Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies, 4610 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4610, (919) 807-7280
Federation web page: www.fnchs.org
Historical Publications from Federation Members
This annual list shows historical
publications that are available
from members of the Federation of
N.C. Historical Societies. Though
every effort has been made to ensure
the accuracy of this list, please
contact the members listed below to
confirm prices and availability.
ALLEGHANY HISTORICAL-GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY is selling
History of Alleghany County,
NC 1859-1976 for $45, plus $3
shipping and $3.04 tax (for NC
residents); Alleghany County
Heritage, featuring county, town-ship,
and community histories,
more than 700 family histories,
and photos, for $48 plus $3 shipping
and $3.24 tax; Alleghany County
Cemeteries through 1986,
containing burial data from 300
family, church, and community
burial plots, for $15 plus $2.75
shipping and $1.01 tax; Alleghany
Architecture: A Pictorial
Survey, $30 plus $3 shipping and
$2.03 tax; Mary’s Memories, by
Mary Lyon Harless, lifelong
county resident who published the
book in 2000 on the occasion of
her 100th birthday, for $8 plus
$1.50 shipping and $.54 tax; Foot
Prints on the Sands of Time, by
Dr. Aras B. Cox, focusing on the
history of southwestern Virginia
and northwestern North Carolina,
for $15 plus $2 shipping and $1.01
tax; 1938 Video of Sparta,
North Carolina, featuring
scenes of downtown Sparta, Roar-ing
Gap Fish Hatchery, and the
Alleghany County Agricultural
Fair and scenes from a trip to the
1939 Worlds Fair in New York,
$11 plus $1.50 shipping and $.68
tax; and Recipes that Raised
Us, a memorial cookbook featuring
recipes of friends and family who
have passed away, with proceeds
from the cookbook benefiting the
building project of the Alleghany
County Public Library, for $20,
plus $3 shipping and $1.35 tax or
3 books for $45 plus $7 shipping
plus $3.04 tax. Please note that all
taxes listed are for N.C. residents
only. To order, visit www.sparta
store.com or send a check, payable
to Alleghany Historical-
Genealogical Society, to PO Box
817, Sparta, NC 28675. The society
also notes that Alleghany
County, NC Marriages: 1849-
1900, is available for $20.50 plus
$5 shipping from Heritage Books
at (800) 398-7709.
THE ALLIANCE FOR HISTORIC
HILLSBOROUGH is offering annual
journals published by the Histori-cal
Foundation of Hillsborough
and Orange County. The journals
chronicle the diverse history of
Hillsborough and Orange County,
N.C., through the compilation and
publication of articles by noted
area historians. The volumes are
$10 each or $19.95 for a three
journal collection and are avail-able
through the Alliance at 150
E. King Street, Hillsborough, N.C.
27278, (919) 732-7741. The Burwell
School, which is part of the Alliance,
is offering The Book of Burwell
Students, by Mary Claire Engstrom,
for $17.95. For more information,
call (919) 732-7451.
ANSON COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY, INC., has the following
books available: Cemeteries of
Anson County, Volume I (with
map of county), $50, plus $5 ship-ping;
Cemeteries of Anson
County Volume II, by A. Haynes
Dunlap and others, $40, plus $7
shipping; The History of Anson
County, 1750-1976, by Mary
Louise Medley, $40, plus $5 ship-ping;
Eastview Cemetery,
Wadesboro, N.C., $50, plus $5
shipping; Notes on the Movement
of the 14th North Carolina
Regiment, by Thomas J. Watkins,
transcribed from the original with
introduction by Jane P. Cunning-ham,
$12. Send orders to ACHS,
206 E. Wade St., Wadesboro, N.C.
28170.
ASHE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCI-ETY:
Heritage of Ashe County,
Volumes I and II ($80 each, plus
$11.20 tax and shipping); Images
of Ashe County, ($19.99, plus
$3.80 tax and shipping); Ashe
County Revisited, Pictorial
Collection, ($19.99, plus $3.80 tax
and shipping); Ashe County
Cemetery Records (2 volumes),
$60, plus $9.90 tax and shipping;
and Ashe County Marriage
Records 1800-1900, ($30, plus
$4.95 tax and shipping). Arthur
Fletcher’s 1963 book Ashe County:
A History has been reprinted with
a new preface and expanded in-dex.
Call (336) 246-2041 for more
information. To order, contact the
Ashe County Historical Society,
Ashe County Public Library, 148
Library Drive, West Jefferson,
N.C. 28694.
BEAUFORT HISTORICAL ASSOCIA-TION:
Beaufort-by-The-Sea,
Journey Back in Time, by Rick
and Marcie Carroll, $24.95; Beau-fort,
An Album of Memories, by
Jack Dudley, $47.95; Beaufort’s
Old Burying Ground, by Diane
Hardy, Mamre Wilson, and
Marilyn Collins, $18.99; “Kith
and Kin” of Eastern Carteret
County, by Thelma Pake Simpson
and Rebecca Willis Sanders,
$25.00; Carteret County History
and Folklore, by Mary and Gray-den
Paul, $12.99; History of the
Hammock House and Related
Trivia, by Maurice Davis, $12.00;
North Carolina’s Coastal Car-teret
County During the Ameri-can
Revolution, edited by Jean
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Federation web page: www.fnchs.org
Historical Publications from Federation Members
at the historical society’s address
or call (910) 863-4707.
THE CALDWELL COUNTY HERI-TAGE
MUSEUM: The following
book by Matthew C. Bumgarner is
available: My Face to the En-emy,
$12 for non-members, $9.60
for members. Also available are
Tom Dooley: A Wilkes County
Legend, by Karen W. Reynolds,
$14.00 for members and non-members;
Collett Leventhorpe:
The English Confederate, by J.
Timothy Cole and Bradley R.
Foley, $35 for non-members,
$30.40 for members,; the following
three books by Michael C. Hardy,
Remembering Avery County,
$19.99 for non-members, $16 for
members, A Short History of Wa-tauga
County, $24.95 for non-members,
$19.95 for members, and
Wars and Rumor of Wars, by
John O. Hawkins, focusing on the
role Caldwell County people have
played in America’s wars, $24.95
plus $1.69 tax, with shipping cost-ing
$4 for the first copy and $2 for
each additional copy. For informa-tion,
call (828) 758-4004, or e-mail
Caldheritmus@aol. com.
THE CAPE FEAR MUSEUM is sell-ing
A Boat for All Seas: The
Simmons Sea-Skiff, by museum
guest curator David Carnell and
curator Barbara Rowe, $10. The
book reproduces many photographs
and objects included in the
Waves and Currents exhibit.
Available from the CFM, 814
Market Street, Wilmington, N.C.
28401-4731, (910) 798-4350.
CAPITAL AREA PRESERVATION,
INC.: The Historic Architecture
of Wake County, by Kelly A.
Lally, a comprehensive look at
Wake County’s architectural
history; Historic Wake County:
An Illustrated History of
Raleigh and Wake County, by
K. Todd Johnson, $45.43 for CAP
members, $53.92 for non-members
(includes sales tax). Add $5 for
shipping to all orders. For more
information, call (919) 833-6404,
write CAP, Inc., PO Box 28072,
Raleigh, N.C. 27611, or visit
www.cappresinc.org.
CAROLINAS GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY: The Heritage of Union
County, North Carolina, 1842-
1992, Volume I, edited by Virginia
Kendrick, is available for $59,
including tax and shipping. The
512-page, hardbound volume is
printed on acid-free paper and
contains 875 family histories. The
society is also offering Volume II,
a 328-page supplement to the first
volume that includes a list of Union
County Confederate soldiers with
a brief biography. The cost is $62,
including tax and shipping. Also
available: Sketches of Monroe
and Union County, by Stack and
Beasley. First published in 1902,
this book is indexed and illustrated
and contains descriptions of natural
resources and business enterprises
as well as interesting profiles of
the townspeople of that era. Cost:
$15.50, including tax and shipping.
To order, contact the society at PO
Box 397, Monroe, NC 28111.
CARTERET COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Beginnings: The
Lawrences of Carteret County,
1760-1920, by Ralph W. Lawrence
and John Bridgers; A Postal
History of Carteret County,
NC, by Charles Pitt; Growing Up
Down East and Other True
Stories, by Elmo Gaskill, $5.95;
Stella: A Riverside Hamlet,
$30, by Lib Sawyers, $30; Revolu-tion
of Coastal North Carolina,
by Jean Day, $9.95; Ocracoke
Album, by Jack Dudley, $40;
Masons of Carteret County, by
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Bruyere Kell, as a project of the
Carteret County Bicentennial
Commission, $25.00; Carteret
County During the Civil War,
by Jean Kell, $35.00; Carteret
County Census of 1790, $3.50;
Carteret County Postcard His-tory,
by Linda Sadler and Kevin
Jenkins, $19.95; A Brief History
of Beaufort and Carteret
County, North Carolina, by
Mamre Wilson, $6.00; and Story
of Beaufort, by Mamre Wilson,
$19.99. Tax and shipping will be
added to all items. For more infor-mation,
contact the Beaufort His-torical
Association at (800) 575-
7483 or by email at beauforthistoric
site@earthlink.net.
