Today is ABC Wednesday and, as you may know, for this series, we’ve been featuring streets. Well, what to do? There is not even one street in Greensboro that begins with the letter “X.” Many of you were kind enough to suggest that we feature a major crossroad of two Greensboro streets. That was our intent, when, serendipitously, we stumbled upon this street-related  X at the Greensboro Historical Museum. In the above photo, you see a stone marker with an X carved in it. The brass plaque below the X reads, “Last stagecoach marker in Guilford County. Formerly located at Sedalia, the “X” indicated that Greensboro was 10 miles away. Such markers were common on the main roads prior to 1860.”

So, for ABC Wednesday, X, Roman numeral 10, marks the spot. This stagecoach marker and X in the road was located very near this diner in the eastern end of the county, 80 miles west of yesterday’s post.

View our previous, ABC Wednesday ( A-W) posts here. Two more weeks until we think of a new theme for Round 9 of ABC Wednesday.