Campbell’s Diner wasn’t built to last. Dora Ann Campbell, its namesake, purchased the single-wide trailer in 1971 after she quit her job at Cornell Dubilier Electronics, which once had a plant in Fuquay-Varina. Her father ran a restaurant, too, among the first in town, and it was her turn to do the same. She parked the trailer a few miles out of town on N.C. 42 and started serving breakfast and barbecue sandwiches. But in 1974, someone told her about a piece of land in town, so she moved the trailer onto the bare-dirt lot on North Main Street, where it sits today, and paid $45 a month to occupy the land. She added a dining room to the back, and then, at least, it was a double-wide. “I never...
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