Editing Cary, North Carolina (section)

==History==
[[File:Allison Francis Page, 1824-1899.jpg|thumb|upright|Allison Francis Page, first mayor and founder of Cary]]
[[File:Nancy Jones House, Cary (22149206641).jpg|thumb|[[Nancy Jones House]] in 1939]]
[[File:Page-WalkerHotel.jpg|thumb|[[Page-Walker Hotel|Page–Walker Hotel]]]] 
[[File:High School, Cary, North Carolina.jpg|thumb|[[Cary High School]], 1915]]
Before the arrival of [[European Americans|European]] settlers, the [[Tuscarora people|Tuscarora]] and [[Catawba people|Catawba]] people lived in what is now called Cary.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kairis |first=Ashley |date=May 6, 2021 |title=150 Years: Cary's First Inhabitants, the Tuscarora |url=https://carycitizen.news/2021/05/06/150-years-carys-first-inhabitants-the-tuscarora/ |access-date=November 7, 2022 |website=Cary Citizen}}</ref><ref name="NcPedia">{{cite web |last1=Claggett |first1=Stephen |title=First Immigrants: Native American Settlement of North Carolina |url=http://ncpedia.org/history/early/native-settlement |accessdate=September 29, 2014 |website=Ncpedia}}</ref> However, their numbers were greatly reduced due to smallpox epidemics, resulting from contact with Europeans who carried the disease and having no prior immunity.<ref name="NcPedia" />

In the 1750s, John Bradford moved to the area and opened an ordinary or inn, giving Cary its first name—Bradford's Ordinary.<ref name="FoPW.com-2022">{{Cite web |title=History of the Town of Cary |url=https://friendsofpagewalker.wildapricot.org/cary_history/ |access-date=January 23, 2022 |website=FriendsofPageWalker.com}}</ref> However, most of the land remained in the hands of two men, both named Nathaniel Jones. Arriving around 1775, Jones of White Plains plantation owned {{Convert|10461|acre|ha|abbr=on}} in eastern Cary, while Jones of Crabtree owned most of what is now western Cary.<ref name="FoPW.com-2022" /><ref name="Howland-1988">{{Cite news |last=Howland |first=Hazel |date=May 19, 1988 |title=Trees are Intertwined in the History of Cary |page=13G |work=The News and Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93601999/ |access-date=January 27, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> After the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]], the community was on the road between the new capital in [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] and the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina]] in [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina|Chapel Hill]].<ref name="Cary Planning-2010">{{Cite news |last=Town of Cary Planning Department |date=May 27, 2010 |title=Historic Preservation Plan: History of Cary's Growth and Development |volume=VIII |pages=7–15 |work=Town of Cary Comprehensive Plan |publisher=Town of Cary |url=https://www.townofcary.org/home/showpublisheddocument/9545/636074524016970000 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref> In the early 19th-century, Eli Yates added a gristmill and sawmill to the community, while Rufus Jones founded the first free school in the 1840s, along with Asbury Methodist Church, the community's first church.<ref name="FoPW.com-2022" /><ref name="Cary Planning-2010" />

