{"id":742,"date":"2011-03-07T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/?p=742"},"modified":"2011-03-07T03:09:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T09:09:05","slug":"1881-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/1881-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"1881 Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A marker near the Washington County Courthouse mentions three fires that burned it &#8211; 1860, 1862, and 1881.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_743\" style=\"width: 341px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/auvet\/5164462126\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-743\" class=\"size-full wp-image-743  \" title=\"washcomarker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/washcomarker.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/washcomarker.png 591w, https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/washcomarker-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Flickr user JimmyWayne<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While indexing old issues of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=dw2rCEx0FpQC\" target=\"_blank\">Alamance Gleaner<\/a> (paper of Alamance County, NC), I found a reference to the 1881 fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plymouthfire.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-744\" title=\"plymouthfire\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plymouthfire.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plymouthfire.png 304w, https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plymouthfire-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The loss is described as $127, 000, of which there was little insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A marker near the Washington County Courthouse mentions three fires that burned it &#8211; 1860, 1862, and 1881. While indexing old issues of the Alamance Gleaner (paper of Alamance County, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/1881-fire\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}