Carrboro

by David A. Otto and Richard Ellington

Book Overview

Join authors David A. Otto and Richard Ellington as they bring the history of Carrboro, North Carolina to life through vintage images.

Although Scots-Irish immigrants settled this area in the 1740s, completion of a rail spur from Hillsborough to a point 1 mile west of Chapel Hill in 1882 was the critical event that spawned Carrboro. The rail line was built to transport ore from an iron mine that closed after a few years, but the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738587273
• ISBN13: 9780738587271
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.1"