Oak Trees on the SquareTown Square Oak Trees
Planted 1933
Participants
Mocksville Commissioners
Hugh A. Lagle
Ben Y. Boyles
J. Sidney Kirk
Town Minutes
April 2, 1929. H. A. Lagle elected Superintendent of the water system and streets
of Mocksville at the salary of seventy-five (75.00) per month his duties to begin April
8th 1929.
Ben Boyles was a very close friend of Hugh Lagle and worked with him a great
number of years on many different projects. He almost certainly would have helped with
the tree planting. Andrew remembered when they were planted.
I found no mention in the Town Minutes about the planting ... A statement
refers to a WPA grant for a town project (not identified) to be in effect from Nov. 16 to
Dec. 31, 1933. This might have been for the tree planting referred to in Sidney Kirk's
article about the beginning of the WPA in Mocksville and Davie County.
J. Sidney Kirk in a long letter telling of his work with the WPA grant projects in
the early days of the New Deal to counter the Great Depression tells of the planting of
the oaks on the Square. - Files at Davie County Library History Room.
gmJ. SIDNEY KIRK
701 W MORGAN ST APT.1
RALEIGH, NO 27603
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