- Title
- Our State
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- Date
- June 2004
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Our State
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Once a place of worship, the building that
houses the St. James Place Museum is now
A TESTAMENT TO THE FOLK ARTS AND CRAFTS
of North Carolina.
preserve, collect,
and share
Everette James, above leh, bought the former Robersonville Primitive
Baptist Church building, above right, and made A a museum piece.
w
hit is a museum with
an urbane name like
St. James Place doing
in the small Martin
County town of
Robersonville? You would think the St.
James Place Museum would more likely
be found in a place like London or
Rome. The story of us name and the
museum itself is an unlikely one. going
back to the history of the building that is
its home.
Robersonville is a pleasant “half-way"
stop on the long drive on U.S. Highway
64 from the Triangle area to the Outer
Banks. One block over from old U.S.
Highway 64 is Railroad Street, named
for the tracks alongside it that brought a
measure of prosperity to the town at the
beginning of the past century. Textile
mills, an important tobacco nurket.
stores, banks, and offices grew up around
the railroad depot.
The town's tree-lined streets, large old
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