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Trail link preserved

Posted on January 6, 2011January 6, 2011 by Staff

Link Spring lot on the Eno.

The Eno River Association announced this week that the group has secured a key Orange County connector for the state’s Mountain-To-Sea Trail.
In late December, LinkBros LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company owned by the Link family, donated a one-acre tract of land on Pleasant Green Road to the association. The property, which has approximately 200 feet of frontage on the Eno River, will be transferred by the association to the State of North Carolina for inclusion in the Eno River State Park. This will allow for completion of a section of the statewide trail through the Eno River State Park between the Cabe Lands area and Pleasant Green Road.
When the Mountains-to-Sea Trail is completed, it will stretch 1,000 miles from Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains to Jockey’s Ridge on the Outer Banks. To date, more than 500 miles of footpath have been built across the state in segments that are joined by temporary connectors on back roads and state bike routes.
The Link brothers – John M. Link Jr., Thomas E. Link and Robert E. Link – said they donated the land in memory of their great-grandfather, Emmett Green Link, and their mother and father, Peggy Sykes Link and John M. Link Sr. The family has deep roots along the Eno River.

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