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From YouTube: Let's Talk Series: Historic Downtown
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Join the City of Burlington in learning more about the History of Downtown Burlington.
B
A
A
I'm
joined
by
Jimmy,
Lawson
or
finding
director
Mr
Walter
boy
here,
helping
us
out,
and
what
are
you
working
on
those
are
here
thanks
for
putting
it
all
together,
we
are
here
to
to
celebrate
National
Historic
preservation
month
and
we've
been
doing
some
training
sessions
with
just
over
time
talking
about
the
historic
preservation
efforts
that
the
city's
doing
so.
We've
talked
about
processes
and
we've
talked
about
standards.
This
week
we
figured
it'd
be
something
fun
to
have
Mr
Boyd
here,
do
a
walking
tour
of
downtown
to
show
us
what
it?
A
What
what
things
the
history
of
Burlington's
downtown
I
also
see:
Mr
Pennington
Brian
Pennington's,
our
chair
of
our
historic
preservations
commission.
So
thanks
for
joining
us
I
guess
it's
a
walking
tour,
so
Mr
Boyd,
I
I
can,
if
you
got
anything
to
say
as
far
as
Logistics
you
gotta,
you
know,
I
think
he's
great
at
projecting
his
voice.
A
Grab
a
cake
and
a
drink
and
we
are
recording
this
so
y'all
you
can
maybe
have
some
other
folks
joining
us
remotely.
You
said
zoom
webinars
we're
doing
a
test,
but
it
will
be
viewable
later
on
we'll
see
how
that
comes
out.
So
thanks
for
participating
but
I'll
leave
it
up
to
you.
You
can
go
ahead
and
get
started.
Well.
Welcome
everybody!
As.
B
And
so
all
that
stuck
with
me,
because
you
told
me
the
story
so
many
times
over
and
over
and
I
got
a
tape
recorder
when
I
was
about
seven
eight
years
old
and
I
used
to
bring
it
downtown
and
report
all
the
old
people
with
all
their
stories
and
then,
when
I
moved
back
to
Burlington
after
35
years
away
from
town
I
started.
Writing
it
all
around
and
and
I
found
out.
Interestingly,
nobody
has
ever
written
a
history
wrong.
B
B
That's
about
it,
there's
been
a
lot
of
myths
written
about
Burlington,
especially
in
the
old
days
and
matter
of
fact.
Before
I
came
over
here,
I
saw
something
posted
on
Facebook,
a
picture
of
the
old
sprinkle
service
station,
and
so
the
person
who
posted,
where
was
this
and
I
saw
20
or
30
different
descriptions
of
where
it
used
to
be.
B
It
was
actually
at
the
corner
of
trade
in
North
Church
and
on
December
7
1938
Sheriff
Robertson,
whose
first
day
in
office
he
was
murdered
there,
along
with
police
officer
Sonny
Vaughn
they
were
reported.
There
was
a
report
of
a
break-in,
so
the
sheriff
and
Sonny
Vaughn
came
over
from
the
police
station,
which
was
right
here.
Just
went
across
the
river
right
and
the
burglar
inside
shot
them
both
and
he
was
shot.
B
B
I
guess
entity:
you
have
to
thank
the
people,
the
Old
Eastern
bison
many
many
years
ago.
Even
before
my
time
there
were
huge
herds
of
Eastern
bison.
Here
they
were
smaller
cousins
of
their
Western
Buffalo,
which
were
familiar
with,
but
anyway,
every
year,
every
winter
they
would
come
down
from
up
North,
usually
from
Richmond,
and
they
would
come
to
warmer
climates
but
Buffalo,
Earth
creatures
who
don't
like
who
don't
like
Hills,
so
Buffalo
only
follow
flat.
B
It
went
from
Petersburg
Virginia,
roughly
down,
what's
now
interstate
85.
through
here
and
all
the
way
at
Charlotte
and
as
the
white
settlers
began
coming
in.
They
also
used
a
great
trading
path
which
came
right
through
here,
and
so
this
area
was
pretty
well
known
and
visited.
But
nobody
lived
here,
first
of
all,
the
various
Indian
tribes
of
the
living
here
in
this
state.
B
B
B
The
two
closest
boards
were
Cross
Creek,
which
is
now
Fayetteville,
and
you
get
along
the
Cape,
Fear
River
and
then
get
the
Wilmington
area
or
Petersburg
Virginia
right
you
go
down
to
James,
River
and
then
to
the
Atlantic.