In 1854, Bradford's Ordinary was linked to a major transportation route when the [[North Carolina Railroad]] came through the settlement, followed by the [[Chatham Railroad]] in 1868.<ref name="FoPW.com-2022" /><ref name="Tunnell-1970">{{Cite news |last=Tunnell |first=Gilbert |date=July 22, 1970 |title=Cary Plans Centennial Celebration |page=26 |work=The News and Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93279346/ |access-date=January 23, 2022 |via=[[Newspaper.com]]}}</ref> The railroad tracks were laid mostly by [[enslaved people]].<ref name="Kairis.-2021">{{Cite web |last=Kairis. |first=Ashley |date=April 8, 2021 |title=150 Years: Tales of Cary's Railroad Stop – CaryCitizen |url=https://carycitizen.news/2021/04/08/150-years-tales-of-the-railroad-stop/ |access-date=March 2, 2022 |website=carycitizen.news}}</ref> Wake County farmer and lumberman [[Allison Francis Page]] also arrived in 1854 and is credited with founding the town.<ref name="Holland-1994">{{Cite web |last=Holland |first=Erma Ragan |date=1994 |title=Page, Allison Francis (Frank) {{!}} NCpedia |url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/page-allison-francis |access-date=January 23, 2022 |website=www.ncpedia.org}}</ref><ref name="Cary Planning-2010b" /> For $2,000, Page purchased {{convert|300|acre|ha|1}} surrounding the planned railroad junction and built his home called Pages, a sawmill, and a general store.<ref name="Bishir-2003">{{Cite book |last1=Bishir |first1=Catherine W. |title=A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina |last2=Southern |first2=Michael T. |publisher=The University of North Carolina Press |year=2003 |isbn=080782772X |location=Chapel Hill, North Carolina |pages=133 |language=English}}</ref><ref name="Howland-1988"/><ref name="Holland-1994" /> Page also donated {{Convert|10|acre|ha|abbr=on}} for a railroad depot.<ref name="Howland-1988"/>

The community was unofficially known as Page, Page's Siding, Page's Station, Page's Tavern, and Page's Turnout.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web |last=Hyman |first=Rebecca |date=2010 |title=Cary {{!}} NCpedia |url=https://www.ncpedia.org/cary |access-date=January 23, 2022 |website=www.ncpedia.org}}</ref><ref name="Van Scoyoc-2020">{{Cite news |last=Van Scoyoc |first=Peggy |date=April 15, 2020 |title=Cary History: Post Offices of Cary's Past |work=Cary Citizen |url=https://carycitizen.news/2020/04/15/cary-history-post-offices-of-carys-past/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CMarch%2025%2C%201856%20was%20the,to%20carry%20mail%20in%201855. |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref> In 1856, Page added a post office and became the town's first postmaster.<ref name="Howland-1988" /><ref name="Van Scoyoc-2020" /> Page named the community Cary because of his admiration for [[Samuel Fenton Cary]], head of the [[Sons of Temperance]] in North America, who had delivered an oration in Raleigh two months prior.<ref>{{cite book |author=Gannett, Henry |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ |title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States |publisher=Govt. Print. Off. |year=1905 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n69 70]}}</ref><ref name="N&O-1971a">{{Cite news |date=April 18, 1971 |title=Mystery Shrouds the Origin of the Name Cary |page=2 |work=The News and Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93281814/mystery-shrouds-the-origin-of-the-name-c/ |access-date=January 23, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref name="CoAmBio-1909">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wW9GAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA480 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |publisher=James T. White & Company |year=1909 |volume=XI |pages=480 |language=en |access-date=January 27, 2022 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=150 Years: How Cary Got its Name – CaryCitizen |url=https://carycitizen.news/2021/02/04/150-years-how-cary-got-its-name/ |access-date=March 3, 2022 |website=carycitizen.news}}</ref>

