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IMAGES FROM CLASS FIELD TRIPS STREAMING VIDEO   STILL IMAGES Photographs by Joyce Joines Newman To see images from our class trips, select from the list below. FIELD TRIP TO NORTH CAROLINA STATE ARCHIVES, RALEIGH: Lunching at the archives Our leader, Dr. David S. Cecelski Leaving at the end of the day   FIELD TRIP BY THERESA, SUSAN AND JOYCE TO THE PARKER PLANTATION: THE PETER PARKER FARM WHERE ALLEN WAS BORN IS STILL A WORKING FARM. According to Elizabeth Vann Moore, author of Guide Book Historic Edenton and Chowan County (Edenton, NC, 1989), John Wallace received a grant for the 325 acres of land in 1752 from Lord Granville, and this is the only grant in Chowan County still held by descendants of the original owner. Peter Parker acquired the land through his marriage to Wallace's daughter. Across the Albemarle Sound The lane to the plantation house Oldest fields near house, same crops still grown Getting closer . . . Parker family graveyard on the left; slave graveyard on the right: Martinique, c. 1752 The Peter Parker home New attached kitchen and sleeping porch above porch Log outbuildings to right: old detached kitchen and smokehouse "Aunt Francis's" cabin Old smokehouse Tin roof of smokehouse Dovetail joints of smokehouse Door hardware Back of house showing old & new kitchens Old well behind house near detached kitchen Overgrown log building Door latch Right end of house, showing detached kitchen Left side of house with two chimneys Conical doodlebug hole in driveway   CLASS FIELD TRIP TO CHOWAN COUNTY: Intersection at Smalls Crossroads today To the graves The unplowed graves Thru the weeds . . . Following the leader . . . To Annie's grave And Dr. Winborne's Fruitless search for markers in slave graveyard Across plowed fields to the plantation Rob's architectural tour Discovery of the slave cabin Through the overgrowth into the cabin Window in the slave cabin On to the smokehouse The smokehouse Wooden shingles covered with tin Talking it over Well and buildings To the van The Chowan River near the Parker plantation Spanish moss in woods near the river Back to Greenville