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Downtown Garner Historic District, also known as Garner's Station, is a national historic district located at Garner, Wake County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 62 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Garner.
North Carolina plantation were identified by name, beginning in the 17th century. The names of families or nearby rivers or other features were used. The names assisted the owners and local record keepers in keeping track of specific parcels of land. In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records.
This partial list of city nicknames in North Carolina compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities in North Carolina are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
Land near the town of Garner was first settled around 1751. In the 1850s, the North Carolina Railroad was built, and before the 1870s, a wood-and-water stop was established in present-day downtown Garner. The community of Garner's Station received a post office in 1878 and was incorporated in 1883, but the community had its charter repealed in ...
The project's demolition crews have finished taking down the 1970s expansion of the old shopping mall, leaving Northland's original 1954 footprint and massive four-story Hudson's department store ...
Hudson is located in southern Caldwell County. It is bordered to the north by the city of Lenoir, the county seat, and to the south by the town of Sawmills. U.S. Route 321, a four-lane highway, runs along the eastern edge of the town, leading northwest into Lenoir and southeast 11 miles (18 km) to Hickory.
A powerful storm tore through Garner, N.C., Sunday afternoon, Dec. 10, 2023. The NWS confirmed that an EF-1 tornado, with peak winds at 110 mph, did hit Garner between 12:28 and 12:32 p.m.
After meeting NC 55 at Broad Street just south of Old Varina, the three share North Main Street before NC 55 and NC 42 leave US 401 at the northeastern corner of town. The two routes share pavement only for a few dozen yards before NC 42 splits off in an eastbound direction towards Willow Springs and Cleveland in Johnston County.