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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 ...

Helen Matthews Lewis Papers
Feb 19, 2014

Complete with recent additions, AC.103: Helen Matthews Lewis Papers, 1924-2011, undated are available for research in the Dougherty Reading Room. The ...