History: From the beginning, from the very moment it became an idea, North Wilkesboro was a plan. The Finleys and Blairs provided the land, over 1,000 acres. An investor from Greensboro, Willard Franklin Trogdon, had the land surveyed, laid out lots and streets and roads, graded some of the streets, built bridges, and erected some key buildings. Business leaders came to see and they stayed....