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Title
Greenfield
Lake
Park
-
1934
.
Subject
Greenfield
Lake
,
Easter
Egg
Hunt
Description
An
Easter
Egg
hunt
held
at
Greenfield
. An
item
in the
Wilmington
News
,
5
April
1934
,
reported
that the
public
egg
hunt
was
sponsored
by the
Wilmington
Lions
Club
.
Photographs
of the "
throng
of
2,000
children
" were
taken
by
Louis
T
.
Moore
(1884-1961)
and
displayed
at the
Chamber
of
Commerce
offices
in
front
of
city
hall
.
Mr
.
Moore
was the
Executive
Secretary
of the
Chamber
from
1921
until
1941
.
During
the
Depression
,
construction
workers
built
the
five
mile
drive
around
the
lake
.
It
was
completed
in
July
,
1931
, as
part
of a
Works
Project
Administration(W.P.A.)
attempt
to
put
a
portion
of the
numerous
area
unemployed
to
work
. In
colonial
times
, the
area
which
became
Greenfield
Lake
and
Park
, was a
rice
plantation
owned
by
Dr
.
Samuel
Green
. In the
mid-nineteenth
century
,
Thomas
Cowan
McIlhenny
purchased
the
property
and
it
became
known
as
McIlhenny's
Mill
Pond
. In
1918
, the
North
Carolina
Sorosis
(a
local
women's
organization)
advocated
that the
city
of
Wilmington
buy
what was then
called
Lakeside
Park
, for a
public
park
. In
1925
, the
sale
was
finalized
. With the
aid
of
Dr
.
Houston
Moore
and the
devotion
of
James
E
.
L
.
Wade
, the
Commissioner
of
Public
Works
at the
time
,
thousands
of
azaleas
and
other
flowering
plants
were
put
around
the
lake
.
Greenfield
Lake
has
become
one
of the
places
that
help
Wilmington
make
a
claim
as the
City
of
Millions
of
Azaleas
.
Date
1934
Source
Louis T. Moore Collection 534
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