Wilson Times, 22 October 1897.
A good time was had by all, but, 127 years later, so many questions….
- who were the Odd Fellows lodge members in 1897? the officers?
- who made up the lodge’s band?
- what were the “entertainments of various kinds”?
- which “Woodard’s warehouse”? The 1897 Sanborn maps of Wilson show Woodard Brothers Prize Houses on (or just off) South Street below Goldsboro — one located at the approximate spot of today’s Whirligig Park pavilion, and the other in the parking lot behind Casita Brewing. Woodard, Bobbitt & Company also owned a warehouse and a prize house in what is now the whirligig block.