The [[American Civil War]] did not come to Cary until April 16, 1865—the same day [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] General [[Robert E. Lee]] surrendered—when 5,000 [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] troops under General [[Wade Hampton III]] encamped there.<ref name="Cary Planning-2010" /> The next day, Raleigh surrendered to [[Union Army|Union]] [[William Tecumseh Sherman|General William T. Sherman]], and [[Francis Preston Blair Jr.|Major General Francis Preston Blair Jr.]] led the [[XVII Corps (Union Army)]] into Cary and established headquarters at the [[Nancy Jones House]], the former home of Jones of Crabtree that had become a tavern and stagecoach stop on the road between Raleigh and Chapel Hill.<ref name="Cary Planning-2010" /><ref name="Cary Planning-2010a">{{Cite news |last=Town of Cary Planning Department |date=May 27, 2010 |title=Historic Preservation Plan: Appendix D: Existing Inventory of Cary's Historic Resources |volume=VIII |page=D2-D75 |work=Town of Cary Comprehensive Plan. |publisher=Town of Cary |url=https://www.townofcary.org/home/showpublisheddocument/9539/636074523997900000 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref><ref name="nom-form">{{cite web |url=https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/WA0187.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places: Inventory-Nomination Form (Nancy Jones House) |last1=Williford |first1=Jo Ann |last2=Hill |first2=Michael |date=September 1983 |website=nc.gov |publisher=North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office |accessdate=May 1, 2015}}</ref> With Blair's arrival, Cary's enslaved population was [[Emancipation|emancipated]]; some went to Raleigh and joined the 135th [[United States Colored Troops|U.S. Colored Troops]].<ref name="Cary Planning-2010" /> Blair remained in Cary until the surrender of Confederate General [[Joseph E. Johnston]] on April 27, 1865.<ref name="Cary Planning-2010" />

Cary's population grew after the Civil War with the completion of the Chatham Railroad junction.<ref name="Kairis.-2021" /> Around 1868, the town's first depot was built for the Chatham Railroad, and Page laid out {{Convert|1|acre|ha|abbr=on}} residential lots and streets, including Academy and Chatham Streets.<ref name="Howland-1988" /><ref name="Molloy-2000" /><ref name="Kairis.-2021" /> At the time, most of Cary's men worked for the railroads, but other businesses included a furniture factory, two shingle factories, a tannery, a shoe factory, a brick factory, and a window sash and blind factory.<ref name="Howland-1988" /><ref name="Cary Planning-2010b">{{Cite news |last=Town of Cary Planning Department |date=May 27, 2010 |title=Historic Preservation Plan: History of Cary's Growth and Development |volume=VIII |pages=8–9 |work=Town of Cary Comprehensive Plan. |publisher=Town of Cary |url=https://www.townofcary.org/home/showpublisheddocument/9545/636074524016970000 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref> Around 1868, Page also built a [[Second Empire style]] hotel for railroad passengers, known today as the [[Page-Walker Hotel]].<ref>Silber, Janet B''. "[https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/WA0037.pdf National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory Page-Walker Hotel] " (pdf). North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.'' March 8, 1979''.'' Retrieved November 6, 2022</ref>

Page, Adolphus Jones, and Rufus Jones established Cary Academy, a private boarding school later known as the Female Institute and Cary Female Academy.<ref name="N&O-1971" /><ref name="Cary Planning-2010" /><ref name="Holland-1994" /> The two-story school was built in 1870 on Page's land at the end of Academy Street with lumber milled on-site by Page.<ref name="N&O-1971">{{Cite news |date=April 18, 1971 |title=N.C. High School Started in Cary |page=7 |work=The News and Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93280200/ |access-date=January 23, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref name="Howland-1988" /><ref name="Cary Planning-2010" /> Other additions to the town included Page's tobacco warehouse, First Methodist Church, First Baptist Church, and the Cary Colored Christian Church (the latter on land donated by Page), along with two free schools for whites and two free schools for blacks.<ref name="Cary Planning-2010" />

