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Margaret Nygard, a Durham teacher, social worker and environmentalist, led the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley, formed after Durham proposed a reservoir in the river valley in 1965. Under her leadership it worked with The Nature Conservancy, the City of Durham, Orange County and the state to create Eno River State Park in 1973.
Source: NCpedia: Eno River State Park
Also found in catalogs as Margaret Jacqueline Cruden (Rodger) Nygard.
1925–1995 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
4 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by Margaret Nygard. 1 held at OCPL →
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Margaret Nygard's 1973 article on the Eno, published by the Nature Conservancy and detached from the Fall 1973 number of its news magazine. Six pages with illustrations. The article concerns natural areas and recreation along the Eno in Orange and Durham counties, including the work of the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley.
Papers of Margaret Nygard, 1925 to 1995, roughly 26,000 items filling seventy two linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5232. Dated from the 1880s to 2004 and heaviest in the 1970s through the 1990s, they carry the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley, the Festival for the Eno, state parks and natural areas, and the Raleigh Durham Airport Authority.
A short history for young readers of how the Eno River was kept free of a dam. The Eno rises in Orange County and runs through Hillsborough into Durham County. When Durham proposed a dam in the 1960s, Margaret Nygard (1925-1995) and her neighbors formed the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley; Julie J. Thomson tells how they won Eno River State Park instead. Eno River Association, Durham, 2023; 25 illustrated pages.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Nygard, Margaret.
Twelve page memorial booklet issued in 1996 by the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley for Margaret Nygard, 1925 to 1995. The booklet concerns Nygard and the history of the volunteer association that preserves the Eno River valley in Orange and Durham counties. Illustrated, 26 cm.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Nygard, Margaret, 1925-1995.
Margaret Nygard, a co-founder of the Eno River Association, guides a group of hikers through the Cabe Lands section of Eno River State Park, which runs through Durham and Orange counties.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Nygard, Margaret Jacqueline Cruden (Rodger), 1925-1995.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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