View larger (JPG, 1 MB) • A development map from 1960 shows the planned urban renewal overlayed on the existing community. The proposed route for N.C. 147 is highlighted in gray.
Photo courtesy of N.C. Collection/ Durham County Library
View larger (JPG, 500 KB) • An aerial photo taken in 1940 looking west shows the community south of the railyards; the American Tobacco Campus can be seen two-thirds of the way up on the left.
Unceremoniously marked 278 years ago with a stone here or a notch on a tree there, King George's boundaries leave a portion of Fred Berlinger's Polk County home in South Carolina.
To hear her tell it, the reigning Queen of Gospel has never experienced adversity: from getting a whipping to being hungry and penniless in a strange town, it's been "a blessing in disguise."