Cary was incorporated on April 3, 1871, with Page serving as the first mayor.<ref name="FoPW.com-2022" /><ref name="auto1" /> Its boundaries were established as {{Convert|1|sqmi|km2|abbr=on}}, with the center being the Chatham Railroad warehouse.<ref name="Kairis.-2021" /> Because Page supported [[Temperance movement|temperance]], Cary's Act of Incorporation prohibited the sale of whiskey in the town's boundary and its surrounding {{Convert|2|sqmi|km2|abbr=on}}; an 1889 addition the Act of Incorporation also banned "any vinous, spirituous or malt liquors, cider or peach brandies".<ref name="FoPW.com-2022" /><ref name="Tunnell-1970" /><ref name="N&O-1971a" /> Page left Cary in 1880, following lumber opportunities in [[Moore County, North Carolina|Moore County]].<ref name="Holland-1994" /> However, Cary's prohibition law was in place until 1964 when it was superseded by State and county laws.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 25, 1964 |title=Booze Coming to Cary |page=18 |work=The News and Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93286132/booze-coming-to-cary/ |access-date=January 23, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=July 4, 1963 |title=In Cary, the only Foam is on Shaving Lather |page=5 |work=The Raleigh News and Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93285911/in-cary-the-only-foam-is-on-shaving-lat/ |access-date=January 23, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=April 11, 1964 |title=Cary to Ask Ruling on Beer, Wine Sale |page=18 |work=The News and Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93286021/cary-to-ask-ruling-on-beer-wine-sale/ |access-date=January 23, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

The [[Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Railroad|Raleigh and Augusta Air–Line Railroad]] arrived in Cary in 1879, creating Fetner Junction just north of downtown and spurring further growth. Sixteen Cary residents purchased Cary Academy in 1896 and converted it into the private boarding school, Cary High School, which had 248 students from across the state by 1900.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Byrd |first1=Thomas M. |last2=Coston |first2=Lisa |date=March 1996 |title=Chronology of Cary High School 1896-1996 |url=https://www.wcpss.net/cms/lib/NC01911451/Centricity/Domain/264/100%20Cary%20Years.pdf |access-date=January 22, 2022}}</ref><ref name=":3b">{{Cite web |last=Parker |first=Jason |date=July 15, 2021 |title=Hold that green light: Cary's new smart city project includes wireless control of traffic signals {{!}} WRAL TechWire |url=https://wraltechwire.com/2021/07/15/hold-that-green-light-carys-new-smart-city-project-includes-wireless-control-of-traffic-signals/ |access-date=March 6, 2022 |website=wraltechwire.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Cary Planning-2010" /> When the North Carolina legislature passed a law establishing a system of public high schools in 1907, [[Cary High School]] was transferred to the State for $2,750, giving Cary its claim of having the first state-funded public high school in the state.<ref name=":3b" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=King |first=Truman |date=May 16, 1965 |title=School Law Ended Academy Era |page=C6 |work=The Raleigh News and Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93286759/school-law-ended-academy-era/ |access-date=January 23, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> Town bonds and the State funded a new brick school building in 1913; it was expanded in 1939 with [[Works Progress Administration|WPA]] assistance.<ref name="Bishir-2003" /> Today that structure survives as the [[Cary Arts Center]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=History & Public Art {{!}} Town of Cary |url=https://www.townofcary.org/recreation-enjoyment/facilities/cary-arts-center/about |access-date=January 23, 2022 |website=www.townofcary.org}}</ref>

In the 1920s, the paved Western Wake Highway (now Western Blvd.) connected Cary to Raleigh via automobile, followed by paved roads to [[Durham, North Carolina|Durham]] and [[Apex, North Carolina|Apex]].<ref name="Cary Planning-2010" /><ref name="Keister-2021" /> This enabled Cary's residents to commute for work, and the town's population grew by 64% during the decade.<ref name="Cary Planning-2010" /><ref name="Keister-2021" /> Electricity came to Cary in 1921.<ref name="World Pop-2022">{{Cite web |title=Cary, North Carolina Population 2022 (Demographics, Maps, Graphs) |url=https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/cary-nc-population |access-date=March 2, 2022 |website=World Population Review}}</ref> For the first time, Cary had housing developments, along with a volunteer fire department and municipal water and sewage system.<ref name="Cary Planning-2010" /> A Masonic Lodge was added to downtown in the 1920s.<ref name="Preservation Master Plan">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=History of Cary's Growth and Development |url=http://www.townofcary.org/Assets/Planning+Department/Planning+Department+PDFs/Historic+Preservation/HRMP+-+History+of+Cary$!27s+Growth+and+Development.pdf |accessdate= |website=Cary Historic Preservation Master Plan |publisher=}}</ref> During the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]], the Bank of Cary failed, and the town went bankrupt.<ref name="Kairis.-2021" /> Conditions were so challenging that Cary had four mayors in two years.<ref name="Kairis.-2021" />

