Dudley Shoals, North Carolina | |
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Coordinates: 35°51′46.9656″N 81°22′42.1176″W / 35.863046000°N 81.378366000°W | |
Country | United States |
State | North Carolina |
County | Caldwell |
Township | Little River |
Elevation | 1,148 ft (350 m) |
Area code | 828 |
Dudley Shoals is a populated place and former village [1] located in the Little River township of Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States. [2] It is located about 10 miles (16.09 km) northeast of the town of Granite Falls. [3]
Dudley Shoals houses Dudley Shoals Elementary School, part of the Caldwell County Schools school district. [4]
Geologically, Dudley Shoals is abundant in Sillimanite crystals. [5]
The earliest known use of the name "Dudley Shoals" was in an 1875 document summarizing the first session of the Forty-third United States Congress; the name described the land containing the post roads a mail carrier would pass through to get from Hickory (then called Hickory Tavern) to Wilkesboro (then called Wilksborough). [6]
Dudley Shoals was purchased around 1881 by A. J. Hamilton to build "a flour, saw, and single mill". [7] He called his mill the Dudley Shoals Cotton Milling Company, planting cotton fields still in use today by yarn plants. [8]
The area had a Baptist church by 1884. [9]
By 1907, 179 students were enrolled in the mill-funded Dudley Shoals School, which provided 10 grades. [10]
In 1913, Dudley Shoals was defined by the state of North Carolina as a village. [11]
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, three large Sillimanite deposits were discovered and studied in Dudley Shoals. [12] [13]
On January 1, 1947, Geitner George of the company Shuford Mills had purchased the cotton mills of Dudley Shoals and Granite Falls. [14] [15] [16]
In 1978, Dudley Shoals lost its status as a village and was reclassified as a populated place. [17]
In 1979, the existing Dudley Shoals Elementary School was formed. [18]
Dudley Shoals, North Carolina | |
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Coordinates: 35°51′46.9656″N 81°22′42.1176″W / 35.863046000°N 81.378366000°W | |
Country | United States |
State | North Carolina |
County | Caldwell |
Township | Little River |
Elevation | 1,148 ft (350 m) |
Area code | 828 |
Dudley Shoals is a populated place and former village [1] located in the Little River township of Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States. [2] It is located about 10 miles (16.09 km) northeast of the town of Granite Falls. [3]
Dudley Shoals houses Dudley Shoals Elementary School, part of the Caldwell County Schools school district. [4]
Geologically, Dudley Shoals is abundant in Sillimanite crystals. [5]
The earliest known use of the name "Dudley Shoals" was in an 1875 document summarizing the first session of the Forty-third United States Congress; the name described the land containing the post roads a mail carrier would pass through to get from Hickory (then called Hickory Tavern) to Wilkesboro (then called Wilksborough). [6]
Dudley Shoals was purchased around 1881 by A. J. Hamilton to build "a flour, saw, and single mill". [7] He called his mill the Dudley Shoals Cotton Milling Company, planting cotton fields still in use today by yarn plants. [8]
The area had a Baptist church by 1884. [9]
By 1907, 179 students were enrolled in the mill-funded Dudley Shoals School, which provided 10 grades. [10]
In 1913, Dudley Shoals was defined by the state of North Carolina as a village. [11]
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, three large Sillimanite deposits were discovered and studied in Dudley Shoals. [12] [13]
On January 1, 1947, Geitner George of the company Shuford Mills had purchased the cotton mills of Dudley Shoals and Granite Falls. [14] [15] [16]
In 1978, Dudley Shoals lost its status as a village and was reclassified as a populated place. [17]
In 1979, the existing Dudley Shoals Elementary School was formed. [18]