News

December 2, 2020
Museum Collection Continues to Grow

In recent months GAHS has acquired a number of artifacts with historic significance to Garner. We are particularly grateful for several beautiful, vintage 1920's and 1930's clothing items donated by Board member and area native Anne Phillips Holland. They are being cleaned, restored, and made ready for display. Thanks to Jon Shearin, Paul Cox and […]

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December 2, 2020
We Are Almost There!

As they say in the country, "we're in the short rows" toward the goal of opening the Garner Depot History Museum. As of this writing, exterior repairs and updates are about 95% complete, including work needed to make the Depot compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. We were slowed by the difficulty of getting […]

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August 20, 2020
Student Members Win Award in Statewide Competition

Congratulations to two student members of the Garner Area Historical Society, Bethany and Luke Crawford. Bethany and Luke created models of Garner's Historic Depot during all of its stages for the Tar Heel Junior Historians Association competition. They won a third place award for their effort! The statewide competition was sponsored by the N.C. Museum […]

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August 20, 2020
NEW DISCOVERY ABOUT DEPOT!

  Historian Kaye Buffaloe Whaley has recently discovered that the historic Garner Depot is actually older than originally thought: it dates to at least 1900. Mrs. Whaley discovered an interesting article in a 1900 issue of the News & Observer which indicates that the Depot in Garner was robbed that year. (The thief or thieves […]

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