THE BLADENBORO HISTORICAL
SOCIETY is selling Bladenboro:
The First 100 Years, A Picto-rial
History, by the Bladenboro
Historical Museums, $125; My
World Is Gone: Memories of
Life in a Southern Mill Town,
by George G. Suggs, Jr., $40;
Sunrise, Sunset: A Memoir: A
Walk with God Can Help
Achieve Results Beyond the
Imagination, by William M.
Davis, $27.95 (hardcover), $18.75
(paperback); Memories: Blood,
Sweat and Fears, and a Little
Bit More, by Faye M. Hardin,
$25; God’s Little Beloved, chil-dren’s
book by Pamela L. Carroll,
$10. To order, contact the society
at 818 South Main Street, Bladen-boro,
NC 28320. In addition to
the above books by local authors,
the Mother County Genealogy
Society, which is part of the
Bladenboro Historical Society,
sells family genealogy books on
many family names in Bladenboro
and in Bladen County. These are
printed on demand and range in
price from $20 up, according to
the number of pages. To learn
more, contact the genealogy society
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Federation web page: www.fnchs.org
Historical Publications from Federation Members
William Mason, $40; Turning
Back the Tide, by Ruth Barbour,
$10.95; Coastal Waters, by Scott
Taylor, $29.85; Rum Runners,
U-Boats, and Hurricanes, by
Bryan Galecki, $19.95; South
River, by Dollie Carraway, $55; A
Shadow In the Sea, by Jim W.
Bunch, $29.95; Maritime Reflec-tions,
by Sonny Williamson and
Stephen Goodwin, $14.50; History
of the Hammock House and
Related Trivia, by Maurice
Davis, $12.50; Postcard History
Series: Carteret County,
$19.99; and The Fulchers of
Carteret County, $30. The
Carteret County Historical Society
is also selling the following books
focusing on Morehead City: Yester-day
and Today, Morehead City
Woman’s Club, $20.00; A Picto-rial
Review of Morehead City,
Morehead City Woman’s Club,
$25.00; Twelve Historic Homes,
Joan Allen, $2.00; Morehead
City, Jack Dudley, $44.95; More-head
City on the Waterfront,
Reginald W. Lewis, $19.99; Rodney
Kemp’s Walking Tour of More-head
City, $2.00; The Promised
Land Cookbook, Franklin
Memorial United Methodist
Church, $12.00; Carteret
County, Lynn Salsi and Frances
Eubanks $18.99; Index for Kith
and Kin, indexed by Phil Hastings,
$15.00; Post Cards from More-head
City: 50 Years of
History 1957-2007, $29.95; and
Carteret County Cemetery
Books: Volume I – Beaufort and
East of the Newport River and
Volume II – West of the Newport
River (Also on CD). Please call for
prices on cemetery books and CD.
For orders, contact the History
Place, (252) 247-7533, history-place@
starfishnet.com, or visit
www.thehistoryplace.org.
THE CASWELL COUNTY HISTORI-CAL
ASSOCIATION has the following
books available: When the Past
Refused to Die: A History of
Caswell County, 1777-1977, by
Dr. W.S. Powell; Architectural
Inventory of Caswell County:
The Built Environment of a
Burley and Brightleaf Tobacco
Economy, by Ruth Little-Stokes;
In the Beginning, The
Churches of Caswell County;
Their Highest Potential: An
African American School
Community in the Segregated
South, by Vanessa Siddle Walker;
The Dan River Book: Odyssey,
Epic, Guide, by Forest Altman;
and Images of America:
Caswell County, $26.70
(includes tax and shipping). For
information, call the Richmond-
Miles Museum at (336) 694-4965.
CATAWBA COUNTY HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION is selling George
Rabb: The Civil War Memoir of
a Catawba County Tar Heel,
edited by Rabb’s grandniece,
Rebecca Ikerd Alghrary. This 80-
page book brings to life both the
war’s brutality and its interludes
of mercy. Cost: $18.95. The asso-ciation
is also selling: The Cataw-bans,
Vol. I: Crafters of a North
Carolina County, by Gary R.
Freeze, (424 pages, hard cover,
$35.95); The Catawbans, Vol. II:
Pioneers in Progress, by Gary
R. Freeze (496-page chronicle,
$37.95); Catawba County: An
Architectural History, $25;
Old Wounds, by Steven Shaffer;
Yesterday’s Child by Dorothy
Sigmon Holbrook; and A Glow
from the Lamp, by Ruth Young
Proctor, a memoir about growing
up on a farm near the Catawba-
Burke County border. Visit
www.catawbahistory.org, or call
(828) 465-0383.
CHATHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION has The Gravesites
of Chatham County, North
Carolina, an alphabetical compi-lation
in two volumes of cemeter-ies
and grave markers by Will and
Audrey Heiser, $35; Chatham
County 1771-1971, edited by
Hadley, Horton and Strowd, $20;
The Architectural Heritage of
Chatham County, North Caro-lina,
by Osborn and Selden-
Sturgill, $35. This inventory has a
description and photographs of
each historic building in the book.
The association also offers The
Land Beneath the Waters, a 35-
minute documentary DVD
describing the history of the New
Hope valley now under the waters
of Jordan Lake, $10; Historical
Buildings of the Central Busi-ness
District, Siler City, by
Wade Hadley, a 30-page booklet,
$8; Siler City, North Carolina
1887-1987, by Wade Hadley,
reprint, 67-pages, $8; The Chat-ham
Railroad, by Robert A.
Wiesner, which traces the 16-year
history of “the railroad that never
was” during the tumultuous years
preceding and during the Civil
War, $10; 1870 Map of Chatham
County by Capt. N. A. Ramsey, a
reproduction that shows land-marks
plus many family locations,
$5; 1874 Map of the Coal Fields
of Chatham, by L. W. Jackson, a
color reproduction, $3; and
Tales Beyond Fried Rabbit:
Chatham’s Historical Heritage:
by Fred J. Vatter, $23.95. This
book is a compilation of articles,
each about an aspect of the county’s
history. Sales tax and shipping
are extra. For order form and
more, visit www.chathamhistory.
org or contact CCHA, P.O. Box 93,
Pittsboro, N.C. 27312.
CHEROKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL
MUSEUM has available The Heri-tage
of Cherokee County,
North Carolina, Volumes I, II,
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and III. The volumes contain
family histories written by past
and current residents of the
county and include many old
photographs. Cost: $65 each,
including tax. Shipping is $7 for
each book ordered. Also available
is the hard-bound A Pictorial
History of Cherokee County,
which includes over 500 pictures
and notations relating to Cherokee
County. Cost: $34, including tax &
shipping. Marble and Log: The
History and Architecture of
Cherokee County, by Michael
Ann Williams, is available in soft
cover. It includes photographs,
essays, and an inventory of Chero-kee
County architecture. Cost:
$27, including tax & shipping.
Please make checks payable to the
Cherokee County Historical
Museum, 87 Peachtree St., Murphy,
NC 28906. For further information,
please call (828) 837-6792.
CITY OF HIGH POINT PLANNING
AND DEVELOPMENT DEPART-MENT
is selling The Architecture
of High Point North Carolina, by
Benjamin Briggs, $39.99. This
book contains an architectural
history of High Point as well as an
inventory of many of its architec-turally
significant structures. To
order, please call (336) 883-3328.
COOLEEMEE HISTORICAL ASSO-CIATION
has the magazine-format
“Bobbin & Shuttle.” This publi-cation
is dedicated to the collection
and preservation of mill town
stories before they vanish and is
available from the Textile Heri-tage
Center, P.O. Box 667, Coolee-mee,
N.C. 27014. Issues 2-6 are
available for $3 each, with $2
shipping and handling for 1 to 2
copies and $1 shipping and handling
for each additional copy. Bulk
orders of 20 or more are $2 each
plus postage. The association is
also offering Cooleemee: The
Life & Times of a Mill Town, by
Jim Rumley, $40.66, plus $5 ship-ping;
and Saving Our Legacy:
Stories of the Vanishing World
of the Southern Cotton Mill
People: A “How To” Manual, by
Lynn Rumley and Sarah Bryan.
Written for people interested in
starting a mill town preservation
effort, this publication costs
$25,plus $6 shipping and handling.
The association is also selling A
Salute to Our Veterans, which
lists local veterans who served
their country during World War
II; the book costs $10, plus $4
shipping. For more information,
please call (336) 284-6040, or visit
www.textileheritage.org.
