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A one-streetlight town with a lot of charm
Pine Level is the type of small town that city-dwellers may dismiss as existing only in a Hallmark movie. “It’s one of the last towns in Johnston County to only have one streetlight,” says Linsey Dale, a team leader and broker with HTR Southern Properties who lived in the town for 12 years. “So many communities in this area have really blown up over the past five years, but Pine Level has kept that small-town feel – just good schools, good people, good small businesses.” According to the town’s website, they’re the “Best Little Town in North Carolina.”
Locally-owned charming shops and restaurants
The town’s downtown is lined with shops and businesses including Serving Spoon — a catering service that offers a monthly Sunday brunch with a menu of praline French toast and homemade gravy with freshly baked biscuits. Town Market grocery store sells fresh meat that’s cut and ground on-site, while Pine Level Hardware & Furniture provides residents with home goods. The Parkside Café dishes up classic country cooking like hamburgers and fried chicken in a friendly atmosphere. For bigger shopping trips, the Smithfield Outlet Mall features discounted goods from a variety of retailers, including Adidas, Brooks Brothers and Nike.
Ashlan Meadows is a small family farm providing fresh local produce.
Parkside Cafe features the finest food at affordable prices.
Pine Level Hardware & Furniture has been family owned and operated since 1913.
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Food trucks and live music
Most attractions require a drive to Smithfield or surrounding areas. “There’s always something to do, but it might not necessarily be in Pine Level,” Dale says. Hinnant Family Vineyards, less than a mile from the town center, hosts food trucks and live music on weekends, as well as tastings and tours. Julie Toy, a life-long North Carolina resident and realtor with Coldwell Banker Advantage says "Their scuppernongs grapes are found each year in local grocery stores and farmers markets and are delicious!" The Town of Pine Level also puts on community events like the annual Christmas parade on the second Sunday of each December. In nearby Smithfield, the Ava Gardner Museum features exhibits about the 1950s starlet, including costumes worn in her films, behind-the-scenes stories and artifacts from some of her roles and personal history.
Ranch homes and farmhouses on rural lots
The architecture in Pine Level is mostly traditional – brick ranch-style homes and farmhouses with prominent front porches. Homes spand from the 1920s to the 2020s, but even in areas where homes were built in the 2000s, the mature trees surrounding the lots lend the streets an established, settled feeling. Homes are aligned in neat rows, their simple lines suited to the splaying landscape. The average three-bedroom home will sell for around $200,000 to the low $300,000, but finding inventory may be a challenge since many of the homes are inhabited by families who have lived in the town for generations.
Older homes dominated the downtown area of Pine Level, NC.
Pine Level is a small town located 35 miles east of Raleigh.
Rolling hills and farmland surround the town of Pine Level, NC.
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Johnston County School District in the top four
Pine Level Elementary School, which has a B-plus rating from Niche, is rated the 4th best public elementary school in Johnston County. North Johnston Middle School, located in the nearby town of Micro five miles from Pine Level, has a B-minus rating from Niche and a 16-to-1 student-teacher ratio. North Johnston High School, which is located 8 miles outside of Pine Level, has a C-plus score. They offer the Academy of Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing to provide students the opportunity to gain employable, technical skills.
North Johnston High School is located in Johnston County, NC.
North Johnston Middle is located in Johnston County, NC.
Pine Level Elementary has around 350 students.
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Sam Godwin Park's playful landscape
Within the town itself, Sam Godwin Park provides a green space downtown with picnic areas and baseball courts. For indoor amenities, residents can travel 6 miles to the Smithfield Recreation & Aquatics Center, which features an eight-lane swimming pool, racquetball courts, an indoor track and a pottery studio. The SRAC also hosts community events like arts and crafts, fitness classes and summer camps. Residents can pay the $82 per month fee for a family membership, or pay $10 per person – $7 for kids – to use the facilities for the day. A round of golf can be played at Selma’s Cardinal Country Club.
Sam Godwin Park sits next to the Pine Level American Legion.
Sam Godwin Park includes 4 lighted baseball fields, basketball court and soccer fields.
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Interstate 95 access and the Johnston Regional Airport
As rural as Pine Level feels, its location right off Interstate 95 makes it convenient to get to Raleigh, which is 34 miles away. Residents who want to get out of town can head to the Selma-Smithfield Amtrak station, which is 2.5 miles from Pine Level, or the Johnston Regional Airport 11 miles away. UNC Health Johnston, located in downtown Smithfield 6 miles from Pine Level, is a full-service hospital that has served Johnston County residents since 1951. The town of Pine Level is built for a Main Street stroll, but the neighborhood becomes more rural and less pedestrian-friendly further from the town center.
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