Today's photo was taken at Warnersville Recreation Center, 601 Doak Street, overlooking the community swimming pool. Pools always look so tired and desolate in the wintertime as we look at them, longing for the months when the water will be crystal clear and children will be splashing with delight. Almost everyone can remember where they were when they first learned to swim and we're betting that many children have learned to swim here.
Warnersville Center is located behind Jones Elementary School, in the heart of the Warnersville neighborhood. The center, maintained by the city, offers an afterschool program and many recreational opportunities for the community. Preservation Greensboro reminds us that Warnersville is a community with a deep history, yet they don't have many historic places. They also point out that Warnersville was Greensboro's first suburb when it was established in 1867. The historically African-American community got its start when local Quaker Missionary, Yardley Warner, purchased the land to be subdivided for African American families who had been freed from slavery. In 1965, this neighborhood became the first federally-funded urban renewal project in North Carolina. As African-American history month enters its last week this year, let's wish this historic, historically-black neighborhood a good rest-of-the-year, decade, century........
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