DAVIE COUNTY HISTORICAL AND
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY is offer-ing
the following: Davie County
… A Brief History, by James
Wall, paper cover, $7.50; The
Daniel, Squire and John
Boone Families in Davie
County, by Wall, Boone, & Martin,
$5; Davie County Marriages
1836-1900, by Nancy K. Murphy,
$25.00; Davie County Marriages
1901-1959, by Nancy K. Murphy,
$25; Davie County Cemeteries,
a two-volume set, $55; 1860
Federal Census: Davie County,
by Murphy and Sain, $17; 1870
Federal Census: Davie County,
by Murphy and Sain, $17; 1880
Federal Census: Davie County,
by Murphy and Sain, $22.50;
Maps: Lagle Land Grant, $6.50;
Hughes Historical, $6.50; 1887
Alderman, $2.50; Postcards (set of
8), $2.50. The society is also sell-ing
the Davie County Heritage
Book for $40 plus shipping, and
The Civil War Roster of Davie
County, North Carolina, by
Mary Alice Hasty and Hazel Win-free.
N.C. residents add 7.75%
sales tax. Order through the
DCHGS, 371 North Main Street,
Mocksville, N.C. 27028.
DUKE HOMESTEAD STATE HIS-TORIC
SITE: Bull Durham Busi-ness
Bonanza 1866-1940, by Ben
and Snow Roberts, $21.95; The
Dukes of Durham 1865-1929, by
Robert F. Durden, $22.95; Bold
Entrepreneur: A Life of James
B. Duke, by Robert F. Durden,
$24.50. For more information, call
(919) 477-5498. Prices include tax.
The DUPLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY is selling In Honor of
Duplin County's Vietnam War
Dead. This 46-page books contains
photos, histories, and family
memories of the nineteen Duplin
County men who died in service
during the Vietnam War. Cost:
$20. To order, please write to
DCHS, PO Box 775, Kenansville,
NC 28349.
EDENTON HISTORICAL COMMIS-SION:
Incidents in the Life of a
Slave Girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs,
edited by Jean Fagan Yellin,
narrative by John S. Jacobs, $16.50.
This enlarged edition of Jacobs’
celebrated slave narrative now
completes the Jacobs family saga,
surely one of the most memorable
in all of American history. John
Jacobs’s short slave narrative, A
True Tale of Slavery, published
in London in 1861, adds a
brother’s perspective to Harriet
Jacobs's own autobiography.
Harriet Jacobs Family Papers,
$100. Although millions of African
American women were held in
bondage over the 250 years that
slavery was legal in the United
States, Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) is
the only one known to have left
papers testifying to her life. Her
autobiography, Incidents in the
Life of a Slave Girl, holds a central
place in the canon of American
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
literature as the most important
slave narrative by an African
American woman. A Very Muti-nous
People: The Struggle for
North Carolina, 1660-1713, by
Noeleen McIlvenna $32.50. Histo-rians
have often glorified 18th-century
Virginia planters’ philoso-phical
debates about the meaning
of American liberty. But according
to the author, the true exemplars
of egalitarian political values had
fled Virginia’s plantation society
late in the seventeenth century to
create the first successful Euro-pean
colony in the Albemarle, in
present-day North Carolina. A
Richer Heritage: A Guide to
Historic Preservation in the
Twenty-First Century, $55
(hardcover), $27.50 (paperback).
This book is a thought-provoking
guide for professionals as well as
administrators, volunteers, and
policy makers involved in preser-vation
efforts. To order or to learn
more about other books that the
historical commission sells, please
visit www.edentonhistorical
commission.org/giftshop.php, or
call (252) 482-7800.
FEDERAL POINT HISTORIC
PRESERVATION SOCIETY is offering
My Friend the Enemy: The Battle
at Fort Fisher as Recalled by
Colonel Lamb, CSA & General
Curtis, USA, fully illustrated,
$10 each; Carolina Beach: A
Postcard History, by Elaine
Henson, $19.95; Surfing on the
Cape Fear Coast, by Joseph
“Skipper” Funderburg, $29.95;
Carolina Beach: Images and
Icons of a Bygone Era, by D. R.
Norris, $29.95; Carolina Beach:
Friends and Neighbors Remem-bered,
by D. R. Norris, $29.95;
Big Book of the Cape Fear
River, by Claude Jackson, $39.95;
The Wilmington Campaign:
Last Days of Departing Hope, by
Chris E. Fonvielle, (used) $20; and
The Ferries of North Carolina,
by Barbara Brannon, $16.95. For
more information and to order,
please contact the Federal Point
Historical Society at PO Box 623,
Carolina Beach, NC 28428; call
(910) 458-0502; or send an email to
FPHPS@yahoo.com.
FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY:
Millicoma: Biography of a
Pacific Northwestern Forest,
by Arthur V. Smyth, 145 pages
plus photos and maps, $12.95,
plus $4 shipping; and The Con-servation
Diaries of Gifford
Pinchot, by Harold K. Steen; 230
pages plus photos and names index;
$29.95 hard cover or $19.95 soft
cover, plus $4 shipping. Forest
Sustainability: The History,
the Challenge, the Promise, by
Donald W. Floyd, provides a
historical context to the concept
of sustainable forestry, $9.95 plus
$4 shipping. To see other books
the society sells, please visit
www.foresthistory.org. To order,
contact FHS, 701 Vickers Avenue,
Durham, NC 27701; call (919) 682-
9319; fax (919) 682-2349; or visit
www.foresthistory.org.
FRIENDS OF THE PAGE-WALKER
HOTEL: Desegregating Cary, by
Peggy Van Scoyoc, a book based
on oral history interviews of Cary
residents who were involved in
desegregation. For more informa-tion,
please call (919) 460-4963.
GASTON COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Our Kin, by Miles Hoff-man,
$30; The County of Gaston:
Two Centuries of a North
Carolina Region, by Robert
Cope and Manly Wade Wellman,
$10.50; The Complete 1850
Census of Gaston County, North
Carolina, $16, and Gaston
County, North Carolina:
Marriage Bonds and Licenses,
1848-1888, by Libby Goodnight,
Linda Bell, and Robert Carpenter,
$18. Also available are Historical
Society calendars from 1996 to
2007 for $3 each. For orders, add
$5 shipping and handling to the
book prices and write to William
N. Craig, Publications Chairman,
GCHS, 315 Union New Hope
Road, Gastonia, N.C. 28056.
GATES COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Forgotten Gates: The
Historical Architecture of a
Rural North Carolina County,
by Tom Butchko, $40, plus $4
shipping; Carlton Morris Writes:
1957-58, featuring human inter-est
stories written by Morris when
he was editor of Gates County
Index, $20, plus $4 shipping; and
Just Down the Road...In Our
Own Words, compiled by Peggy
Lefler, $30, plus $5 shipping. Just
Down the Road features 100
unedited essays about growing up
in the early 1900s to mid-1960s in
the hamlets, villages, and cross-roads
of rural Gates County.
Readers of this collection quickly
become aware of a common thread
running throughout the collection—
love of family, church, and
neighbors. To order, please contact
the Gates County Historical Society
at P.O. Box 98, Gates, NC 27937.
THE GOVERNOR CHARLES B.
AYCOCK STATE HISTORIC SITE:
Jesse Aycock, His Descendants,
Revolutionary War Soldier,
$15, plus $5 for shipping; Eagles
On Their Buttons: A Black
Infantry Regiment In the Civil
War, $35, plus $5 shipping; and a
Teacher Packet, a reproducible
54-page soft cover designed to
teach the history of Governor
Aycock at the fourth-grade level.
Copies are $4.75, plus $3 shipping.
Call (919) 242-5581, or write
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
Aycock Birthplace, 64 Governor
Aycock Road, Fremont, N.C. 27830.
GRANVILLE COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY MUSEUM is selling Heri-tage
and Homesteads: The His-tory
and Architecture of Gran-ville
County, North Carolina,
$60 plus $7.50 shipping and han-dling.
Published by the historical
society, this book contains more
than 700 illustrations and is di-vided
into three sections: county
history, architectural essay on the
built landscape, and individual
property descriptions of selected
significant properties found in the
county. For more information, call
(919) 693-9706 or write to the
museum at PO Box 1433, Oxford,
NC 27565.
GREENE COUNTY MUSEUM:
History of Greene County,
North Carolina, by James M.
