Sunday, February 20, 2022

Milton, North Carolina, Fires

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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