In the 1930s, a new [[North Carolina State University]] research farm supported Cary's farmers.<ref name="Cary Planning-2010" /> One Cary garden club began growing [[gourd]]s and showed their products and related crafts at the [[North Carolina State Fair]].<ref name="auto">{{cite web |last=Patrick |first=Jessica |date=August 4, 2015 |title=History: Cary, the Gourd Capital of the World – Food Cary |url=https://foodcary.com/2015/08/04/history-cary-the-gourd-capital-of-the-world/ |access-date=January 23, 2022 |website=foodcary.com}}</ref> After the club's first annual Gourd Festival in 1944, they sent exhibits to the International Gourd Society Festival in [[Pasadena, California]] and took many prizes<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 11, 1938 |title=Garden Club Meets |page=10 |work=The News and Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88826440/the-news-and-observer-raleigh-north-ca/ |access-date=January 22, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> This earned Cary the nickname [[North Carolina State Fair|"]]Gourd Capital of the World", a designation reflected by gourds circling the original version of the town seal.<ref name="auto" /><ref name="auto1" /> Now named [[North Carolina Gourd Festival]], the annual event moved to the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in 2000.<ref>{{cite web |date=January 22, 2022 |title=Festival Information |url=http://www.ncgourdsociety.org/festival.html |access-date=January 23, 2022 |website=North Carolina Gourd Society}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Trogdon |first=Kathryn |date=April 16, 2016 |title=Council Keeps Town Seal |page=A1 & A5 |work=The News and Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93246871/ |access-date=January 22, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rood |first=Mary Ann |date=April 11, 2000 |title=Gourd Lovers Try to Get their Fill |page=2B |work=The News and Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93247861/ |access-date=January 22, 2022 |via=[[Newspaper.com]]}}</ref>

After [[World War II]], Cary began to attract industry, including the Taylor Biscuit Company (later Austin Foods), which became the town's largest employer with some 200 employees.<ref name="Cary Planning-2010"/> Cary expanded its original single square mile boundary and created a [[Planning Board|Planning and Zoning Board]] in 1949.<ref name="auto1" /> All the streets in Cary were paved by the early 1950s and residential suburbs began forming around the downtown area, including Veteran Hills, Russell Hills, and Montclair subdivisions. The town gained its first supermarket, [[Piggly Wiggly]], in 1950, followed by the Cary Public Library in 1960, and a town-funded fire department in 1961.<ref name="Cary Planning-2010" />

The population and number of developments in Cary continued to increase in the 1960s and 1970s after the opening of the nearby [[Research Triangle Park]] (RTP) in 1959.<ref name="auto1" /><ref name="World Pop-2022" /><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Ashley Kairis |first1=Ashley |last2=Weinbrecht |first2=Audrey |date=September 17, 2021 |title=150 Moment: Mayor Fred G. Bond – CaryCitizen |url=https://carycitizen.news/2021/09/17/150-moment-mayor-fred-g-bond/ |access-date=March 3, 2022 |website=carycitizen.news}}</ref> This rapid growth was planned; the State built a four-lane road between Cary and the Research Triangle Park as part of the agreement to attract RTP to North Carolina.<ref name="Bauer-2020" /><ref name="Bauer-2021" /> Historian Jordan R. Bauer says, "The sleepy town of Cary...was the ideal place for an emerging class of scientific and technical workers".<ref name="Bauer-2020">Bauer, J. R. (2020). "Silicon Valley with a drawl: Making North Carolina's Research Triangle and Selling the High-Tech South." ''North Carolina Historical Review'', ''97''(3), p. 13. via EBSCO</ref><ref name="Bauer-2021">Bauer, Jordan R. 2021. "Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy." ''North Carolina Historical Review'' 98 (3): 356–58. via EBSCO, March 14, 2022</ref> Initially, Cary adopted zoning and other ordinances on an ad hoc basis to control growth and give the town structure, including its first subdivision regulations in 1961 and a zoning and land-use plan in 1963.<ref name="Cary Planning-2010" /> To deal with the problem of overcrowding in schools, several new schools were constructed in the 1960s. Cary High School was the first school in Wake County to integrate in 1963.<ref name="Citizen-1946">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Cary History: 1946 - today |url=http://carycitizen.com/2010/04/02/cary-history-1946-today/ |accessdate= |website=The Cary Citizen |publisher=}}</ref> Other ways Cary dealt with the rapid growth in the 1960s was adopting subdivision regulations in 1961, updating zoning ordinances and their land use plan in 1963, and connecting to Raleigh's sewer and water systems in the early 1960s.<ref name="Preservation Master Plan" />

