If This Old Neighborhood Could Talk

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If This Old Neighborhood Could Talk

吉彩网网站 | By Amber Nimocks,

Published December 9, 2011 at 10:36 AM EST

Downtown Raleigh's historic Oakwood neighborhood puts on its this weekend. It's a chance for curious strangers to poke around in some of the city's grandest and oldest homes. What few people realize is that the tour began some 40 years ago as a last-ditch effort to keep a freeway from demolishing the historic area. Neighbors have recently begun collecting one another's oral histories, to help preserve the neighborhood's fascinating story.

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