Morganton - North Carolina - 4K Downtown Drive

Afternoon drive in and around the downtown area of Morganton, NC.
Filmed: August 2021
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From Wikipedia
Morganton is a city in and the county seat of Burke County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 16,918 at the 2010 census. Morganton is approximately 240 miles (390 km) northeast of Atlanta, Georgia.
Morganton is one of the principal cities in the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. A site five miles north of here has been identified as the Mississippian culture chiefdom of Joara, occupied from AD 1400 to AD 1600. This was also the site of Fort San Juan, built in 1567 by a Spanish expedition as the first European settlement in the interior of North America, 40 years before the English settlement of Jamestown, Virginia.
During the Civil War, the Western North Carolina Railroad stopped just a few miles east of Morganton and a Confederate training camp, named Camp Vance after North Carolina's wartime governor Zebulon Vance (whose wife, Hariette Espy Vance, was from Morganton), which was located just outside of town. Both the railroad and the camp were the targets of a raid across the mountains from Tennessee, by the Union Loyalists of the 3rd North Carolina Mounted Infantry in July 1864. On April 17, 1865 there was a small skirmish fought in Morganton, as part of Stoneman's 1865 raid through North Carolina.
After the Civil War, Morgantonian Tod R. Caldwell, became the only Governor of North Carolina from Morganton, when he took over the office after the impeachment of William Woods Holden in 1871.
Public welfare facilities, such as the North Carolina School for the Deaf: Main Building and Western North Carolina Insane Asylum, were first authorized by the state legislature in the late 19th century.
Morganton Village, 1939
In the early 20th century, textile mills were developed in the Piedmont as industry left union-dominated areas of the Northeast United States. During the century, however, these industrial jobs gradually moved offshore.
In the late 20th century, Morganton and Burke County, was still largely rural and with big poultry farms, which became locations for industrial-scale poultry processing plants. These jobs attracted many new immigrants to the state from Central America, leading to an increase in the Latino population in the area.
During the 1990s, Guatemalan-born workers in Morganton, worked to organize a union at the Case Farms poultry plant but were ultimately unsuccessful. Labor and factory work have changed in the "Nuevo South", where many Latino immigrants work in low-paid industrial jobs. They are competing with globalization in some industries. At the state level, North Carolina is working to encourage immigrant communities and their contributions.

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[@jujones007]

This video is just about everything i could have asked for. I saw places i haven't seen in almost 40 years. I was born in Morganton and my family moved in 86. I still remember some of the routes you took. I saw my old church, shout out to Green Street lol...man this video took me back to my early childhood...from the pool and the rec center to the old courthouse...

[@zachredner8]

Me and my family call Sanford Drive... "Snake Blvd." I love cruising Snake Blvd on my motorcycle. I used to live in Morganton, until I bought a house in Lenoir 21 years ago. I don't get down through Morganton much anymore (but when I do, I make sure I cruise across Snake Blvd. - LOL) Morganton has changed a lot over the last 3 decades! BTW Cool video Mike.

[@deirdre444]

Thank you. My mom grew up there. It was a pleasure for the two of us to watch this. :)

[@jasondaniel.huggins.8]

That was cool 😎 I lived there and rode my bike all over that same route .

[@domingosuna2]

Very good.

[@MileageMikeTravels]

Thanks!

[@jgudda500]

Where the hood at mountain view ,hidden valley ,Hillcrest ,Avery Rd lol

[@silverhawk24]

Great video North Carolina mike enjoyed the video alot man hey are you gonna do Hickory NC

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[@jcconte4197]

What does rent go for thank u in that town

[@zachredner8]

30 years ago it pretty cheap, NOT anymore! 30 years ago, I rented a nice little 2-bedroom mobile home on private land (not a trailer park) for $200 per month. Now, a mobile home in a trailer park is gonna cost $1,000. and up, the lot rent alone is almost $350 per month. My granddaughter was looking to rent about 2 years ago and everything she looked at was between $1,200 and $1,800.

[@RS-cd9cf]

Camo Dave lived in Morganton but unfortunately he just passed away

[@rondaleigh]

He had a lot of fans and is missed. I used to enjoy watching his video drives around town in Little Adam.

[@jgudda500]

Where the hood at mountain view ,hidden valley ,Hillcrest ,Avery Rd

[@jgudda500]

mountain view ,hidden valley ,Hillcrest ,Avery Rd

[@OskeeWowWowIllinois23]

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[@jgudda500]

Where the hood at mountain view ,hidden valley ,Hillcrest ,Avery Rd lol