Source: David Schenck Monument
David Schenck Monument, Guilford Courthouse
Guilford Battleground Company, Unspecified
This truncated granite column stands approximately eleven feet tall and is dedicated to one of the early preservers of the Guilford battleground.
DAVID SCHENCK / THE PROJECTOR OF THIS BATTLE FIELD'S / RECLAMATION AND THE ORGANIZER AND / FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE / GUILFORD BATTLE GROUND COMPANY / 1835 - 1902
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
July 4, 1904
36.133210 , -79.845430
"Arrangement for the Big Celebration at the Battle Ground," Greensboro Patriot Weekly (Greensboro, NC), June 17, 1903, 1 Link
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Baker, Thomas E. The Monuments at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, North Carolina, (Greensboro, NC: Guilford Courthouse NMP, 1991)
Folder 20 in David Schenck Papers, #652, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, see scans 168-169,178-180, 185, 189, 204-205 Link
Folder 47 in Joseph M. Morehead Papers, #523, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, see scan 22 Link
Folder 49 in Joseph M. Morehead Papers, #523, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, see scans 2, 13, 36, 48 Link
Folder 50 in Joseph M. Morehead Papers, #523, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, see scans 3,30-32,36-37 Link
Grimes, J. Bryan. "Why North Carolina Should Erect and Preserve Memorials and Mark Historic Places: Address Before the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, Raleigh, N.C., November 4, 1909," ([Raleigh, NC: The News and Observer, 1909]), (accessed May 18, 2012) Link
Shepherd, James. An Address By Hon. James E. Shepherd on the Life and Character of the Late Judge David Schenck, (Greensboro, NC: Guilford Battle Ground Company, 1910), (accessed February 6, 2012) Link
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James E. Shepherd gave an address at the unveiling.
David Schenck is the man who conceived the idea of preserving the Guilford Battlefield; he later served as the first president of the Guilford Battleground Company. After Schenck’s death in 1902 the Company adopted resolutions the following year to have a monument built in his honor.
The marker is on Guilford Courthouse Tour Road 0.2 miles east of Old Battleground Road, on the right when traveling west.
Originally along the New Garden Road (now a walking path), the monument was moved to its present location in 1937.
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