McClatchy Newspapers
CARY, N.C. — Ninety years before young professionals here demanded poultry-keeping rights, a downtown chicken coop funded a local leader’s nascent career.
You can still see John Hunter’s handiwork. It survived the decades and became Wake County’s only historic-designated henhouse, recognized by national and regional registers for its longevity.
The 16-by-40-foot shed “is probably the last thing you would expect to find in downtown Cary,” where chickens are now largely forbidden, said Gary Roth, director of Capital Area Preservation.
But it wasn’t so unusual around 1920, when. . .
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