They
were
about
equidistant,
but
there
were
no
roads
other
than
the
trading
pass.
So
we
really
couldn't
haul
a
wagon
load
of
goods
all
this
kind
of
changed
for
the
better.
B
About
the
1830s
people
started
talking
about
railroads
a
lot
of
the
northern
states
like
Maryland
had
railroads,
others
were
talking
about,
and
a
group
of
prominental
Alamance,
County,
Citizens
or
Orange
County
at
the
time
met
here
off
Highway
49
and
said:
why
don't
we
talk
about
a
railroad
and
that
got
things
rolling
by
1849,
the
North
Carolina
legislature
chartered
the
North
Carolina
Railroad,
and
there
was
a
big
debate
about
it.
They
said:
do
they
want
it
to
connect
with
railroads
from
other
states,
just
make
it
a
purely
interest?
State
really,
the
latter
was
chosen.
B
So
the
next
thing
they
had
to
do
was
change
the
route.
Now
the
shortest
route
between
Goldsboro
in
Charlotte
goes
right
through
Randolph
County
to
the
Southwest
problem
is
Randolph,
County
is
full
of
hills
and
locomotives
at
the
time
were
so
underpowered.
They
could
not
pull
even
one
car
up
a
fairly
Steep
Hill.
You
wouldn't
know
it,
but
the
railroad
right
out
here
it
goes
up
four
degrees
towards
the
West
towards
ELO.
B
Yeah
they
could
only
pull
three
cars
Max.
First,
they
had
to
get
up
that
grain,
and
so
they
don't
sand
all
the
trials.
Just
buckets
and
buckets
of
saying
anything
allow
the
locomotive,
Wheels
to
grip
and
move
towards
West
yeah
I.
Don't
think
it
was
until
shortly
before
1900s.
They
had
local
motives
powerful
enough.
B
B
B
B
B
So
they
look
at
a
map
and
they
said
110
miles
in
Charlotte
and
110
miles
from
Goldsboro
is
Lynn
Raven,
which
wasn't
even
a
little
town.
Thomas
sellers
owned
the
property.
There
Thomas
was
one
of
the
early
settlers
here
and
he
said
you're
more
than
welcome
to
it.
Well,
they
sent
the
Engineers
over
there
and
they
said
ground's
too
small
can't
build
it
here.
B
They
said:
what
are
we
going
to
do
now?
Well,
they
said
Graham's
not
that
far
away
we're
located
there.
They're
Alamance
County
was
just
formed
and
that's
their
county
seat
is
right
in
the
middle
of
the
county,
that'd
be
a
good
place
to
put
shots.
Well,
they
went
over
there
and
Graham
said
we're
not
interested.
B
B
He
was
on
the
railroads
board
of
directors
and
he
knew
all
about
this.
He
said
I
got
to
find
them
some
money,
so
he
came
here
so
what's
now
burning
nobody
lived
here,
a
few
people
own
some
property,
so
he
took
options
on
their
property
and
he
got
600
and
roughly
640
acres.
One
square
mile
of
land
auctions.
A
B
Here
was
worth
two
dollars
to
make:
he
sold
it
to
the
railroad
for
ten
dollars,
and
that's
that
that's
the
first
of
the
mistakes
you
see
in
some
of
these
books
or
articles
written
about
earlier
Benjamin,
trollinger
out
of
the
goodness
of
his
heart,
gave
the
land
to
the
railroads
his
family
makes
that
plan.
But
it's
in
all
the
newspapers
at
the
time
Raleigh
newspapers
in
1850s
they
were.
B
We
can't
believe
the
scandals
going
on
selling
two
dollar
an
acre
land
for
ten
dollars,
that's
Robert
and,
of
course
the
railroad
didn't
need
640
acres
either.
All
it
needed
was
30
acres
for
the
shops,
but
somebody
came
up
with
the
idea.
They
said
we
don't
want
a
town
to
grow
up
around
our
railroad
shops
and
them
tell
us
that
we're
making
too
much
noise
or
something
just
like
they
did
in
Korea.
B
So
they
said
we'll
buy
the
whole
640
acres
and
the
only
landowners
of
any
note
around
here.
The
first
one
was
a
fellow
named
Ephraim
cook
and
there
were
others
like
Thomas
sellers.
Now
these
fellas
had
come
down
from
up
North
because
nobody
really
wanted
to
settle.
