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Candor is a town in Montgomery County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 840 at the 2010 census . Candor is the home of the North Carolina Peach Festival, which is held every year on the third Saturday of July.
Biscoe Township, population 5,765, [3] is one of eleven townships in Montgomery County, North Carolina, United States.Biscoe Township is 47.97 square miles (124.2 km 2) [1] in size and is located in the east central part of the county.
The Aberdeen and West End Railroad (owned by the Page family of Aberdeen, North Carolina) completed a branch to Star, North Carolina from Filo, NC (current Biscoe) in 1895. [7] The A & W. E. R.R. was merged into the Aberdeen and Asheboro Railroad in 1897. [8] Biscoe was incorporated in 1901. [9]
The Durham semiconductor company could receive up to $750 million in federal funding as it seeks to strengthen its balance sheet while starting a projected 1,800-worker plant in Chatham County.
The Briggs Hardware Building is a four-story historic building in downtown Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. It was built in 1874 by Thomas Briggs to house his family-owned hardware store. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
NC 731 is a two-lane rural highway that traverses 25.9 miles (41.7 km). Beginning at U.S. Route 52 (US 52) south of Norwood , it goes west crossing the Pee Dee River and through Mount Gilead . In Mount Gilead, NC 731 intersects NC 109 and NC 73 and has a concurrency with the unsigned NC 109 Business (NC 109 Bus.).
Walbri Hall (named using the first three letters of Walter Briggs's first and last names) was completed in 1925. Briggs and his family used the house as a summer estate, and Briggs also hosted social and business functions there. [2] After Briggs died in 1952, his children inherited the estate.
On October 21, 2006, family and friends of Michael Briggs and many others gathered at a memorial service held at the Lambert Funeral Home and later at the Merchantsauto.com Stadium after a long funeral procession through the city. Approximately 800–4,000 officers from across the state of New Hampshire attended the memorial service.