Pilot Mills in Raleigh, 1908 Betterment Association is Formed (Etta White Ratcliff & Sabrina White)

The News and Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) · Sun, Oct 11, 1908 

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The following information is from The Village of Pilot Mills Website. 

Mill Hill Village at Pilot Mill - 1892-1982

Pilot Mills in 1896

 Before the existence of the Village at Pilot Mill Mill, another village stood on the same site. Known as Pilot Mill Hill ("Mill Hill" being a name common to the mill villages of North Carolina), it comprised 68 houses of varying sizes. The wooden homes with mud yards fronting unpaved streets were rented to mill workers and their families for a few dollars a month. Covering the area of our present community between Haynes (formerly North Wilmington) and North Blount streets, the old village included a school (now the Hope Elementary School), a church (Pilot Church), and a company store run by the mill.

When the mill closed in 1982, the village was destroyed and the homes were razed. For the next twenty years, the area was desolate, plagued by drug deals, shootings and gang war within the neighboring Capitol Park community.

1914 Plan

In the days of the mill, Haynes Street was called North Wilmington Street, but otherwise the layout of the original village was eerily similar to that of ours today based on the 1914 plan to the left. The former homes have been replaced by buildings much larger and more substantial and the diverse occupations of the new residents are all far removed from mill work. Today high tech industries draw new residents to Raleigh and the Village at Pilot Mill. In the 1890's a new industrial enterprise and the promise of opportunity and a better life drew people to Mill Hill, Raleigh, from around the state.

 

Photo from Mike Legeros at Hidden Raleigh.

Photo by Mike Legeros at Hidden Raleigh

Photo by Mike Legeros at Hidden Raleigh

White-Moore - Marriage of India Moore and George White

The News and Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) · Sun, Jun 22, 1924

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William White and Ellen Langford Wedding Portrait

Wedding portrait of William Owen White and Ellen Langford from about 1900. William and Ellen worked at Pilot Mills in Raleigh, NC and are listed in the 1899-1900 City Directory.

Name / Occupation / Address
White, Wm O; wks Pilot Mills; r 4 Pilot Mills (cotton mill weaver)
Langford, Ellen Miss; wks Pilot Mills; r 22 Pilot Mills (cotton mill weaver)

They were married in the Midway Baptist Church, which was on the corner of Spring Forest and Falls of Neuse Roads. 

The Raleigh Times (Raleigh, North Carolina) · Fri, Jun 29, 1900

White-Ratcliffe - Marriage in the Pilot Baptist Church Last Evening (Dec 20, 1900)

The Raleigh Times (Raleigh, North Carolina) · Thu, Dec 20, 1900

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Joseph A. Langford (March 29, 1883)

 

Father of Ellen Langford (wife of William Owen White)

Image provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, Chapel Hill, NC

Persistent link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92073906/1883-03-29/ed-1/seq-2/

"North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VH6X-GT1 : 8 March 2021), Jos A Langford, 1883; citing Warren, North Carolina, United States, State Archives, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 2,294,987.

Sherwood White, The progressive farmer. [volume], August 30, 1898

A CALL FOR-A MASS MEETING.
f Believing in the justice of the princi
ples of the People's party, and that the
evils under which this country labors
will never be remedied until such' de
manda are enacted into law, we main
tain tnat these righteous principles
should never be sacrificed for office
alone, for the benefit of a few. There
fore in order that we, aa a party, may
maintain our integrity and preserve
the autonomy of our party, we issue
thia call, and appeal to all Populists in
Wake'county who avor maintaining
the principles of our party, to meet at
the court house in Raleigh, on Satur
doy, the 3rd day of September, 1898,
for the purpose of nominating a straight
Populist ticket for the county.
(Signed) R N. Wynne,
C. E. Kc . ullees,
Jno C. Fort,
C. R Debnam,
J. R. Ecarboro,
D. M. DiZi.R,
G. A. BCARBORO,
O. C Dunn,
W. G. Pearson,
Nob ah Wall,
W. E. MOwULLERS,
N B. Penny,
R J. BUFFALOE,
A. C. Green,
B. B. Buff aloe,
V W. D. Goodwin,
M. W. Buffaloe,
Sherwood White j
? W. O. Buffaloe.
 

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100 Acres, Sherwood White, SALE OF LAND FOR ASSETS. The news & observer December 12, 1901

 

SALE OF LAND FOR ASSETS.
By virtue of a decree of the Superior Court of
Wake County, made in the case of M. S. Buffaloe,
administratrix. of Sherwood White, deceased, vs.
Joseph J. White, et als., I will, on Monday, Jan
uary 6th, 1902. sell for cash, by auction at the
Court House door of Wake County, the lands of
the late Sherwood White, deceased, consisting of
100 acres, situated in Little River township,
Wake county, on the waters of Simms’ branch
ind hounded by the lands of John Broughton and
others, being the lands conveyed to Sherwood
White by James and Martha Young by deed,
which is* recorded in Book 40 on page 523 in Reg
ister of Deeds’ office for Wake countv.
J. H. FLEMING,
Commissioner.
December 6, 1901.

The news & observer. [volume], December 12, 1901, Page 6, Image 6
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