Tramway is an area of

Lee County, North Carolina Lee County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 63,285. The county seat is Sanford, North Carolina, Sanford. Lee County comprises ...

, United States which politically forms part of Sanford. It is located on U.S. 1/ 15/ 501, north of the road's intersection with North Carolina Highway 78. Its elevation is 499 feet or 152 meters. According to one local source, the name of the area derives from a 19th-century

tram A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...

way used to transport timber to a sawmill inaccessible by wagons, and, presumably, the lumber returned.

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