Creech, (1979 ed., hardback
reprint,) $25, add $5 for shipping
and handling; Greene County
Cemetery Inscriptions, 1750-
1970, by Mary Virginia
Kilpatrick, $55 and the following
books by William L. “Bill” Murphy,
Jr: Greene County 1860 Census,
$30; Dobbs County Bible
Records, Volumes 1-3, $35 for
each volume; Dobbs County
Bible Records, Volume 4 -5, $40
for each volume; Dobbs County
Entries and Warrants, 1741-
1757, $25; Dobbs County Crown
Patents, 1759-1775, $30; Dobbs
County 1780 Tax Lists (2 Lists,
1 Book) $25; Entries of Claims
for Land within the County of
Dobbs, 1778-1790, $30; Entries of
Claims for Land within the
County of Glasgow, 1790-1797,
$25; Entries of Claims for Land
within the County of Lenoir,
1792-1795, $20; Entries of
Claims for Land within the
County of Wayne, 1780-1795,
$35; Genealogical Abstracts of
Greene County Deeds, 1776-
1860, $40; Greene County 1816
Tax List, $25; Greene County
1820 Census, $25; Greene County
1830 Census, $30; Greene County
1840 Census, $30; Greene County
1850 Census, $30; Greene
County Estate Records, 1839-
1845, $35; Greene County
Cemetery Records, $35; Lenoir
County 1844 Tax List, $25.
Shipping and handling costs $3
for the first book, $1.25 each
additional book for Kilpatrick and
Murphy. For orders, write Greene
County Museum, PO Box 266,
Snow Hill, NC 28580, call or fax
(252) 747-1999, or email
greenemuseum@hotmail.com.
THE GREENSBORO HISTORICAL
MUSEUM is selling The Beat
Goes On, by retired reporter Jim
Schlosser, for $25. The book features
100 columns that Schlosser wrote
between 1968 and 2007 and range
from the offbeat to the historically
significant. The museum is also
selling Once Upon a City:
Greensboro, North Carolina’s
Second Century, by Howard
Covington, for $24.95. This
narrative history, told through the
people who helped shaped the
city, traces the city’s development
from just before the 1920s to the
start of the twenty-first century.
The museum is also now selling
Mid Life, Mid Century, Mid
South, by Virginia F. Zenke.
Zenke, who worked as an interior
designer and also became involved
in historic preservation, describes
her experiences in the mid-20th
century. Cost: $22.50. The museum
is also selling Greensboro: A
Chosen Center by Gayle Fripp,
Guilford County’s official historian.
This illustration-rich narrative
provides a chronological history of
the Gate City from prehistory to
2000. The work covers a broad
range of topics to capture Greens-boro’s
cultural, economic, political
and social history. Cost: $32.95.
For more information, call (336)
373-2949.
THE HALIFAX COUNTY HISTORI-CAL
ASSOCIATION is now selling
The Historic Architecture of
Halifax County, North Carolina.
This hard-cover book features
more than 500 properties and
includes more than 1,000 illustra-tions.
Cost: $75, plus $10 shipping
and handling. To order, write to
the Halifax County Historical So-ciety,
PO Box 12, Halifax, NC
27839.
THE HENDERSON COUNTY
GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
SOCIETY, INC.: Henderson
County Heritage, Vol. I,
(reprinted 2003) $55; Henderson
County Heritage, Vol. II, $55
(add $8 shipping for the first book
and $4 for each additional book);
Index to Henderson County,
N.C. Births, 1914-1942, $50;
Index to Henderson County,
N.C. Deaths, 1914-1956, $28;
Henderson County: NC WWI
Draft Registrations, $28; The
Story of Henderson County, by
Sadie Patton, $37.50; Postmarks:
A History of Henderson
County, North Carolina, 1797-
1968 (a history of the early post
offices, roads, communities and
families of the Henderson County
area) $28; A Brief History of the
Black Presence in Henderson
County, $20; Sketches of Polk
County, by Sadie Patton, $27.50;
and Polk County Cemetery
Book, $33.50 (add $3.50 shipping
for each). North Carolina resi-dents
add 7.75% sales tax. Send
orders to HCGHS, 400 N. Main
Street, Hendersonville, N.C. 28792,
or e-mail hcghs@bellsouth.net.
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Various census records for Hender-son,
Polk, Transylvania, and
McDowell Counties are also avail-able.
Please call (828) 693-1531,
visit www.hcghs.com, or email for
availability and prices.
THE HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCI-ETY:
From Tavern to Town
Revisited: An Architectural
History of Hickory, North
Carolina, by Albert Keiser, Jr.
and Angela May. In addition to
tracing how Hickory grew from a
stagecoach stop to one of the
state’s largest economic centers,
this book also details the history
and legacy of historic preservation
in Hickory. Cost: $24.95, plus tax
and shipping. The society is also
selling Nora’s Dream: Growing
Up in 19th Century Hickory,
North Carolina. Set in the
1880s, the book tells a fact-based,
fictional story of young Nora Chu-ford,
daughter of one of Hickory’s
most prominent pioneer families.
Though the book is aimed toward
children with 2nd to 4th grade
reading levels, it will appeal to all
readers. Included separately in
this illustrated book is a Spanish
language version. Cost: $9.60 for
members, $12 for non-members,
with $3 shipping. Call (828) 322-
4731 or visit www.hickoryland
marks.org.
The HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL
SOCIETY is now selling First
Creation: 100 Years of Land
Conservation, by the Highlands
Cashiers Land Trust. This colorful
photographic coffee-table book
celebrates the centennial of North
Carolina’s oldest Land Trust; $50.
The society is also selling
Remembering Highlands:
From Pioneer Village to Moun-tain
Retreat, by Isabel and Tony
Chambers, $24. This book offers
charming tales of old Highlands
as told by fathers, grandfathers,
letters, deeds, and tombstones.
Also being sold are A Brief History
of Highlands, by Randolph P.
Shaffner and Katie Brugger, a
DVD presenting a five-minute
visual history of the origin and
growth of Highlands, which won
the Paul Green Multimedia
Award from the N.C. Society of
Historians; $10; Heart of the
Blue Ridge: Highlands, North
Carolina, by Randolph P.
Shaffner, the 800-page definitive
history of the town, $25; The
Mountain at the End of the
Trail: A History of Whiteside
Mountain, by Robert Zahner, the
story of one of the world’s oldest
mountains,$12; History and
Cuisine of Highlands Inn, by
Helen Major et al., recipes featured
by Highlands’ first hotel, $5; Good
Reading Material, Mostly Bound
and New: The Hudson Library,
1884-1994, by Randolph P. Shaffner,
a history of one of North Carolina’s
oldest libraries, $14; Highlands,
North Carolina . . . The Early
Years, by Angela Lewis Jenkins,
a coffee-table book containing 227
black-and-white photographs, $50;
and Highlands, by Randolph
Shaffner, $20. This book, part of
Arcadia Publishing’s Images of
America series, features more than
265 photographs and information
from oral interviews, memoirs,
letters, and more. For more
information, visit the Gift Shop at
www.highlands history.com or
e-mail highlandshistory@nctv.com.
HIGH POINT MUSEUM: Wish
You Were Here!, by Lee Dowdy,
Mary Lib Joyce, and Vince
Wheeler, collection of Old High
Point postcards in a book, $19.95,
plus $3.29 tax and shipping;
When Racing Was Racing,
history of local racers 1940-1959,
by Barbara Taylor, $5.95, plus $2.36
tax and shipping, and Clark’s
Collection of Historical
Remembrances, (Histories of
High Point), compiled by Mary
Lib Joyce, $35, plus tax and
shipping. Call (336) 885-1859.
HISTORICAL PRESERVATION
GROUP: “The First of Patriots
and the Best of Men:” Richard
Caswell in Public Life, by Clay-ton
Brown Alexander and edited
by Dr. Keats Sparrow. This is the
only book-length study of Caswell,
North Carolina’s first governor.
Cost: $26, plus $6 shipping. For
more information, contact Martha
Marble at 58marble@suddenlink.
net or send a check made out to
the Lenoir County Colonial Com-mission,
Caswell Book, PO Box
1734, Kinston, NC 28503.
HISTORIC FLAT ROCK, INC.: Flat
Rock: The Little Charleston of
the Mountains, by Galen
Reuther, about the historic village
of Flat Rock. Read about the history
of this beautiful Western North
Carolina region while viewing a
wonderful collection of period
photographs. This Images of
America book takes you from the
late 1700s to the present. Proceeds
from the book go to Historic Flat
Rock, Inc., to aid them in their
efforts to preserve historic properties
of Flat Rock, N.C. Cost is $23.99,
including shipping. To order, con-tact
HFR, P.O. Box 295, Flat
Rock, NC 28731.
HISTORIC HOPE FOUNDATION,
INC.: The Miracle of Hope
Plantation highlights 200 years
of the history of Hope Plantation.
The 24-page commemorative
program is available for $9.95
plus shipping and handling. The
foundation is also selling WH
Cabinetmaker: A Southern
Mystery Revealed, by Thomas R.
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J. Newbern and James R. Melchor.
