ADDRESS: 401 Washington Ave, Weldon, NC 27890
ARTIST: Jean de Marco
TITLE: Early Childhood of Virginia Dare
MEDIUM: Plaster (relief)
STATUS: The Weldon post office is still an active, operating facility, and the relief can be viewed by interested members of the public. It resides in the lobby on the wall above the postmaster’s door.
YEAR: 1940
These are North Carolina post offices (M-Z) from my recent trip—September of 2022. Weldon, relief is the, “Early Childhood of Virginia Dare,”. She was the first English born child in the New Colony in 1587 (now North Carolina).
Doug
Sources
- Personal visit on 2022 by Doug
- United States Postal Service
- (affiliate link) Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal
: [Hardcover] Marlene Park, Gerald E. Markowitz
