You see it and hear it, as soon as you get to town!
Czechoslovakian culture is everywhere, with polka music piped out of speakers on Wilson’s main street.
It’s the legacy of immigrants who settled here in the late 1800’s.
“I would say 80% of the people living in this town were Czech,” said Melinda Merrill, who points to old black-and-white photographs. “This is my grandfather and my two great aunts. These people and these people all lived in the house that my daughter is living in now.”
Merrill and others in Wilson are helping to preserve that history. She bought the Midland Railroad Hotel, built in 1899.
(Read more: KSN-TV)