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Title	Peabody Bridge
Date	1995
Circa?	yes
Subject-LCSH	University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Subject-Local	Peabody Park
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	Photograph of the Peabody Bridge. Peabody Park was created from a tract of land located behind the original campus. Philanthropist George Foster Peabody 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, 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.
Type	Image
Original format	Photographs
Original dimensions	11.5" x 8.5"
Repository	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries - http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/
Collection	UA104 Photographic Prints Collection
Series	3 Buildings, Grounds, and Views
Folder	xxx-Peabody Park
Preferred citation	[Identification of item], [Identification of collection], Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA.
Copyright	http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/copyright.php
Object ID	xxx-ua104.3.1080
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
Digital collection homepage	http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/ui.php

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