by cchs | May 27, 2022 | Black History & Culture, Preservation
We are honored that the William Still Family Interpretive Center has been accepted as a U.S. National Park Service Network to Freedom historic site. Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony was Monday, May 23, 2022 The William Still Family Interpretive Center and Historic Site...
by Don Barker | Nov 1, 2020 | Preservation
Donate to save the Meetinghouse. It takes just a minute. Donate Now The Tuckahoe Neck Quaker Meetinghouse was built in 1802. The building was later used by the “Dunkards” as a place of worship and a school. The Committee for the Preservation of the...
by Don Barker | Dec 19, 2019 | Preservation
The Society documented the dwelling in 2005 for the National Park Service as the only surviving UGRR station house on the Eastern Shore. It was then placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The UGRR network that operated here was run by Quakers and free...
by Don Barker | Dec 19, 2019 | Preservation
Despite living his life in the local Long Depression (1819-1895), Jesse Hubbard (c. 1811-1879) was determined to erect for his wife and nine children a fine house in the Greek Revival style of architecture, a style then prevalent in the Deep South and other prosperous...
by Don Barker | Dec 19, 2019 | Preservation
Despite being a widow with seven children, Rebecca Tylor (1823–1884) was indomitable in addressing local ills: She educated free and enslaved blacks, sought fair treatment for county “Poor House” inmates, demanded equal rights for women, advocated prohibition, took in...
by Don Barker | Dec 19, 2019 | Preservation
The 1927 Denton Firehouse was the epitome of the bygone era of a true “community project”. This photo c. 1927 shows original truck doors to be reinstalled and façade to be restored. The original was doubled in size by an addition in 1954. In the 1970’s,...
by Don Barker | Dec 19, 2019 | Preservation
Thee location of Barwick’s Tavern (c. 1775–c. 1790) was part of a colonial commercial cluster of now-vanished buildings that once included a government-mandated tobacco warehouse, a “jail”, a ferry crossing and several buildings that all predated 1747. The...
by Don Barker | Dec 18, 2019 | Preservation
James Webb, a free African-American farmer, built this hand-hewn log home in 1852. He lived here with his enslaved wife, Mary Ann, and their four children, Charles, Elizabeth, John and Ann, and Webb’s father, Henry. The Webbs were members of Mount Pleasant Church....
by Don Barker | Nov 3, 2019 | Preservation
With its broad Victorian porches stripped away and surviving interior woodwork behind cheap wallboard and 1970s partitions, the 1892 depot was recommended by town staff in 2008 as a site for public toilets. As an alternative, the Society prepared concept plans for...
by J.O.K. Walsh | Jan 6, 2019 | Preservation
Below the cat-urine-soaked floorboards were termite-riddled floor joists and sill plates, all requiring very costly reconstruction. The dwelling also lacked a septic system, approved well and modern electric service. Immediately after our purchase a decade ago, the...
by J.O.K. Walsh | Dec 6, 2018 | Preservation
Interior and exterior walls had badly cracked from major structural problems, numerous fire-burned holes punctured the roof, and mold turned the interior ceilings black. After initial spending by the Society for stabilization and documentation, extensive meetings with...
by J.O.K. Walsh | Dec 6, 2018 | Preservation
Castle Hall in Goldsboro (c. 1781) was dark, vacant, neglected, and deteriorated, with ongoing vandalism that included broken doors, graffiti-sprayed walls and hundreds of smashed window panes, once-proud Castle Hall with the finest colonial woodwork in Caroline sat...
