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Elkin is a town in Surry and Wilkes counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina, along the Yadkin River. Elkin shares its name with the surrounding township of Elkin Township . The population was 4,122 at the time of the 2020 census .
Notable buildings and structures include the Gwyn-Foard House (c. 1855), Hugh G. Chatham Bridge (1931), Liberty Tobacco Warehouse (c. 1920), Harris Building (1902), U.S. Post Office (1937) designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon, former Elkin Town Hall (1938–1939) built by the Works Progress Administration ...
North Carolina Highway 268 Business (NC 268 Bus) was established in 2002 as a renumbering of NC 268 through downtown Elkin, via Elkin Highway, Bridge Street (with short concurrency with US 21 Bus.), Market Street and Main Street.
The associated Nurses' Home was built in 1932, and is a two-story-with-basement rectangular brick building in the Colonial Revival style. Frame side wings were added to Nurses' Home in 1937. The hospital was converted to a nursing home and interior remodeled in 1973. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1]
4,100 acre Shiloh Pecan Farms was one of hundreds that face disastrous loss for years to come. Up to 50,000 acres of pecan orchards in Georgia are compromised from the storm, according to Sen. Jon ...
Harvey Laffoon (1897-1978) was the owner, publisher and editor of The Elkin Tribune for 42 years, beginning in 1926. He was inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame in 2002. [2] In 1949, the paper expanded from a weekly to bi-weekly.
Elkin, North Carolina, a town in Elkin Township; Elkin Township, Surry County, North Carolina, containing the town of Elkin; Elkin Municipal Airport, of the Town of Elkin, North Carolina; Elkin Bridges, bridges near Elkin, North Carolina; Elkin's Ferry Battleground, site of Civil War Battle of Elkin's Ferry
Bob Elkins was born in 1932 in Mount Hope, West Virginia, the son of a struggling coal miner.At age four, he moved with his father, mother and two sisters to Muncie, Indiana, where his father took a job at a lawnmower company.