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Glen Royall Cotton Mill image at Wake Forest Museum |
Glen Royall fared much better than the last NRHP location that I wrote about. Unlike the defunct historic Maiden Lane neighborhood across from the NC State University campus that is replaced by apartments and parking lots, you can still walk the streets of Glen Royall Mill Village. This village is a reminder of an important important time in our historical past of early Southern industrialization, labor history, and the social dynamics of mill communities in the early 20th century.
Many of the original building still stand. There are a mix of original houses distinctive in the styles of the era - pyramidal cottages, triple-A cottages, and shotgun houses, new homes built to historical guidelines and original mill buildings converted to apartments. It is a sought after residential community within the town boundaries of Wake Forest. You can see examples of the original houses in the Historic Preservation document that was created for the NRHP nomination process.
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Enjoy browsing through this list of sources:
Glen Royall Mill Historic District
NRHP Nomination Document
Wake Forest Museum's articles about Glen Royall
Glen Royall Mill Village: A Humble Century of Distinction
Wake Forest Gazette: Just a little history: The mill is gone; village thrives
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