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I was looking at some old maps of Wake County from 1962. The population figures were crazy, since at that time, Cary, "Fuquay Springs", and Garner were all about the same size, around 3400 people a piece. Apex, Zebulon, and Wendell came in at half that size, around 1500 each. Holly Springs had only 558 residents. Meanwhile 222 hearty souls lived in Morrisville. That is a lot of growth in 50-some years. (Raleigh was at 94,000 back then.) US 1 as we know it was still under construction. It wasn't made 4 lanes from Cary to Chatham Co. until the late 90's.
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That's one of my favorite websites! Especially when researching different towns around the state the information can be really interesting.
As an aside...one of my most prized possessions is a 1984 wall map of Wake Co that's at least 6ft x 5ft. It shows all the towns, cities, their populations, obviously the road network and some planned road construction (like the projected path of I-40, since this was before it was complete) and the locations of points of interest like hospitals and schools. It also shows the different townships of Wake County which I believe at some point were probably much more relevant before the municipalities became the dominant divisions. It appears to me that townships are relevant today only in that the county commissioners districts and school board districts are *kind of* made up of groups of townships but don't always follow the township lines.
I've lost myself in that site for many, many hours. Big fun and easy to lose track of time. I'm an engineer and have done an extensive amount of surveying and love maps.
I searched the very oldest map I could find of Granville, Franklin, and Wake counties and especially love a notation I saw in one of the oldest, hand-drawn maps. "Old oak stump in front of farmer <xxxxx> old horse barn". That was the description of the south corner boundaries of Granville and Franklin counties on the Wake county northern line. Cool stuff!
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