This book reveals the identity of
WH, a previously unidentified but
influential cabinetmaker whose
work appears in historic architec-ture
of the lower Roanoke River
Basin. Using extensive research of
primary sources, the authors trace
the impact this cabinetmaker had
on an entire generation of trades-men.
For more information, call
(252) 794-3140, or visit
www.hopeplantation.org.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
FOUNDATION OF NORTH CARO-LINA/
PRESERVATION NORTH
CAROLINA: North Carolina
Architecture, by Catherine
Bishir and photographs by Tim
Buchman, $59.95; Southern
Built: American Architecture,
Regional Practice, by Catherine
Bishir, $35 for members, $42 for
non-members; and Buying Time
for Heritage, by J. Myrick Howard.
This book offers examples of real
estate strategies that can be used
to preserve historic buildings and
costs $20 for members, $25 for
non-members. Prices do not include
tax and shipping. For more infor-mation
visit www.presnc.org,
write to P.O. Box 27644, Raleigh,
N.C. 27611-7644, or call the
HPFNC at 919-832-3652.
HISTORIC STAGVILLE FOUNDA-TION:
Piedmont Plantation:
The Bennehan-Cameron
Family and Lands in North
Carolina, by Jean Bradley Ander-son,
$20. Based on research in the
extensive Bennehan-Cameron
family papers, this book tells in
fascinating detail the story of
Stagville, the largest antebellum
plantation in North Carolina, and
follows the family history into the
20th century. For more information,
please call (919) 620-0120.
HYDE COUNTY HISTORICAL AND
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: Hyde
County, N.C., County Court
Minutes, 1736 Thru 1756, Book
I, by Weynette Parks Haun, soft
cover, 150 pages, indexed, $30,
plus $5 shipping; Hyde County,
N.C., County Court Minutes,
1756 Thru 1785, Book II, by
Weynette Parks Haun, soft cover,
155 pages, indexed, $30, plus $5
shipping; Hyde County, N.C.,
Court Minutes, 1757 Thru 1788,
Book III, by Weynette Parks
Haun, soft cover, 171 pages,
indexed, $30, plus $5 shipping;
Hyde County, N.C., Court Min-utes,
1767 Thru 1784, Book IV,
by Weynette Parks Haun, soft
cover, 180 pages, indexed, $30,
plus $5 shipping; Hyde County,
N.C., Court Minutes, 1789 Thru
1797, Book V, by Weynette Parks
Haun, soft cover, 167 pages,
indexed, $30, plus $5 shipping;
Hyde County, N.C., Court
Minutes, 1789 Thru 1797, Book
VI, by Weynette Parks Haun, 180
pages, indexed, $30, plus $5 ship-ping;
and Hyde Yesterdays: A
History of Hyde County, by
Morgan Holt Harris, hard cover,
375 pages, name and place indices,
$30, plus $5 shipping. The society
is also offering In Memory of…:
An Index to Hyde County
Cemeteries, by Rebecca Swindell
and R. S. Spencer Jr., including
genealogical information of more
than 6,000 people buried in the
county, $40 plus $5 shipping;
Hyde County History Book, 480
pages with a section on each of
the county’s five townships, $45
plus $6 shipping; The Estates of
Hyde 1700s, by R.S. Spencer, Jr.,
abstracts of 600 folders of loose
Hyde estate records of the 1700s
in the North Carolina Archives,
indexed, $25 plus $5 shipping;
Hyde Remembers: Historic
Bible and Family Records of
Hyde County, North Carolina,
by R. S. Spencer, Jr., record of 365
Bibles and family records, $30
plus $5 shipping; The 1850 Census
of Hyde County, North Carolina,
a compilation of all census sched-ules
taken in 1850, abstracted and
indexed by Seth D. and Sandra S.
Carawan, $30 plus $5 shipping;
The 1900 Census of Hyde
County, North Carolina, by
Crestena Jennings Oakley, $30
plus $5 shipping; The 1910 Census
of Hyde County, North Carolina,
by Crestena Jennings Oakley, $30
plus $5 shipping; Hyde County,
North Carolina Record of
Deeds A, 1736-1762, abstracted
and indexed by Allen Wilkinson
Hart Norris, includes general, Ne-gro,
occupation, place name, and
women’s Christian name indices,
$25 plus $5 shipping; Hyde
County, North Carolina Record
of Deeds B, 1762-1783, abstracted
and indexed by Allen Wilkinson
Hart Norris and edited by Betty
S. Mann and Ellen A. Williams,
includes births, burials, marriages
as well as fragmented deeds, with
general, Indian, Negro, occupa-tion,
place name, and women’s
Christian name indices, $25 plus
$5 shipping; In the Name of
God, Amen! Abstracts of Hyde
County, North Carolina Wills
Probate 1709 through 1775, by
Ellen A. Williams, with full name
index, Negro index, and place
name index, $30 plus $5 shipping;
In the Name of God, Amen! Ab-stracts
of Hyde County, North
Carolina Wills Probate 1776 to
May Court 1819, Book II, by
Ellen A. Williams, with general
name index, Negro index, occupa-tion
index, Christian name index,
place name index, $30 plus $5
shipping; Hidden Ancestors:
Abstract of Bastardy Papers
and Selected Court Minutes
Hyde County, North Carolina
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
1740-1896, abstracted by
Crestena Jennings Oakley, edited
and indexed by Ellen A. Williams,
$25 plus $5 shipping; Hyde
County (NC) Land Divisions in
the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries, by Richard B. Lupton,
$35 plus $5 shipping; and Land-marks
of Hyde County, North
Carolina: The Mainland and
Ocracoke Island, a 250-page
hardcover book that traces the
county’s development in well-illustrated
historical and architec-tural
essays followed by an inven-tory
that profiles hundreds of
buildings, $55, plus $6 shipping.
Back issues of High Tides, a
semi-annual journal of the society,
cost $10 each plus $3 shipping per
issue, with 10 or more issues costing
$8 each plus $2 shipping per issue.
Please note that a 6.75% sales tax
will be added to all purchases. To
order, mail requests to R. S. Spencer,
Inc., PO Box 159, Englehard, NC
27824.
THE JOHNSTON COUNTY HERI-TAGE
CENTER: North Carolina
Tobacco: A History, by Billy
Yeargin, $21.99 plus tax and ship-ping;
Family Matters: Homage
to July, The Slave Girl, by
Shelby Stephenson, $14. Poet and
professor Stephenson based this
work on slave records held at the
Heritage Center. Images of Amer-ica:
Johnston County, by Todd
Johnson and Durwood Barbour,
$19.99 plus tax and shipping.
Images of America: Clayton, by
Todd Johnson and Pamela
Baumgartner, $19.99 plus tax and
shipping. African-American
Education in Johnston County,
by Joan Jones, Elsie Collins, and
Carolyn Ennis, $15. Focusing on
the years 1869 to 1969, this
booklet includes sections on African
American teachers, principals,
and early schools. Johnston
County: Its History Since 1746,
by Thomas J. Lassiter & T. Wingate
Lassiter. This narrative history is
by two former editors of The
Smithfield Herald and is available
for $15 plus tax and shipping.
Visit www.johnstonnc.com/
heritage/giftshop, or call (919)
934-2836.
THE LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORI-CAL
ASSOCIATION: Images of
America: Lincoln County. This
book contains more than 200
images and explores the personal
side of the county’s history, show-casing
everyday life in Lincolnton
and the smaller rural communities.
Fore more information, call (704)
748-9090 or visit www.lincolncounty
history.com.
LOWER CAPE FEAR HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Historic Wilmington
and the Lower Cape Fear: An
Illustrated History, by Dr. Chris
Fonvielle, $49.95; The Bank of
Cape Fear of Wilmington,
North Carolina, by Robert
Neale, $16.05; Stories Old and
New of the Cape Fear Region,
as told by Louis T. Moore, $16.05;
Salt, That Necessary Article,
by Isabel M. Williams and Leora
H. McEachern, $8.50; Harnett,
Hooper & Howe: Revolutionary
Leaders of the Lower Cape
Fear, by Alan D. Watson, Dennis
R. Lawson, and Donald R. Lennon,
$21.35; Marvelous Old Mansion
and Other Southern Treasures,
by Sylvia Higgenbotham, $18.15;
Wilmington Through the Lens
of Louis T. Moore, by Susan
Taylor Block, $48.15; and Modern
Recipes of Historic Wilmington,
by Ann Hertzler, $21.40. All prices
include tax; $5 per book shipping.
Call (910) 762-0492, visit www.
latimerhouse.org, or write LCFHS,
126 South 3rd St., Wilmington,
NC 28401.
