Page served as Cary's first Mayor and postmaster. Because of Page's opposition to whiskey, the town was incorporated as a "dry" community and remained so for the next one hundred years. Another example of Page's belief in the temperance movement is that in , he constructed the dignified Park Hotel in Raleigh demolished, "because he wanted to see in the Capital of his State a first class Hotel without a saloon.
Page and his wife, Catherine Raboteau from Cumberland County, raised eight children in a house that was located on the site of the present Town Hall. The home burned in The Page children, five boys and three girls, became prominent in North Carolina government, transportation, banking and business.
Page was very influential in convincing the U. Page was also a staunch proponent of practically oriented education for everyone and was a leader in the establishment of the school known today as N. State University. Says one of his biographers, "No other man has seen so clearly or stated so forcibly and directly the significance of universal education in the South in establishing a democratic society. Frank Page died in Raleigh in and is buried in Aberdeen.
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Powered by Wild Apricot Membership Software. Settlers of English descent had lived in the area that is now known as Cary years before it was founded by lumber man Allison Francis Frank Page.
In , shortly after the North Carolina Railroad expanded to the area of what became Cary, Page and his wife, Catherine, purchased acres surrounding the railroad junction and built a sawmill.
This error was corrected in later amendments to the charter. The two governors stopped for lunch at the home of Mrs. Nancy Jones on their way from Chapel Hill to Raleigh. The two men were seated in the parlor and quickly drank their beverages on that hot June day and Mrs. Apparently the servants were taking too long to prepare the drinks with mint freshly picked from the garden.
The population of Cary has continued to grow due to its proximity to the Research Triangle Park , home to many major companies and research development organizations, and the cities of Raleigh and Durham. It is predominantly located in Wake County with a small area in Chatham County.
He decided to name the town after a Samuel Cary who had been an Ohio congressman and prohibitionist that Page had admired. In the town was incorporated and yes, Page became the first mayor. Another railroad came through in creating another junction directly north of the downtown and this addition spurred on more growth in the town. The town thrived on the small farming community that were growing crops of tobacco and cotton.
This was one of the first public high schools in the state. The school has a vocational technology program with a farm run by the high school. At one point it had over 10, laying hens and head of cattle! The town doubled in the s and then was hit by the Great Depression. The town went bankrupt in The city created the Planning and Zoning Board in to control the growth.
All the city streets were then paved and the city braced itself for the next wave of growth.
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