This photograph show a student seated on the bridge in Peabody Park taken sometime in the 1920s or 1930s.
Type
Image
Original format
Photographs
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection
UA104 Photographic Prints Collection
Series/grouping
3: Buildings, Grounds, and Views
Folder
259: Peabody Park (1892-1939)
Folder description
Peabody Park was created from a tract of land located behind the original campus. Philanthropist George Foster Peabody (1852-1938) gave the College $10,000 in 1901 and President Charles Duncan McIver earmarked half of the funds to develop an educational park. It was named in honor of his relative, George Peabody (1795-1869), who had also been a benefactor of schools in the South. The original plan for the park, designed by landscape architect Warren H. Manning of Boston, included five miles of graded drives and walkways. It served as a resource for natural science classes, student ceremonies, and dramatic productions, and a place for the students’ mandatory walking period. With the elimination of the mandatory walking period in the 1920s and “Park Night” in 1935, Peabody Park became neglected. It has gradually been repurposed for dormitories and academic buildings and is now a small wooded area on the northern edge of the campus.
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Object ID
ua104.3.259.025
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
