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I believe Lake Lynn was built in the 1970's for flood control.
"Rebuilt" is a better word. A new, much taller dam was built downstream of the old dam to create a much deeper and longer pool for flood control. If you go to historicaerials.com, click on Viewer, search for Raleigh, and pan to the Lake Lynn vicinity, you can compare the 1968 aerial photo with the 1993. North to south, the 1976 lake is about three times the size of the older lake.
"Rebuilt" is a better word. A new, much taller dam was built downstream of the old dam to create a much deeper and longer pool for flood control. If you go to historicaerials.com, click on Viewer, search for Raleigh, and pan to the Lake Lynn vicinity, you can compare the 1968 aerial photo with the 1993. North to south, the 1976 lake is about three times the size of the older lake.
This is the kind of stuff you have to look at lots of old maps to gather info.
I can tell you there are lots of interesting tidbits out there about Raleigh. I've only been around here for about 34 years.
A couple examples:
Lake Wheeler Road used to be known as Rhamkatte Road (and variations of spelling of Ramcat, etc). and you can still find some maps with that name for the neighborhood that straddles Lake Wheeler Road, just outside of the Beltline (and near Carolina Pines Community Center and dog park.
In fact, when my wife & I lived in the area between 1984 & 1988, we were members of a square dance club called the Rhamkatte Wheel-a-rounds. At that time, you could still find a couple of road signs for Rhamkatte, they said.
One I've been curious about is Rock Quarry Road. Exactly where the rock quarry was, I haven't been able to figure out. Yet. Tho Quarry Street connects E. Lenoir St. with MLK, just a bit west of Rock Quarry Road, and the area is labeled on one map I looked at as 'Quarry Hill'
Other place names live on. There's a neighborhood in what is now West Raleigh, known as Method. Amazingly enough, it's near Method Road, which runs between Hillsboro St & Western Blvd, just inside the Beltline. There's also Millbrook, Bay Leaf, Asbury, and others.
One of the more esoteric bits (IMO) is the area called Dandridge Downs, Southeast Raleigh, just outside the Beltline. Dorothy Dandridge was a African-American actress in film & theatre. Other streets there are Bunche Drive (Ralph Bunche, African-American political scientist, academic & diplomat in the 40's & 50's), and Campanella Lane (Roy Campanella, African-American baseball player of the 40's & 50's ).
Traveling down to where I live, Cary, Kildaire Farm Road was little more than a dirt track heading south out of 'downtown' Cary in the 70's; the manager's house used to sit near where the Wendy's is now on K.F.R, north of Cary Parkway. As things developed, and the farm shut down at that site, the house was moved south, and occupied a big lot just north of where US 1 crosses under K.F.R. It was recently torn down & the land has been developed for some sort of housing.
Those maps at the UNC Library site are invaluable. A great website to get lost in.
Is there a connection between the names of Buck Jones Road and Jones Franklin Road?
I remember someone telling me about that years ago but I have simply forgotten
My guess is that these were family names living around that location when the roads were given names.
This is the kind of stuff you have to look at lots of old maps to gather info.
I can tell you there are lots of interesting tidbits out there about Raleigh. I've only been around here for about 34 years.
A couple examples:
Lake Wheeler Road used to be known as Rhamkatte Road (and variations of spelling of Ramcat, etc). and you can still find some maps with that name for the neighborhood that straddles Lake Wheeler Road, just outside of the Beltline (and near Carolina Pines Community Center and dog park.
In fact, when my wife & I lived in the area between 1984 & 1988, we were members of a square dance club called the Rhamkatte Wheel-a-rounds. At that time, you could still find a couple of road signs for Rhamkatte, they said.
One I've been curious about is Rock Quarry Road. Exactly where the rock quarry was, I haven't been able to figure out. Yet. Tho Quarry Street connects E. Lenoir St. with MLK, just a bit west of Rock Quarry Road, and the area is labeled on one map I looked at as 'Quarry Hill'
Other place names live on. There's a neighborhood in what is now West Raleigh, known as Method. Amazingly enough, it's near Method Road, which runs between Hillsboro St & Western Blvd, just inside the Beltline. There's also Millbrook, Bay Leaf, Asbury, and others.
One of the more esoteric bits (IMO) is the area called Dandridge Downs, Southeast Raleigh, just outside the Beltline. Dorothy Dandridge was a African-American actress in film & theatre. Other streets there are Bunche Drive (Ralph Bunche, African-American political scientist, academic & diplomat in the 40's & 50's), and Campanella Lane (Roy Campanella, African-American baseball player of the 40's & 50's ).
Traveling down to where I live, Cary, Kildaire Farm Road was little more than a dirt track heading south out of 'downtown' Cary in the 70's; the manager's house used to sit near where the Wendy's is now on K.F.R, north of Cary Parkway. As things developed, and the farm shut down at that site, the house was moved south, and occupied a big lot just north of where US 1 crosses under K.F.R. It was recently torn down & the land has been developed for some sort of housing.
Those maps at the UNC Library site are invaluable. A great website to get lost in.
They are great. I've been using it lately to try and identify why I've found NC Civil War Sunburst buttons on my property off Ray Rd/Strickland. Not a typical location for a civil war find
They are great. I've been using it lately to try and identify why I've found NC Civil War Sunburst buttons on my property off Ray Rd/Strickland. Not a typical location for a civil war find
Not really unusual to find artifacts from that period there. In the early 1970's we were surveying a large property on Strickland between Ray and Old Leesville Rd. There were numerous dwelling that dated back to the 1800's. Underneath a small abandoned shack on rock piling I pulled out a stoneware jug with E.B. Taylor Richmond Va. stenciled on the side. Years later I researched it online and found that it dated to 1870's or 1880's. I still have it today sitting on a shelf.
-University Drive was originally supposed to lead to North Carolina Central University
-Hillsborough Rd, and Roxboro Rd actually take you to Hillsborough and Roxboro. South Roxboro St, however was originally named Pine Street.
-Last year after the Charlottesville Riots, Durham Public Schools decided to remove Julian Carr's name off of one of its buildings. There's still a road named after him on the American Tobacco Campus.
-Buchanan Street in Durham was likely named after James Buchanan Duke. Maybe even Duke Street as well.
-Watts Street was named after George W. Watts, who I believe founded a hospital in Durham.
-I'm not sure, but I think Cornwallis Rd. was named after someone as well.
-The name for Chapel Hill Blvd in Durham is actually Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd, but no one actually says it as Durham to Chapel Hill Blvd.
-I'm not sure, but I think Cornwallis Rd. was named after someone as well.
I always wondered if that dated back to Gen Cornwallis's campaign in NC in the Revolutionary War.
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