Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 8/5/11

The N.C.4-H Development Fund will accepts a $1 million gift from the N.C. State Employees Credit Union (SECU) Foundation to build the 4-H History and Learning Center at Millstone 4-H Camp in Ellerbe.

The 8,400-square-foot SECU 4-H Learning Center, to be located in Richmond County, will serve as an educational destination for all North Carolinians, including school groups, 4-H members and families, and the general public. It is part of a 4-H Learning and Education Center that will include a farm shop named by North Carolina Farm Bureau; a restored 1939 farmhouse built by Rudolph Carl Ellis for his sharecropper family with profits from his 4-H peanut project; and the Juanita and Mack Hudson 4-H Courtyard and Gardens.

The gift will be accepted at an Aug. 8 press conference at Millstone 4-H Camp near Ellerbe, with more than 100 Millstone 4-H campers, Richmond and Moore county 4-Hers, county commissioners, 4-H Development Fund representatives and SECU members in attendance.