In 1971, the town created [[Planned Unit Development]] (PUD) zoning, which lets a developer plan an entire community before beginning construction, allowing future residents to know where churches, schools, commercial, and industrial areas will be located in advance.<ref name="Cary Planning-2010" /> Developed on the Pine State Dairy's former Kildaire Farm, the {{convert|967|acre|ha|1|adj=on}} Kildaire Farms development in Cary was North Carolina's first PUD.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About the Community |url=https://www.kfhoa.org/ |access-date=January 28, 2022 |website=Kildaire Farms HOA |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1960, Cary's population was 3,356 but by 1970, it had grown to 7,686.<ref name="Cary Planning-2010c" /> To preserve its small-town feel,  of Cary formed the Community Appearance Commission in 1972, which focused on regulating the look of downtown through sign ordinances.<ref name="Citizen-1946" /> The Land Dedication Ordinance of 1974 required developers to set aside one acre of green space for every 35 housing units constructed.<ref name="Citizen-1946" /> During the 1980s, Cary created Industrial Performance Districts, which increased the town's tax base by encouraging businesses to build within the town's limits.<ref name="Citizen-1946" /> Cary had its own sewer system by the 1980s. The PUD model became so popular in Cary that 22 more were created between 1980 and 1992.<ref name="Imagine-2013">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Cary Community Plan |url=http://www.imaginecary.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Town-of-Cary-Community-Plan-Snapshot-Report.pdf |accessdate= |website=Imagine Cary |publisher=}}</ref>

By 2000, Cary's population had grown to 94,536.<ref name="Cary Planning-2010c">{{Cite news |last=Town of Cary Planning Department |date=May 27, 2010 |title=Historic Preservation Plan: Introduction |volume=VIII |page=2 |work=Town of Cary Comprehensive Plan |publisher=Town of Cary |url=https://www.townofcary.org/home/showpublisheddocument/9551/636074524034330000 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref> Concerned about forty years of steady growth, in 2008 the town council commissioned the ''Cary Historic Preservation Master Plan'' to establish a coordinated approach to [[historic preservation]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cary Historic Preservation Plan |url=https://hanburypreservation.com/projects/cary_preservation_plan |access-date=August 7, 2022 |website=Hanbury Preservation}}</ref> Cary now has three districts recognized by the [[National Register of Historic Places]]: the [[Carpenter Historic District (Raleigh, North Carolina)|Carpenter Historic District]], the [[Green Level, Wake County, North Carolina|Green Level Historic District]], and the [[Cary Historic District]].<ref name="FoPW-2022">{{Cite web |title=Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel - Historic Preservation |url=https://friendsofpagewalker.wildapricot.org/historic_preservation |access-date=August 7, 2022 |website=Friends of the Page Walker}}</ref> In addition, the town has designed ten local landmarks which receive a property tax break in exchange for oversight of exterior changes to the structures by the town's Historic Preservation Commission.<ref name="FoPW-2022" />