THE MECKLENBURG HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION: A Life in Ante-bellum
Charlotte: The Private
Journal of Sarah Frew David-son,
1837, edited by Karen
McConnell, Janet Dyer, and Ann
Williams, with a forward by Mary
Kratt, and published by The His-tory
Press, Charleston SC. This is
a transcription of Sarah Davidson’s
Journal for 1837, with additional
historic information written by
the editors. 1837 was a pivotal
year in the history of North Caro-lina
with the development of the
gold mining industry and the
construction of the first branch of
the US Mint, in Charlotte. Other
events described include the
education of slave children and
Sarah’s religious introspection
and commitment. The original
Journal is held in the Rare Book
and Manuscript Collection of the
J. Murrey Atkins Library at
UNCC. The book sells for $24.00
including tax, handling and
shipping. Chain of Error and
the Mecklenburg Declarations
of Independence by V. V.
McNitt, republished by the MHA
with a new introduction and Brief
Sketches of the signers added.
This is a closely reasoned and
thorough description of the two
declarations of May 20 & May
31,1775 which were the earliest
declarations of independence from
Great Britain in the American
colonies. The book sells for $28.50,
including tax & shipping. Your
Affectionate Daughter, Isabella,
by Ann Williams, published by
Bright Mountain Books, Asheville,
is the story of Isabella Torrance,
preserved through letters and
other records now held in the
Rare Book and Manuscript Collec-tion
of the J. Murrey Atkins Library
at UNCC. The story is written
from the points of view of those
who lived it and told in the
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language they spoke. It tells the
story of growing up on a wealthy
antebellum plantation in Mecklen-burg
County and at the Salem
Female Boarding School; of pioneer-ing
in primitive conditions on the
Mississippi frontier; and of Isabella’s
return to Mecklenburg as a young
widow with a small child. This
book sells for $21.50, including
tax & shipping. To order these
books, send your check and mailing
instructions to The MHA, PO Box
35032, Charlotte, NC 28235.
MOORE COUNTY HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION is now selling
three books by Larry Koster; all
three books sell for $9.95, and
all three won awards form the
N.C. Society of Historians.
These books include The Hotels
and Boarding Houses of
Moore County, NC 1870-1950;
The Story of Parkewood, NC:
A Moore County Community
That Disappeared; and The
Photographers of Moore
County, NC and Their Post-cards
1900-1970. The associa-tion
is also selling Images of
America: East and West
Southern Pines, $19.99; Im-ages
of America: A Sandhills
Album, Photographs by E.C.
Eddy, by Stephen E. Massengill,
$19.99; The Scottish Blue
Family in North America, by
Douglas F. Kelly, $75; Carolina
Scots: An Historical and
Genealogical Study of Over
100 Years of Immigration, by
Douglas F. Kelly with Caroline
Switzer Kelly; Miscellaneous
Ancient Records of Moore
County, by Rassie E. Wicker,
$19.95; Namesake: Alfred
Moore, Soldier and Jurist,
1775-1810, by Robert Mason,
$9.95; Young Southern Pines,
by Helen G. Huttenhour, $19.95;
Plain-Style: The Work of 18th
and 19th Century Craftsmen in
Moore County, North Carolina,
$8.95; The County of Moore,
1747-1847, by Blackwell Robinson,
$14.95; Errata and Addenda
(for above) by Rassie E. Wicker,
edited by J. Atwood Whitman
$1.95; The Story of Moore
County, by Manly Wade Wellman,
$14.95; and The County of
Moore 1847-1947, by Manly
Wade Wellman, $14.95. Sand in
My Shoes (332 pages, soft cover),
by Catharine Ball Ripley, first
published in 1931, tells of a young
woman’s adventures and misad-ventures
in trying to establish a
peach orchard in the Sandhills in
the 1920s and is available for
$14.95. Moore County: Images
of America by Richard J.
Schloegl, $16.99; Patterns in
Sand, by Meade Seawell, $9.95;
and Tale of a Tar Heel Town,
by Meade Seawell, $5. Larry
Koster’s recent publication, More
Moore County History, won the
Willie Parker Peace History Book
Award from the N.C. Society of
Historians. More Moore County
History is available at the Shaw
House Bookshop for $9.95. Please
add 8% tax plus $3.00 per book
shipping and mail to MCHA, PO
Box 324, Southern Pines, NC
28388 or visit www.moorehistory.
com, or call (910) 692-2051.
MOUNT AIRY MUSEUM OF
REGIONAL HISTORY: Surry
County Soldiers in the Civil
War, by Hester Bartlett Jackson,
contains records and personal
writings of Civil War soldiers, soft
cover, 465 pages, $30, including
tax and shipping; Surry County
Heritage–North Carolina Vol.
II, contains family histories, hard
cover, 514 pages, $65, plus tax
and shipping; Surry County
Heritage, Vol. I, $75 plus tax
and shipping, and A Portion of
My Life, by William Norman,
diary written while a prisoner on
Johnson Island during the Civil
War, hard cover, $30, including
tax and shipping. For more infor-mation,
call (336) 786-4478 or
write MAMRH, 301 North Main
Street, Mount Airy, N.C. 27030.
MURFREESBORO HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION: Trial Separation:
Murfreesboro N.C. and The
Civil War; Murfreesboro N.C.
and the Founding of the
American Republic (1608-
1781); and Murfreesboro N.C.
and the Great Intracoastal
Waterway 1786-1814, by Thomas
C. Parramore, all paper covers,
$15 each; The Gatling Aeroplane
of 1873, America’s First Air-plane,
by Thomas C. Parramore,
paper cover for $7; Legends and
Myths of North Carolina’s
Roanoke Chowan Area, by F.
Roy Johnson, hard cover for $15;
The Peanut Story; The Fabled
Doctor Jim Jordan; Volume I-The
Tuscaroras: Mythology,
Medicine, and Culture; Volume
II: The Tuscaroras: History,
Tradition, and Culture all by F.
Roy Johnson for $15 each;
Murfreesboro, NC: Cradle of
Titans and Murfreesboro, NC,
and the Roots of Nat Turner’s
Revolt by Thomas C. Parramore
for $15 each; A History of the
Riddick Plantation of Hertford
County, NC, a master’s thesis
document by Frank Harris for
$20; and The Walking Tour
Booklet for $6.00. Please add $4
shipping and handling for each
book and NC sales tax of 7.75%.
To order, please contact MHA, PO
Box 3 Murfreesboro, N.C. 27855 or
call (252) 398-5922.
THE NORTH CAROLINA FRIENDS
HISTORICAL SOCIETY is now sell-ing
The Battle of Lindley’s Mill
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Federation web page: www.fnchs.org
Historical Publications from Federation Members
(1975) by Algie I. Newlin, to be
reprinted in August 2010, price to
be determined; The Battle of
New Garden (1977), by Algie I.
Newlin, $7.50; Becoming Myself:
My Life in Letters and Verse
(2001), by Mary E. B. Feagins,
$15; By Land and By Sea (1993),
by Hiram H. Hilton, $13; Cane
Creek: Mother of Meetings
(1995), by Bobbie Teague, $13;
The Carolina Quaker Experi-ence
(1984), by Seth B. Hinshaw,
$16; The Church in the Wilder-ness
(1948), by Henry J. Cadbury,
$1; Deep River Friends: A
Valiant People (revised, updated
2009), by Cecil E. Haworth,
$21.50; Friends at Back Creek
(1993), by Grigg and Walker, $10;
Friends “at the Spring”: A
History of Spring Monthly
Meeting, by Algie I. Newlin (new
edition in preparation); Friends
in the Carolinas (1997), by J.
Floyd Moore, $ 4.50; Friends on
the Front Line: The Story of
Delbert and Ruth Replogle
(1985), by Lorton Heusel, $1;
Friends Worship Today (1991),
by Seth B. Hinshaw, $3.25; George
Fox’s “Book of Miracles” (2000),
ed. Henry J. Cadbury, $17.00;
Greensboro Monthly Meeting
(1987), by Hiram H. Hilty, $3.25;
The Inner Light (1945), by Elbert
Russell, $1; Life in the Quaker
Lane (1990) by Seth B. Hinshaw,
$7.50 Marriages in Contentnea
Quarter (1988), by Theodore E.
Perkins, $20; New Garden Friends
Meeting (updated 2001), by Hiram
H. Hilty, $13; New Hope Friends
Meeting and the Elroy Commu-nity
(1987), by James K. Thompson,
$ 3.50; Parallel Lines In Pied-mont
North Carolina Quaker
and Moravian History (1949),
by Adelaide L. Fries, $1; Pioneers
in Quaker Education: The
Story of John W. and Mary C.
Woody (1992), by Mary Edith
Hinshaw, $12; The Public Career
of John Archdale, 1642-1717
(1976), by Henry G. Hood, Jr., $2;
Sojourners No More: The
Quakers In the New South,
1865-1920 (1997), by Damon C.
