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Hunting treasure trees
from At Home, Fall 2019
Hunting for Treasure Trees in Oak Ridge
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Perils of poison ivy, mosquitoes and falling persimmons outweighed by thrill of discovering magni cent trees Perils of poison ivy,
by CHRIS BURRITT OAK RIDGE – “What a dream-climbing tree,” said Roy Nydorf, eyeing a Deodar cedar with drooping branches in Shelia Oliver’s yard on Linville Road. “You could build a village up there.”
Nydorf took a fi eld trip one late September morning, along with three other members of Oak Ridge’s Treasure Tree Committee. Their mission: judging trees based on their height, crown spread, trunk diameter and overall appearance.
Oliver nominated two trees on her property – the cedar in her side yard and an oak measuring 13.5 feet around. Treasure Tree Committee members also measured a persimmon tree, standing tall and straight and dropping mushy orange fruit on the ground – and the roof of committee member Mickey Aycock’s car.
Searching for magnifi cent trees isn’t risk-free. Mosquitoes, poison ivy and falling fruit go with the territory, which for the committee encompasses property dotted with oaks, pecan, black walnut and a dozen other varieties of trees nominated by their owners and admirers.
Photos by Chris Burritt/NWO Above, Jim Foreman (left) and Roy Nydorf measure the circumference of a Deodar cedar in Shelia Oliver’s yard in Oak Ridge. At right, Treasure Tree Committee members (L-R) Nancy Stoudemire and Mickey Aycock talk to Oak Ridge homeowner Shelia Oliver, examining a cone from her tree.
Nydorf, holding one end of a tape measure while Jim Foreman held the other. They wrapped the tape around trees and called out the measurements for Aycock to jot down on a clipboard. Standing in the distance, Stoudemire held a device called a clinometer to her eye to measure the height of trees.
The committee expects to wrap up its fi eld trips by the end of October, Stoudemire said. As of early last week, it had measured 16 trees at six locations. Several of the nominations were already recognized or registered with the state of North Carolina, she said.
The Town of Oak Ridge is part of Tree City USA, a program of the Arbor Day Foundation aimed at managing and planting trees in public spaces.
“Becoming a Tree City shows our desire to keep our rural character, as well as the fact that we value open space,” Oak Ridge Mayor Spencer Sullivan said when the Town’s Tree City designation was announced at a council meeting in March 2017. “And, after all, it seems an important and appropriate designation to have for a town named after a tree.”
Oak Ridge is required to perform a project every year to maintain its status in the program. This year’s project was the Treasure Trees inventory.
Win or lose, Oliver said she welcomed the committee’s eff orts.
“I really appreciate trees,” she said. For more information on Oak Ridge’s Tree City USA designation or about serving on the Tree Committee, contact Sandra Smith at ssmith@oakridgenc.com or (336) 644-7009.
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Oak Ridge Elementary School. In subsequent years proceeds from the show were donated to schools and their PTAs, Scout groups, churches, youth recreation associations and other organizations. Each year, the show also awarded a scholarship to a Northwest High School senior.
Oak Ridge native Bud Blaylock recalls not only the horse show, but the annual parade that kicked it off in many of the earlier years.
“The parade was a huge part of the show kickoff ,” Blaylock wrote on the Old Oak Ridge Facebook page. “Folks lined the road for a long way.”
Andrew McIndoe grew up in Oak Ridge and now lives in the District of Columbia with his wife and young daughter. As a young boy he volunteered at the horse show, which he said produced many highlights. “But my favorite one must have been as a “mutton bustin’” competitor – those few seconds on the back of that sheep were something else!” he wrote on Northwest Observer’s Facebook page.
Chelsea Barnum recalls the mouthwatering barbeque sandwiches the Oak Ridge Fire Department sold at the horse show.
“That was one of my favorite parts of the show,” Barnum said.
Kathryn Bunthoff , who now lives with her family in Stokesdale, has many memories of riding locally.
“I rode at my grandparents’ place on Pleasant Ridge Road, and took lessons with Cammie Bell and Tami Batts at Henson Farms,” Bunthoff wrote on the Northwest Observer’s Facebook page. “The show I looked forward to as a kid, more than any other, was the Oak Ridge Horse Show. I rode in this show in the late 1980s and early ‘90s. It happened early in the year, and there were plenty of classes in the hunt seat ring. File photo The draft horse pull was for many years a popular spectator event at the annual Oak Ridge Horse Show.
“Ray Combs was the announcer I remember – he knew many of us there,” she continued. “The thrill of the modest prize money for top places was memorable. Most years I wouldn’t win much, but it was so satisfying to
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File photo Many residents fondly remember the sport of “mutton bustin’” at the horse show.
head home with envelopes containing cash, mostly in dollar bills (to spend at Purgason’s, probably)! I remember I could get incredible crinkle-cut fries at the ORHS and at the Piedmont Saddle Club shows, which were loads better than the PB&J and cookies or crackers I usually had with me.
