Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On Neighborhoods
Interviewed on March 26, 2025
Pat Jackson: And here, in the establishment and commemorating the area you have Pottersfield which we knew was that area. You have Mrs. Jackson living as a resident in Pottersfield. She was not. She is a resident of Chapel Hill and she grew up on Merritt Mill Road in the house that they had as the Hackney School. Her grandfather built that house. She was born in 1925. Lived there all of her life. This whole community of the Chapel Hill area was her community and working for Bynum Weaver’s Funeral Home in the Northside area which is the area of town that the White residents designated for the Black people. Thus, we’re now labeled and know that we live in the Northside area of town, of the Chapel Hill town. And that town being Rosemary Street and over. Everything from Rosemary Street headed back which encompassed Sunset, McCauley, McDade and then when we… as we furthered with our churches and especially St. Paul being on the corner, that is where Tin Top is and Merritt Mill Road. The rest of the Other Black people lived encompassing all of this area and, of course, with Windy Hill because that was the area that White people didn’t want to have anything to do with. It was too many hills.
