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In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records. [ 10 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Sloop Point plantation in Pender County, built in 1729, is the oldest surviving plantation house and the second oldest house surviving in North Carolina, after the Lane House (built in 1718–1719 and not part of a plantation).
The population density was 1,237 inhabitants per square mile (478/km 2). There were 2,315 housing units at an average density of 587.6 units per square mile (226.9 units/km 2). The racial makeup of the town was 74.5% White, 11.4% African American, 0.4% Native American, 5.0% Asian, 5.7% some other race, and 3.0% from two or more races.
The Longview Gardens neighborhood grew over a series of three separate phases: 1938–1940, 1948-1948, and 1959. Accordingly, its architectural styles reflect this progression, with the earliest homes constructed in the Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles popular before World War II and the later homes constructed in the Ranch and Split ...
He was buried at Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery. [15] In Longview, Washington, a bronze bust of Long, by Alonzo Victor Lewis, was placed in the renamed R. A. Long Park on August 24, 1946. In 1956, International Paper Company (IP) purchased all remaining holdings of the Long-Bell Lumber Company and renamed it IP-Long-Bell. With the lumber depleted ...
The commercial district has 250,000 square feet (23,000 m 2) of retail stores and 200,000 square feet (19,000 m 2) of office space, including restaurants, a grocery store, a drug store, home furnishing stores, a bookstore, hair care salon and medical and business services. Citizens Union State Bank opened a new 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m 2) bank.
Bladen Lakes State Forest: Coastal Plain Bladen: 32,700 acres (132 km 2) Open year-round via permit Clemmons Educational State Forest: Piedmont Johnston, Wake: 825 acres (3.34 km 2) [1] Open year-round DuPont State Recreational Forest: Mountains Henderson, Transylvania: 10,473 acres (42.38 km 2) [1] [2] Open year-round Gill State Forest ...
The Market House is a market house and town hall in the center of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1838 on the site of the old state house and Town Hall which burned down in 1831. [3] Fayetteville was the capital of North Carolina from 1789 to 1794.
The Moore Square Historic District is a registered historic district located in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, the district is centered on Moore Square, one of two surviving four-acre (1.6 hm ) parks from Raleigh's original 1792 plan. [ 2 ]