Suggs Heights appears to comprise part or all the D.C. Suggs properties platted in the early 1920s.
“Ask any man who has property to rent what kind pays the most on the investment and he will tell you colored property.” [Likely because one could readily overcharge.] Wilson Daily Times, 11 December 1925.
Stantonsburg Heights may be the area platted as Vicksburg Manor.
“This high class colored development will build up in good homes and gardens.” Wilson Daily Times, 8 May 1945.
[A note about “Heights.” Wilson sits it in North Carolina’s Upper Coastal Plain at 108 feet above sea level. The eastern half of the county, including the city of Wilson, is notably flat, and low-lying areas flood notoriously. Neither of the areas advertised above are “heights” in any common understanding of the term, and it’s questionable whether the latter area could reasonably be described as high or dry.]
One comment