Easter Sunrise Service and Garden Pilgrimage Highlight Roanoke Rapids
Easter observances rise across Roanoke Rapids with a 6:30 sunrise service at Simmons Park led by a multi church coalition. The Garden Pilgrimage sponsored by the Garden Club of North Carolina will run March 27 through late April, with Halifax Enfield and Roanoke Rapids featuring historic homes and gardens on April 14 and 15 for a small admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll Wilson
Roanoke Rapids
North Carolina
Jesus
Christ
Simmons Park
Winston-Salem
Garden Club of North Carolina
Halifax County
Halifax
Enfield
Halifax Garden Pilgrimage Opens Across Historic Homes
The Halifax County Garden Pilgrimage offers public access to Colonial era sites including Constitution House built before 1776, the 1770 Masonic Lodge, and the 1783 General William R. Davie House. The tour covers Enfield’s Shell Castle begun in 1790, unfinished for years, and Roanoke Rapids gardens with notable designs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halifax County
Constitution House
North Carolina
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
Halifax
Great Britain
Masonic Lodge
United States
William R. Davie
Enfield
Shell Castle
Matthew Carey Whitaker
Garden Pilgrimage shines on rare garden beauty
The article praises local lovers of natural beauty who, through painstaking effort and expense, created gardens of unusual and outstanding beauty that merit inclusion in the Garden Pilgrimage.
North Carolina Faces Slow Progress in Safety Education
A Highway Safety Division survey shows no decline in school age pedestrian deaths from 1935 to 1939, with 481 of 1,780 total fatalities under 15. In 1939, 93 of 331 pedestrian deaths were under 15, prompting calls to integrate safety education into all state schools and bolster classroom plus visual lessons and student traffic squads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Highway Safety Division
Ronald Hocutt
Littleton
Also Mentioned on This Page
North Carolina Press Association
Wn Zkrieg
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!