The Brothers Brimley 



Herbert Hutchinson Brimley 

 March 7, 1861 — April 4, 1946 



time known as an educational center, had paved streets and running 

 water in the houses. Raleigh depended on wells under the sidewalks 

 equipped with wooden pumps for its public water supply. Back- 

 yard and frontyard wells and pumps supplied some of the more 

 pretentious residences. In short, Bedford was a more or less finished 

 town, for its time. Raleigh conveyed the impression of being com- 

 paratively raw — the cows and hogs roamed the streets, giving it 

 something of a rural atmosphere. However, there was a restless, 

 pulsing air about the place and its people that impressed me." 



The Brimleys soon found that their new land was not exactly an 

 agrarian paradise, and their attempts at farming the rocky Piedmont soil 