“The lengthy class list – spread over multiple days – meant plenty to watch and plenty of riding if my family could stand to bring me back for more than one day. The only other ‘big’ show I went to regularly was the yearly 4-H show in Raleigh, so the one here in Oak Ridge was a chance to experience the wide range of horsemanship folks enjoyed around here,” she said.
Until 2004, the annual show was held on the grounds of Oak Ridge Elementary School. When the school underwent a major expansion, the show lost its longtime home in Oak Ridge and moved to Steeple Hill Farm in Summerfi eld. After 68 years, the committee that oversaw the Oak Ridge Horse Show suspended sponsorship for the annual event in 2013, with the hope of bringing it back the following year.
Oak Ridge resident Bill Newman, who chaired Oak Ridge Community Center (ORCC), which sponsored the show, cited the move out of Oak Ridge as one of the reasons the show fell on hard times in its latter years.
“Following the loss of the show site in Oak Ridge in 2004, and the subsequent relocation of the show to Summerfi eld,
we have experienced dwindling participation, attendance and volunteer and fi nancial support as well as higher site costs, insurance and operating expenses,” Newman told the Northwest Observer in 2013. “As a result, the show has been unable to produce suffi cient operating profi ts to fund its charitable contributions. Cost cutting and fi nancial support from our longtime supporters are no longer enough to ensure the long term survival of the show. We need to re-think the entire concept.”
The ORCC and the Oak Ridge Horse Show Committee explored options for a suitable site to bring the show back to Oak Ridge, while also gauging volunteer support and fi nancial sponsorships to assess the feasibility of holding a 2014 show. “The horse show has served this community well over the past 68 years,” Horse Show Committee Chair Sharon Smith wrote in a press release the committee sent out in 2013. “It provided voluntary support of hundreds of thousands of dollars to a primarily aggressive community which did not rely upon taxes for community amenities. Today taxes provide the funding for town amenities and the community has changed into a bedroom suburb of Greensboro. If the Community chooses not to support the horse show and its traditions, it too will go the way of tobacco farms, horse farms and truck farms which once defi ned the way of life in Oak Ridge. We will make that determination this year.” The horse show never returned to Oak Ridge; the last year it was held was in 2012. For articles and photos we’ve published about the Oak Ridge Easter Horse Show, visit www.nwobserver.com, click on the Advanced Search link at the top left of the homepage and type in “Oak Ridge Horse Show.”
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“I enjoyed playing basketball, and asked the principal about starting a basketball league,” Cooke said. The principal wasn’t keen on the idea of making the gym available after school hours, but Cooke found enough interested parents and supporters in Oak Ridge to get a basketball program started for boys and girls. During the fi rst two basketball seasons, he and Phyllis also ran a snack bar in the gym hallway. Meanwhile, Cooke had attracted the attention of some of the community’s established residents, one of whom paid Courtesy rendering Jerry Cooke said in the 1990s he paid $2,000 for this artist’s rendering of the proposed Oak Ridge Commons Shopping Center which residents requested so they would have a visual of what he planned on the site. After it was completed no one came to see it, he said. It still hangs on a wall in his offi ce.
development in the town (which was unincorporated at that time).”
Undeterred, within a few years Cooke rolled out plans to develop 67 acres on the northwest corner of the town’s main intersection. Over the next 14 years he went before the Guilford County Planning Department and county commissioners three times to request the property be rezoned for commercial use. And three times he was rejected.
“Before the third time I went before the commissioners, we had a reception at our house and invited anyone to come and learn more,” Cooke said. “One person said they wanted to see a rendering – I spent $2,000 on that rendering and no one ever came to see it. It’s still in my offi ce.”
Meanwhile, he struggled to make payments on his property.
“I didn’t know anything about tobacco,” he said. “When I bought the farm, Dick Holt, the heir who managed the property for his family, told me they had been leasing the land to a tobacco farmer, paid one-third of the expenses and got one-third of the profi t. I went to see the farmer, Wade Tuttle, and we worked out a deal.
“The fi rst year I got a check for $1,600 and I thought, ‘oh my goodness!’ I began to take an interest in this tobacco,” Cooke said. “Then I got to where I made $5,000 to $8,000 a year. That was an unexpected gift. I can’t tell you how much that arrangement helped me.” Eventually, regulations for tobacco farming changed and Cooke ended his tobacco lease.
By this time he had tried again to develop some of his property and fi nally got 4.9 acres rezoned near the southeast corner of N.C. 68 and 150.
