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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.
As of the 2010 census, White Oak Township had a population of 72,894, [1] an 88.3% increase over 2000. White Oak Township, occupying 52.9 square miles (137.1 km 2) [2] in western Wake County, includes the bulk of the town of Apex and portions of the town of Cary.
A great white oak, called the "Henry Clay Tree".It was said to be the tallest tree in Raleigh, as well as the most historic. [1]The Henry Clay Oak, also called the Henry Clay Tree, was a historic white oak which grew to a prodigious height and girth in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, possibly predating the founding of the city in 1792, until, stricken by disease and the elements, it was ...
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The Broughton House was a Colonial Revival-style mansion located in the Anderson Heights Historic District in Raleigh, North Carolina.Previously owned by Robert Bain Broughton and Celeste Gold Broughton, the son and daughter-in-law of North Carolina Governor J. Melville Broughton, the house was sold at an auction by Sotheby's in 2019 and demolished in 2020.
Polk County is also served by an additional non-freeway U.S. Highway: US 176. This was the primary highway linking Saluda and Tryon to Hendersonville and Spartanburg, SC. prior to the delayed completion of I-26 in 1976. Two North Carolina routes, NC 108 and NC 9, traverse the county as well.
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The 90-foot-tall willow oak, which towers over the street on the south edge of Nash Square in Raleigh, was cut down on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, due to old age and disease.