Rassie Everton Wicker

…collected in his native Moore County, North Carolina, but there are a few from Hoke and Lee Counties as well. In addition to NCU other herbaria which curate specimens collected…

Land Acknowledgement

…action to advocate for and support the agendas of Native communities. The Garden and Foundation aspire to understand and share a complete history of the land we steward. Indigenous Land…

Albion Reed Hodgdon

…Galapagos Islands. He had a particular interest in the taxonomy of Rubus and the floristics and phytogeography of coastal Maine and eastern Canada. Dr. Hodgdon oversaw the integration of several…

Charles Ronald Dillon

…Carolina estuary. Masters thesis, Dept. of Botany, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   SOURCES: 1. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/greenvilleonline/name/charles-dillon-obituary?id=8767476 accessed on 28 May, 2023 2. SERNEC Data Portal. 2023. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed…

Edwin Huey Bullington

…gravel road from West Fork (Washington County) to Devil’s Den… The CCC also built the first hiking trails in the park, as well as a stone dam on Lee Creek,…

Arthur Oliver Tucker, III

…was an accomplished artist, as evidenced by his gardening, cooking, concrete sculptures, painting, botanical illustrations, and stencil work. He was a voracious reader and had amassed a library full of…

Charles Henry Hitchcock

…his wife, Orra White. This mother had such classical learning and scientific and artistic talent that “she could read the Greek Testament and calculate eclipses”… [Charles] completed the classical and…

Wendell P. Smith

…Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Marriage Index, 1901-1955 and 1966-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Department…