If you start at Highway 50 and Timber Drive in Garner, you can drive a thoroughfare from here through downtown Raleigh out to Gresham's lake at Capital and 540. Timber to Hammond to Person to Wake Forest to Atlantic to Old Wake Forest - this long stretch is featured at Raleigh Nature in a "Straight Streets" post.
Above is the dead end of Timber, just across 50. The south end of Garner is just full of loblollies!
Below is Wildcat Creek as it crosses Hammond.
Micostegia off Hammond
No Hand King at person and MLK Blvd.
Guv's Mansion and garden
Person Street features Marsh Woodwinds and the Mordecai House.
Person used to connect to Wake Forest Rd. here.
Dangerous Atlantic Ave bridge
Greenway under Atlantic
At the north end, this stretch is just short of Gresham's lake, where Paul now stands.
return to Raleigh Nature post 
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I grew up on Bloodworth St., one block east of Person, and roamed this area for years of my childhood. I remember Krispy Kreme very well, also Person St. Pharmacy, and Mary Elizabeth Hospital on the corner of Person and Sasser. My church was Trinity Methodist. None of this area looks the least familiar now. A far distance from the military maneuvers of the 1940"s. Nothing has brought home to me the vast changes in our life over the past 50 years any more than this photo montage of Person Street. I don't know if I'm glad I found it or not.
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