Category Archives: People

Otto Arndt – 1950s Aerial Photos of Garden Home

Posted on December 15, 2015 by GHHP

See Historic Aerial Photos Garden Home. See 1936 Aerial Photos of Garden Home area by Army Corps of Engineers. See USGS historic aerial photography. October 2015:  Donna Arndt Oliver, daughter of Otto Arndt, has given us a large collection of Washington County aerial photos and … Continue reading →

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Stanley Marugg

Posted on October 30, 2015 by GHHP

The old Marugg hay barn, off of south Oleson Road, was the local hang-out for Garden Home kids in the 1930s and 1940s.  Hay bales could be pulled around and stacked into all sorts of forts and tunnels.  Joanne Day … Continue reading →

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Lynn McMullin Abstom and Charleen McMullin Oberst (sisters)

Posted on October 9, 2015 by GHHP

We were playmates with Ross Fogelquist, Richard Olson, Beth Olson and Deanna Roshak. I must have been 8 or 10 years old in the early 1950s. We kids built the town of “Joseph” in the Olson back yard. It was … Continue reading →

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Yvonne Brod 

Posted on October 9, 2015 by GHHP

I was a PE teacher at Montclair Elementary School from 1975 to 1999.   In 1982 when Garden Home School closed, I remember there was a lot of pressure on the families who had to move their kids to Montclair and Raleigh … Continue reading →

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Jan Fredrickson

Posted on September 11, 2015 by GHHP

“Wormwood Manor” is located at 6995 SW 78th and has always intrigued us: large property, an official name, a logo interpreted throughout the property and an air of a country estate. Jan Fredrickson was born and brought home to this … Continue reading →

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