I love all that glass!

I’ve long loved this building – ever since I was kid. My Dad frequented the original 42nd Street Oyster Bar at the corner of West and Jones streets in the mid 1960s, and I was often in tow.  The modestly styled Art Deco structure is across the street from the famed oyster bar and a Progress Energy power substation. The now long gone Bing Lee Chinese Laundry  was on the fourth corner of the intersection. The neighborhood back then was industrial; it was gritty– it was where guys went to drink PBR after work. This glass-walled building  was once the Carolina Power and Light Co.  truck garage.

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Just a bit down the road from Raleigh’s new transit facility in East Raleigh is Oak View Park. This public county park features an antebellum farm house, an older house (later kitchen) that dates to at least as far back as the 1820s, a cotton gin house, and goats, among many other artifacts pertaining to cotton farming in the south.

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Wilson Dixon, Company C, 1st Missouri

There’s a hidden treasure in Raleigh, but unfortunately it’s not publicly accessible because it’s on the grounds of Central Prison. Of all the relics of Raleigh’s involvement in the Civil War, this is one of the most important as well as one of the most hidden. It’s an inscription on a rock made by a Union soldier made during the northern army’s occupation of the area.

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