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North Carolina's planning and development regulations for cities had been consolidated into Article 19 of General Statutes Chapter 160A in 1971. [1] The regulations for counties were consolidated into Article 18 of Chapter 153A in 1973. [1] In the decades that followed, hundreds of amendments were added to these chapters without a consistent ...
Prior to Erwin, there was a colonial-era settlement in the area known as "Averasboro". The Battle of Averasborough was fought nearby during the American Civil War.In 1902, the Duke family built the Erwin Cotton Mill, which closed on December 1, 2000, due to the North American Free Trade Agreement increasing the labor costs of the mill workers, leaving Swift Textiles to relocate the mill's ...
A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
The Erwin Commercial Historic District encompasses a cluster of historic commercial buildings at the center of Erwin, North Carolina.It includes all of the buildings on the south side of East H Street between South 12th and 13th Streets, all on the east side of South 13th Street between East H and Denim Drive, and one building facing Denim Drive just east of South 13th.
NC 82 was established in 1934 as a renumbering of a segment of NC 55, between US 421 (Denim Drive), in Erwin, to US 301 in Godwin. [4] In 1957, NC 82 was extended to its western terminus at Jackson Boulevard, replacing part of US 421/NC 55. [5] In 1970, NC 82 was extended east on new primary routing to its current eastern terminus at US 13. [6]
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