Weekly Acorn #51
I thougt I would begin the second season of Weekly Acorns by giving a quick update on the Historic Oak Crest project.
Currently, I am still working on house histories. What that entails is tracing back all of the owners of each house and lot(s), the year the house was built, identifying the style of the house, and noting any significant stories about the house or families who have lived there. This type of information is required in order to petition for historic designation for the neighborhood. I have completed about a fourth of this information. This is usually good “winter time” work for me, so I hope to make a lot of progress this winter.
Soon I will begin working on an Oak Crest timeline. I will present maps indicating the growth of the neighborhood in either 5 or 10 year increments. This will also accompany another multi-part series of Weekly Acorns.
Another topic I plan to cover is about Oak Crest business owners. Several residents of OC ran small businesses either in their homes or in the community. I will be interviewing some of the residents to learn more about these businesses and business owners. And as you might have guessed, I will probably create a multi-part series of Weekly Acorns on OC businesses and their owners.
I also plan to check the archives of Bethabara and Old Salem to hopefully learn more about the Bethabara to Salem Road that passed through Oak Crest back in 1766. There is a chance that the name Oak Crest could have derived from the Moravians.
I also hope to increase the Vintage Photos section. Several people have mentioned that they have old photos to share. As soon as I get copies of them, I will be publishing them in the gallery.
There are a few other topics currently in the works for future WA posts. As of right now, I should have another 6-9 months worth of material to post. I try to publish each post on Saturday’s, however, due to my schedule and responsibilities being quite full, I may not always get them published on time. This post being published today (Sunday) is a good example. There may even be some weeks that I may not publish one at all. In those cases I may just post a message saying “Sorry, no Weekly Acorn will be posted this week. Please check back next week.” But, I will try to keep those to a minimum.
I want to say thank you to all those who support me and my efforts to preserve our neighborhood and to those who actually read these posts. Please tell your family, neighbors, and friends about this site. I am amazed at how many people in the neighborhood that still have no idea we are called Oak Crest and that their is a website that contains the rich history of OC available to them.