Hickey, $20; The Southern Friend:
Journal of the North Carolina
Friends Historical Society,
1979–2008 (all volumes available),
single issue $5, double issue $10;
The Spoken Ministry Among
Friends (1987), by Seth B. Hin-shaw,
$4.50; Walk with Us: Pine
Hill’s Heritage and Hope (1999),
by Melva K. Greene, $20; and White
Plains Friends Meeting, 1850-
1952 (1982), by Frederick C. Crown-field,
$3. Prices do not include ship-ping.
To order, download the order
form from www.ncfhs.org, write to
NCFHS, PO Box 8502, Greensboro,
NC 27419-8502, or call Lynne Gray
at (336) 232-4618.
THE NORTH CAROLINA PRESBY-TERIAN
HISTORICAL SOCIETY has
reprinted a 1964 speech by Dr.
Harold J. Dudley entitled “Toryism
in North Carolina.” A reprint is
available for $2; contact Sally
MacLeod Owens at (919) 835-0920
to order a copy.
OCRACOKE PRESERVATION SOCI-ETY:
The Society has a number of
books and videos on Ocracoke
history and the local dialect,
Ocracoke Brogue. For more infor-mation,
call (252) 928-7375; e-mail
giftshop@ocracokepreservation.org;
write to the OPS, P.O. Box 1240,
Ocracoke, N.C. 27960; or visit
www.ocracokepreservation.org.
ONSLOW COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Onslow County Court
Minutes, Vol. I (1732-1743),
Vol. II (1744-1754), Vol. III
(1755-1765), and Vol. IV (1766-
1775), $17.50 each; The Heritage
of Onslow County, North Caro-lina,
hardcover, contains family
histories, a county history presented
through old photographs and
newspaper articles, a pictorial
honor section, and a section
dealing with the federal govern-ment’s
1941 acquisition of land for
the Marine Corps bases of Camp
Lejeune and New River Air Station,
$51.73, plus tax and shipping.
Also available are Markers of
Time: Cemeteries of Onslow
County, soft cover volumes for
$24, including tax and shipping;
and The Battle of New River, by
L. J. Kimball, soft cover, $20,
including tax and shipping.
Contact the OCHS, P.O. Box
5203, Jacksonville, N.C. 28540.
PENDER COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: History of Pender
County, by Mattie Bloodworth, a
reprint of a 1947 book, $30 plus
$5 shipping; History of Burgaw,
a collection by Bill Reaves, cover-ing
1849 to 2000, $30 plus $5
shipping; Pender County
Centennial, 1875-1975, featuring
hundreds of photos of Pender
County people and places, $6 plus
$2 shipping; Jeffrey Stark: An
Account by a Civil War Veteran,
transcribed by Mary Bowen Caputo,
$12 plus $2 shipping. This account
was written by Edward F. Small
who served with the 2nd Regiment
North Carolina Artillery and was
stationed at Fort Fisher when it
was attacked on December 23,
1864. For more information, call
(910) 259 8543 or email
pchs1875@hotmail.com
PERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Person County Heri-tage,
Vols. I,. II, & III, $50 each
plus $3.50 each for shipping;
Reminiscences for $10 plus
$3.50 shipping; Index for Remi-niscences
for $5 plus $2.50 ship-ping;
and Penelope’s Papers for
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
$15 plus $3.50 shipping. Please
add 7% sales tax. Send orders to
PCHS, P.O. Box 887, Roxboro, N.C.
27573 or call 336-597-3134.
THE PITT COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Chronicles of Pitt
County, North Carolina (2003
reprint of 1982 edition), $74.90,
including tax, plus $10 shipping;
Chronicles of Pitt County,
North Carolina—Volume II,
$74.90, including tax, plus $10
shipping; Historic Architecture
of Pitt County, $42.80, including
tax, plus $8 shipping; Cemetery
Survey of Pitt County, North
Carolina, $50, including tax,
plus $10 shipping. For more infor-mation,
contact Liz Sparrow at
(252) 756-8056, or email her at
liz_sparrow@yahoo.com.
PRESERVATION DURHAM is offer-ing
Remembering Durham: The
Way We Were, by Mena Webb, a
compilation of her Durham Sun
and Durham Morning Herald
columns between 1989 and 1992,
$26; East Durham Pattern Book,
a valuable resource for renovators,
offering many ideas for restoring
and renovating vernacular Ameri-can
homes of the early 20th century,
$15; Durham County: A History
of Durham County, North Caro-lina,
by Jean Anderson, a sweeping
history of Durham County, inte-grating
the stories of well-known
figures with those of ordinary men
and women, black and white, to
create a complex but fascinating
portrait of Durham’s economic,
political, social, and labor history,
$41; and The Durham Record,
by Jean Anderson and J. B. Flowers,
eds. This book features a collection
of articles on remarkable people
from Durham’s history including:
“William Johnston: Eighteenth-
Century Entrepreneur,” by William
S. Powell, “South Lowell Male
Academy and Its First Headmaster,”
by Elizabeth Anderson Persons,
“Lillian Baker Griggs: Pioneer
Librarian,” by Betty Irene Young,
and “Durham’s Early Lutherans,”
by Doris Tilley, $7. Also available
are Durham: A Bull City Story,
by Jim Wise, $27; Durham, North
Carolina: A Postcard History,
by Stephen Massengill, $21; Dur-ham:
A Pictorial History, by Joel
and Frank Kostyu, $27, and 1891
Bird’s Eye View Map of Durham,
24” x 13”, $11. For more informa-tion,
call the HPSD at (919) 682-
3036, or send an email to
info@preservationdurham.org.
THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF
CHAPEL HILL: The Town and
Gown Architecture of Chapel
Hill, 1795-1975. Written by
architectural historian and UNC
alumna Dr. Ruth Little, this 325-
page book offers an architectural
and historical survey of Chapel Hill
and features 274 photographs. $30
for members and $35 for non-members.
Please add 7% sales tax
and $7 shipping for each book. To
order, call (919) 942-7818.
THE RAILROAD HOUSE ASSOCIA-TION
is offering The Men of
Endor: Their Works and
Times, 1861-1876, by Robert A.
Weisner and edited by Lynn
Veach Sadler, $25 plus $5 shipping
and handling; Images of America:
Sanford and Lee County, by
Jimmy Haire and W. W. Seymore,
Jr., $28, which includes tax and
shipping; and In Celebration of
the 2007 Centennial of Lee
County, edited by Lynn Veach
Sadler, containing a collection of
historical articles and creative
works, $20 plus $5 shipping and
handling. To order, please send
your orders to the Railroad House
Association Inc., PO Box 1023,
Sanford, NC 27331-1023, Attention:
Jane Barringer Book Sale. The
association notes that its best-selling
book The History and
Architecture of Lee County,
North Carolina, by J. Daniel
Pezzoni, is now out of print but
can occasionally be found for sale
on the internet.
RALEIGH HISTORIC DISTRICTS
COMMISSION: Culture Town:
Life in Raleigh’s African
American Communities, by
Linda Simons-Henry (oral history)
and Linda Harris Edmisten
(architectural history), utilizes
oral history and architectural
survey to show contributions
made by eight communities to
Raleigh’s cultural development.
Copies are available for $35 (tax
included) from the Raleigh Historic
Districts Commission office, One
Exchange Plaza, Ste. 300, Raleigh,
NC, or by mail for $38.50
(includes tax and shipping) from
PO Box 829, Century Station,
Raleigh, NC 27602.
RICHMOND COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: The Architectural
History of Richmond County,
$80 (tax and shipping included).
Featuring 357 photographs, this
book features properties of histori-cal
significance and ranges in time
from the Pee Dee Indian Culture
to the present. No Ordinary
Lives: A History of Richmond
County from 1750-1900 by John
Hutchinson, $45. Write to the
RCHS, PO Box 1763, Rockingham,
NC 28380, or call (910) 895-1660.
SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA
ARCHIVISTS: Archival & Manu-script
Repositories in North
Carolina: A Directory (1992)
(2nd publishing). This 149-page
directory identifies and describes
133 repositories in North Carolina
with archival or manuscript hold-
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
ings. Member price is $17, includes
shipping; non-member price is
$22, includes shipping. Make
checks payable to Margaret M.
Hofmann, P.O. Box 446, Roanoke
Rapids, NC 27870.
SOUTHPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY:
Of Home and the River: South-port
Stories from the Civil War
to the Present, $20 for members,
$24 for non-members; Architecture
of Southport, by Carl Lounsbury,
second printing, 62-page soft cover,
$7; Bald Head, by David Stick,
$17; Cap’n Charlie and the
Lights of the Lower Cape Fear,
by Ethel Herring, revised edition,
$10.75; The Cemeteries of South-port,
compiled by Dorcas W.
