#Chatham County Courthouse

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Chatham County Courthouse in downtown Pittsboro, North Carolina, USA

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At a socially distanced, masks-required outdoor ceremony at 4:00 p.m. tomorrow, July 11, at the Courthouse Justice Center in Pittsboro, the Community Remembrance Coalition Chatham will call for “truth, justice, and reconciliation” for lynching victims.

As part of the Equal Justice Initiative’s nationwide effort, the coalition will share the story of the six documented lynching victims who were murdered in Chatham County between 1850 and 1950, none of whom ever received justice, or even recognition, Chatham Community NAACP president Mary Nettles says.

“It’s just telling the whole story of the county — what has happened in the past, so we can go forward,” Nettles says.  

The ceremony will feature speakers including Rev. Corey D. Little of Mitchell Chapel AME Zion Church, Pittsboro Mayor Jim Nass, and county commissioners Karen Howard and Diana Hales, as well as Chatham County Sheriff Mike Roberson and Chief Deputy Charles Gardner.

“The purpose of the event is to just remind us that the fundamental first step for resolving any issue is to determine what the truth of it is,” lifetime NAACP member Bob Pearson says.  “And then acknowledging that truth and using that as a basis for broader understanding among all the people involved — in this case, the white community and the Black community — and then on that basis to try to move forward to a better state of race relations in the county.”

In 2018, Pearson suggested to the Chatham Community NAACP branch that they look into the EJI’s breakdown of lynchings by U.S. county, which identified the six in Chatham.  Pearson looped in the Western Chatham branch. Joining with several other community organizations and individuals, they formed Community Remembrance Coalition Chatham.  

At the ceremony, the coalition will call for an objective accounting of race relations in Chatham County, Pearson says.

“[The event is] designed to be nonpartisan and multi-party, multicultural, multiracial,” he says, “and so it's really trying to build a broader appreciation of the challenges ahead of us and to show that all of us have a stake in this — white, Black, brown, whatever.”  

The victims whom the ceremony will recognize include 16-year-old Eugene Daniel, who was lynched near Moore’s Bridge in 1921; Henry Jones, who was lynched by the Devil’s Tramping Ground in 1899; and Lee Tyson, John Pattishall, Harriet Finch, and Jerry Finch, all of whom were lynched on the same day in 1885 near Pittsboro.

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Saturday, the community gathered to acknowledge those losses and pray for continued progress toward racial equity here and in the world outside.

About 100 people attended a two-hour service organized by local NAACP branches with support from the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), based in Montgomery, Alabama. The group has encouraged researchers across the country to gather and share information about lynchings that happened in their communities and consider the lasting effects of that violence.

According to the EJI, researchers have documented 123 “terror lynchings” of African Americans in North Carolina between 1877 and 1950. Those were among 4,084 that have been documented in Southern states during that time. The group distinguishes “terror lynchings” as “racial killings carried out with impunity, sometimes in broad daylight, often on the courthouse lawn,” outside of the criminal justice system and often sparked by nothing more than rumors or perceived social missteps.

“I think it says something about us as people when we allow these stories to be silenced,” Karen Howard, chair of the Chatham County Board of Commissioners, said after the service.

Reinforcing white supremacy

Saturday’s service honored the memories of Harriet Finch, Jerry Finch, John Pattishall and Lee Tyson, who were lynched in 1885, and Henry Jones, lynched in 1899.

Community members held a service last year in memory of Eugene Daniel, lynched in 1921.

After the emancipation of slaves, through Reconstruction and into the era of Jim Crow, lynchings of Black people accused of crimes or social slights served to intimidate families and communities and reinforce White supremacy, the EJI says.

Sometimes advertised in advance, public lynchings could draw thousands of spectators who sometimes watched victims be tortured for hours before their deaths. Afterward, members of the crowd often collected gruesome souvenirs from the victims’ bodies.

While such grotesque events were recorded in newspapers and memorialized in photos and postcards by whites, surviving Black family members were careful with whom they talked about killings, if they talked about them at all.

Speakers at Saturday’s service said the truth of lynchings — that the victims often were innocent, that they never had a day in court, that their killers usually weren’t named and rarely were prosecuted — has caused anger and grief and has contributed to a distrust of law enforcement that lingers today.

Even if some of the lynching victims had been guilty of misdeeds, Howard said, “Vigilantism is not how we serve justice in this country, and there have been broad ramifications of that.”

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General Nathanael Greene and Fun Facts: 

Greene was born into a Quaker family in Rhode Island, but he showed very strong patriot beliefs 

Greene helped to establish the “Kentish Guards”, which was the name for the Rhode Island State Militia 

Greene went to help Washington and the growing Continental Army after the skirmish at Lexington and Concord in April of 1775 

Greene became the army’s quartermaster general in 1778, essentially meaning he was in charge of supplying the army and making deals with civilians in order to feed and clothe the soldiers 

In 1780, after the Fall of Charleston and the capture of General Benjamin Lincoln, General Gates took up command of the southern front of the war alongside General Greene, who was given the leadership from Washington himself 

Gates left the southern warfront in 1780 after the disaster that was the Battle of Camden, South Carolina. He set a record as the shortest serving southern general at three months (May 1780 to August 1780) and left Greene to command the Southern Campaign himself

Greene was very successful as a southern commander and used Guerilla War tactics alongside Francis Marion. The most notable fights with these tactics are the Battles of Guilford Courthouse, Hobkirk’s Hill, and Eutaw Springs, all of which inflicted major damage against the British Army and raised the Continental Army’s morale after the devastating loss at Camden only a few months beforehand 

In 1781, Lafayette was given some of Greene’s men to lead to Virginia to assist in the Siege of Yorktown while Greene maintained their hold of the south. Lafayette followed orders to avoid fighting until in Virginia, but still got caught in the Battle of Green Spring, which nearly killed his entire force. Greene technically had command in Virginia, but he allowed the main army to handle it as he couldn’t command well from so far away

After the victory at Yorktown, very few major battles ensued in the south, the majority of which were small skirmishes. Unfortunately for Greene, one such skirmish took the life of Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens. In response, he wrote to Washington saying, “Your Excellency has lost a valuable Aid de Camp, the Army a brave Officer, and the public a worthy and patriotic Citizen”. Greene regarded Laurens highly, but later remarked that he was incredibly reckless 

The states of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina all rewarded Greene for his service and defense of their states and Greene received various plots of land and money from each state, the largest of which was Mulberry Grove Plantation in Chatham County, Georgia 

When Greene resigned his commission after the official end to the war in 1783, he returned to Newport with a lot of debt, and therefore moved himself to the South, where he attempted to make a life as a farmer, which later failed 

Greene had spoken against slavery earlier in his life, but as he realized the work on his Plantation was growing, he purchased slaves to work for him

Nathanael Greene fell ill on June 12 of 1786, and later died on June 19, 1786. There were no final words recorded, but General Anthony Wayne had sat by his bedside on the days before his death and remained there until Greene had officially died early on a monday morning. The pair were very close throughout their service in the army 

Greene’s body was moved from Colonial Park Cemetary in Savannah, Georgia in 1902 to Johnson Square in Savannah, where there is now a monument which you can visit 

General Nathanael Greene has had a total of fourteen counties named after him and a number of other towns and cities, most notably Greensville, South Carolina 

That concludes my infodump on General Greene, and thank you for staying through the end. 

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Voter Registration, Chatham County, Courthouse, Savannah, Georgia, Frederick C. Baldwin, 1963

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Students lined up in the Chatham County Courthouse in Savannah, Ga., registering to vote. Photo by Fred Baldwin, 1963

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presided over a very important court case yesterday. that guy Luke is a guilty motherfucker #JudgeShaunna (at Chatham County Courthouse)

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Downton Abbey Filming Locations

This is somewhat complete list of the DA filming locations from S1-6. Some of this information comes from the various companion books (or was later confirmed by them), and some is from the info we got via social media as they were filming it.

Hoping that the cut/read more/’Keeping Reading” works on mobile, because this is a long list! 

Appearing in multiple series:

- Highclere Castle: Downton Abbey + the courtyard, the stables, cottages exteriors (including the Bateses'), cricket pitch  - Ealing Studios in London: servants' hall, kitchen, etc.; various interiors - Bampton, Oxfordshire: Downton village exterior shots. The Grantham Arms, Duck and Dog, Mrs Patmore's B&B exterior - Church Gate House, Bampton: Crawley House (exterior) - Hall Place, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire: Crawley House (interior) - Ham House in Surrey: Crawley House (kitchen) - Bampton Library: Downton Cottage Hospital (exterior but also interior in S6) - St. Mary's, Bampton: St. Michael's and Downton church cemetery - Byfleet Manor: Dower House - Horsted-Keynes Station, owned by the Blueway Railway in Sussex: Downton Station [used in A LOT of other period dramas] - West Wycombe Park: Rosamund's house interior 

