Abstract:
The Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit recognizes organizations and individuals demonstrating strong commitment to promotion of historical preservation. Among the 2006 winners are Fayetteville and the Fayetteville Area Convention and Visitors Bureau for acquiring the condemned 1890 Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway Depot and rehabilitating it into a transportation museum and Brooks Graham's restoration of her mother's antebellum farmhouse, the Farrish-Lambeth House in Sanford.