FEATURE PAGE
March 14, 2019



SOME OFTEN OVERLOOKED
(MAN-MADE)
LANDMARKS OF
SMITHFIELD



The Reader
at the Public Library
is a bronze sculpture by the late Frank Creech, a Smithfield native. It was erected in the library's courtyard facing Third Street in 1990.


The Grantham Pump at the corner of South Fourth and Woodall streets was one of several at groundwater wells installed in Smithfield to serve residents prior to the building of the town's first waterworks in 1913. The pump house was added in 1976, but the pump is no longer in service.

Boone Trail Highway marker was originally erected in front of Smithfield School on South Third Street in 1929 in celebration of North Carolina's development of a statewide road system. It fell into disrepair some years ago but was rebuilt with the original plaque in 2009.



First Baptist Church
bell salvaged from 1942 fire that destroyed the original sanctuary at the present-day church site on South Fourth Street.


First Missionary
Baptist Church
bell from a previous home for the church that was established in 1866.


First Presbyterian Church
bell from the congregation's first home that was built in 1893.



Boy Scout Hut on Front Street at the end of Bridge Street was "built in a day," mostly by volunteers, back in 1940. Still standing, but rarely used nowadays.