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The Women's Resource Center in Alamance County hosts the Herb Festival each year to provide Triad-area gardeners with the highest quality organic herbs, perennials, annuals, heirloom tomato and vegetable plants and specially-selected vendors.

Find plants you can't find anywhere else! Master Gardener volunteers will be on hand to answer your questions.

The festival offers unique varieties and old favorites of superior-quality organic herb plants, heirloom tomato and vegetable plants, perennials and annuals all supplied from local North Carolina farms and greenhouses. We purchase our plants only from superior-quality suppliers.

Vendors offer artistic items for your home and garden.

OPEN to Public | Admission FREE | Proceeds support WRCAC

Thursday, April 21 Sneak Preview (evening TBA) $5 entry fee Friday, April 22 (8:30am - 7:00pm) free Saturday, April 23 (8:30am - 2:00pm) free

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Many have passed the small, abandoned cemetery at 1317 West Davis Street over the years and have no idea what it is. Although a sign placed there recently identifies it as “Brown’s Chapel Cemetery,” no one seems to know anything about Brown’s Chapel or why it was located in the middle of a residential area.

Prior to the founding of Company Shops in the middle of the nineteenth century, what is now Tarleton

Brown's Chapel CEMETERY

Avenue, was once part of the main road connecting Salisbury with Hillsborough and the area around it was farmland. On January 3, 1834, a group of local residents founded a Methodist Episcopal Church on Tarleton Avenue, between Granville and West Davis streets, and officially called it “Brown’s Chapel” in honor of James D. Brown, who donated three acres of land for it on February 21, 1834; however, it was unofficially referred to by most as “Boon’s Chapel” because so many named Boon (no relation to the famous explorer Daniel Boone) lived nearby and were members of the congregation.

The church itself was a one-room, crude log hut facing Tarleton Avenue. A larger and more substantial building was never erected on the site because the church’s congregation split during the Civil War, and it never really regained its membership. Brown’s Chapel continued to lose members throughout the remainder of the nineteenth century because it was too far away from the rapidly expanding town of Company Shops. Most of its members started attending Front Street Methodist Church, especially after that church began operating in its own building in downtown Burlington in 1888.

It appears that Brown’s Chapel didn’t have a regular minister in its early years and borrowed minsters from Graham. The route these ministers took between Graham and Brown’s Chapel was soon called “Methodist Path” and later became what is now Burlington’s Front Street.

Rev. Moses Jackson Hunt, the great-grandfather of North Carolina Governor James Baxter “Jim” Hunt, Jr., was the last minister of Brown’s Chapel. The church apparently ceased operation following Rev. Hunt’s death on July 6, 1901.

A subscription school was established at Brown’s Chapel prior to the Civil War and was reportedly the second school in what is now Burlington (the first being nearby Elmira School). Little is known of the school’s early days, except that it was housed in the one-room church during the week. One of the teachers was Rev. Thomas Truitt (1813-1874). Truitt, who was married to the former Mary Brown, was ordained in the Christian Church but lived close to Brown’s Chapel and occasionally served as minister there. It is reported that Truitt was fond of using the whip on his unruly students. He sat the misbehaving boys on a bench running through the middle of the building and “[h]is custom was to walk down the front [of the bench], whipping as he went, then get behind and whip the backs of the offenders, like threshing out peas.”

Rev. Moses Jackson Hunt Paul Jones

In 1893, Brown’s Chapel sold a half-acre of its property at the corner of Tarleton and Granville streets to a public-school committee for $25, but the school remained housed in the church’s old log sanctuary until 1899, when a two-room frame school building was erected next door. The school’s teacher at that time was Virginia Lee “Jennie” Hunt, the daughter of Rev. Moses Jackson Hunt. Jennie taught there until she moved to Greensboro with her mother shortly after her father’s death in 1901. The school at Brown’s Chapel remained in operation under Frank P. Fonville and Ella Jane Andrews until February 10, 1911, when it closed for good.

All that’s left of Brown’s Chapel today is its cemetery, which presumably had its first burial shortly after the church was established, but it appears the early graves were marked only with stones. The first grave marker which is still legible is that of an infant, James W. Brown, who died February 19, 1846. The last adult burial there was that of Alexander E. White, who died January 24, 1921, at the age of 76, and the last burial was that of Raymond Morris Hall, the brother of former Burlington police officer Lacy Bryant “Jack” Hall, who was born and died on February 21, 1926.

The Brown’s Chapel Cemetery was neglected for many years and most of its graves have had their markers vandalized, but there are about 40 marked graves today and the total buried there probably exceeds 100. A picket fence surrounded the cemetery until about 100 years ago, when local boys stole the pickets to use as baseball bats.

The cemetery was the scene of a tragedy on the morning of January 1, 1964, when Paul W. Jones, a student at Duke University and a 1963 honors graduate of Williams High School, shot himself to death there. He had reportedly received a “C” in his first semester at Duke, the first he had ever received in his life, and became despondent. He was the only son of Ruth Jones, a schoolteacher at Hillcrest, and the late Paul L. Jones.

In 1907, ownership of Brown’s Chapel was transferred to Front Street Methodist Church, which sold the property (excluding the cemetery) for $137.50 just prior to October 15, 1915. The old school building was moved to Glen Raven in 1920 to serve as the black Della Plane School, which was demolished in 1954.

WALTER BOYD contributor

Attorney and native of Burlington, North Carolina, Walter Boyd developed an interest in Burlington’s history at a very young age. As a child, he often interviewed people and collected old photographs and documents, which led to his fondness for writing about Burlington’s rich history.

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Herbs You Can Grow in a Small Indoor Space

JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE A LOT OF SPACE DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN'T EXERCISE YOUR GREEN THUMB. THERE ARE A WIDE VARIETY OF HERBS YOU CAN GROW ON A WINDOWSILL INDOORS. AND BECAUSE YOU ARE GROWING THESE HERBS INSIDE, YOU CAN TRUST THAT THEY'RE CLEAN FOR ANY RECIPES YOU'D LIKE TO THROW THEM IN. YOU CAN GROW ANY OF THE FOLLOWING COMMON, DELICIOUS HERBS INSIDE YOUR HOME TO ADD FRESH SPICE TO YOUR KITCHEN.

1.Parsley Growing parsley indoors is incredibly easy. You can get parsley seeds or a seedling at your local gardening store. If you are growing parsley by seed, be sure to germinate the seed prior to inserting it in the soil. Parsley is fairly easy to grow. Keep the soil gently moist as the roots don't appreciate being over watered. You may need to add nutrients once or twice per month. If you notice your parsley looking yellow, it is time to add nutrients to the soil. 2.Basil Basil is a delicious herb you can utilize in any Italian cooking. Similar to parsley, basil will not appreciate being over watered, so the key to good basil is a pot and soil that drains well. Basil likes a lot of sun so place it in a window with direct sunlight. Make sure the soil you use to grow basil is nutrient-dense.

Herbs You Can Grow in a Small Indoor Space

3. Sage

JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE A LOT OF SPACE DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN'T EXERCISE YOUR GREEN THUMB. THERE ARE A WIDE VARIETY OF HERBS YOU CAN GROW ON A WINDOWSILL INDOORS. AND BECAUSE YOU ARE GROWING THESE HERBS INSIDE, YOU CAN TRUST THAT THEY'RE CLEAN FOR ANY RECIPES YOU'D LIKE TO THROW THEM IN. YOU CAN GROW ANY OF THE FOLLOWING COMMON, DELICIOUS HERBS INSIDE YOUR HOME TO ADD FRESH SPICE TO YOUR KITCHEN. 1.Parsley Growing parsley indoors is incredibly easy. You can get parsley seeds or a seedling at your local gardening store. If you are growing parsley by seed, be sure to germinate the seed prior to inserting it in the soil. Parsley is fairly easy to grow. Keep the soil gently moist as the roots don't appreciate being over watered. You may need to add nutrients once or twice per month. If you notice your parsley looking yellow, it is time to add nutrients to the soil.

Sage is a plant that doesn't mind indoor air, even if it gets a bit dry. Rather than growing sage from a seed indoors, it may be easier to use a cutting of an outdoor sage plant and bring it inside. Grab a seedling from a local nursery and set the plant in a sunny window. Be careful not to add too many nutrients to sage as doing so may dampen the flavor. Sage doesn't require too much nutrition and does well in sandy soil. 4. Mint Mint makes an excellent additive to water or cocktails. Mint will do best in temperatures that stay above sixty degrees so as long as you don't keep your house too cold, it will do well 2.Basil inside. Make sure it sits in a window Basil is a that gets plenty of sun and don't delicious herb you can utilize inover water it. The soil should be any Italian cooking. Similar to parsley,moist but never drenched. basil will not appreciate being over watered, so the key to good basil is a pot and soil that drains well. Basil likes a lot of sun so place it in a window with direct sunlight. Make sure the soil you use to grow basil is nutrient-dense.

5. Rosemary Rosemary can do well indoors but before you bring it inside, you should acclimate the plant to less light. Every day, let your rosemary sit outdoors for less and less time. Take a few hours of sunlight away every day until it is only sitting outside for an hour or two. Your rosemary may suffer if you shock it by bringing it from the outside to the indoors with no acclimation. Once it's inside, provide rosemary with plenty of sunlight.

Growing herbs indoors can add a little bit of green beauty to your decor as well as a lot of flavor in the kitchen. Nothing tastes quite as amazing as fresh herbs straight from the plant.