Snapshot: Mr. Payne's Steam Engine
Jul 30, 2014
"Mr. Payne and Steam Engine"- Mr. Payne and the location of his engine are a mystery. The photographs are filed with other images from northwestern No...
Speculation Land Company Records
Jul 10, 2014
New York-based speculator Tench Coxe (1755-1824) came into possession of 400,000 acres of land in North Carolina following the Revolutionary War, much...
Snapshot: Speculation Land Company Records
Jun 12, 2014
Map from AC.124: Speculation Land Company Records....
The Gragg House
May 28, 2014
According to local memory the Gragg House was constructed some time in the mid-19th Century by Burton and Finley Gragg. The house is notable architect...
Whooping Cough
May 7, 2014
From AC.362: Hartzog Family Papers. Letter on the back is from the son of Wiley G. Hartzog of Watauga County, North Carolina...
John Alexander Williams Papers
Apr 29, 2014
The recently processed AC.829: John Alexander Williams Papers consists of research materials, publications, and ephemera compiled by Dr. John Alexande...
Snapshot: Fleetwood School
Apr 3, 2014
From an unlabeled newsclipping:FLEETWOOD HIGH SCHOOL HAD MANY OUTSTANDING GRADUATING CLASSES. Here is the group which graduated in 1921, the members o...
"I have this day agreed to go to the army..."
Mar 27, 2014
These letters confirm Private Richmond Hayes' hiring of a replacement to serve in Company E of the 58th North Carolina Regiment of Infantry. They ackn...
Snapshot: Buster Brown
Mar 18, 2014
An advertisement for Buster Brown Shoes once available for purchase at the Stephens Store in Creston, North Carolina. The Buster Brown company adverti...
Put It On My Tab
Mar 6, 2014
Remember the days of "Put it on my tab"? This was the method of bookkeeping- pencil and a "running tab." Now it's "cash or credit?" "Yes put it on my ...