What's
now
Burlington,
their
reason
is:
there's
no
water,
or
at
least
there
wasn't
enough
for
them
to
to
use
so
most
of
the
early
settlers,
a
lot
of
whom
came
from
Germany
settled
along
Alamance
Creek
in
those
areas.
B
Other
early
settlers,
like
Quakers,
that
were
part
of
my
family,
settled
around
Cane
Creek
third
group
of
people,
the
Scots.
They
were
sometimes
called
Scots
Irish
because
they
were
Scots
who
lived
in
Ireland
for
a
while
and
they
weren't
welcome
anymore
King
James.
The
first
England
was,
even
though
he
was
a
Scottish
copper.
He
said
get
rid
of
these
people
they're
nothing
but
trouble.
So
it's
your
first
shift
into
Ireland
Ireland.
B
This
was
kind
of
like
no
one's
like
your
book
now
he
was
part
of
a
group
of
people,
it's
kind
of
interesting,
the
Germans,
but
they
were
not
Germans
who
had
come
over
originally
I
mean
the
first
Germans
were
here
in
Alamance
County,
at
least
1729
from
records
I've
seen,
even
though
this
land
was
not
open
for
settlement
until
1742,
but
nobody
bothered
to
get
the
records.
They
said
nobody's
there,
so
they
just
people
just
settle
wherever
they
wanted,
and
this
second
word
settled
early.
B
B
Until
the
French
and
Indian
war
broke,
then
they
were
at
the
time.
They
were
right
there
on
the
front
lines
and
they
said
we
don't
want
to
be
here.
So
where
can
we
go?
Well,
you
can't
go
up
north
because
they
don't
want
you
up
there.
You
can't
go
south
because
they're
Crown
colonies
at
Virginia.
You
had
to
be
a
member
of
the
Church
of
England,
but
they
said
North
Carolina
go
over
there.
So
that's
why
they
all
came
down
here.
B
B
B
Most
of
his
early
meals,
though,
were
run
by
water
powder.
The
only
problem
with
using
Hall
River
and
its
tributaries
is
waterpower.
Is
they
froze
up
during
the
winter,
so
they
had
to
shut
the
world
out
for
three
inches
just
starting
out.
It
really
didn't
happen
three
months
here,
three
months
there
they
weren't
selling
that
much
product
anyway.
The
only
way
he
could
sell
a
product
is
that
there
was
a
means
of
transport,
so
he
was
in
favor
of
the
railroad
too,
and
he
was
also
on
the
board.
B
B
B
B
B
So
you
really
can't
visualize,
there's
a
nice
little
diorama
over
in
the
Amtrak
station,
showing
what
this
area
looked
like
as
soon
as
the
railroad
should
have
all
the
shop
buildings-
and
everything
was
around
and
first
thing
they
had
to
build-
was
boarding
house
for
the
workers
and
they
built
that
it
would
be
at
the
end
of
Main
Street
and
then
they
started
building
the
brick
builds
when
they
were
complete.
They
were
the
largest
brick
buildings
in
the
state
of
North,
Carolina
and
I've
got
pictures
of
the
old
shops
as
they
originally
looked.
B
B
Good
job,
so,
if
you're
ever
over,
there
take
a
look
by
the
way
the
Amtrak
station
itself
is
not
an
original
railroad
building.
They
make
that
claim,
but
it
replied
the
the
building.
That's
air
now
replaced
a
wooden
build.
It
was
there
from
about
1857
to
1863.
I.
Then
it
rotted
away
so
much
the
tore
it
down
and
they
laid
the
foundation
for
a
new
building,
which
is
a
roundhouse.
Even
though
roundhouse
is
a
very
loose
turn.
B
By
the
way
there
used
to
be
at
least
10
cracks
all
these
Side
Tracks,
because
you
had
to
take
cars
on
cars
off
and
locomotives
on
locomotives.
Also,
there
are
a
lot
of
tracks.
Oh
that's
an
interesting
story.
In
Burlington's
early
days,
it
didn't
have
a
policeman
that
had
a
constant
and
Constable
about
18,
65
or
70
was
Cicero
Canelo
nice.
They
called
him.
B
Now
aggressively
he's
one
of
my
favorite
characters
and
over
inconsistent
Peter
Leonidas
sellers
in
his
family
had
owned
most
of
what's
downtown
Burlington
past
West
Davis
Street,
but
it
was
contrary
fellow.
