John Chavis Memorial Park

Built in 1937, Chavis Park attracted carloads of visitors from across North Carolina on its opening day.

[7] Chavis Park was designed by G. Robert Derick, a National Park Service landscape architect, who chose rustic, natural materials with the goal of blending the natural with the manmade, reflecting the design movement of the era that historians dub "parkitechture".

The park featured a historic, Allan Herschell carousel, a pool, a bathhouse,[7] and simple picnic shelters.

2, Special Three-Abreast, Allan Herschell Carousel, showcases a Wurlitzer 146A band organ, oil paintings of waterfalls and other natural scenes, and thirty-six jumping, hand-carved, hand-painted horses.

John Chavis Memorial Park meets several criteria to be listed as part of the National Register of Historic Places.