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Bacon Rind Bridge

Bacon Rind Bridge over the Neuse River on US Highway 15, looking west-southwest, July 7, 1942 (photograph by Albert Barden, Courtesy of State Archives of North Carolina - collection online via flickr). A series of photographs from this summer 1942 crash - part of the fantastic Albert Barden Collection digitized by the State Archives and fascinating...

410 W. Geer St.

Originally the Hometown Sales and Service - a dealership for Kaiser Frazer automobiles, 410 W. Geer has housed the predecessor to Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC, the North Carolina Fund, and now is the Trotter building - an event center and retail space.

Flat River Bridge (old Oxford Road)

(Looking north from the west bank of Flat River, January 1983, Courtesy of Library of Congress, Historic American Engineering Record) Bridge across Flat River on Old Oxford Road built in the 1920s, replaced by new span in the 1980s, but kept in place alongside the current roadway. Listed in the Historic American Engineering Record as "one of three...