Silk Hope, North Carolina
- Silk Hope, North Carolina
Silk Hope, in Chatham County, North Carolina, USA, is a farm community centered on a community school, a volunteer fire department, several country churches, and many historical farmsteads. It is evolving into the country home of many who work in Cary, Chapel Hill, and Research Triangle Park.fact|date=January 2008
According to oral history, the name came from an enterprise to create a silk industry in the early 1800s. No signs remain of the silk ambitions, nor the cotton gin that once stood at the Silk Hope crossroads. Community residents come together each Labor Day to celebrate their heritage at the "Silk Hope Old Fashioned Farmers Day".fact|date=January 2008
The Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival takes place twice a year in Silk Hope.
External links
* [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:994801 Silk Hope] at the U.S. Geographic Names Information System
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