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Early History of High Point
The High Point site served as a major travel hub with the Plank Road passing through in 1853. It details early inns, saw mills, postal service, and the 1859 incorporation act establishing a one mile square town governed by a directorate later led by Nathan Hunt Jr as mayor in 1860. It notes Civil War damage, hospital use, churches, schools, and the rise of industry including the shuttle block factory and early furniture mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Bethania
Salem
Fayetteville
Quaker Woods
North Carolina Railroad
Charlotte
Goldsboro
Jarrell Hotel
Gregg
Austen Welch
Billy Welch
Washington
Main Streets
Main Street
Salem Street
Sewell Farlow
Guilford County
General Assembly
State of
North Carolina
Guilford
Robert C. Lindsay
John Carter
Sewell Farlow Eli Denny
Jeremiah Piggott
House of Commons
Settle, Jr
Henry T. Clark
Senate
Nathan Hunt, Jr
A. B. Smith
Board of Commissioners
Stoneman
Redding Flats
Barbee
A. J. Sapp
Oakwood Cemetery
W. G. Barbee
Clara
Penny Barbee
Jeff Davis
James K Polk
Bellevue
Peter Doub
Wiley Sheek
Baptist Church of
Jamestown
Sam Lander
High Point College
M. J. Wrenn
W. P. Pickett and Co
Plug Tobacco
W. H. Snow
Vermont
National Bank of
J. Armfield
T. F. Wrenn
J. &. Tate
2. A. Snow
High Point Furniture Co
L. M
kReynolds
Alexander Martin D. A. R