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Thirty-Two Acres Added to TLC’s Temple Flat Rock Preserve

by Kate Dixon
(from TLC News, April 1995)

James P. and Grace Temple of Goldsboro have donated an additional thirty-two acres of land at TLC's Temple Flat Rock nature preserve near Knightdale. The Temples created this preserve with their original donation of a conservation easement on a beautiful granitic outcropping in 1984. Last year, they turned that easement into an out-right gift of land. Now the entire preserve totals thirty-eight acres.

James & Grace Temple, left, join former TLC President David Bland at Temple Flat Rock in 1984.

Temple Flat Rock is one of 26 granitic outcrops in eastern Wake and neighboring counties. The rock has been in the Temple family for many generations. Because of the care they have given it over the years, it is unusually pristine, never having suffered from vandalism or trash dumping like many of the other outcrops in the area. The Temples have donated the land to TLC in memory of Mr. Temple’s mother, Louise Parker Temple, who was a native of Selma

The Temple’s gift of additional acreage included pasture land and young pine woods. It provides a buffer to the rock and will also ensure that the natural and agricultural landscape surrounding the rock will not change drastically in the future.

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