Beside 715 Nazareth Street

Photographed March 23, 2004

History: The northern end of Avent Ferry Road was moved to its present location between 1950 and 1980.  Previously, it weaved through Nazareth just north of the Catholic Orphanage and intersected Western Boulevard just west of Ashe Avenue.

Parallel to old Avent Ferry Road

Photographed March 23, 2004

History: The southern end of Bilyeu Street was closed prior to 1983 and is presently a wooded trail.

200 block of Boylan Avenue

Photographed March 21, 2004

History:  Sanborn Insurance Map dated 1914 shows Southern and Seaboard Airline Railroad tracks intersecting a Norfolk-Southern Railroad (Raleigh-Charlotte branch) line.

Photographed March 21, 2004

History:  Sanborn Insurance Map dated 1914 shows steel trestle on at location used by Norfolk-Southern Railroad (Raleigh-Charlotte branch). Unknown if rebuilt in subsequent decades.

1800 block of Fayetteville Road

Photographed March 25, 2004

History:  The creek bridge and the last hundred feet of Fayetteville Road were removed in the 1950s.

Photographed March 21, 2004

History: Replacing an earlier wooden bridge, this 110-foot long, 15-foot wide, 20-foot tall steel truss bridge spanned Crabtreek Creek just west of Lassiter's Mill from the 1920s until 1984.  Originally spanning the Neuse River north of Raleigh, a piece of the bridge (pictured) is located at the old mill site.

Photographed March 21, 2004

Photographed March 28, 2004

Behind 2301 Laurelbrook

Photographed March 28, 2004

100 block of Peace Street

Photographed March 28, 2004

500 block of West Hargett Street

Photographed March 21, 2004

History:  Sanborn Insurance Map dated 1914 shows a wooden trestle at Johnson & Johnson Co. coal yard with the notation "coal pockets under trestle."

200 block of West Johnston Street

Photographed March 21, 2004

History: Sanborn Insurance Map dated 1909 (right) shows the still-operational turntable as part of the Seaboard Air Lines Railroad shops.  The accompanying crescent-shaped roundhouse was demolished in 1968.

Between Seward Street and Capital Boulevard

Photographed March 28, 2004

Photographed March 25, 2004

History:  Reedy Creek road originally connected Faircloth Road on the west side of Meredith College with Blue Ridge at the present site of the Art Museum.  Sections of the road are still visible along the Beltline, behind the NCSU faculty club, in the woods along Wade Avenue, and behind old Camp Polk.

Glenwood Avenue at Harvey Street

Photographed March 22, 2004

History:  This stone shelter was constructed by the Raleigh Electric Company, the second company to operate electric streetcars in the Capital City.  The Raleigh Street Railway Company began scheduled runs on September 1, 1891. It was reorganized in 1894 as the Raleigh Electric Company and later incorporated into Carolina Power & Light Company.  By 1915, the system had 12 miles of track. The last electric trolley ceased operation in 1932. More information.

Meredith College

Photographed March 21, 2004, facing north

Notes:  This tunnel connects the campus with a handful of other buildings on the other side of Wade Avenue including the President's residence.