Lisa Dye Janes, Broker/Realtor

Lisa Dye Janes, Broker/Realtor Real Estate Broker specializing in historic North Carolina properties. Lisa has always loved older homes.

Lisa Dye Janes
Licensed Real Estate Broker
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/janesgang

Lisa has been listing and selling homes of character in North Carolina since 1999, first earning her salesperson's license from the NC Real Estate Commission; and later furthering her real estate education to earn a broker's license. She is a Historical Residential Property Specialist and works closely with the N

ational Trust for Historic Preservation; the Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina; the Historic Preservation Society of Durham; and many other historic foundations, societies and
specialists. Back in the 1980s, she and husband, Terry, lived in and restored an old farmhouse in Simpsonville, S.C. More recently, Lisa and her family renovated and sold a 1940s bungalow in Durham's Northgate Park. Lisa's parents live in an 110-year-old farmhouse that they have renovated in the Fairview community of Fountain Inn, S.C. When Lisa isn't busy listing and showing houses, she volunteers her time tutoring after- school children at Oxford Manor, a low-income housing project in Durham. She sings in a Praise Band and teaches adult Sunday school at church. She is a professional pet- sitter and owns four dogs, all which were rescued. She is also a founding member of the Triangle Adoptions Support Group, an organization for birth parents, adoptees and the parents of adult adopted children. A graduate of the University of South Carolina College of Journalism, Lisa is a former newspaper editor and reporter. She and her husband live in North Durham, where they are members of Aldersgate United Methodist Church. Their son, Hunter, is an Eagle Scout and attends the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he is working on his master’s degree at the School of Information and Library Science. Lisa also has a daughter, Adrienne, who is a marketing specialist in Charlotte.

06/12/2025
05/31/2025
05/25/2025

Memorial Day weekend. I'll be reflecting.

05/25/2025

The Endor Iron Furnace is legendary in Chatham County--even though it "moved" to Lee County when that county was formed in 1907.

The Endor Iron Company was chartered in April, 1862. Two months later investors purchased the Deep River plantation of Alexander McIver and constructed a smelting furnace on it. The furnace is constructed of soft local reddish-gray stones and measures approximately 32 feet square at the base and rises to a height of about 35 feet.

It is likely that the furnace supplied the Confederate arsenal at Fayetteville in addition to small nearby arms factories. The ironworks changed hands twice before a Maryland manufacturer purchased Endor and, with a local partner, invested heavily in the operation. By 1872, their Cape Fear Iron and Steel Company was one of the South’s largest and best equipped iron furnaces.

Only two years later, it was determined that local mineral deposits were smaller than had first been thought and by 1876, the company had ceased operation. Though most of the machinery was dismantled and removed, the furnace continued operating until 1896 on a smaller scale, serving only local manufacturers.

Back in 1990, Robert Weisner wrote a detailed article about the furnace for CCHA's journal. He tracked down records and tried to sort out the furnace's story. He entitled his article "Wading through Error and Confusion: An Update of a Study of the Endor Iron Furnace." If you care to know more about the site, you can read it on our website (along with other, shorter articles in that issue):https://chathamhistory.org/resources/Documents/PDFs/Journal/CHJvol3num1.pdf

05/16/2025
10/01/2024
08/23/2024

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