| Soon the open land filled with handsome early twentieth
century mansions and the outstanding landscape and street design by eminent American town
planner, John Nolen of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The most important house in the neighborhood was and still is
the National Register mansion of tobacco millionaire James Buchanan Duke, who invested
heavily in waterpower for this area, bringing electricity to homes and hundreds of cotton
mills, which made the city prosper by the 1920s. The elegant design of streets and homes
has held its beauty and value to an extraordinary degree.” |
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