First Appearing in Series 1

- St. James Park, London (playing itself in S1E7, S5E8) - Royal Hospital Chelsea: Duke of York Barracks (S1E7)

First Appearing in Series 2

- Akenham, Suffolk, reenactment fields owned by Taff Gillingham: Battle scenes in France - Old Forge, Shilton: The Red Lion (S2E3) - Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Aylesbury: Haxby Park (S2E6) - The Swan Inn, Swinbrook: The inn where Tom and Sybil went (S2E7) - Crown Court, Surrey County Hall, Surrey: York Courthouse (S2CS, S6E5) - Stocker's Farm House, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire: Mr Mason's farm (before moving to Yew Tree) (interior) - Colstrope Farm, Buckinghamshire: Mr Mason's farm (before moving to Yew Tree (exterior) - Hall Barn, Buckinghampshire: Loxley

First Appearing in Series 3

- Lincoln Castle, Lincoln, Lincolnshire: York Prison (S3 prison scenes) - Grey's Court, Rotherfield Greys, Henley-on-Thames: Eryholme a.k.a. Downton Place (S3E3) - Rules Restaurant, Covent Garden (played itself in S3E7, S5E8, S6E3) - Inveraray Castle, Argyll: Duneagle Castle and estate (S3CS) - Wrotham Park: a few interiors in Duneagle Castle [the room Anna practices in, the billiards room] (S3CS)

First Appearing in Series 4

- St. Pancras Station (S4E1) - Cogges Manor Farm (a living history museum depicting rural life in Oxfordshire): Farmland, Yew Tree Farm (S4-S6) - Criterion Restaurant, Piccadilly (played itself in S4E1; S6E6) - Cheptow Villas: Gregson's flat (S4; in S6 they were at Ealing) - Lincoln Inn Fields: Outdoor London Scenes (S4) - The Tarred Yarn Store, Historic Docks, Chatham, Kent: The workhouse were Mrs Hughes finds Grigg (S4E1) - Historic Docks, Chatham, Kent: Outdoor York scene and exterior of dance hall (S4E2) - Hoxton Hall, Hackney, London: interior of dance hall in York (S4E2) - The Savile Club, Mayfair, London: The Lotus Club (S4E4) - The Langdon Down Museum: Kitchen of the Ritz (S4E5)  - York House, Twickenham: Interior of the Netherby Hotel and Restaurant, Thirsk (S4E6) - Hambledon Farm: The pig barn on the Downton estate (S4E7) - Syon House, the London home of the Duke of Northumberland: Restaurant (S4E8) - Cleveland Row, London: Grantham House (exterior) (S4CS, S5E8) - Basildon Park, Berkshire: Grantham House (interior) (S4CS, S5E8); Hyde Park (S4CS) - Royal Holloway: Gallery was used for art gallery with the Summer Exhibition (S4CS) - Embassy Night Club: playing itself (S4CS) - Lancaster House: Buckingham Palace (S4CS) - Goldsmith's College: Buckingham Palace (S4CS; I think the reception part?) - Kensington Gardens: the picnic at Albert Memorial (S4CS) - West Wittering Beach, Sussex: Brighton Beach (S4CS)

First Appearing in Series 5

- Burghclere: Schoolhouse (S5, S6) - Kingston Bagerprize House, Vale of the White Horse, Wiltshire: Cavenham Park (Lord Merton's house) (S5E2, S6) - Corinthia Hotel London: Grand Hotel in Liverpool (S5E2,3) - National Gallery in London (playing itself in S5E3) - The Strand Palace Hotel, London (or the above is the Strand area of London): Tony's apartment in Albany (S5E4) - Peter Pan statue at Kensington Gardens: Playing itself (S5E4) - St. Marylebone Parish Church, London: St. Mary Magdelene's in York (S5E5) - Simpson's-in-the-Strand: Restaurant playing itself (S5E5) - 2 Temple Place: Craxton Hall Registry Office (S5E8) - Alnwick Castle, Northumblerand (and Hulne Park, the surrounding land): An exterior shot was used for the exterior of the women's prison in York (S5CS); Exterior and interior used for Brancaster Castle, the grounds as well (S5CS); shops in Thirsk (S6E8) - St. Mary's, Charlbury (in the Cotswolds): The area near where Carson and Mrs Hughes look at houses (S5CS) - The Duchess High School, Bailiffgate, Northumberland: The Crown and Anchor pub in York (S5CS)

