Less than a mile from Davidson College, an old mill neighborhood hugs a railroad, which in the late 19th and early 20th century, carried thousands of bales of cotton to warehouses and factories along Depot Street. In the 1930s, this neighborhood of small homes and warehouses then became home to Carolina Asbestos, which made shingles through the 1960s. That was long before ...
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