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North Carolina's capital city of Raleigh, nestled in the heart of the state, is a picturesque oak-canopied community founded in 1792. One of the few planned state capitals within the United States, the city has experienced tremendous growth since its creation, expanding from a small but busy 18th-century town to the modern-day anchor for one of America's largest technological centers. Historic Raleigh traces the city's transformation from its earliest days as a seat of state government to one of the South's premier Southern cities. Incorporating more than 200 vintage photographs, this volume...

Since 1924, the Sandwich Club has provided fellowship and intellectual challenge to a small group of men in Raleigh, North Carolina. Captain Sam Lawrence recruited "a group of ten or twelve kindred souls to meet each Friday." According to founding member Charles E. Johnson, "With certain exceptions, this was supposed to represent a cross section of the available intelligentsia of Raleigh." This text explores the history of the Sandwich Club in Raleigh as well as the more than 80 members that have comprised the group throughout its history of more than 85 years.