First Appearing in Series 6

- Ditchley Park near Charlbury, in Oxfordshire: Mallerton House (S6E1) - Lincoln Inn Fields, in near Wildy & Sons bookshop: Exterior of The Sketch offices (S6, S6E3 in particular) - Lacock, Wiltshire: Malton Market (S6E2) - Royal Automobile Club: I believe playing itself (S6E4) - Hampton Court Palace: Playing itself, basically, or just as a park (S6E5) - Thorney Island, Chichester: Catterick (S6E5, where they were testing cars) - Brooklands Museum: Brooklands Race Track, crowd scenes, the stands, and starting area, anything with signage (S6E7) - Goodwood Racerway: Brooklands Race Track; the main track the race happens on, and the crash site (S6E7) - Beamish Transport Museum: Talbot & Branson Motors

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PITTSBORO, NC

It would be easy to simply pass through Pittsboro, without taking in what it has to offer. Thankfully, we have been fortunate enough to stop to smell the Blue Dot Coffee and spend time being a patron of this quaint town.  

A day trip is well worth the venture to this little Chatham County town- start with breakfast, meander through the town into shops, art galleries, have lunch, venture to the thrift shops, have a glass of wine, then mozy to one of the restaurants for dinner, and end your evening with live music (post-Covid, of course). Wanderlust Couple And Their Dog

We’ll make it easy for you; here is a must-do list of just some of the things that Pittsboro has to offer:

·         Breakfast at Virlie’s– THIS IS A MUST! Do not skimp on this. If you do not arrive to Pittsboro to have breakfast, well just stay the night at an AirBnb and go the next morning. Virlie’s isn’t that impressive, aesthetically, but it makes up for that with its culinary offerings- southern style. You walk in, find a table, and choose your fave omelet, pancakes, or any other offering that is on the menu. Enjoy!

·         Walk down to the courthouse circle and visit the Chatham Historical Museum. The courthouse, alone, is a nice locale, so it may be nice to pop-a-squat on the lawn and take in all the places you want to venture along Hillsboro Street.

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The Pittsylvania County Courthouse from several weeks ago. #clouds #building #historic #virginia #preservation #history #justice #government (at Chatham, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1CE8axAzVMTXWzxbwrsFXz1IZl9BPU9AYHalY0/?igshid=1mbom586d5hks

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Courtney Ritter, a stay-at-home mom who moved to Pittsboro from Alabama in 2002, has been at the forefront of recent protests demanding the removal of the Confederate Memorial that has stood in front of the historic Chatham County courthouse since 1907.

Last night [2019-11-19], she and her fifteen-year-old son watched under the daggers of work lights as the copper-and-granite celebration of the men who fought for a white-supremacist rebellion was dismantled.  Save for the occasional cheer, the crowd around them — about seventy-five people, according to The News & Observer — was mostly silent.

“The way that I parent is to show my children that, by the color of their skin, the place that they were born, the education they will receive, that they are privileged,” Ritter says.  “The struggle for equality and diversity never will end really — not in their lifetimes.”

County commissioners had voted in August to remove the monument by November 1, but the United Daughters of the Confederacy sued to block the county’s plans.  Since the vote, protests and counter-protests have taken place every Saturday.  (Eleven people were arrested at last week’s protests.)

A judge lifted an injunction last week, and six days later, the county removed the monument.  

“The last several months have been a painful time for Chatham County.  We’ve experienced high emotions, division, and even violence which have impacted residents, businesses, and the overall feel of our community,” said Mike Dasher, who chairs the Board of Commissioners.

Unsurprisingly, the North Carolina division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans was “outraged.”

“[We are] outraged at the latest disturbing action of the Chatham County Board of Commissioners,” the SCV said in a statement.  The group believes that the board made up controversy, invited protestors, and removed the statue “like a thief in the night, under the cover of darkness.”  (You can, uh, support the Sons by ordering your very own SCV specialty license plate from the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, which is a thing that somehow still exists in 2019.)

More surprisingly — or, at least, more depressingly — most North Carolina residents seem to think the Confederate fetishists should get to keep their treason participation trophy, according to a new poll from Elon University.  In fact, nearly two-thirds of respondents said they thought Confederate monuments have a place on public property, even though two-thirds also recognized that black people are likely to find them offensive.

