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Broadway, NC - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Broadway  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Broadway Home page. The Broadway Home page provides as much information as possible on Broadway. Knowing Broadway’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Broadway’s Home page, you will also find Broadway’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Broadway has a population of 1460. 47.3% of Broadway’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.7 are female. 54.2% of Broadway is married and 80.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $161,211, and the average rent is $796. Household median income in Broadway is $56,154, and the individual median income is $27,835. Broadway’s Ethnic is the following: White(88.3%), Hispanic(9.5%), Black(6.5%), Asian(3.1%), Other(1.5%), Multiple(0.5%), Native(0.1%).


According to the book, Broadway North Carolina: 1870-1970, Broadway was settled in 1870 and incorporated as a town in 1907. The name "Broadway" comes from a broad level opening in the region's vast pine forest where the town was established. Among the early settlers of the area which is now Broadway were Hugh Matthews, Grisham Thomas, Tilmon Thomas, M.M.


Watson, and Captain J.O.A. Kelly. African American families that settled in the area included the Buchanans, Camerons, McLeans, Minters, and Womacks. Broadway celebrated the centennial of its settlement in October 1970. During this event men and women had a street dance and dressed as they did in the 1870s.


Broadway celebrated the centennial of its incorporation as well as the centennial of Lee County in 2007. Broadway recently celebrated "Broadway Our Way" in April 2009. A few years into the 21st century, many citizens of Broadway town proper paid a visit to New York to see a Broadway show, and in return Broadway, New York, came to Broadway, North Carolina.


A show was put on at Broadway Elementary School with Sandy Duncan, actress of television and stage leading the way.


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