In 1909, Daniel C. Suggs gave attorney Sidney A. Woodard a $3600 purchase option on nine-acre lot just outside town limits adjacent to the Wilmington & Weldon and Norfolk & Southern railroads. The option included the grant of a right of way for construction of a railroad siding “beginning at the second or third telegraph pole from Floyd Bynum’s house” to run through the property.

The description suggests that the nine acres was located in the vicinity of Contentnea Guano Company, as shown in this detail from the 1913 Sanborn fire insurance map of Wilson. The company was founded in 1907, and we know from accounts of a terrible accident that construction work was underway on a guano factory facility in 1909.

Here is the area today, per Google Maps: