The Hub of High Point : Southern Railway Passenger Station and Depot Square
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President Theodore Roosevelt speaks to a crowd on Main Street at a whistlestop visit to High Point in 1905.

President Roosevelt spoke at the North Carolina State Fair, visited Durham and Charlotte on his way to Georgia from Washington, DC, in 1905. The rail lines brought him through High Point.

Gift of Mrs. Virginia McIlvaine.
Object ID:
2003.042.016
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