North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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ills borough Street mtiLii .- ' . ■• ;(fc. . :3. «3 ' ;5 ' j|- «..r.i J y ft I ' i .-l»wK-- ' !f0 Which came first — Hillsborough Street or N.C. State? A search of Raleigh history reveals that, when State was a mere cow pasture, Hillsborough Street was a busy, if muddy, thoroughfare from Raleigh to Chapel Hill, Durham and points west. Today, State ap- pears to descend on the Street in one fell swoop, taking service stations and nightclubs with it. But things were not always that way. Whether it was the chicken or the egg, the Street looks much the same along some stretches as it did a half-century ago — at St. Mary ' s College, for example. Raleigh residents built their homes along Hillsborough Street and were among the first commuters. The trolley line to College Station, which was across the street from Patterson Hall, was initiated in the early years of the new century. It took state government workers downtown and brought professors to the newly established N.C. State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts. Although the trolley was 18 Student Life

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1 i7ji 1 ! Bearing cotton, horse-drawn wagons lumber down Hillsborough Street past Tompkins and Winston Halls. One morning in 1902, recalled Peter Valaer, Jr., ' 06, the campus community awoke to discover a farm wagon on top of Winston Hall, which was then the location of the engineering department. It had been taken apart and reassembled atop the building by some unknown prankster. One professor remarked that if whoever did it was not an engineer, he should be. 20 Student Life