Schmidt, 94-page soft cover, $8.50;
Classic Southport Cooking, by
Lewis J. Hardee, Jr., 409-page
hard cover for $22; Fort Caswell
in War and Peace, by Ethel Her-ring
and Carolee Williams, 138-page
hard cover, $18.25; Guns for
Cotton, by Thomas Boaz, $10.75; A
History of Fort Johnston, by
Wilson Angley, 150-page soft cover,
$6; Joshua’s Dream, by Susan S.
Carson, 168-page soft cover, $10;
Joshua’s Legacy, by Susan S.
Carson and Jon Lewis, $10; Lelia
Jane, A Very Gentle Lady, by
Susie Carson and Larry Maisel,
$14; Long Beach, A North
Carolina Town: Its Origin and
History, by Wolfgang Furstenau,
364-page hard cover, $19.25;
Reminiscences of Wilmington
and Smithville-Southport
1848-1900, by Walter G. Curtis,
$9; Southport Secrets, compiled
by Donald K. Johnson, 88-page
soft cover, $8; Southport
(Smithville): A Chronology,
Volume II, 1878-1920, $6; Volume
III, 1920-1940, 248-page soft cover,
$6; Volume IV, 1940-1970, $6; all
volumes by Bill Reaves. All prices
include tax. Add $3 shipping for
each book. P.O. Box 10014, South-port,
N.C. 28461-0014. For informa-tion,
call (910) 457-0579, or visit
www.southporthistoricalsociety.com.
STANLY COUNTY MUSEUM:
Images of America: Stanly
County, by Douglas Buchanan, a
pictorial history of the county,
$18.99; Stanly County: The
Architectural Legacy of a Rural
North Carolina County, by
Donna Dodenhoff, $45. For more
information contact the SCM, 245
E. Main St., Albemarle, N.C.
28001, (704) 986-3777.
WACHOVIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY:
Moravians in Europe and
America 1415-1865: Hidden
Seed and Harvest, by Chester S.
Davis, tells the story from its
beginning in a hidden seed of believ-ers
forced from their homes in
Bohemia and Moravia during the
wars of the Counter Reformation,
$8.31, includes tax & shipping.
The Wachovia Historical
Society: 1895-1995, by Bradford
L. Rauschenberg, $33.80, includes
tax & shipping; Salem Remem-brances,
$11.49, includes tax &
shipping. Contact the WHS, P.O.
Box 20803, Winston-Salem, N.C.
27120.
WARREN COUNTY HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION: The Architecture
of Warren County, North Caro-lina,
by Kenneth McFarland. The
cost is $45.00 plus $3.00 shipping.
WCHA, PO Box 441 Warrenton,
N.C. 25789. Copies may also be
purchased at the North Carolina
Museum of History gift shop.
THE WAYNE COUNTY HISTORI-CAL
ASSOCIATION: Glimpses of
Wayne County, North Caro-lina:
An Architectural History,
$26 (includes tax and shipping);
this book traces the county’s
architectural history from circa
1740 to the present. North Caro-lina:
New Directions for an
Old Land, An Illustrated
History, $32 (includes tax and
shipping); A Place for Theodore,
$17 (includes tax and shipping), a
true story of the Civil War,
recounting the murder of Theo-dore
Parkman, PH.D. After
Sherman’s March: Goldsboro
at the End of the Civil War, by
Emily Weil, $25 (plus tax) and $5
shipping. Based on letters, diaries,
and other artifacts along with
family stories, this creative non-fiction
book describes the arrival
of Sherman and Union troops in
Goldsboro; the end of the Civil
War; and life during Reconstruc-tion
in this small Southern town.
Cornwallis’ Campaign:
Wilmington to Yorktown, by
Emily Weil, $32 which includes
tax and shipping. This work of
creative non-fiction follows
Cornwallis’ army from the time it
reached Wilmington to its surren-der
at Yorktown, seen largely
through the eyes of two young
men caught up in those turbulent
days. The association is also sell-ing
Wayne County, North Caro-lina
Cemeteries Book, Vol. I,
$43 (includes tax and shipping);
this 382-page volume includes
cemeteries in Great Swamp Town-ship,
Nahunta Township, and
Buck Swamp Township. The asso-ciation
is also selling Wayne
County Cemeteries, Vol. II, $53
(includes tax and shipping). This
400-page volume includes ceme-teries
in New Hope, Pikeville,
Saulston, and Stoney Creek. All
books may be ordered by contacting
the Wayne County Museum at
(919) 734-5023, by email at wayne
countymuseu@bellsouth.net, or by
mail at WCHA, PO Box 665,
Goldsboro, NC 27533-0665.
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION/
SMITH-MCDOWELL HOUSE
MUSEUM: An Architect and His
Times: Richard Sharp Smith,
A Retrospective. This attractive
48-page booklet was issued in
conjunction with an award-winning
special exhibit about
Smith and features rare photo-graphs
and architectural drawings
of his designs, $4.00, includes tax;
shipping $2 for the first copy, $1
for each additional copy; Civil
War Dead from Buncombe
County, North Carolina: 1861-
1864, by Eric Emory. This publica-tion
lists the names of the Union
and Confederate soldiers from
Buncombe County who died during
the Civil War. Only one copy left;
$10, with $3 shipping. Edward
Buncombe and Buncombe
County, by Colonel Paul A. Rock-well
with assistance of Dix Sarsfield.
This 32-page booklet covers the
life and death of Colonel
Buncombe and describes his estate
in Tyrell County, N.C. Cost $1,
includes tax; shipping is $2 for the
first copy, $1 for each additional
copy; Haunted Asheville, by
Joshua P. Warren. This soft-cover
book is the only collection of stories
about Asheville’s spookiest places
and costs $14.95, including tax;
shipping is $4. For inquiries, write
to the Western North Carolina
Historical Association/Smith-
McDowell House Museum, 283
Victoria Rd., Asheville, NC 28801,
or email smh@wnchistory.org.
The HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS
SECTION of the N.C. Office of
Archives and History offers five
new publications: North Carolina
Troops, 1861–1865: A Roster,
Volume XVII, Junior Reserves,
edited by Matthew M. Brown and
Michael W. Coffey, presents an
authoritative 120-page history of
the Junior Reserves, the 17-year-old
boys drafted in the last year of
the Civil War as the Confederacy
faced a disastrous shortfall in
manpower. The volume also includes
the service records of those young
men and a detailed index. Cost:
$63.38 (hardback). A Day of
Blood: The 1898 Wilmington
Race Riot, by LeRae Umfleet, is
a thoroughly researched, definitive
study that examines the actions
that precipitated the riot; the
details of what happened in
Wilmington on November 10,
1898; and the long-term impact of
that day in both North Carolina
and across the nation. Cost:
$28.02 (paperback). Guide to
County Records in the North
Carolina State Archives contains
an exhaustive list of all of the
original and microfilmed records
for each North Carolina county
that are housed in the State
Archives as of March 1, 2009. This
new edition, the first since 1997,
describes more than 13,000 bound
volumes, 22,000 boxes of loose
records, and 24,000 reels of micro-film.
Cost: $28.02 (paperback).
Haven on the Hill: The History
of North Carolina’s Dorothea
Dix Hospital, by Marjorie
O’Rorke, recounts the story of
Raleigh’s Dorothea Dix Hospital
from the events surrounding the
1848 legislative authorization to
fund and build the state’s first
mental hospital to the ongoing
debate over the property’s future
following the proposed closing of
the hospital in the early 21st
century. This compelling narrative
includes the personal stories of
those who served the patients and
thoughtful analysis of the trends
and developments that shaped the
hospital as an institution over
more than a century. Native
Carolinians: The Indians of
North Carolina, by Theda
Perdue and Christopher Arris
Oakley, is a new, revised edition
of a highly popular study of North
Carolina’s native peoples that has
been reprinted five times since is
was first issued in 1985. The text
has been thoroughly updated and
a new index added. Note: All
prices include tax and shipping.
Order these books from the
Historical Publications Section
(FB), Office of Archives and History,
4622 Mail Service Center, Raleigh,
NC 27699-4622. For credit card
orders, call (919) 733-7442, ext. 0,
or access the Publications Section’s
secure online store at http://
nc-historical-publications.stores.
yahoo.net.
The Historical Publications Section
also publishes the North Carolina
Historical Review. This quarterly
journal offers articles that cover
North Carolina and southern
history from the colonial period to
the present. Each issue also features
numerous reviews of recent books
about state, regional, and national
history as well as an annual
bibliography of books on North
Carolina subjects or written by
North Carolinians. For more
Information, contact the editor at
annie.miller@ncdcr.gov.
The Historical Publications Section
offers more than 190 North Carolina
books, maps, and document
facsimiles. For a free catalog,
write to the address above; call
(919) 733-7442, ext. 0; or e-mail
Historical.Publications@ncdcr.gov.
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