Source: Kathryn Trogdon, NEWS & OBSERVER, 1/15/17


In the early 2000s, national nonprofit Scenic America deemed thousands of acres of forests and farmland between the Neuse River and Marks Creek in eastern Wake County to be a “Last Chance Landscape” – a setting treasured for its natural beauty or distinctive character that faces the threat of development. That distinction along with the area’s cultural heritage, prompted the Triangle Land Conservancy, Wake and Johnston counties...

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