Pender County Schools history

When the railroad was built, around 1836, it was moved to the present site and still went by the name of South Washington.

ONE OF THE OLDEST HOMES IN PENDER COUNTY. Built in 1840 by John P. Bannerman and now owned by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., Bannerman's Bridge, Pender County, North Carolina.

The first organization of Mount Williams Church was effected on June 15th, 1845, and the Elders constituting the session were at that time John P. Bannerman, Samuel Player and Robert Sharpless.

Founder of State Medical Society, 1849; head of Confederate Hospital at Wilson.

138, King Solomon's Lodge. It was here in Lillington that the first Masonic Lodge was established on June 12, 1851—Lodge No.

Burgaw was a flag station at that time and for many years afterward, though a post office was maintained here in 1858.

In 1860, at the beginning of hostilities between the North and South, he removed his family and a large number of slaves to his large estate near Burgaw.

Captain Robert M. McIntyre of Rocky Point, Pender County, formed a Company in the spring of 1862, afterward known as Company C, Fourth Regiment (Cavalry). Captain McIntyre furnished sabers, saddles, and twelve horses.

He joined Company K as a private and rose to be captain on the death of Captain Armstrong who was killed at Chancellorsville May, 1863.

He had therefore a good background upon which to base his fight before the North Carolina General Assembly for the creation, in 1867, of the State Board of Health, of which on May 23rd of that year he was made the first president.

Beginning in 1870, Mr.

The first real active movement took place at a mass meeting held at Long Creek Village in 1873.

“An election shall be held in the County on the third Thursday in April, 1875, A.D., for the purpose of electing a Clerk of the Superior Court, Sheriff, Treasurer, Register of Deeds, Surveyor, Five Commissioners and a Coroner, who, after having qualified, shall file bonds, as required by law.

In June 1878 he was admitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of law in Burgaw.

J. S. Black held this office until 1880 when Rev.

From there he went to Milton, Pa., where he accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church in 1882.

Burgaw Baptist Church was organized in the old Burgaw Academy Building on September 13, 1884.

So when a new flag was adopted in 1885, this date was removed and another “April 12th, 1776” took its place.

The first Superintendent of Health of Pender County was Doctor William Thomas Ennett, in 1886.

With Yale claiming the first successful picture made with the X-ray machine, these former students gained sufficient courage to tell of their prank back in the early days of January, 1896 and satisfied investigators of their claim was O. K.

In 1897 the Legislature of North Carolina passed an act authorizing the purchase of twenty acres to be used as a park area, under management of the Moore's Creek Monumental Association, which was incorporated for the purpose.

He went through the Burgaw schools and in 1903 entered the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where he made the study of dentistry.

Researching family history starting 1905 or above

The early history of the Catholic Church in St Helena dates back to the time of the first settlers in the year 1906.

MONUMENT TO JOHN GRADY. VIEW TOWARDS MOORE'S CREEK BRIDGE OLD CANNON. added in 1907 by funds provided by Congressional legislation.

He was admitted to the bar in 1908 and for two years he practiced law in his home town of Burgaw, before moving to Goldsboro.

He won the Orator's Medal at Wake Forest in 1911.

In 1912, on the death of James F. Moore, first President of the Association, a monument was erected to his memory.

The County Extension Farm Work was organized and began operating in Pender County in the year 1914.

Lee was married the first time to Martha Irma Parsons in 1915.

He returned to Burgaw in March, 1919 for the

Construction on this school was begun on July 22, 1920, when concrete blocks were made by the pastor Rev.

Commissioned as Internal Revenue Agent, effective July 1, 1921, and continued as an Estate Tax Examiner or Agent in North Carolina (except for temporary assignments to New York), and, for a number of years, has been Chief Estate Tax Agent in the Greensboro Division.

G. Grady, remaining there until September, 1925, when he came back to Burgaw to supervise the Burgaw branch office of the firm of Grady and Johnson.

Continuing this business until 1926, they bought out the grocery business of J. L. Harrell and moved to Burgaw, where they have engaged in an extensive operation ever since.

He died July 24, 1928, his wife following him a few years later.

Later he organized and built the Johnston County Hospital, Smithfield, and was superintendent and surgeon at this hospital until 1930.

165 was organized and the first meeting held March 6th, 1931, at the home of Mrs.

In 1932 President Hoover started or inaugurated the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a program for relief for those whose income was not sufficient to properly feed and clothe their families.

In February, 1934, the United States Department of the Interior purchased for the Subsistence Homestead Corporation a tract of 4,500 acres of land in the northwest corner of Pender County, North Carolina, proposing to build 300 homesteads of from three to ten acres each.

In 1936 he was elected Road Commissioner, and later made Director of the Penal Institution of North Carolina.

In connection with this work, Social Security came into effect June, 1937 and is handled through this office, having three separate programs which constitute aid to dependents, old age assistance and aid to the blind.

THE Burgaw Woman's Club was organized on Monday, November 18, 1938, and federated shortly after the perfection of the organization.

On November 7, 1939, a marker was unveiled to his memory as the first student of the University of North Carolina; Doctor Frank P. Graham, President of the University, making the principal address.

On July 4th, 1942 a Victory Day was celebrated with patriotic speeches and a Victory Day dinner.

On the 19th of September 1944 the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company launched its twenty-ninth ship, named for Governor Samuel Ashe of Revolutionary fame.