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High School, Raleigh, N.C.

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Our Flashback Friday postcard this week depicts a rare view of a long-lost Raleigh landmark — Raleigh High School. This was Raleigh’s first public high school, and was erected on W. Morgan St. between the city water tower and First Presbyterian Church in 1907.

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Wilmington Street, Showing Cotton Merchants, Raleigh, N.C.

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This week Flashback Friday mingles among the cotton merchants in the 300 block of S. Wilmington Street. The image in this beautifully tinted postcard depicts an era in Raleigh’s history which is now long lost.

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State School for the Blind, Raleigh, N.C.

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Flashback Friday visits the old State School for the Blind this week. Few readers are probably aware that its campus once occupied a verdant Caswell Square, which nowadays is encircled with busy traffic and crowded with state government office buildings.

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