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Historic cabin in need of new home
Built in the 1880s, a cabin originally owned by Jack Bailes was once located across from the Old Mill of Guilford by PATTI STOKES An 1880s cabin once located across the highway from Bailes’ Old Mill – or Old Mill of Guilford as it is known today – is in need of a new home. A gift from Jack Bailes, who owned the mill at that time, to Floyd and Ann Berrier
several decades ago, the cabin was moved in the late 1970s to a 10.12-acre site the Berriers had purchased on Oak Ridge Road. A breezeway was built to connect the cabin to an existing 1925 cottage on the property, and an old feed barn behind the cabin by the mill was torn down and the barn wood used to panel the inside of the cottage. Though no one ever lived in the cottage/cabin, the Berriers are said to have occasionally used it as a place to get away for
Photos courtesy of Gene Stafford
A cabin (right) that was gifted to Floyd and Ann Berrier was moved to property the Berriers owned on
...continued on p. 3 Oak Ridge Road in the late 1970s; Floyd built a breezeway to connect the cabin to a 1925 cottage (left).
Trail route selected, design gets underway
Photo by Patti Stokes/NWO
Summerfield residents Amber and Ron Bogle view alternate routes for the A&Y Greenway extension through Summerfield at an open house on Aug. 9. Ed Lynch (background, right), bicycle and pedestrian project manager for Raleigh-based Stewart, was among the design firm’s staff members on hand to answer questions.
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Town council selects ‘green route’ after a drop-in open house was held for residents to provide feedback on alternative routes for the A&Y Greenway’s southern alignment
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by PATTI STOKES
through the town; it was to begin where the greenway currently ends at a pedestrian tunnel under U.S. 220 and extend to the old railroad bed near Summerfield Elementary School on Centerfield Road. The contract committed the Town to paying Stewart $320,294 for trail and pedes-
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SUMMERFIELD – Iona Thomas, manager of transportation, and her team at Raleigh-based Stewart are ready to roll. The design and engineering firm entered into a contract with the Town of Summerfield last September to design the southern alignment of the A&Y Greenway
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