TOWN OF CASTALIA

 

From the Mayor’s Desk

 

“One Does What One Can”

 

one CAN get involved

 

one CAN know Town Officials

 

one CAN attend Town Meetings

 

one CAN listen

 

one CAN ask questions

 

one CAN express feelings

 

one CAN help with Town Projects (if just to give $1.00)
one CAN check on neighbors

 

one CAN help neighbors.

 

one CAN clean one’s yard and street frontage

 

 

 

Friends, if we rattle these CANS we can make our community a nicer place to live and in doing so we can  truly be:

 

             U(nited)  P(eople) Town

 

 

 

News From Our Schools

 

School has started and we wish for the students the best. We encourage you; dig in deep and grasp all that education offers you.

 

 

 

A recent “Peanuts” cartoon poses a question: One character says to another “would you recognize the Principal if you met him on the street?”

 

Do you know your principal?

 

 

 

Cedar Grove                  Jerry Smith

 

Red Oak Middle             Connie Bobbitt

 

Nash Central High          Leroy Hartsfield

 

 

 

Parents know your school and support your children totally. They are our future leaders – we want the best.

 

 

 

Citizen’s Corner

 

We welcome to our town:

 

Gabriel Martinez Loredo              11004 Nelms Ave

 

                                  And

 

Maria  Posas                             9331 Main St.

 

Please ask at the Town Hall how you may become involved.

 

 

 

Thought for the day:

 

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

 

                                                 Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

 

From the Town

 

Disaster Team News

 

The Disaster Team is well on its way organizing a Disaster Shelter and Relief Plan. Ken Rice and Kathy Freeman accepted the positions of Captain and Co-Captain of the Team, respectively. The Town Hall has been designated as a shelter in the event of a community disaster. The town generator is being started and inspected on a monthly basis. Area churches and businesses have been contacted for donations and assistance. The Disaster Team has completed the ARC training for Community Service and Overview and Shelter Operation. The Team has also completed accredited CPR and First Aid courses.

 

 

 

With each newsletter the Disaster Team will ask the community to donate specific items for the supply and food closet. With this newsletter the community is asked to donate canned meat, fruit and vegetables. Please donate by dropping items off at the Castalia Town Hall or call 459-2745 if you have items to donate and need them picked up.

 

Invest in your future by donating

 

After all it might be you using the donated items

 

 

 

This Issue’s Disaster Tip

 

If you have family or friends out of the area or out of state, set up a disaster notification plan with them. Should a disaster occur and your family is separated, each member can check in with the designated person at the designated phone number. Remember to have each family member keep the designated  phone number with them at all times.

 

 

 

Board of Adjustment

 

The board of adjustment is looking for interested parties to fill two open vacancies. Please call the Town Hall at (252) 459-3668 for additional information

 

 

 

Town Web Site

 

The town now has a Website. The Website address is:

 

townofcastalia.com

 

                                                                      Check it out.

 

               

 

4th of July Committee News

 

The 4th of July Committee has already started planning for next year’s event. There are several fundraisers in progress to raise money for our celebration.

 

 

 

History of Castalia

 

Researched from articles printed 1973 in:

 

            Nashville Graphic written by L.S. Inscoe

 

            Evening Telegram written by Clyde Gallop

 

     The town of Castalia got its start during the pre-Civil War day of Nash County plantation life. Castalia is located in the northwest corner of Nash County and is an outgrowth of the community of Belford, developed by the Sills family, and the Captain Adams Harrison estate called Castalia. In America there are three other Castalias, one in Canada, one in Iowa, one in Ohio, and there is a Castalian Springs in Tennessee.

 

     Castalia was incorporated by the North Carolina General Assembly on March 1, 1873. James A. Harrison’s store was the center point of town. From there the town limits were to extend half a mile up the Warrenton road, half a mile along Nashville road in the opposite direction and half a mile wide.

 

     The first mayor was William T. Taylor. The Town Commissioners were James Harrison, John S. Terry and R. A. Harrison. Berry Cox was the Town Constable. Residents of the town were exempted from working the public roads but were responsible for working the streets in the town limits.

 

     The main highway through the town along the Nashville-Warrenton road was

Main Street

. The street that crossed

Main Street

near the center of the town was

Peachtree St

on the side toward Spring Hope (southwest) and the other side (northeast) was unofficially referred to as

Goat Street

for a goat pasture at the outskirts of the town.

 

Next issue: History continued

 

 

 

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