The Fisher Park Neighborhood is named for Captain Basil John Fisher, a Scotsman and Captain in the British Army, who immigrated to the U.S. and settled in Asheboro, NC, Randolf County with hopes of making a fortune in gold-mining. See photos of Fisher's home and family. That being unsuccessful, Fisher began purchasing real estate, including some wooded land immediately north of the small town of Greensboro. The area, then known as "Lindsay's Woods" was used as a littered dumping ground by city residents ... quite humble beginnings.
Our neighborhood traces it's beginnings to 1902 when Captain Fisher
donated 28 acres of his land holdings for development of a "suburb" of
Greensboro. In exchange, the city paid $5 and agreed to build a "driveway"
within the donated land. This "driveway" became our signature public streets,
Fisher Park Circle, North Park Drive, and South Park Drive. Land lying within
that space became a public park, Fisher Park. Click here to read a typed
City in 1903 at only 52 years of age, without having accomplished the
neighborhood's development. He was buried in N.Y., and it was many years
later when his wife Isabella had Fisher's remains disinterred from N.Y. and
reinterred in the Green Cemetery near our neighborhood. (Fisher is buried
with family members near the southern-most Wharton Street entrance to
Several years later business partners Mr. Wharton and Mr. Latham began the neighborhood's development in earnest. Our neighborhood developed in stages, with most original buildings completed between 1915 and 1930.
Who originally owned your Fisher Park home? Thanks to tedious yet very helpful data entry by Russ Clegg (of Magnolia Street) we can share a list of the original owners of many homes in the Fisher Park Historic District! Have fun looking up YOUR home in this list! The list is sorted by street name then street number. If you have evidence of even more accurate information, or questions about the information, please communicate your information or questions to City of Greensboro Historic District staff, Mike Cowhig at 373-2755 or Stefan-leih Geary at 412-6300.
The Fisher Park Neighborhood Association was formed in 1982 and today is comprised of almost 800 homes and businesses immediately North of downtown Greensboro. During each year, our Association of volunteers distribute quarterly newsletters, organize social events for our children and adults, host a fund-raising Luminaria display each December, and a house tour every few years. Of the entire 7 by 7 block neighborhood, many homes and businesses are also within our smaller Fisher Park Historic District.
Fisher Park residents are diverse in our ages, economic situations, and life styles yet share a common enjoyment of older homes, plentiful sidewalks, mature canopy trees, and our central feature, lovely Fisher Park itself.