Doing some back-of-napkin math, that means that one-third of the people surveyed understand that Confederate monuments are horribly offensive reminders of racial oppression, but don’t think that’s a problem.

The poll’s silver lining, if you want to call it that: A slight majority thinks the monuments should be relocated to cemeteries, and a larger majority thinks we should stuff them in museums.  Nearly three-quarters of residents think that, while we venerate men who were willing to kill and die to preserve chattel slavery, we should also put up a plaque noting the fact that they were willing to kill and die to preserve chattel slavery — or, as the poll describes it, “historical context.”

“Our findings suggest that a compromise might have broad support in local communities grappling with controversies about Confederate monuments,” says Jason Husser, the poll’s director.

(Really, who wouldn’t want to compromise with the kinds of folks who erected a Confederate flag outside of the historically black Horton Middle School in Chatham County?  They seem nice.)

There are, of course, three Confederate monuments still on the grounds of State Capitol in Raleigh, even after protesters toppled Silent Sam at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2018 and a Confederate statue in downtown Durham the year before.

For now, though, a patch of earth in front of the Chatham County courthouse is seeing the sun for the first time in a century.

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Correctable Tardiness

Monday, November 5, 2018

The Georgia Supreme Court has reprimanded a judge

According to the formal charges, the allegations of which Judge Stokes admits are true, she violated the Code of Judicial Conduct by her habitual tardiness in starting court and her excessive absenteeism from the court...

During the past year-and-a-half, Judge Stokes often did not take the bench until more than an hour after the court’s scheduled starting time. Furthermore, she often did not even arrive at the courthouse until after the court’s scheduled starting time. We note that Judge Stokes has offered no good cause to excuse this habitual tardiness. Accordingly, Judge Stokes failed to promote public confidence in the judiciary and to give her judicial duties precedence over all other activities...

She was absent for 38 of her scheduled court days in 2017 and, as of the time of the filing of the formal charges on September 17, 2018, had already missed 36 of her scheduled court days in 2018. Furthermore, her absenteeism required the court to spend significant funds on judges pro tempore to fill in. The court spent more than twice as much money on judges pro tempore to fill in for Judge Stokes as the other two Recorder’s Court judges combined. This absenteeism has also manifested itself in Judge Stokes’s unavailability to review and determine probable cause for search and arrest warrants outside of court hours, one of her duties as a Recorder’s Court judge.

Sanction

the Investigative Panel considered in mitigation Judge Stokes’s cooperation in responding to the allegations of misconduct, including voluntarily meeting with the panel; her candor during the meeting, including admitting her tardiness and absences, being reflective and remorseful, and expressing an honest desire to improve and set a better example as the Chief Judge of the Recorder’s Court of Chatham County; her faithful service on that court for many years; the fact that her absences and tardiness were due in part to then-pending litigation in which she was a party, which diverted her time and resources away from the court; her receptiveness to new court procedures that could help assure the public that the judge is present and court has begun on time; and the fact that her tardiness and absences were not intentional or malicious abuses of judicial power but rather were a correctable and recent lapse in judgment.

(Mike Frisch)

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In rare move, N. Carolina county removes Confederate statue

A North Carolina county removed a Confederate statue from a historic courthouse early Wednesday, joining the handful of places around the state where such monuments have come down in recent years despite a law protecting them. Preparations began Tuesday night to carefully dismantle the statue of a soldier outside the historic Chatham County courthouse, where it had stood since 1907, and continued for hours overnight, said county spokeswoman Kara Lusk Dudley. The removal comes months after Winston-Salem officials removed a Confederate statue from land there that had passed into private hands.

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A North Carolina county removed a Confederate statue from a historic courthouse early Wednesday, joining the handful of places around the state where such monuments have come down in recent years despite a law protecting them. Preparations began Tuesday night to carefully dismantle the statue of a soldier outside the historic Chatham County courthouse, where it had stood since 1907, and continued for hours overnight, said county spokeswoman Kara Lusk Dudley. The removal comes months after Winston-Salem officials removed a Confederate statue from land there that had passed into private hands.

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A North Carolina county removed a Confederate statue from a historic courthouse early Wednesday, joining the handful of places around the state where such monuments have come down in recent years despite a law protecting them. Preparations began Tuesday night to carefully dismantle the statue of a soldier outside the historic Chatham County courthouse, where it had stood since 1907, and continued for hours overnight, said county spokeswoman Kara Lusk Dudley. The removal comes months after Winston-Salem officials removed a Confederate statue from land there that had passed into private hands.

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