He
didn't
like
rules
and
regulations.
The
railroad
on
the
one
square
mile
landed
on
absolutely
prohibiting
alcohol.
B
They
were
stuck
here
in
town,
we'll
go
down
to
Pete's
bar
railroad,
never
did
anything
about
it
and
I
read
a
letter
from
two
old
railroad
officials.
Why
don't
we
get
rid
of
this
Pete
sellers
and
they
said
well,
somebody
worse
might
come.
Let's
just
leave,
but
eight
was
a
very
brawling
type
of
fellow
I
I
know
his
descendants.
I
went
to
school
with
a
lot
of
them
and
they
like
to
tell
Little
Pete
stories.
They
said
he
had
51
fights
and
he
won
50
of
them.
B
B
B
His
sister
ran
the
finishing
school
while
yeah
I
kid
you
not,
but
even
more
interesting
is
Pete
was
a
last
member
of
Christian
Church.
He
never
went.
He
always
felt
you
know
guilty
about
it.
So
when
he
heard
that
Reverend
long
was
building
a
new
College
looking
for
money,
he
said
I'm
willing
to
offer
you
some
money
that
I
have
and
remember
long
look.
B
She
said
well
I,
like
that,
but
I'm
head
of
the
prohibition
party
in
Alamance
County
that
wouldn't
look
good,
so
he
would
meet
Pete
behind
his
bar
at
night
and
now
I
got
this
story
from
Reverend
Long's
family
too,
who
have
been
friends
of
Iris
for
many
years,
but
he
would
go.
He
would
come
out
of
the
bar
have
a
bag
of
gold
and
if
Dr
Long,
Dr
Long
said,
we've
been
in
the
devil's
hands
long
enough.
B
He
may
have
done
that,
but
he
certainly
didn't
get
it.
He
got
most
of
his
money
from
Pete
sellers,
but
Pete's
been
forgotten
because
he
ran
a
bar,
so
Elon
couldn't
exactly
publicize
that
since
Elon
banned
alcohol
too,
until
I
was
there.
But
it's
fascinated
Bella
and
one
day,
I'll
have
to
talk
a
little
bit
more
about
him,
but
going
back
to
the
railroad
here
once
they
built
the
shop
buildings
and
everything
they
had
roughly
70
80
people
working
here
at
the
time,
but
they
had
first
built
in
houses
for
the
high
level
employees.
B
A
B
Road
I
remember
the
houses
they
didn't,
tear
them
down
until
I
was
probably
15,
but
they
were
all
lined
up
right.
There,
people
were
still
living
and
they
were
well
built
houses.
They
said
we
don't
need
these
places
to
throw
them
all
now,
they're,
actually
a
couple
of
original
houses.
They
were
made
of
wood,
they
still
exist,
but
you
really
have
to
dig
and
find
those
places.
B
Most
of
them
are
off
Broad
Street,
but
once
they
had
that
they
said
well.
What?
If
we
have
people
visiting
there-
and
this
is
where
it
kind
of
gets
interesting
as
part
of
his
deal
to
sell
one
square
mile
of
land
here,
Benjamin
trollinger
said
the
trains
from
Goldsboro
to
Charlotte
have
to
stop
at
my
new
hotel
and
all
we're.
B
He
had
built
a
brand
new
30
room
wooden
hotel
called
the
hall
River
House,
and
he
made
his
money
serving
meals
for
the
passengers,
for
the
train
that
trains
will
pass
that
he
was
making
a
boat
well.
This
is,
where
am
hope
not
used
to
think
Amo
went
Charles
Fisher,
who
was
president
of
the
railroad
and
for
whom
Fischer
Street
is
made,
and.
A
B
A
B
B
B
But
anyway
the
hotel
got
built.
It
actually
became
very
successful.
A
lot
of
board
of
directors.
Members
came
here
for
meetings.
The
North
Carolina
railroads
office
was
actually
right
here
behind
us
for
Paramount
parking
lots
and
it
was
a
very
nice.
It
was
a
square
brick
building.
It
looked
like
a
two-story
house,
but
it
was
known
as
office
building
and
the
area
were
immediately
surrounding
it
really
going
from
Maine
to
Spring
Front
Street
on
it
was
called
railroad.
B
Office
lights
had
the
only
trees
in
this
area
because
they
cut
all
the
trees
down
for
timber
for
building
the
shops
or
for
fueling
the
locomotives,
because
all
the
locomotives,
it's
time
were
fueled
with
wood,
not
cold,
that
didn't
come
along
for
years
later,
so
the
no
trees
you
can
see
from
miles
and
but
they
had
the
only
trees.
