Guilford Courthouse Administrative History

CHAPTER 11:
Endnotes

1 John H. Carver, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Interior to Honorable John W. McCormick, Speaker, House of Representatives, 29 January 1963, Horace R. Kornegay Papers, SHC.

2 Warner Wells, "Carl Thomas Durham," in Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, ed. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1986) II. p. 125-126. Horace R. Kornegay to David Schenck, 20 February 1963, Horace R. Kornegay Papers, SHC.

3 David Schenck to Horace R. Kornegay, 22 February 1963, Horace R. Kornegay Papers, SHC.

4 Horace R. Kornegay to Conrad L. Wirth 4 March 1963; Conrad L. Wirth to Horace R. Kornegay, 25 March 1963, Horace R. Kornegay Papers, SHC.

5 Memorandum, Rogers W. Young to Chief Historian, 25 April 1963, NPS, GUCO, Box 2, Cultural Resources Repository, Office of Historic Architecture (CRR). Prior to this meeting Director Wirth received a letter from the Director of the Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department reminding him of their prior acquaintance in the American Institute of Park Executives, and stating that the sale of the courthouse site "will vitally hinder the orderly development of the area by the national government and the City of Greensboro." This is the first instance in which a city parks official is recorded as speaking in support of the national park. Oka T. Hester, Jr., Director, City of Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department, to Conrad L. Wirth, 3 April 1963, NPS, GUCO, Box 2, CRR.

6 Memorandum, Charles S. Marshall to the Regional Director, 25 April 1963, NPS, GUCO, Box 2, CRR.

7 Eugene D. McKeown, Monthly Narrative, 8 January 1964, A2823, GUCO Files.

8 Horace R. Kornegay to David Schenck, 9 December 1964, Horace R. Kornegay Papers, SHC.

9 Eugene D. McKeown, Monthly Narrative, 10 September 1965, A2823, GUCO Files; David Schenck to Rep. Richardson Preyer, 21 May 1967, Richardson Preyer Papers, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University (ECU); Deed 14, 30 December 1966, L1429, GUCO Files.

10 Deeds 15,16, 8 December 1967; Deed 18, 25 February 1969, A1429, GUCO Files; Eugene D. McKeown to Regional Director, SERO, 31 May 1967; Edward S. Peetz, Chief, Office of Resource Planning, WSC, to Regional Director, SERO, 16 June 1967, L1425 GUCO Files.

11 Charles S. Marshall, Acting Regional Director to Hon. David Schenck, 29 December 1964; David Schenck to Charles S. Marshall, 5 January 1965; David Schenck to E.M. Lisle, Acting Regional Director, 19 January 1965; David Schenck to E.M. Lisle, 2 February 1965, McDaniel Lewis Papers, MS Collection 41, Greensboro Historical Museum (GHM); Deed 17, 10 August 1967, L1429, GUCO Files. File 603, GUCO, RG 79, National Archives, microfilm, contains voluminous documentation of the Webb condemnation proceedings.

12 Deeds 20 and 21, 12 October 1970; Deed 23, 10 October 1979, L1429, GUCO Files. The last acquisition was considered in more detail in Chapter 9, supra.

13 David Schenck to Hon. Richardson Preyer, 21 May 1969, Richardson Preyer Papers, East Carolina MS Collection, J.Y. Joyner Library, ECU. For examples of subsequent efforts to gain support for park expansion see: McDaniel Lewis to Hon. Richardson Preyer, 19 March 1976; McDaniel Lewis to Hon. John Warner, Administrator, American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, 28 May 1974; David D. Thompson, SER Director, to McDaniel Lewis, 23 December 1975, McDaniel Lewis Papers, MS Collection 41, GHM.

14 This decision had been formalized by the acceptance of the 1968 Master Plan Study Team's recommendation that no additional lands be acquired. See: Charles S. Marshall to Hon. Richardson Preyer, 21 May 1969, McDaniel Lewis Papers, GHM. With regard to proposals to buy property to the west of the park's boundary, Marshall made the improbable statement that, "Twenty years ago I would have considered such acquisition to be most desirable." See, also: Richardson Preyer to McDaniel Lewis, 15 March 1976, McDaniel Lewis Papers, GHM.

15 "Expansion of park pushed," Greensboro Record, 11 March 1976; McDaniel Lewis to Representative Richardson Preyer, 19 March 1976, McDaniel Lewis Papers, GHM.

16 This evidence was a pit containing amputated human limbs, confirming the site's use as a hospital, found during excavations at the site in 1974-1975. Trawick Ward and Joffre L. Coe, Archaeological Excavations At The Site Of Guilford Courthouse, (Chapel Hill: Research Laboratories of Anthropology, UNC, 1976) pp. 23-24.

17 David Schenck to E.M. Lisle, 2 February 1965, McDaniel Lewis Papers, GHM; E.M. Lisle, Acting Regional Director to Hon. David Schenck, 22 January 1965, L30, GUCO Files.

18 Eugene D. McKeown to SERO Director, 31 May 1967; Edward S. Peetz, Chief, Office of Resource Planning, WSC to SERO Director, 16 June 1967, L1425, GUCO Files.