“You know the story of the dog chasing the squirrel and when he fi nally catches the squirrel, he didn’t know what to do?” Cooke asked. “That was me. I had already been shot down three times – so, we decided to put a convenience store there and an offi ce building behind it.” It was at that point that Philip, who had since graduated from college, told his parents he wanted to join them in business. “I told him I couldn’t pay him anything but he and his wife could live rent-free in the small guest house on our property. He came on board and has been with me ever since,” Cooke said. “We decided to develop a country store (initially called the Village Store). We had no experience, and we had to come up with someone to supply the gas. We worked with an architect on the design, had it built and ran the store for 10 years.”
When Cooke learned the military academy wanted a new post offi ce, he initiated a conversation with post offi ce representatives. With the hope the post offi ce would lease one-third of the building him a visit at his home.
“He told me that to have any success in Oak Ridge I would have to be a Democrat, a member of the Oak Ridge (United Methodist) Church and to volunteer with the horse show,” Cooke said. “He was a very infl uential member of the community and he also told me we didn’t need any commercial COMMERCIAL CORE continued from page 6
You dream it ...let us build it they planned to locate behind the Village Store, the Cookes got construction underway.
“We had started the building with not a single tenant and the post offi ce ended up locating on Linville Road,” Cooke said. “The Village Store was the fi nancial engine that saved us on the building behind it. It was the heart of what we did. When we opened I was 60 and retired from Eastman Kodak. I went in every morning at 4:30 to get things going. Phyllis came in at 5 a.m. and we ran things with help until 11 a.m., when Philip would come in and work until closing time. Jackie LeFrois was with us back then and is still with us. She has been very important to our operation.” In 1998 Cooke went before the county commissioners for the fi fth time (after three failures and one success with the Village Store and commercial building behind it) and fi nally got the land rezoned for what is now Oak Ridge Commons. He said Oak Ridge native Bob Benbow was instrumental in at last getting a favorable vote.
“He (Benbow) spoke for us before the commissioners and with his infl uence we got 21 acres of the 67 acres rezoned,” he said.
With no municipal water or sewer system, the Cookes made a hefty investment in a system that would support the center. Once again, the path to get there wasn’t an easy one, but with research, time and perseverance they got the county health department’s approval. Then, it took nine months to get a sewer permit from the state. Meanwhile, construction on the center was at a halt and the contractor almost pulled off the job.
The fi nancial stress took its toll, and in the midst of it, Cooke had a heart attack in May 2001.
“I was out of it until September,” he said. “When I could function again I went to two meetings with Philip and our contractor, realized he had been carrying the ball and told him he was doing a good job.
“I said, ‘If you need me, I’m available. You carry on.’ That’s how the shopping center got going.”
After Lowes was secured as an anchor tenant, Bank of Oak Ridge, Wendy’s and J.P. Looneys signed ground leases for outparcel space soon afterward. Over the years since, tenants in the shopping center’s main building have come and gone, but one of the earliest tenants, Rio Grande, has remained, and the center is almost fully leased.
In 2005, the Town forged an agreement with Forsyth County to operate an ABC store in Oak Ridge, which located in another of the shopping center’s outparcels. “We were fortunate the key players during the recession stayed with us,” Cooke said.
The Cookes later bought the parcel adjoining their property on the southeast corner of N.C. 68 and 150 and leased it to CVS Pharmacy. Then, they began developing the 15-acre tract on the southwest corner of N.C. 68 and 150, with Tractor Supply and McDonald’s being among
the Marketplace’s fi rst tenants.
“It was a major investment,” Cooke said of the water/ sewer system that now operates under a private utility company his family formed. It takes up 46 acres of the 67-acre property Oak Ridge Commons shopping center rests on, and serves all of the commercial tenants at the three corners of Oak Ridge’s main intersection.
Cooke credits his wife for supporting him through all of his fi nancial risks and struggles.
“Phyllis was so important to our business,” he said. “Our ping pong room downstairs was our conference table, and it was there that I proposed we borrow $633,000 to build the Village Store; she was very supportive.”
Of his role today, Cooke, who will soon turn 84, said with a laugh, “I’m a pick-up – and I have permanent employment. I still pick up the trash I see on the ground in our centers and weed the fl owers.”
As he refl ects on his journey and that of the town’s, he noted, “I call Oak Ridge a miracle because now the post offi ce is there on Linville Road, the fi re department and the Town Hall. And then, the Town was able to buy the land across the street for the park – at $20,000 an acre, that was a hell of a buy. So it worked out well for the Town.”
And then he added, “Between the town and what we’ve been able to do, how it has worked out is beyond any of us.”
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buildings were built on the opposite side of the street that ran along the track. In the late 1880s, Atlantic & Yadkin built a track to Madison. A daily train from Greensboro served passengers and carried freight from Summerfi eld to Stokesdale to Madison. On the Fourth of July, a special train from Madison would carry passengers to the Guilford Courthouse Park for a picnic and fi reworks. The train depot in Stokesdale burned in 1907. It was replaced by a new depot on the same spot in 1910. The town was incorporated that same year.
