The show features miniature horses, draft horses and almost everything in between. Volunteers hawk barbecue sandwiches made with the show's secret recipe. More than 150 years old, the Old Mill of Guilford still sells a variety of stone-ground flours. Water from a nearby pond spins the 24-foot mill wheel. The columned brick buildings of the Oak Ridge Military Academy, established about 150 years ago, line N.C. 150.
Cadets stride across the grounds in their slate-blue uniforms.
The venerable military boarding school could soon have a new neighbor. A shopping center, which would be the town's first, is planned for a 20-acre site just west of the school. Plans call for a grocery, a drugstore, a garden center and a handful of detached buildings for other businesses.