Here.
This
is
a
nice
little
wooden
bug
and
there
were
also
a
president's
house.
B
B
One
exception:
Being
John,
Morse,
General
Store.
They
needed
a
place
where
people
would
go
and
just
buy
things,
people
working
for
the
railroad.
You
know
they
want
to
go,
buy
some
cloth
or
buy
some
rain
or
seeds
for
planting,
buy
them
at
John
and
More
Store,
the
worst
storm
which
was
built
at
the
time
the
railroad
buildings
were
between
1856
and
1858.,
set
on
the
railroad
right
past.
The
terminal
in
Spring
Street
I've
got
a
few
pictures
of
it.
B
It
was
just
a
small
white
building
had
the
store
in
the
front
meeting
all
upstairs
for
church
meetings.
Things
like
that
post
office
in
the
back
now
most
of
the
people
that
lived
here
at
the
time
were
from
somewhere
else,
the
reason
being
nobody
that
lived
in
North,
Carolina
and
you've
had
a
lot
of
railroad.
So
engineers.
B
Manufactured
products
at
the
locomotives
and
the
freight
cars
needed
came
from
overseas.
A
lot
of
them
came
from
Ireland.
A
lot
of
them
came
from
England
Scotland
Thomas
Robertson
from
Scotland
used
to
run
the
blacksmith
shop.
He
made
anything
out
of
metals.
He
was
particularly
good
with
brass
and
metals
like
that
he
taught
a
lot
of
people
having
that
type
of
work.
B
Other
folks
came
from
states
that
already
had
railroads
like
Pennsylvania
Maryland
South
Carolina,
one
interesting
fellow,
that
came
from
South
Carolina
was
Carl
Friedman,
oh
you've,
probably
heard
of
Robert
Street,
which
is
Highway
62
going
out
of
Berlin,
but
Carl
Rojas,
everybody
called
him
Charlie.
Here
he
was
from
Prussia
and
in
1847
he
was
turning
21
years
old
at
that
age
he
could
be
drafted
into
depression
on
it.
Even
more
so
there
were
some
American
tourists
from
New.
York
happened
to
be
right.
There
in
Berlin
at
the
time
and
Charlie
had
learned
how
to
speak.
B
B
And
so
he
just
followed
me:
he
took
his
toolbox
and
Charlie
was
a
woodworker.
He
took
his
toolbox
and
went
back
with
the
American
tours
there.
He
helped
cars
wooden
fixtures
for
the
inside
of
homes
and
things
like
that.
But
then
he
heard
about
the
railroad
paid
good
money
and
in
gold
for
people
to
build
box
cars
and
things
like
that
or
to
carve
the
Interiors
of
Passenger
patches
and
trying
to
say
I
like
that.
So
he
took
train
came
down,
went
to
South
Carolina.
B
B
He
wound
up
staying
for
North
Carolina.
He
saved
his
money.
He
had
a
little
wooden
Shack
that
they
were
not,
but
he
and
his
family
lived
in
on
East,
Morgan
and
I
know
his
descendants
and
they've
showed
me
pictures
of
whatever
checks
that
have
dirt
floors
and
he
used
to
scrape
that
dirt
forward.
Put
all
his
gold
thanks
and
getting
noise
again.
So,
a
little
later
after
the
war
was
over
Charlie
dug
up
his
money
and
used
it
to
buy
a
whole
bunch
of
land
on
Highway
62..
B
B
He
also
built
a
building
down
here.
I
can't
see
it
right
at
the
corner
of
spring
East,
Front
Street,
it's
known
as
the
raw
Hut
built
in
August
of
1887.
He
and
Bud
nice
both
got
a
load
of
brick
and
Bud
Milton's
jewelry
store
at
the
end
of
Maine
of
Davis
Street
and
Charlie
Allheart
built
his
building
his
Corner
spring.
B
A
B
B
So
the
Bank
of
Commerce
of
New
Bern
was
all
of
its
gold
and
put
them
on
a
train
and
said
where's
the
isolated
area,
where
somebody
could
keep
an
aisle
and
they
said,
there's
a
wooded
lot
in
front
of
the
railroads
office
building
so
finally
put
it
there.
