Our Family Place
- Oakdale is home to many Wilmington families and dignitaries
- Edward Dudley, NC’s first governor
- Ruth Faison Shaw, inventor of finger painting
- Rose O’Neale Greenhow, Confederate spy
- David Brinkley, TV news pioneer
- Henry Bacon, architect of the Lincoln Memorial
- James Sprunt, cotton merchant and author
- John Dillard Bellamy, U.S. Congress 1899-1903 and builder of the Bellamy Mansion
- George Davis, Attorney General of the Confederacy
- Elisabeth Chant, painter and mentor
Voices of the past and present are here… voices that make this community what it is today. Old and New, it’s ours!