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Grabtown is an unincorporated community in Johnston County, North Carolina, United States. Grabtown is located 9 miles (14 km) southeast of Smithfield. It is included in the Research Triangle Metropolitan Statistical Area. Notable people. Ava Gardner (1922–1990), born in Grabtown, American actress; See also. United States portal
On Christmas Eve 1922, Jonas and Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Gardner welcomed their seventh child into the world, Ava Lavinia Gardner. The large Gardner family made their home in the rural North Carolina community of Grabtown, seven miles east of Smithfield.
May 11, 2021 · Ava Lavinia Gardner was born on December 24, 1922, in a community known as Grabtown near the town of Smithfield, North Carolina. According to Doris Rollins Cannon, author of the Ava Gardner biography.
Grabtown is an unincorporated community in Johnston County, North Carolina, United States. Grabtown is located 9 miles southeast of Smithfield . It is included in the Research Triangle Metropolitan Statistical Area.
- It Started with A Kiss…
- Doris Cannon, The Article That Sparked A Museum.
- The Brogden Museum Years at The Teacherage
- From Storefronts to A Newly Designed Museum
The Ava Gardner Museum started with a kiss. More specifically, the large holdings of memorabilia and artifacts amassed over 40 years by Dr. Thomas and Lorraine Banks which form the bedrock of our collection all began with a kiss. In 1941, Ava Gardner was a freshman secretarial student at Atlantic Christian College (now Barton College) in Wilson, No...
Born in the mountains of North Carolina, Doris was a young widow with three small children when she relocated to Raleigh to pursue a career in journalism. After completing courses at NC State University, she landed a job in 1970 with The Smithfield Herald. Having been an avid film fan since childhood, Doris knew that Ava spent her formative years i...
In May 1985, during her last visit home to North Carolina, Ava and three of her sisters, Bappie, Elsie Mae, and Myra, drove out to the farm where they were born in Grabtown. After seeing the farmhouse, they headed to the nearby community of Brogden to see the Teacherage. The Ava Gardner Museum had not yet opened for the summer season, so the door w...
In 1991, the Teacherage was sold and, in the spring, the Banks collection was relocated to a rented storefront in Smithfield. The Ava Gardner Museum was incorporated in 1996 as a 501 (c) 3 to properly manage and care for the collection. In August 1999, the board of directors invested in a permanent museum home by purchasing and extensively renovati...
Ava Lavinia Gardner was born on December 24, 1922, in Grabtown, North Carolina, the youngest of seven children. Her parents were poor tobacco sharecroppers . [3] She was of English and Scots-Irish ancestry.
Grabtown is an unincorporated community in Bertie County, North Carolina, United States. See also. United States portal; List of unincorporated communities in North Carolina; References
