9-890: Bonsal can mean: Places [ edit ] Bonsal, North Carolina , a community in North Carolina, United States Bonsal, Ehekirchen , part of the municipality of Ehekirchen in Upper Bavaria, Germany Bonsal Nature Reserve , nature reserve in the township of Montclair, New Jersey , United States Persons [ edit ] Dudley Baldwin Bonsal (1906–1995), United States federal judge Philip Bonsal (1903–1995), United States diplomat Stephen Bonsal (1865–1951), United States war correspondent, historian, essayist, diplomat and translator See also [ edit ] Bonsall (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
18-550: Is 27562. The community is near the southern terminus of the American Tobacco Trail . It is also the location of Duke Energy Progress's Shearon Harris nuclear power plant and the associated Harris Lake recreation center. A regional wastewater reclamation project has been completed in the area. The project was opposed by local residents who believed that placing the facility in the middle of their community would adversely impact their way of life. A settlement
27-487: Is an unincorporated community located in southwestern Wake County, North Carolina , United States, at the crossroads of old U.S. 1 (State Road 1011, running northeast–southwest), New Hill Olive Chapel Road (running north) and New Hill Holleman Road (running south). New Hill is located along the original alignment of the New Hope Valley Railway between Durham and Bonsal . The ZIP Code for New Hill
36-522: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bonsal, North Carolina Bonsal is an unincorporated community in the New Hill, North Carolina postal district, in extreme southwestern Wake County, North Carolina , United States. Bonsal was a railroad junction between the Durham & South Carolina Railroad (D&SC) (originally chartered as
45-717: The New Hope Valley Railroad ) and the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (originally the Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Railroad ). The New Hope Valley Railroad route was abandoned in the late 1970s. The original name of the community was Godsey after the Godsey Farm in the area, but this was changed to Bonsal in 1905 after William Roscoe Bonsal , builder and first President of the Durham & South Carolina Railroad (see below). The community
54-513: The first Sunday of each month from May to November and both Saturday and Sunday the first two weekends in December. Other special event trains are operated at other times throughout the year. The railway north of New Hill, North Carolina has been converted into the American Tobacco Trail . 35°39′38″N 78°58′25″W / 35.66056°N 78.97361°W / 35.66056; -78.97361 New Hill, North Carolina New Hill
63-409: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bonsal . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bonsal&oldid=1257305696 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
72-618: Was briefly incorporated from 1907 to 1917 to allow the citizens to vote in favor of bills supporting temperance and prohibition. The town charter was revoked in 1917 when the citizens, having accomplished their purpose for being incorporated at all, refused to pay town taxes. Bonsal is now the site of the North Carolina Railway Museum (NCRM) and the operating New Hope Valley Railway (NHVRy) tourist line. The line owns approximately 6 miles of track between Bonsal and New Hill, North Carolina , operating for passengers on
81-590: Was reached in early 2011 between the towns building the plant and the New Hill community. The Samuel Bartley Holleman House and New Hill Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . 35°40′52″N 78°56′08″W / 35.68111°N 78.93556°W / 35.68111; -78.93556 This article about a location in Wake County , North Carolina
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