Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Permit to destroy an "Underground Railroad" house up for passage at Guildford County Historic Preservation Commission.

The house that stands proud of its heritage in the movement of African - Americans out of danger is on the chopping block tonight at 6 pm.

August 15, 2020

An application (click here) has been filed to demolish a home dating as far back as 1810 and believed to have ties to the Underground Railroad. A public hearing on the request involving the Mendenhall-Blair homestead goes before the Guilford County Historic Preservation Commission on Tuesday. The house on Skeet Club Road in High Point whose earliest portions were built using handmade nails, now sits in the midst of residential developments and a high-growth area.

Website of Guilford County Historic Preservation Commission (click here). They don't even have the meeting agenda listed for tonight. That seems a little shady.