Cary Town, Wake County, North Carolina (NC) 27513

Cary Town

Wake County, North Carolina

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Cary Town Hall is located at 316 North Academy Street, Cary, NC 27513.
Phone: 919‑469‑4000.


Page-Walker Hotel

Cary [1] is located in north central North Carolina, just southwest of the state capital at Raleigh. Today, Cary is situated in the middle of the state's 'Research Triangle' and is widely considered a good place to raise a family with its excellent schools and easy access to Raleigh, Chapel Hill and Durham. While the town has grown enormously since the end of World War II and the creation of the Research Triangle Park in 1959, the location, ease of transportation and education system have been Cary's defining character- istics throughout its history.

Neighborhoods

  • Cameron Pond
  • Cary Historic District
  • Cary Park
  • Coventry Woods
  • Estates at Olde Carpenter
  • Fernwood
  • Heritage Pines
  • Hortons Creek
  • Olde Carpenter
  • Strathmoor
  • Weatherfield
  • Amberl
  • Amberly
  • Applecross
  • Ardmore
  • Arlington Ridge
  • Ashley Woods
  • Belmont
  • Benedum Place
  • Berkeley
  • Birklands
  • Birklands
  • Bishops Gate
  • Bluffs of Kildaire
  • Breckenridge
  • Briarcliff
  • Brookgreen Forest
  • Brookridge
  • Brookstone
  • Buckhurst
  • Cambridge
  • Camden Forest
  • Canterbury
  • Carolina Preserve
  • Carpenter Historic District
  • Carpenter Village
  • Carramore
  • Carrousel Park
  • Carystone
  • Cavanaugh Gardens
  • Cedar Pointe
  • Charleston Woods
  • Chatham Pines
  • Chatham Woods
  • Chesapeake Landing
  • Chesapeake Pointe
  • Cheverly
  • Churchill Downs
  • Churchill Estates
  • Coles Creek
  • Copperleaf
  • Cornwall Village
  • Coronado Village
  • Cotswold
  • Coventry Glen
  • Creekside
  • Danbury
  • Danbury at Regency
  • De Vintage
  • Devereaux
  • Downing Village
  • Dutchess Village
  • Edgehill Farms
  • Evans Estates
  • Farmington Woods
  • Fieldstone Village
  • Fishers Creek
  • Forest Park
  • Franklin Chase
  • Glenkirk
  • Glenridge
  • Governors Row
  • Green Level Crossing
  • Green Level Historic District
  • Greenwood Acres
  • Greenwood Forest
  • Greyhawk Landing
  • Greystone
  • Grove at Cary Park Apartments
  • Hamstead Park
  • Harmony Glen
  • Heitage Pine
  • Hermitage Park
  • Highcroft Village
  • Highland Oaks
  • Highland Park
  • Highland Village
  • Highlands
  • Hilliard Forest
  • Hills of Rosemont
  • Hillsdale Forest
  • Holloway
  • Huntsmoor
  • Kilarney Pointe
  • Kildaire Farms
  • Lakepointe Village
  • Lakeridge
  • Landsdowne
  • Laurel Park
  • Linville Ridge
  • Lochaven
  • Lochmere
  • Lochmere Village
  • Lochridge
  • MacGregor
  • MacGregor Downs
  • MacGregor West
  • Madison Place
  • Magnolia Estates
  • Magnolia Estates
  • Magnolia Woods
  • Match Pointe
  • Maynard Forest
  • Maynard Oaks
  • Maynard Summit
  • McArthur Park
  • McDonald Woods
  • Meadowmont
  • Normandie
  • Northwoods Crossing
  • Oakwood Heights
  • Orchard Villas
  • Page Wood Forest
  • Park Grove
  • Park Place
  • Park Village
  • Paxton
  • Pebble Creek
  • Picardy Point
  • Picardy Pointe
  • Picardy Village
  • Pink Acres
  • Pirates Cove
  • Plantation Estates
  • Planters Pointe
  • Preston
  • Preston Village
  • Prestwyck
  • Providence Bluffs
  • Providence Commons
  • Regency
  • Regency Park
  • Regency Park Estates
  • Riggsbee Farm
  • Riverwalk
  • Royal Oaks
  • Russell Hills
  • Samuels Keep
  • Saratoga
  • Savon Heights
  • Scottish Hills
  • Sherborne
  • Sherwood Greens
  • Silver Oaks
  • Silvercreek
  • Silvercrest
  • Silverton
  • Southbridge
  • Southchase
  • Springbrooke
  • Stone Creek
  • Stone Creek Village
  • Stonebridge
  • Stonecrest
  • Stonewater
  • Summer Ridge
  • Sunset Hills
  • Sunset Ridge
  • Tanglewood
  • The Battery
  • The Forest
  • The Highlands
  • The Overlook
  • The Park at West Lake
  • The Ranches
  • The Reserve
  • The Retreat at Reedy Creek
  • Toscana
  • Trappers Run
  • Triangle Forest
  • Tryon Villas
  • Twin Lakes
  • Upchurch Farms
  • Urban Terrace
  • Walnut Hills
  • Walnut Ridge
  • Waterford Place
  • Weathersby
  • Weatherstone
  • Weldon Ridge
  • Wellington Ridge
  • Wellsley
  • Wessex
  • West Lake
  • West Park
  • Westchester Woods
  • Westfield
  • Weston Estates
  • Weston Manor
  • Weston Oaks
  • Weston Place
  • Weston Pointe
  • Weycroft
  • Whitebridge
  • Whittington Park
  • Williamsburg Commons
  • Williamsburg Manor
  • Willoughby Place
  • Wimbledon
  • Windbrooke
  • Windermere
  • Woodwinds
  • Wyndfall

Beginnings [2]

Today's Cary began in the 1750s as a settlement called Bradford's Ordinary. About 100 years later, the construction of the North Carolina Railroad between New Bern and Hillsborough placed Bradford's Ordinary on a major transportation route. Soon after, Allison Francis Page, a Wake County farmer and lumberman, bought 300 acres of land nearby and established a sawmill, general store, and post office. He called his development Cary after Samuel Fenton Cary, an Ohio prohibitionist, abolitionist, and Congressman whom Page admired. The Town of Cary was incorporated on April 6, 1871.

In 1868, Page built a hotel to serve railroad passengers coming through Cary. Page sold the hotel to J. R. Walker in 1884; meals and rooms were available to travelers until 1916. It later became a private residence but by the mid-1980s had fallen into disrepair.

  1. Cary Historic Preservation Master Plan, 2011, www.townofcary.org, accessed July, 2021.
  2. Town of Cary, Citizens Guide to Services: 2010-2012, www.townofcary.org, accessed February, 2011.

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