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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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 1 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 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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 2 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 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 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, JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 3 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 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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 4 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 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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 5 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 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. JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 6 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 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. JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 7 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 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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 8 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 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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 9 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 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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 10 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 (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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 11 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 $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- JUNE 2010 PAGE 12 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 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. JUNE 2010 PAGE 13 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 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. 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Full Text | 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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 1 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 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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 2 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 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 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, JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 3 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 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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 4 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 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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 5 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 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. JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 6 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 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. JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 7 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 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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 8 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 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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 9 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 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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 10 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 (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 JUNE 2010 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 11 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 $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- JUNE 2010 PAGE 12 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 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. JUNE 2010 PAGE 13 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 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. 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