So
they
dug
up
several
holes
and
put
all
the
gold
in
the
ground
covered
it
up,
so
we'll
get
it
afterwards.
B
B
B
That
was
the
route
he
took
coming
through,
but
anyway
nothing
much
happened
here
during
the
Civil
War
except
the
railroad
shops
were
very
important.
They
kept
Virginia
connected
with
the
rest
of
the
Confederates,
especially
after
Union
forces
took
over
eastern
North
Carolina
railroads,
so
this
became
a
lifeline
and
the
reason
it
did
even
though
originally
the
North
Carolina
railroad
never
connected
was
the
Richmond
Animal
Railroad.
B
B
B
Matter
of
fact,
Alamance
County
loaded
not
to
succeed,
so
Davison
will
connect
Greensburg
City
by
doing
that.
It
kind
of
grew
and
North
Carolina
railroad
here,
because
nobody
really
wanted
the
tracks
from
those
worlds,
the
Greensburg
they
wanted.
The
tracks
They
connected
Richmond,
Points
North
in
Atlanta,
Georgia
and
going
south.
B
B
When
Lee
surrendered
at
Appomattox
Courthouse
in
April
1865.,
there
was
still
a
large
army
and
field
in
army
of
Tennessee.
It
had
been
pushed
here,
General
Stoneman
was
coming
in
from
the
west
from
Greensboro
area.
General
Sherman
is
coming
in
from
the
East,
and
so
it's
probably
the
last
battle
of
the
Civil
War.
We
looked
at
right
here
and
both
armies
trapped,
the
army
of
Tennessee
General
Johnson,
Joseph
Johnson,
who
was
commanding
the
army
of
Tennessee.
He
said
we're
we're
finished.
B
He
said,
even
though
Jefferson
Davis
told
me
to
keep
fighting
he
some
boys
go
home.
He
did
that
standing
on
the
back
worst
story,
I
told
everybody
to
go
home,
so
they
did
for
a
few
months
after
that,
the
union
Army's
10th,
Ohio
Cavalry,
was
camped
here
to
kind
of
guard
the
shops
and
things
like
that.
B
B
And
what
the
soldiers
did
with
this
is
they
took
it
back
where
they
were
camped?
They
were
camped
on
Broad
Street.
Those
of
you
remember
the
old
belt
Street
School,
that
was
a
training
field
for
Charles
Fisher
he'd,
been
killed
in
Germany,
North,
Carolina,
railroad,
founded
a
regiment
and
wound
up
getting
killed,
was
well
Union.
Soldiers
use
that
land
to
pitch
their
camps
when
they
dug
up
the
gold.
They
went
back
over
there
scooped
a
little
holes
in
the
ground.
B
A
B
This
whole
story
is
written
up.
The
general
commanding
rule,
10th
Ohio,
wrote
it
up
20
years
later,
but
when
he
wrote
his
book,
he
couldn't
remember
where
he
was.
He
said.
I
must
have
been
in
Salisbury,
so
the
story
is
there.
But
let's
talk
about
Salisbury,
it's
actually
here
because
he
mentions
the
railroad's
office
building
and
the
few
trees
and
wooded
Lots
could
only
be
well
make
a
long
story
short
on
the
goal.
What
happened
to
it?
Well,
soldiers
went
back
home,
Union
Soldiers,
they
said
we'll
come
back
later
and
get
our
goal.
B
We
didn't
remember
where
they
were
either,
so
all
that
gold
set
there
in
the
ground
well,
most
of
them
for
the
next
36
years
in
1901,
the
City
of
Burlington
said
we're
going
to
start
our
first
public
rate
is
still
and
they
bought
an
old
Methodist
school
on
Broad
Street
and
they
said
we'll,
expand
it
and
build
a
nice
School.
Well,
they
hired
a
couple.
People
did
well.
These
people
kept
turning
up
these
shiny.
B
A
B
B
But
anyway,
kind
of
speed,
things
on
a
little
bit
Burlington
is
a
town
did
not
start
growing
until
after
the
Civil
War.
Several
people
set
up
businesses
here,
even
though
they
had
to
get
permission
from
the
railroad
to
do
anything
here
in
town,
but
railroad
was
going
down
the
tubes,
the
reason
being
North,
Carolina
railroad
was
bankrupt.
B
The
only
way
it
could
make
any
money
was
by
leasing
its
tracks
to
the
Richmond
and
Danville
railroad,
which
had
one
and
that
happened
in
1870.
and
the
railroad
said.
