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Author Message << Prev Topic | Next Topic >> ApexNC.com Admin Group Administrator Joined: October 01 2003 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 681 Posted: July 05 2005 at 4:13pm | IP Logged Here are some historical facts from the Town of Apex: The Apex downtown reflects the town's rich historical beginning. Apex was first settled around 1867 and was incorporated in 1873. The name "Apex" was adopted because the community was the highest point on the Chatham Railroad between Richmond, Virginia and Jacksonville, Florida. The Apex railroad station was first chartered in 1854 "for the purpose of affecting a communication between the North Carolina Railroad Company (at Raleigh) and the coal fields of Chatham County." Because of the war and problems with Reconstruction, the first locomotive did not pass through Apex until 1869. Since the Apex station was located in the heart of a vast pine forest, it became a shipping point for forest products such as tar, turpentine and lumber. A community soon developed around the station. Stores and warehouses were built and many of the large forests in the area were converted to farmlands. Before long, Apex became an active trading and shopping center. When the disease known as the Granville Wilt ran many tobacco farmers out of Person and Granville counties at the turn of the century, these farmers found land around Apex to be equally suitable for tobacco production and settled here. The first Wake County tobacco auction market was established in Apex in 1905. The Apex town motto, "Peak of Good Living" is appropriate for a number of historical reasons. Not only was the town named for being the highest point on the Chatham Railroad, but in places along the main street of Apex, water which falls on one side of the street flows to the Neuse River, and on the other side flows to the Cape Fear River. Edited by ApexNC.com on July 06 2005 at 2:36pm __________________ Mark Wilson Editor ApexNC.com! Back to Top   BobCrowley Groupie Joined: April 28 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 98 Posted: April 28 2006 at 9:02am | IP Logged There is what has become a common misconception contained in this post, and unfortunately, it is also in much of the Town of Apex promotional literature as well.  I am not sure from where this idea came, but it has been said so many times, anyone still using it can be forgiven. The legend goes the Town of Apex was named because it was the "highest point on the Chatham Railroad between Richmond, Virginia and Jacksonville, Florida."  That is incorrect.  The Chatham Railroad, at the fullest extent of its length, never extended further north than Raleigh, nor further south that the old town of Haywood, near present day Moncure, for a total of 31 miles.  Apex was indeed named because it was the highest point on the Chatham Railroad, but that railroad never extended to either Richmond or Jacksonville. The error apparently stems from the fact the Chatham Railroad was later renamed as the Raleigh & Augusta Air Line Railroad, and became one of the key parts of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, now part of CSX.  The Seaboard did indeed operate trains as far north as Richmond and as far south as Jacksonville, but not until the twentieth century, long after the Town of Apex was named. __________________ Bob Crowley Back to Top

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