http://www.raleighing.com/2005/09/raleigh-streets-bonus-st-maryslassiter-mill/ do you raleigh? Thu, 19 May 2011 14:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.raleighing.com/2005/09/raleigh-streets-bonus-st-maryslassiter-mill/comment-page-1/#comment-3412 Peggy Pedersen Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:39:09 +0000 http://www.raleighing.com/home/2005/09/raleigh-streets-bonus-st-maryslassiter-mill/#comment-3412 Since Cornelius Jessee Lassiter, the founder of Lassiter's Mill was the one who owned most of the land in what is now North Hills, and was the one who made the original road that now called Lassiter's Mill Road, as well as the road called Old Lassiter's Mill Road, it would be historically wrong to rename all the street from Glenwood to North Hills St. Marys St. St. Mary's street always ended where the Lassiter homestead at the corner of White Oak Road and St. Mary's was situated. To rename the extention from there to North Hills would be to lose a significant part of Raleigh History (Not to mention that "The Lassiter" and Lassiter Summit would no longer be on Lassiter Mill Road. There was a trolley running from downtown to Bloomsbury Park which was situated at the Lassiter Mill area. North of there in most of what is now called North Hills was Lassiter Land utilized in crop planting. (For Example Ramblewood Drive was cotton crops). It would make more sense to call the part on one side of glenwood Avenue St. Mary's Street (as it goes by St. Mary's college) and the part on the otherside from Glenwood North Lassiter's Mill Road. Sincerely, Peggy Lassiter Pedersen Since Cornelius Jessee Lassiter, the founder of Lassiter’s Mill was the one who owned most of the land in what is now North Hills, and was the one who made the original road that now called Lassiter’s Mill Road, as well as the road called Old Lassiter’s Mill Road, it would be historically wrong to rename all the street from Glenwood to North Hills St. Marys St. St. Mary’s street always ended where the Lassiter homestead at the corner of White Oak Road and St. Mary’s was situated. To rename the extention from there to North Hills would be to lose a significant part of Raleigh History (Not to mention that “The Lassiter” and Lassiter Summit would no longer be on Lassiter Mill Road. There was a trolley running from downtown to Bloomsbury Park which was situated at the Lassiter Mill area. North of there in most of what is now called North Hills was Lassiter Land utilized in crop planting. (For Example Ramblewood Drive was cotton crops). It would make more sense to call the part on one side of glenwood Avenue St. Mary’s Street (as it goes by St. Mary’s college) and the part on the otherside from Glenwood North Lassiter’s Mill Road.
Sincerely,
Peggy Lassiter Pedersen

]]> http://www.raleighing.com/2005/09/raleigh-streets-bonus-st-maryslassiter-mill/comment-page-1/#comment-3776 Peggy Pedersen Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:39:00 +0000 http://www.raleighing.com/home/2005/09/raleigh-streets-bonus-st-maryslassiter-mill/#comment-3776 Since Cornelius Jessee Lassiter, the founder of Lassiter's Mill was the one who owned most of the land in what is now North Hills, and was the one who made the original road that now called Lassiter's Mill Road, as well as the road called Old Lassiter's Mill Road, it would be historically wrong to rename all the street from Glenwood to North Hills St. Marys St. St. Mary's street always ended where the Lassiter homestead at the corner of White Oak Road and St. Mary's was situated. To rename the extention from there to North Hills would be to lose a significant part of Raleigh History (Not to mention that "The Lassiter" and Lassiter Summit would no longer be on Lassiter Mill Road. There was a trolley running from downtown to Bloomsbury Park which was situated at the Lassiter Mill area. North of there in most of what is now called North Hills was Lassiter Land utilized in crop planting. (For Example Ramblewood Drive was cotton crops). It would make more sense to call the part on one side of glenwood Avenue St. Mary's Street (as it goes by St. Mary's college) and the part on the otherside from Glenwood North Lassiter's Mill Road. Sincerely, Peggy Lassiter Pedersen Since Cornelius Jessee Lassiter, the founder of Lassiter’s Mill was the one who owned most of the land in what is now North Hills, and was the one who made the original road that now called Lassiter’s Mill Road, as well as the road called Old Lassiter’s Mill Road, it would be historically wrong to rename all the street from Glenwood to North Hills St. Marys St. St. Mary’s street always ended where the Lassiter homestead at the corner of White Oak Road and St. Mary’s was situated. To rename the extention from there to North Hills would be to lose a significant part of Raleigh History (Not to mention that “The Lassiter” and Lassiter Summit would no longer be on Lassiter Mill Road. There was a trolley running from downtown to Bloomsbury Park which was situated at the Lassiter Mill area. North of there in most of what is now called North Hills was Lassiter Land utilized in crop planting. (For Example Ramblewood Drive was cotton crops). It would make more sense to call the part on one side of glenwood Avenue St. Mary’s Street (as it goes by St. Mary’s college) and the part on the otherside from Glenwood North Lassiter’s Mill Road.
Sincerely,
Peggy Lassiter Pedersen

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