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Published Wed, Jan 25, 2012 04:26 AM
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Poe family gives house to WakeMed

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BY DAVID BRACKEN - STAFF WRITER

RALEIGH -- WakeMed Health & Hospitals announced Tuesday that the family of Clarence and Alice Aycock Poe have donated the Longview House, also known as the Poe House, and the two acres on which it sits to the health care system.

WakeMed has also purchased 13.5 acres of adjacent land where it expects to eventually expand its Raleigh campus off New Bern Avenue. The hospital system paid $4 million for the land last month. WakeMed CEO Bill Atkinson said in a release that the hospital doesn't have any specific plans for the Poe property.

Clarence Poe was a civic leader and founder of The Progressive Farmer, once one of the South's most influential publications.

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