HARGETT
(Continued from page J)
trad* center with an expanding
industrial base. Raleigh was the
hub of four railways, and had six
cotton mills, a trio of iron foundries,
four bottling plants, and 30 other
factories.
The population increase also re
sulted from the annexation of new,
segregated black and white subdivi
sions. The predominantly black
south end of the city was growing at
an unprecedented rate. The area
called Watson’s Field, in Southeast
Raleigh, was thick with shotgun
houses by the early 1900s.
To the west, the Raleigh Real
Estate and Trust Co. (a white firm)
platted South Park, a “resident
suburb’ bounded by Bledsoe, Hoke,
East and Wilmington streets. In
1907, the company published adver
tisements urging speculators and
potential homeowners to “buy a lot
in South Park,” which they enthusi
astically did. In that year 122 house
lots were sold in the 15-block subdi
vision. By 1910 its streets were lined
with owner-occupied shotgun cot
tages and two-room dwellings with
center gables, many of them built for
black workers at the nearby Ameri
can Veneer and Box Co.
North of Watson’s Field, beyond
Tarboro Road, and farther north,
around St. Augustine’s College,
other black “residential suburbs”
began in the 1910s. Known as Bat
tery Heights and College Park, re
spectively, both of these outlying
areas developed slowly until the
1920s. By then, the extension of the
streetcar service, and to some de
gree the increased use of automo
biles, attracted black homebuyers to
these subdivisions.
Expanded streetcar lines and the
greater use of motorcars also con
tributed to the establishment of
fashionable white suburbs on
Raleigh’s west side. Glenwood
(1906), Boylan Heights (1909), and
Cameron Park (1910) all developed
under the legal guidelines of restric
tive deed covenants. The covenants
explicitly prohibited the occupance
of land “by Negroes or persons of
mixed blood* (excepting servants).
Thus, for the first time in post-Civil
War Raleigh, black exclusion from
housing was codified by law, as well
as by custom.
But with integration, the street
lost its role. Activity slowly faded
with the end of World War II in
1945, the emergence of shopping
centers in the 1950s, the construc
tion of a new state Farmers Market
off North Boulevard that took busi
ness from the old City Market, and
the end of segregation in the 1960s.
OAKS
(Continued from page j)
Accordingly, nine Commission
ers, eight representing the state’s
HARGETT STREET--A MECCA—In 1891, all but two of the 22 barbers in
downtown Raleigh were Mack along with other businesses including boarding
houses, meat and fish markets and a variety of skilled trades. As a result of Jim
Crow laws, from the 1920s to the mid-1960s, east Hargett Street west of Moore
Square became a mecca for African-Americans in Raleigh and Wake County.
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member-at-large, were ehoeen to
remove to Wake County and aelect
the exact aite from at leaat 17 land
tracta which had been offered for
aale. And on March 20,1792, five oi
the cocnmiaaionera met at Hunter1*
Tavern where they did no work.
Instead, as usual under the circum
stances, they adjourned to Wake
field, the home of Col. Joel Lane.
Here they were met by the New
Bern District representative,
Frederick Hargett,
The solons enjoyed the Lanes'
hospitality for more than a fort
night And it is to be assumed that
the host's house was more commodi
ous than anything else in the vicin
ity since the Assembly had also
stayed there in June of 1781, albeit
paying £15,000 in Revolution-de
pressed currency for bed, board, and
horse pasturage—a figure far more
than Co). Lana received for the
1,000 acne which later became
Raleigh. It is not eurpriaing that
■ame time later Lane added a
“guest" house to his properties in
Wakefield.
During eight diys of their stay at
Wakefield the commissioners jour
neyed, not stopping for Sunday it
was said, in the business of cruising
those various parcels of land which
were for sale. And upon their return,
they still were not in accord, but had
to ballot twice for agreement. Fi
nally, 1,000 acres, the number
stipulated by the Assembly, were
bought from their host for £1,378.
Forthwith, William Christmas,
senator from Franklin County, was
hired as surveyor of the purchased
property. His compensation for six
copies of the new plan for Raleigh
was four shillings for each lot he
eurveyed. Hie work uaed up 0t»
bettor part of tar dagra and the
name “Raleigh," which wee aald to
Hava bam firet auggaatod bjr peet
Revolution Oov. Alexander Martin,
waa duly affixed to the new *Utie.”
At laaat Raleigh waa uniquely
favored in one aapeet of ita long*
awaited aiting in that it did notjuet
grow happenatanee tan a likely
curve in the eourae of a atage road,
norfVom eziating city lanaa or plan
tation patha—it waa planned.
Fallowing iqjunetlana of the 1791
Aaaembly, the cotnmieafonare-pian
nera originally enviaioned that part'
of the deeignated one aquare mile
would be divided into 876 one acre
lota. It would be bounded peripher
ally by the patently evident naaee,
North, South, Eaat and Weat
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