Black Creek
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Black Creek Historical Society
The Black Creek Historical Society was form on July 19, 1983.
Our goal is to restore and preserve the history of the Town of Black Creek, North Carolina.
One of recent projects was the restoration of the P.L. Woodard House.
This was the family home of Paul Lee Woodard from whom Lee Woodard School was named. He was born May 27, 1869 on his father's farm. This house was built around 1873 and was moved from his father's farm into town before 1918.
Mr. Lee Woodard attended local schools and graduated from the University of N.C. in Chapel Hill in 1890. He taught for a while in a private school for boys in Wilson. As a result, he developed a life-long interest in the public school system.
In 1920 he gave eight acres for the site of the first Black Creek High School (grades 1 through 12) and also left a farm for the school. In appreciation of his interest in education, the school was named after him in 1939.
The Black Creek Historical Society decided the restoration of this house would be a good project for them and after several years of work by many volunteers and workers, we presented this house to the Town of Black Creek in the spring of 2000.
In those days, buildings that had to be moved a short distance were sometimes rolled along on logs. But this distance was about five miles! They took it apart, piece by piece, and numbered each piece with Roman numerals so they could put it back together in town. They probably loaded the pieces onto wagons which were pulled by horses or mules into town.
When the restoration work was started, some of the rotted floor framing had to be replaced. The workers saw these Roman numerals on the framing of the house while they were working. All the bricks for the foundation and the two chimneys and the walkways came from the old Lee Woodard School building that was torn down to build the present school.
Our goal is to restore and preserve the history of the Town of Black Creek, North Carolina.
One of recent projects was the restoration of the P.L. Woodard House.
This was the family home of Paul Lee Woodard from whom Lee Woodard School was named. He was born May 27, 1869 on his father's farm. This house was built around 1873 and was moved from his father's farm into town before 1918.
Mr. Lee Woodard attended local schools and graduated from the University of N.C. in Chapel Hill in 1890. He taught for a while in a private school for boys in Wilson. As a result, he developed a life-long interest in the public school system.
In 1920 he gave eight acres for the site of the first Black Creek High School (grades 1 through 12) and also left a farm for the school. In appreciation of his interest in education, the school was named after him in 1939.
The Black Creek Historical Society decided the restoration of this house would be a good project for them and after several years of work by many volunteers and workers, we presented this house to the Town of Black Creek in the spring of 2000.
In those days, buildings that had to be moved a short distance were sometimes rolled along on logs. But this distance was about five miles! They took it apart, piece by piece, and numbered each piece with Roman numerals so they could put it back together in town. They probably loaded the pieces onto wagons which were pulled by horses or mules into town.
When the restoration work was started, some of the rotted floor framing had to be replaced. The workers saw these Roman numerals on the framing of the house while they were working. All the bricks for the foundation and the two chimneys and the walkways came from the old Lee Woodard School building that was torn down to build the present school.