HILLSBOROUGH WATER TREATMENT PLANT
Beautiful little art deco building with a "1936" medallion above the door.
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Water treatment plant, view east, undated. (History of the Town of Hillsborough 1754-1966)
Hillsborough’s water treatment plant was built in 1936 by the J. B. McCrary Company (of Atlanta, GA), with funding from the Emergency Relief Administration (ERA) and Public Works Administration (PWA), and utilizing local labor. The property the plant was built on was purchased by the Town of Hillsboro from J. M. and Hattie Oakley in March 1936, with part of its deed description as being on the "...south side of the Highway leading from Hillsboro to Dimocks Mill... ."
Originally, the water plant sourced its water directly from the Eno River via an eight-inch pipe and utilized a direct and gravity pressure system. It also had a 50,000 gallon capacity concrete reservoir, a 200,000 gallon capacity standpipe, and a water tower with a 20,000 gallon capacity that was on a steel tower 85 feet high, with its base 25 feet higher than the downtown business section.
The water plant utilized a Worthington electric pump with an intake of 200 gallons per minute from the river, with two separate Worthington pumps that drew from the reservoirs at 250 and 500 gallons per minute.
1943 Sanborn map excerpt
1950s (via www.orfd.net)
2014 (S. Rankin)
02.17.16 (G. Kueber)
View west, 2014 (S. Rankin)
View east, 2014 (S. Rankin)
View north, 2014 (S. Rankin)
Pumphouse, view south, 2014 (S. Rankin)
In 2016, the building was named the "Adron F. Thompson Water/Sewer Facility" in honor of a longtime employee/division director. The water treatment plant is still in operation as of 2020.
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