Bynum North Carolina is an unincorporated community perched on a hill above the Haw River, found just off of Highway 15-501 between Chapel Hill and Pittsboro, in North Carolina. Bynum is there because a textile mill used to be there, one of the many that dotted the languid rivers of the Piedmont region of North [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Clyde Jones’
January 18, 2009
Bynum North Carolina, Six
Top: This thin field, on Bynum Road just North of the Bynum General Store, doubles as a parking lot on summer nights for the Bynum Front Porch concerts.
Middle: A small, red commercial building succumbs to vines and other vegetation.
Bottom: A sign at the ball field, made in the Clyde Jones style, suggests some words to live by [...]
January 14, 2009
Bynum North Carolina, Trois
Top: A covered porch on the back of a vacant commercial building on Bynum Rd., in the old, small commerical district.
Middle: Clyde Jones’ mill house, painted with his imagery; snakes, fish, turtles. The yard is chock-full of his critter art. A bulletin board of pictures and notes is tacked on the wall of the front [...]
January 12, 2009
Bynum North Carolina
Top: The only sign on the highway alerting you the community might be nearby is a church sign.
Middle: A mill house on Bynum Hill Rd., with two of Clyde Jones’ “critters” perched out front.
Bottom: Inside the one structure left of the Odell Manufacturing Company textile mill.