Well,
we're
going
to
need
our
shops
anymore,
since
the
Richmond
and
Danville
has
their
shops,
have
a
Mechanics
for
Virginia,
Northeast
Richmond.
B
So
people
are
saying
well
we're
going
to
go
out
of
business
and
things
look
bad
here.
It
wasn't
as
bad
as
they
thought
because
they
kept
the
shops
going
here
longer
than
expected
because
of
the
gauge
change.
Richmond
and
Danville
railroad
had
a
different
gauge
than
the
North
Carolina,
so
they
had
to
switch
to
the
same
gauge
before
we
use
the
cracks.
So
that
kept
a
lot
of
workers
for
your
business.
Then
there
was
a
lot
of
War
repair
work
than
they
expected,
so
they
kept
the
shops.
B
There
was
a
sign
down
the
street,
a
historical
marker
on
West,
Front
Street.
It
says
company
shops
closed
1869.,
that's
when
they
were
actually
at
their
Peak.
These
are
the
shops.
Railroad
shops
here
did
not
close
until
1897.,
because
the
Richmond
and
Daniel
railroad
went
back
up
and
Southern
Railway
is
formed
from
the
remnants
and
it
says
we're
going
to
continue
to
use
it.
B
However,
most
of
the
railroad
workers
have
seen
the
handwriting
on
the
wall.
They
said.
Well,
we
might
not
be
fired
now,
but
we'll
probably
be
fired
a
little
bit
later,
so
they
said,
let's
go
into
some
of
our
work.
Well,
as
I
mentioned,
the
cotton
Mills,
the
textiles,
somebody
came
up
with
the
right
idea.
It
could
have
been
able
to
competitors
said
well
we're
right
now
we
have
to
build
our
mules
on
rivers,
but
it
would
be
nice
if
we
could
build
a
mini,
and
so
we
need
a
source
of
power.
B
I
said
what
about
steam
engines?
Well,
that's
a
good
idea.
Anybody
around
here
know
anything
about
building
steam
engine,
all
the
railroad
workers.
Here
we
do
will
turn
time
for
home
turn
time
middle
students.
He
was
one
of
them.
He
was
a
railroad
engineer.
He
actually
took
General
Johnston
down
to
Bennett
Place
near
Durham,
to
meet
with
General
Sherman
to
surrender
his
forces,
but
anyway
will
was
an
expert
with
steam
engines.
He
got
in
with
the
Continental
people
and
he
made
his
fortune
designing
cotton,
Mills
power
plants.
B
B
Decided
to
get
into
the
General
Store
business,
he
created
the
storms.
Actually,
a
Cooperative
School
Cooperative
store
number
one
name
there,
but
he
built
it
here
and
it
ran
for
several
years.
Daniel
worth
was
not
a
very
popular
band
because
he
was
a
Quaker
and
here
in
five
years
after
the
Civil
War,
the
white
Brotherhood,
which
was
kind
of
rolling
he's
hooked,
Clan
franchise,
painting
in
popularity
and
town
was
pretty
much
alive.
There
were
people
like
Daniel
work
on
one
side
and
in
the
former
Confederate
senators
Photoshop
and
the
two
groups
didn't
see
Idaho.
B
As
a
matter
of
fact,
that's
one
reason
Burlington
was
so
divided
might
happen
that
time
that
as
late
as
the
1920s,
there
were
Republican
stores
and
Democrat
stores
in
downtown,
and
we
didn't
shop
at
one
of
the
other
and
make
some
other
restaurants.
There
were
two
types
of
soft
ones:
Coca-Cola
was
Democratic
types,
two
newspapers,
State
dispatch.
B
B
before
there
was
just
a
handful
of
stores,
it
was
actually
only
one
Street
Front
Street
in
front
of
us
at
the
time
it
was
known
as
Methodist
path
and
the
reason
is
Methodist
Church
on
West
Davis
Street.
All
that's
left
of
it
now
is
the
Cemetery
grounds.
Chapel
Cemetery
didn't
have
a
permanent
Menace
and
they
had
to
get
a
supply
Minister
from
Graham
and
that
Minister
well
Graham
right
now
through
here.
B
B
Main
Street
is
where
it
is
because
the
railroad
needed
water
for
its
locomotives,
and
so
they
jammed
up
part
of
Alamance
Street
Club
made
of
ponds
and
then
we're
in
a
pipeline
through
the
pond
right
up
here
to
the
river.
