. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. May Gordon Kellenberger sits between the governor and his wife at the opening-day banquet of Tryon Palace. son had lived. A set was also discovered in the British Public Record Office in London. Once the plans were found, Carraway and Fiske sent a flurry of articles to local and national news services, garnering national attention for the project. In 1941, after several exasperating years of trying to drum up funds and interest, a New Bern native living in Greensboro announced her intention to completely f
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. May Gordon Kellenberger sits between the governor and his wife at the opening-day banquet of Tryon Palace. son had lived. A set was also discovered in the British Public Record Office in London. Once the plans were found, Carraway and Fiske sent a flurry of articles to local and national news services, garnering national attention for the project. In 1941, after several exasperating years of trying to drum up funds and interest, a New Bern native living in Greensboro announced her intention to completely fund the reconstruction. Maude Moore Latham set up trust funds for the project totaling $250,000, while her daughter, May Gordon Kellenberger, ensured that the remain- der of her mother's estate went to the project after her death. But the two had one condition: The state of North Carolina had to buy and maintain Tryon Palace when it was finished. The bid was accepted, and in 1945 the state legislature formed the Tryon Palace Commission, led first by Latham, then Kellenberger. The first step was relocating the homes, buildings and roads. Then archaeologists began to excavate, searching through shards of glass, marble, paint and plaster for clues on the makeup of the original palace. The Boston firm of Perry, Shaw, Hepburn, Kehoe and Dean, which managed the rebuilding of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, was selected for the reconstruction. Researchers used historical accounts of the palace, Hawks' notes, letters, period descriptions of buildings and gardens, lists of Tryon's personal belongings, and the auction receipts from Martin's abandoned effects to piece together a full portrait of the palace as it stood in the 18th century. Members of the Tryon Palace Commission traveled to England with this information for shopping sprees, searching for furniture and art that filled their descriptions. Items that belonged to inhabitants of the palace or that fit the time period were bou
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