Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Nebraska North Carolina?

It was one of the stranger things we have encountered along the way.  Jackie and I were driving back from Florida with some of my father's  personal effects, and were following the old Albemarle Highway, which happened to be the 264 through North Carolina.








 I had stopped to take a picture or two of something that turned out to be unmemorable, when Jackie looked up and say a sign pointing to Nebraska.  I had seen the sign too but just thought it was some kind of joke or something, and hadn't given it a second thought.  Jackie said we should take the 2 mile detour and check it out.  She is usually right about things, so we did, and sure enough,  two miles down a hot dusty back road winding through corn and wheat fields was a collection of 7 or 8 half abandoned buildings and a church that turned out to be Nebraska, North Carolina.  A Google search provided no information about how it got it's name, or its population which seemed like no more that 10 or 12, even though I didn't see anyone, but there it was.






This is pretty much down town Nebraska.   Two or three more building that are off to the side, and that's about it.








There was an abandoned general store you can see across the road from the church (the above photo was what was left of its contents), a couple of houses, some agricultural structures, and that was it, but given our attachment to the state of Nebraska, it was quite a find.  Will continue to see if I can find out any more about it and report back if I do.

                                                                       Pablo














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