Peter MacOwan

…retired in 1905.”4 Peter MacOwan was married to Amelia Day. Their daughter, Flora, married Selmar Schonland, a botanist who had migrated to South Africa from Germany. Peter MacOwan died in…

Freeman Augustus Grant

…Augustus Grant died at age 75 in Bethesda, Maryland and was buried in the Grant Cemetery on Ennett Lane in Sneads Ferry.3         PUBLICATIONS (possibly incomplete list):…

Andrew Clark Mathews

…at Southport, North Carolina. Enrollees worked eight-hour days, five days a week. In off hours there were plenty of opportunities for education, training, and recreation. The camp offered classes in…

Juliet Faunteroy

(1871 – 11 October 1955) Special thanks to Nancy McAndrew, Education Coordinator of the Avoca Museum, for providing information about Ms. Fauntleroy and the Avoca Museum.   The University of…

A Conservation Garden

Click here to download a map of lands managed by the North Carolina Botanical Garden located near the Display Gardens….