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The rail line began service in 1881, [2] and the first train, known as "The Whooper," [1] [5] was a locomotive and two passenger cars that made the run from University Station to Chapel Hill Station twice daily. The trip from university station to Chapel Hill Station took an hour traveling southbound and seventy minutes northbound.
Roanoke River Railway: North Carolina Midland Railroad: SOU: 1880 Still exists as a lessor of the Norfolk Southern Railway: North Carolina Mining, Manufacturing and Development Company: ACL/ N&W: 1903 1905 Carolina, Glenanna and Pee Dee Railway and Development Company: North Carolina Ports Railway Commission: NCPR 1979 2002 North Carolina State ...
UNC Bell Tower, 2007. Chapel Hill Historic District is a national historic district located at Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 46 contributing buildings, 2 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects on the central campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and surrounding residential sections of Chapel Hill.
The North Carolina Railroad (reporting mark NCRR) is a 317-mile (510 km) state-owned rail corridor extending from Morehead City, North Carolina, to Charlotte. The railroad carries over seventy freight trains operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway and eight passenger trains ( Amtrak 's Carolinian and Piedmont ) daily.
The Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway was created in 1879 with the consolidation of the Western Railroad and the Mount Airy Railroad. [ 1 ] By 1899, the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway was debt-ridden and bankrupt and was sold to the Southern Railway , where it was reorganized as a new company under the name Atlantic and Yadkin Railway ...
North Carolina Highway 86 Truck (NC 86 Truck) is a bypass route for truck drivers that are traveling through the city of Hillsborough. This 8.3-mile (13.4 km) route goes west around the entire city, via I-85 (between exits 165 and 160), I-85 Connector and US 70 .
The Occaneechi Indians lived in the area of what is now Hillsborough, north of Chapel Hill, prior to European settlement. [6]The area was the home place of early settler William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, whose 1753 grant of 585 acres on the north and south side of "Lick Branch" [7] from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville was the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel ...
Cadiz, Franklinville area network: Merlin Mead House and others, including John Burlingame, Alfred Rice, Isaac Searle, and the owner of the Stagecoach Inn [56] McClew Farm at Murphy Orchards — Burt [24] [57] St. James AME Zion Church — Ithaca [17] [52] John Brown Farm State Historic Site — Lake Placid [17] Starr Clock Tinshop — Mexico [17]