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Completed (with two stories) in 1862 on Halifax St., the building was home to one of the earliest North Carolina railroads, the Raleigh & Gaston, eventually incorporated into the 20th century's Seaboard Coast Line. Acquired by the state in the 1970s for use as an office building and moved to its present location on N. Salisbury St.
Lake James is a large reservoir in the mountains of Western North Carolina which straddles the border between Burke and McDowell Counties. It is named for tobacco tycoon and benefactor of Duke University James Buchanan Duke. The lake, with surface elevation of 1200 ft (366 m), lies behind a series of 4 earthen dams.
Wake Forest is a town in Wake and Franklin counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located almost entirely in Wake County, it lies just north of the state capital, Raleigh. At the 2020 census, the population was 47,601, [5] up from 30,117 in 2010. [6] It is part of the Raleigh metropolitan area.
The original investors who built Beaver Lake lost much of their wealth after the Central Bank & Trust crashed [5] in 1930 due to poor real estate returns. Simpler family homes were built in the area after WWII. [3] The wall between the lake and the adjoining pool was removed in 1952, as the cost of repairing it was deemed too high. [12]
John Purefoy was born in Craven County, North Carolina, in 1778. A brief biography of Purefoy in the Wake Forest student indicated that he was orphaned at the age of twelve and went to live with relatives in Georgia, where he was later converted and began his career as a Baptist minister [Sikes: p. 19].
The Louis F. Swift House is a historic house at 255 E. Foster Place in Lake Forest, Illinois.The house was built in 1916 for Louis F. Swift, the president of meat packing firm Swift & Company; it was originally an addition to a home built for Swift in 1898, which was demolished in 1940.
Bladen Lakes State Forest IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources) View from Fire Tower towards Elizabethtown Location of Bladen Lakes State Forest in North Carolina Location Bladen County, North Carolina, United States Coordinates 34°41′18″N 78°35′40″W / 34.68833°N 78.59444°W / 34.68833; -78.59444 Area 32,950 acres (133.3 km 2 ...
Graylyn Estate, or Graylin, is a historic estate located in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [ 1 ] The construction of the Norman Revival style mansion began in 1928.