What's up with this subdivision/ compound? (Capital Blvd) (Raleigh, Wake Forest: rentals, houses)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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If you are at the intersection of Durant and Capital and you go North, in about 3 miles, there is a small compound of houses. They all look exactly the same- small white houses with blue foundations, almost no trees or landscaping. All are owned by the same person according to the tax records. If you look them up on google maps, the street names are Edgar, Doris, and Cliff. What's up with this place? I'm always wondering about it when I drive by.
Always looked like an old mill community to me. Has been there for quite I while, if this is the area I am thinking about. It used to be in the middle of nowhere, but now is in the middle of suburbia.
If you are at the intersection of Durant and Capital and you go North, in about 3 miles, there is a small compound of houses. They all look exactly the same- small white houses with blue foundations, almost no trees or landscaping. All are owned by the same person according to the tax records. If you look them up on google maps, the street names are Edgar, Doris, and Cliff. What's up with this place? I'm always wondering about it when I drive by.
Those homes were built after World War II for returning soilders. There was a housing shortage at that time. Why they've never been landscaped I don't know.
The N&O had a 'did you know' article about them several years ago.
Looks like cookie cutter houses with stripped land in...............RALEIGH!
They actually have a Wake Forest address.
I've seen those a few times when I used to do a lot of work in and around Wakefield Plantation; I'd always assumed it was either an old farm that a family had developed for many of the branches of the family tree to stay on the land, or some sort of housing project built by the government. They looked very 1940's/1950's-ish so the post WWII housing for returning soldiers also makes sense. Although back at that time that area would have pretty much been the middle of nowhere so that part seems confusing.
I've seen those a few times when I used to do a lot of work in and around Wakefield Plantation; I'd always assumed it was either an old farm that a family had developed for many of the branches of the family tree to stay on the land, or some sort of housing project built by the government. They looked very 1940's/1950's-ish so the post WWII housing for returning soldiers also makes sense. Although back at that time that area would have pretty much been the middle of nowhere so that part seems confusing.
The out in the 'middle of no where' wasn't that uncommon at the time either. There was a larger post WWII community built where I used to live. It was suppoused to be 'temporary' and build basically out in the middle of no where where land was cheapest. People still live in those homes as well (and they weren't as nice as the ones we are talking about!)
The Dharma Initiative owns it. That is all I can say....
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