Tour de Fuquay-Varina - Downtown Varina Traditional Cache
PinkDolphin: Stopped by to check on this one today and it was gone. It is with regret I have decided not to replace this cache since the final went missing as well. Thank you to all who found this over the years.
Tour de Fuquay-Varina - Downtown Varina
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(photo courtesy of Donald Averette (circa 1920's)
Varina
VARINA GARAGE & MACHINE COMPANY
When A. D. Averette and A. V. Autry returned from serving their country in World War I, they moved to this area for the express purpose of opening a business. In 1918, their building stood relatively alone in what would eventually become the row of Broad Street businesses. The right portion of the building housed their garage while the right side was a store. The Averette family lived upstairs briefly before both families built homes side by side on Ennis Street.
While Autry left the area, Averette broadened his businesses. Cutting down, the Model T auto, he attached a wooden body producing a “truck” for the rural residents. A very enterprising entrepreneur, Averette operated the Johnson Grist mill on Sunset Lake Road and a cotton gin further north on Board Street.
Fortunately, the buildings which housed the garage and other early businesses on Broad Street remain pretty much intact as Historic Varina today.
(history courtsey of Shirley Simmons)
EDIT: As of April 20, 2017 this is a stand alone cache as the puzzle final was archived.
Cache has been placed with permission
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