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Norlina, NORTH CAROLINA - Hotel Norlina - ADVERTISING - REAL PHOTO: Norlina is a town in Warren County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,118 at the 2010 census. Built in 1901, the original Hotel Norlina was built next to the railroad tracks on land leased from the Seaboard Air Line Railway to serve its passengers traveling through Ridgeway Junction, As World War I opened for the United States in 1917, the hotel, and Norlina, became important resources for our troops riding through to camps or debarkation points in New York City. At one point during the War, the owners of the hotel received a wire that in 48 hours a troop train with 1,000 soldiers would be stopping in Norlina for box lunches. Nancy Terrell, who ran the hotel then, organized townspeople in an assembly line to help cook, pack and then distribute those box lunches to every soldier on the train. As peace returned and the Roaring ‘20s played out, several different owners continued to run the Hotel Norlina until 1930 when it was sold to the Whites. They decided to tear down the hotel and move it to a grove of trees on the nearby U.S. 1, its current location. This White Border Era (1915-30) postcard is in good condition. A Natural-Finish Card. Gray & Thompson. Chapel Hill, N.C. No. Z-11.