Silk Hope, North Carolina

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Silk Hope, in Chatham County, North Carolina, is a farm community centered on a community school, a volunteer fire department, several country churches and many historical farmsteads. It is evolving into the country home of many who work in Cary, Chapel Hill, and Research Triangle Park.

According to oral history, the name came from an enterprise to create a silk industry in the early 1800s. No signs remain of the silk ambitions, nor the cotton gin that once stood at the Silk Hope crossroads. Community residents come together each Labor Day to celebrate their heritage at the "Silk Hope Old Fashioned Farmers Day".