Show one story frame house first built in lenoir N C back about 1841 or 1842 in the foothills footh iUs of the blue ridge one lone frame bul building ding marked the int site of what was to become a by busy inac industrial city lenoir N C soon aft after r the establishment 0 of the county is in 1841 the town of lenoir was located and lots staked off surveys were made and d the lots sold at public auction with the surveying of the new town completed owners 0 of 1 the clr various lots entered into a r race ce for far the completion camplen 0 n of the first building in the town writes nina J robinson in the lenoir news tople topic mal maj james harper wa was winner and the first building ev ever erected in lenoir a one story frame building came into being on a part of the lot now taken up P ly by 1 the bank of lenoir an interesting sidelight on the st story ory of lenoir s first building is the fact that tha t M major H harper a who h d donated d the 3 30 0 a acres r s of I 1 land ad fe for r the tow town site paid for the lot upon which he erected the store building there followed other the buildings many of them of hand hewn hewit log blogh for there were no steam mills in the county then and the capacity of the water power mills with their small upright sash saws was limited it is difficult to even imagine this busy place pla a with only one am little frame building with within the then than thirty acre space of the town australian conser conservation 1 I australia like the un united red states has an urgent conservation pro problem the present crisis directs attention tIn tion to the imperative noce necessity sity for taking every possible step to maintain adequate forest resources and for the intensive protection and development of these resources in ailt I 1 little liet more U than all a century of settlement m e deal destruction aloo of ithe the natural settle forest resources has proceeded proceed rd apace the future autu e of this state is a bound u up P with the retention of forest cover on ell vulnerable land features in order t to safeguard and perpetuate the vital its 1 water supplies without which all 11 1 labor laber and money expended on P progressive gor gres sive ive engineering work works tor for ho harnessing nimg stream flow and on an the reclamation old and improvement of land and for far farming by the introduction of irrigation will go for nought pierres res son stephen stephen step h a girard blu philanthropist lanthrop lat financier finin fillin acier and in merchant ere an t was be born in france r ance may 20 1750 son of pierre an and d odet odette lafaid P gue girard when h he c w was s I 1 14 he be went e y to 0 sea e laa as a cabin boy and in 1773 we was licensed to a act ct as captain t pi master or pilot PI t after work working g for or a shipping hp profi firm m in new york lie he came to new mew y york k city in 1776 and married mary L lum a shipbuilder ship hip builder s daughter the follow re ing 9 year he successfully engaged in me merchandising chan chini dising duang foreign trade and bank mg ing and in addition to h his activities in the fine activity commercial end and financial or I 1 life of the city in country v barlous ma 11 served capacities au aux his c adopted A at t his be death aie december 26 1831 he left large sums to a charity and provided in college coue his win for the founding ot of girard |