01 WCHGT: Center Street Train Tracks Traditional Cache

WCHGT caches were created as the 2016-2017 Leadership Wayne class project. We decided that we wanted to create a fun, educational, and adventurous way for families and friends to connect to the county in which they live. Therefore, the 50 caches connected to this trail will give you a glimpse of the PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE of Wayne County.

Some caches are micros, a few can hold a trackable, some are easy finds, and others prove to be quite difficult. All we ask from the Leadership Wayne class is that you enjoy the finds and learn something new about our wonderful county.

Upon completion of the entire trail you will be able to collect your GeoCoin at the Wayne County museum.WCHGT caches were created as the 2016-2017 Leadership Wayne class project. We decided that we wanted to create a fun, educational, and adventurous way for families and friends to connect to the county in which they live. Therefore, the 50 caches connected to this trail will give you a glimpse of the PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE of Wayne County. Some are micros, a few can hold a trackable, some are easy finds, and others prove to be quite difficult. All we ask from the Leadership Wayne class is that you enjoy the finds and learn something new about our wonderful county. Upon completion of the entire trail you will be able to collect your GeoCoin at the Wayne County museum after you have recorded your code words on the passport from each of the 50 locations.

Everyone simply pretended it hadn’t happened…. Goldsboro never wanted the tag of railroad town in the 1890s turning down a proposal of ACL to locate it shops here. residents came to resent the endless stream of trains through Center St. in addition to being a safety hazard they were a nuisance in other ways shifting engines kept the air filled with smoke and Cinders.

April 2, 1926 acting on the orders of Goldsboro board of alderman city manager Claude Grantham carried out what months of negotiations had failed to accomplish - the removal of the Southern Railway tracks from Center Street.

From midnight until morning a force of 100 men work northward from Spruce Street to Ash uncoupling rails and digging up crossties.

By morning the job was done. During the night workers were fortified with helpings of corn liquor.

Grantham turned the job over to M. C. Epps water department superintendent and stayed away from the scene himself. Police were instructed to stay in the background. Workers were told to say "they didn't know anything" if asked what was going on. Epps said "if you came downtown in a white shirt, it was going to get full of soot before you got back home."