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Pleasant Garden (milepost CF 77.3)

This community in south Guilford County was known first as Fentress for a local family.   It was renamed Pleasant Garden about 1879, and was incorporated in 1998 to avoid annexation by Greensboro. The town is at an altitude of 805 feet above sea level.

The tracks at Pleasant Garden had a capacity for 14 cars in 1943.  Today, the line is pretty active with new Norfolk Southern trains.  Usually a unit grain train heads out of Greensboro to Sanford and returns.  In addition, there are often extras running once a day or so.  Although I visited the town, I did not take any photographs to include here.  If you have any historic photographs of the A&Y or any images which would allow someone to identify the town, please share them with me!

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