Category: Nostalgia

Two Jazz Legends Were Born on Route 1 in North Carolina

July 26, 2025

US Route 1 cuts through North Carolina for 174 miles, from the South Carolina line near Rockingham to the Virginia border outside Henderson. It misses the mountains. It misses the Outer Banks. What it runs through is the Piedmont interior: longleaf pine country, the Research Triangle, tobacco barns, the state capital, and the slow-rolling farmland […]

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