.6. Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Cary Heritage Museum's Oral History Project |
Project description | Interviews, 1985-2014, conducted by Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel members as part of the Cary Heritage Museum's Oral History Project. Interviewees include members of prominent families, a former mayor, former sharecropping families, long-time community merchants, a retired chief of police and a fire chief, and former Page-Walker Hotel owners, all of whom discuss topics relating to the character and development of the town. |
Date | 1 August 2014 |
Interviewee |
Allen, Carolyn Barbee. Powell, Clabron Ann Barbee. |
Interviewee DOB | 1941; 1944 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Van Scoyoc, Peggy. |
Abstract | The Barbee sisters are in the process of selling the Barbee farm and homestead on Davis Drive in Cary to Preston Development. Twenty-four houses will be built on half-acre lots on the remaining twelve acres of the farmland. The homestead will be torn down. The sisters described their lives growing up on the farm, attending the original Green Hope Elementary School and then Apex High School. They worked summers in the tobacco barns of neighboring farms. They gave lots of family history, and the history of many of the families in the Morrisville/Carpenter area of what is Cary today. |
Citation | Interview with Carolyn Barbee Allen and Clabron Ann Barbee Powell by Peggy Van Scoyoc, 1 August 2014 K-1086, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collections, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | K1086_Audio |