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A term for such open-air slaughterhouses was shambles, and there are streets named "The Shambles" in some English and Irish towns (e.g., Worcester, York, Bandon) which got their name from having been the site on which butchers killed and prepared animals for consumption. Fishamble Street, Dublin, was formerly a fish-shambles. Sheffield had 183 ...
Five Points is located in western Hoke County. The original "Five Points" is the intersection of Calloway Road, Montrose Road, and N. Horace Walters Road, 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Raeford, the Hoke county seat.
The former High Point Bending and Chair Company, also known as Boling Chair Company and Boling Company, is a historic factory complex located at Siler City, Chatham County, North Carolina. The complex includes the original 1908 factory building, along with brick factory buildings built about 1920 and 1948.
South Point Township is a township in southeastern Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. It is represented on the Gaston County Board of Commissioners by Ronnie Worley of Cramerton . As of the 2010 census it had a population of 40,484.
There is no large retail presence in the area, except a Han Dee Hugo's convenience store at the intersection of NC 87 and US 17 South. Mill Creek Farm and Garden Center is the feed store for the area and is located beside Willetts Farm. Winnabow has a post office.
Residents and town officials are working on additional improvement plans. In the downtown area, there is a town park and a skate park for youths. Near the skate park is a playground and a walking area connected to downtown. New housing has been built along NC 75 to the east and west of town, as well as NC 16 (Providence Road) to the north.
The Marley House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [5]Among the earliest settlers here was Jacob Leyenberger, aka Lineberry, said to be the first and only of the line of this family in America, born in the Harz Mountains of Northern Germany (Braunschweig), who arrived in Philadelphia on the Ship Robert and Alice from Dublin via Rotterdam, on September 3, 1739.
Burlington is a city in Alamance and Guilford counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina.It is the principal city of the Burlington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Alamance County, in which most of the city is located, and is a part of the Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area.