In 1915, residents formed North Carolina s first farmers credit union. In 1919, they incorporated. We were an innovative community. Old-timers recall catching the train into Durham and the school s mean breeding bull, the country store and owner Johnny Wynn, who said the Park was the worst thing that ever happened to them. Nowadays, traffic is constant past Cecil Council s front porch.
Tax assessments run residents off to lands they can afford.
If the transit stop comes true, Council and Knott and Evans foresee office buildings and condos from N.C. 54 to I-40, the old school and church lands condemned to make way for commuter tracks. To let it go just ain t right.