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Trains and (British) Automobiles!
Fri, Nov 08
|Jackson Springs
Join the Laneys and Naisbys for fall drive to the hamlet of... Hamlet!
Time & Location
Nov 08, 2024, 10:15 AM – 2:15 PM
Jackson Springs, 2145 Foxfire Rd, Jackson Springs, NC 27281, USA
Guests
About the event
BATS outing Friday, November 8th to Hamlet, NC
Please read the full description, we will meet in Foxfire, not at the event location!
Current population 6,000, Hamlet was settled on 1869. The land was originally purchased by British
immigrant John Shortridge who planned a textile mill and sold part of it to Seaboard Airline Railroad. Rail
lines, workshops and an HQ were built in 1894, and after WW1 some 30 passenger trains ran daily
through Hamlet and the town became a stopping off point for travelers, resulting in the construction of
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