That's
why
mainstream
is
where
it
is.
If
you
take
this
directly
down
there,
now
you
run
into
City
Park.
The
city
park
is
underwater.
That
was
the
pond.
B
B
B
B
Back
in
the
room-
and
he
said
oldest
argument,
he
turned
to
will
long
Jr.
He
said
I
haven't
heard
so
much
question
and
fighting
since
old,
Burlington
and
Burlington
there's
a
jersey
bull
that
was
sent
from
Burlington
New
Jersey
from
his
Quaker
friends
up
there
to
help
you
build
these
areas
and
anyway
in
1885
Dr,
WS
long
who
founded
Elon.
B
B
B
B
The
railroad
planned
out,
World
paid
out
the
streets,
the
things
were
going
to
be
a
name
and
they
decided
to
name
most
of
the
streets
after
members
of
the
railroad
School
of
directors,
but
it
was
before
1866.
So
if
you
were
a
member
of
the
board
of
directors,
core
1866,
we
had
a
street
except
and
a
few
had
been
changed
like
director
means
people
that
were
living
on,
History
didn't
like
it.
B
So
in
1914
they
asked
City,
Council
and
I
said
yeah,
we'll
change
the
maple,
but
it
used
to
be
memes.
There
were
several
others
that
have
changed.
Church
Street
actually
got
its
name,
not
from
the
churches.
There.
Now
it
was
in
existence,
but
Reverend
Spencer
Thomas.
He
was
a
slave
working
for
the
railroad
who
was
free.
B
B
And
that's
where
it
got
its
name,
because
Spencer
working
for
the
railroad
and
he
was
over
a
master-
must
go
by
Mr,
Wellsboro
matter
of
fact.
What
was
now
about
the
place
where
that
was
expensive,
Thomas's
Lane
after
he
died
in
1910.
My
grandmother's
company
bought
all
that
land
from
his
son
Sammy
and
okay.
We
had
a
an
incident
about
10
years
ago.
Somebody
was
getting
some
work
done
with
their
house
on
Davis,
Street
and
so
I.
Just
I
think
I
found
a
cemetery
teeth.
B
B
He
was
youth
choir
director
at
First,
Christian
Church,
at
the
corner
of
West
Davis
Church.
He
was
a
student
at
UNC,
Chapel,
Hill
and
friend
of
mine.
I
was
in
school
Rhythm
and
said
you
know,
Andy,
you
know
any
jobs.
He
said:
yeah
I'm
a
church
in
Burlington
and
looking
for
youth
prior
director.
He
said
if
I
can
get
up
there,
I'll
take
it.
My
friend
said
well:
I've
got
a
car
and
I'll
go
back
home
all
the
time.
That's
good
enough!
So
Andy
worked
there
for
two
years
made
fifty
dollars
a
month.
B
B
B
They
stayed
across
the
streets,
the
reason
he
saved
Piedmont,
it's
two
dollars
a
month
when
Elvis
got
into
town
previous
evening.
He
stopped
by
the
Alamance
Hotel
down
the
street
here
and
said
I
like
a
room
for
me
and
my
boys.
How
much
are
rooms
he
said
four
dollars
a
night
got
anything
cheaper
instead
of
got
Piedmont
up
there
for
two
dollars,
so
I'll
take
it.
That's
where
he
stayed
and
kind
of
just
interesting.
B
B
A
B
We
had
somebody
in
Raleigh
tell
us
that
this
was
1892.,
we're
sticking
with
it.
Okay,
they're
sticking
with
the
1869
mate
on
this
historical
Market.
But
anyway,
several
presidents
could
come
through
this
area
and
Teddy
Roosevelt
was
the
first
to
actually
walk
through
this
FIFA.
At
the
time
it
was
up
on.
The
railroad
for
I
could
turn
to
the
opposite
direction.
But
Teddy
came
here
in
October
1912.
B
B
B
B
A
B
A
Well,
we'll
keep
you
all
posted
for
the
next
opportunity
and
thank
you
again
and
stick
around
feel
free
to
chat,
we'll
we'll
be
here
for
a
couple
minutes
till
the
rain
starts
to
come
down
a
little
bit
more,
but
thank
you
all
for
giving
us
Friday
night
and
I
hope
you
all
walk
away
with
something
a
little
bit
more
about
Burlington's
histories.
Thank
you
again.
Thank
you,
Mr
Ward.
Thank
you.