Parkwood

… formerly an industrial community in N Moore County. Est. before the Civil War when William Donnelly, stonemason, began making millstones there. A sawmill, brick kiln, flour mill, and other businesses developed. Bankruptcy in the 1880s forced the closing of the businesses, and the community began to decline. During World War II, the remaining buildings were dismantled and removed. In 1953 the community of Hallison, about 1¼ mi. n, changed its name to Parkwood. Hallison had been named by Maj. W. C. Petty, a railroad man, for his deceased son, Hall Jefferson. Alt. 450.