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Established in the early 1870s to provide home sites for personnel of an English stock company that organized the Jamesville and Washington Railroad and Lumber Company, Dymond City, North Carolina existed as a veritable city in the woods. Originally called Waring, in honor of Richard Waring, one-time president of the J & W Company, Dymond City was once populated by over one hundred residents.
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36419
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This Martin County town was founded in 1870 along the railroad by Quakers. The town consisted of a 32 room hotel, store, mills and churches and large homes. The post office closed in 1894, the railroad stopped in 1897, the tracks were taken up and the town died.
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