JeffC

I've wondered what was at the top of that hill...are you saying there is an actual 1820 house up there, or just the site of one? Why isn't it listed on the Wake National Register of Historic Places list? This is Gaddy the developer, not the former Channel 5 anchor, right?

Actually, I was asking how the old FON (now Bland) connected up with Wake Forest Road, Since Bland hits Hardimont half a block west of Wake Forest Road. I'm sure FON predates Hardimont...so at some point, FON/Bland must have cut across the Eastgate parking lot to hit Wake Forest...the service station there does not look that old (post-suburban).

do you mean right there where Bland ends in a stop light at FON, continuing as Pacific across FON? I've never noticed...I did notice that the church sitting on Bland looked like a very old country church rather than something built after the area urbanized. East of Falls of the Neuse right before the Raleigh Racquet club (and after Friendship Baptist), if you walk east down the transmission line right of way, and then duck left into the woods, you find the remains of another mill (part of millrace, and dam and spillway) on that creek, which I believe is Marsh Creek. On a related note, I just moved into the "Fairfax Hills" subdivision north of there (above Millbrook), which was built in the early 1960s (must have been in the middle of nowhere...the houses originally had wells and septic tanks). Our nextdoor neighbor, one of the original residents of the neighborhood, told us that when she moved in (mid 1960s), Falls of Neuse wasn't even paved. I have trouble believing her recollection is correct, given what a major thoroughfare it is now...Do you know if she is right? I have figured that St. Albans just past the new CVS had to be an old road, because for a few hundred yards there are steep banks on either side, and there is an old farmhouse back in the trees on the right. Was it that late? Bland deadends into New Hope Church now...so did you have to jag west on New Hope for a few hundred yards and then turn right onto Bland? Or did it cut through the Eastgate Shopping Center parking lot to hit Wake Forest directly? I think the latter, because there is another segment of Bland to the right off Wake Forest (at that Urgent Care clinic), and that also looks like an "old road" (no curb and gutter, what looks like some old farmhouses sitting on it...) That segment of Bland ends at St. Albans (old Louisburg Rd.)...wonder if that segment of bland also used to be Falls of Neuse??

I don't think that track crossing was removed until they expanded the prison in the 1980s(?)...I have a friend who was a taxi driver in Raleigh in the 1970s, and he remembers a grade crossing of the railroad tracks behind the prison...and this must be it... Here is another historical tidbit...Bland Road, which runs behind the Wendy's and that shabby Food Lion near Wake Forest Road and New Hope Church Road is the original Falls of Neuse, when you had to take a left off of Wake forest Road to get onto FON. I guess Bland/FON hit Wake forest Road somewhere in the parking lot of the shopping center where the Aldi's just opened (Eastgate, I believe...). That is why that Food Lion strip shopping center sits so far off of the new religned FON Road...it is sitting right next to OLD FON...

Is there a separate thread on the Marsh Woodwinds block? If so, where is it?

Ok, here is the current lineup...WRAL-TV 5 is on Western. Fox 50, the other station CBC owns in the Triangle, is at American Tobacco. CBC's offices are at St. Mary's and Hillsborough. I think they also have some connection with Univision-40, but not sure. CBC corporate is probrably the rumor about going into Site 1...

I'm guessing you mean Capital Broadcasting, WRAL's parent company, and currently in a nondescript office building at the corner of Hillsborough and St. Marys (across St. Mary's from the SECU). I can't imagine they would abandon their studio complex out on Western Blvd...

Any update on Capital City Grocery? Is it indeed going to be a "renovation" that turns into a "liquidation"?? Notice how the Ace Hardware learned from CCG's mistakes and parked several vehicles (including a huge Ace Hardware Truck) out by Peace Street announcing they were open?