Stokesdale suff ered through the Depression, ultimately going bankrupt in the 1930s. The state of North Carolina revoked the town’s charter in 1971. It reincorporated in 1989.
The Depression also took its toll on Atlantic & Yadkin, prompting its sale to Norfolk & Western Railway. North Carolina’s Construction of roads used
by trucks hauling freight cut into demand for rail service. Even so, the railroad remained vital to Stokesdale. Pulpwood harvested by local farmers provided income during the winter.
“One thing a lot of people don’t remember or realize is the importance of pulpwood,” Thacker wrote in his account of the town’s history. “There was a siding put in at Stokesdale, and rail cars were brought there and left to be loaded with pulpwood. This allowed farmers and land owners to make some extra money, especially during the winter months.
The railroad loaded the pulpwood onto cars headed out of town. In the early 1960s, a cord of pulpwood fetched $13 or $14, enough money to buy a family’s groceries for a week.
“Selling pulpwood was hard work for a small sum of money, though, because most of it was handled by hand,” Thacker wrote.
The railway running along U.S. 158 served industry over the years. Starting in the 1920s or ‘30s, a spur line to the Stokesdale Rock Quarry carried open cars that were loaded with gravel. Foremost Screenprint and Burlington Industries relied upon trains. The track ran behind a truck stop restaurant called the Copper Kettle. After it closed, the copper-colored coff ee pot that stood on top of the building moved across the highway where it sits in front of the Countryside Village Retirement Center.
“The railroad presented an opportunity for Stokesdale to grow and become a small commercial district for the surrounding area,” Thacker wrote. “Goods and people came in, and products were shipped out. Some industry came to Stokesdale because of reliable labor and rail service. In the early days, it allowed some families to invest in building and operating businesses.
“That’s what it took back then to be a small town and survive the Depression.” File photo/NWO The original train depot in Stokesdale burned in 1907 and was replaced by a new depot in 1910. The historic Stokesdale train depot has served as a private residence since its relocation from downtown Stokesdale to Madison in 1977.
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As train traffi c slowed in the 1970s, the depot in Stokesdale closed and the tracks through town were removed. Retired carpenter Sam Heffi nger bought the depot for $500 in 1977 and moved it nine miles to his property on Highway 220 near Madison.
Heffi nger restored the station, preserving the overhanging roof and adding historic artifacts such as a heavy chain used to right an overturned Southern Railway freight train near Danville, Virginia, in 1903, according to Mary Hunter.
She and her now-deceased husband, Bobby, bought the house from Heffi nger in 2003. After deciding
its upkeep was too much for her, Hunter planned to sell the house at auction Sept. 28, but no one bid on it. Thacker gives a nod to Stokesdale’s earliest residents and businesses for the investment they made in the town.
“Nothing has changed from then to now. That’s what sets a small town apart from other towns – people willing to invest in buildings and businesses, providing goods and services to the people who live here,” Thacker wrote.
“Also, we need people who want to buy those goods and services that friends and neighbors have to off er,” he noted. “There is a way to keep our small-town feel and charm if we can work together. Small farms can be here, as well as people who want to live here in more densely populated residential areas.”
want to help? Thacker and other members of Friends of Stokesdale are interested in speaking with anyone who has stories, photos, memorabilia or insights related to Stokesdale’s history. To contribute to Friends of Stokesdale’s efforts to preserve the town’s history or learn more about the group, contact Thacker at (336) 708-0334.
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tunnel, Doggett said.
Eventual plans call for MST to overlay the A&Y Greenway as it exits the western end of the tunnel and turns south toward Lake Brandt. The trail would meander along the lake before entering Summerfi eld, according to plans posted on Summerfi eld’s website. The start of construction is slated for 2024.
The trail will go north on Summerfi eld Road before turning west onto Medearis Street and connecting with a trailhead near Summerfi eld Community Park.
From there, the trail may follow Summerfi eld’s right of way along the Haw River before passing through neighborhoods on the way to its hookup with Oak Ridge’s trail, according to Doggett.
Its exact route hasn’t been determined, Pittman said. “We will have to work with multiple property owners and modify the plans as we obtain access,” she said. File Photo Dawn Leone leads the Streakers, a Greensboro-based running group, up the new sidewalk leading from the recently opened pedestrian tunnel beneath U.S. 220 to Summerfi eld Road on Labor Day. NCDOT built the tunnel in 2012 and cyclists, walkers and runners had waited for more than seven years for it to open and the new sidewalk to be constructed. want to learn more? Visit Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail at www.mountainstoseatrail.org Check out the Town of Oak Ridge’s MST Committee on Facebook. Visit www.summerfieldnc.gov for information about the trail in Summerfield. Click on the “Parks & Rec & Events” tab at the top of the page and then the “Trails & Greenways” link.
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