Burton Street Community Peace Gardens

The Burton Street neighborhood, they say, was carved through twice — first by I-240 construction in the 1960s, then by planning for the I-26 connector. Local tradition holds that E.W. Pearson founded the WNC Colored Agricultural Fair here, before the highways came.

What stands at 47 Bryant Street now is harder to verify from the public record. The rest lives in community memory — who built it, when, what grows there, and why.