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industry here. Entrepreneurs imported silk worms and planted mulberry trees, but were not successful. No signs remain of the silk ambitions. Farmers in the area also cultivated cotton in the antebellum years, and used a local
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that once stood at the Silk Hope crossroads. Due to soil limitations, they could not produce much of the commodity crop.
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According to oral history, the name came from an early 19th-century enterprise to develop a
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to celebrate their heritage at the "Silk Hope Old Fashioned Farmers Day". The
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have established "country" homes here. Its ZIP Code is 27344.
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Unincorporated communities in Chatham County, North Carolina
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