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West End is an unincorporated community in Moore County, North Carolina, United States. The community is located at the multiplex of two primary state highways, North Carolina Highway 211 (NC 211) and North Carolina Highway 73 (NC 73). It is named for when it was the western terminus of a railroad from Aberdeen, from about 1890–1898.
Located just west of Chapel Hill, Carrboro was originally known as West End. It was settled in 1882 near the terminus "in a vacant field" of the 10.2 miles (16.4 km) State University Railroad spur from University Station in Glenn, North Carolina .
West End Historic District is a national historic district located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 508 contributing buildings and 7 contributing structures, in a predominantly residential section of Winston-Salem. It was a planned picturesque streetcar suburb developed at the turn of the 20th century.
From there, it followed modern NC 16 to a junction south of Denver, where it turned to continue east to West End on what had been NC 74, NC 515, NC 51, and NC 75. [ 6 ] [ 8 ] In the late 1930s, NC 73 was extended to its current eastern terminus at US 15/US 501 north of Pinehurst and truncated on its west end to NC 16 south of Denver.
Asheville. The mountainous western North Carolina city of Asheville is mentioned several times throughout the book. Kya’s dad, Pa, is from Asheville. His family owned a plantation there, but ...
The first railroad built by the Pages, known as the Aberdeen and West End Railroad (A&WE), had been a logging railroad since about 1887. [8] Soon after this line connected Aberdeen and Pinehurst, shippers in Montgomery and Moore counties, who had been sending their freight by wagon to Manly on the Seaboard Air Line, created a demand for the A&WE to haul more than logs; this demand led to the ...
These days, we often hear about the importance of failure and the role it may play in launching or advancing our careers. It seems, after eons of lambasting people for even the most miniscule...
Seven Lakes West includes a large 791-acre (1.236 sq mi) spring-fed lake named Lake Auman. It is a community of 3,000 acres (12 m2). Voted as "America's 100 Best Master Planned Communities" by Where to Retire magazine. Includes swimming pool, tennis courts, pickleball and walking trails. Includes an 18-hole golf course, named Beacon Ridge.