Milton Fires
Over the years Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina, (and the nearby area) has experienced several building fires, some of them devastating. Below is a list.
1. "Longwood" (2013)
2. Thomas Day House/Union Tavern (1989)
3. Milton Hotel (1951)
4. Milton Roller Mill (1944)
5. Archibald Murphey School (1940s) [need photograph]
6. WPA Sewing Room, Clyde Jones Building, W. T. Oliver Grocery Store, Smith Brandon Store (1938)
7. "Glenburnie" (1932) [after the fire]
8. Winstead Tobacco Factory [need date; may not have burned but damaged by a storm and dismantled]
9. Hatcher & Stamps Tobacco Factory (1880)
10. Business District. "We learn that there came near being a serious fire in Milton one night last week, and had not the whole population turned out and formed a hand brigade, it is certain that a big portion of the business section would have been swept by the angry flames."
The Twice-a-Week Dispatch (Burlington, North Carolina), 14 April 1909.
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