SHPC honors Swansboro Historical society for school work
When the Swansboro Historical Association – and its efforts to refurbish Swansboro’s historic Emmerton School – were held up as an example of a good thing by the state, the Swansboro Historic Preservation Commission noticed.
The two groups, though different, are in many ways the same. Specifically, they represent efforts to recognize the town’s historical significance, one from the private sector and one from the public sector. So the article, Swansboro’s School of History: A Tradition of Adaptive Reuse at the Emmerton School, was affirmation that preservation is taking place in Swansboro.
(Tideland News, 3/15/2017)