Download or read book Randolph County 1779 1979 written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remembering Randolph County written by Chip Womick and published by American Chronicles. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randolph County's most colorful characters come to life within these pages, including Rufus Hussey, the Beanshooter Man who whittled slingshots and gave Johnny Carson a run for his money; and the Petty family, whose NASCAR connection spans four generations. Tar Heel native Chip Womick has spent over two decades writing about the people, places, and things that make Randolph County special, from the smallest church in the state to the largest walk-through natural habitat zoo in the world--and a whole lot more in between.
Download or read book Randolph County written by L. McKay Whatley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geographic heart of North Carolina, Randolph County has been at the crossroads of history since the 17th century, when explorers first arrived along the Great Indian Trading Path. Every variety of religion, creed, and color could be found in the county from its creation in 1779, with combinations that often proved volatile. From the Uwharrie Mountains in the west to the Deep River Valley on the east, Randolph County has been home to powerful opposing forces. It is a county where potters are more common than doctors. It is home to five of North Carolina's first textile mills, yet it remains one of the state's leading agricultural producers. Its residents refused to secede from the Union but sent six companies into Confederate service. Although settled by pacifist Quakers, bitter guerrilla warfare pitted neighbor against neighbor in both the American Revolution and the Civil War. A dry county that permits no sales of alcoholic beverages, it fostered the racing spirit of NASCA R by running moonshine along its back roads. It is a county with a history, politics, and people of vision, depth, and complexity.
Download or read book Randolph County written by L. Barron Mills and published by County Records. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created in 1779, Randolph County is located in the center of North Carolina's Piedmont region. This concise volume traces the history of the county from its pre-colonial Native American habitation through European settlement in the eighteenth century, growing industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and its establishment as a national tourist destination in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book The Randolph Hornets in the Civil War written by Wallace E. Jarrell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turbulent years of 1861–1865 were especially rough for the people of Randolph County, North Carolina. Sentiment to stay in the Union was high, and remained so throughout the war, yet hundreds of Randolph County boys marched off to fight, many never to return. “The Randolph Hornets,” Company M, 22nd Regiment North Carolina Troops, earned a reputation for their grit and determination in battle. This history of the Randolph Hornets includes articles written by Sergeant John T. Turner in 1914 recalling his experiences, and information on the company battle flag, its capture and its eventual return. A complete roster of the company includes genealogical information and short biographies for several of the men. The final chapter covers the local reenactment group based on the company.
Download or read book The Heritage of Randolph County North Carolina written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of Randolph County written by J. A. Blair and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miles Lassiter Circa 1777 1850 written by Margo Lee Williams and published by Backintyme. This book was released on 2011 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although antebellum African Americans were sometimes allowed to attend Quaker meetings, they were almost never admitted to full meeting membership, as was Miles Lassiter. His story illuminates the unfolding of the 19th-century color line into the 20th. Margo Williams had only a handful of stories and a few names her mother remembered from her childhood about her family's home in Asheboro, North Carolina. Her research would soon help her to make contact with long lost relatives and a pilgrimage "home" with her mother in 1982. Little did she know she would discover a large loving family and a Quaker ancestor -- a Black Quaker ancestor. -- Publisher's description.
Download or read book From Hill Town to Strieby written by Margo Lee Williams and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When former slave, Islay Walden returned to Southwestern Randolph County, North Carolina in 1879, after graduating from the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, as an ordained minister and missionary of the American Missionary Association, he moved in with his sister and her family in a secluded area in the Uwharrie Mountains, not far from the Lassiter Mill community along the Uwharrie River. Walden was sent to start a church and school for the African American community. When the church and school were begun this was, not surprisingly, a largely illiterate community of primarily Hill family members. The Hill family in this mountain community was so large, it was known as "Hill Town." The nearby Lassiter Mill community was larger and more diverse, but only marginally more literate. Walden and his wife accomplished much before his untimely death in 1884, including acquiring a US Postal Office for the community and a new name - Strieby. Despite Walden's death, the church and school continued into the 20th century when it was finally absorbed by the public school system, but not before impacting strongly the literacy and educational achievements of this remote community. From Hill Town to Strieby is Williams' second book and picks up where her first book about her ancestor Miles Lassiter, an early African American Quaker [Miles Lassiter (circa 1777-1850) an Early African American Quaker from Lassiter Mill, Randolph County, North Carolina: My Research Journey to Home], left off. In From Hill Town to Strieby, she provides extensive research documentation on the Reconstruction-era community of Hill Town, that would become known as Strieby, and the American Missionary Association affiliated church and school that would serve both Hill Town and Lassiter Mill. She analyzes both communities' educational improvements by comparing census records, World War I Draft record signatures and reports of grade levels completed in the 1940 census. She provides well-documented four generation genealogical reports of the two principal founding families, the Hills and Lassiters, which include both the families they married into and the families that moved away to other communities around the country. She provides information on the family relationships of those buried in the cemetery and adds an important research contribution by listing the names gleaned from death certificates of those buried in the cemetery, but who have no cemetery markers. She concludes with information about the designation of the Strieby Church, School, and Cemetery property as a Randolph County Cultural Heritage Site. 364 pp. 44 illustrations.
Download or read book The Rouths of Randolph County N C written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Look Out Kindergarten Here I Come Preparate kindergarten Alla voy written by Nancy Carlson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-03-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Carlson's reassuring picture book about getting ready for kindergarten is now available in a Spanish-English edition-and to a whole new audience of young children. The simple, comforting text and big, bright illustrations will ease first-day-of-school jitters and help make the early days of kindergarten exciting and fun.
Download or read book Randolph County North Carolina Will Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unruly Women written by Victoria E. Bynum and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates "unruly" women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War. Analyzing the complex and interrelated impact of gender, race, class, and region on the lives of black and white women, she shows how their diverse experiences and behavior reflected and influenced the changing social order and political economy of the state and region. Her work expands our knowledge of black and white women by studying them outside the plantation setting. Bynum searched local and state court records, public documents, and manuscript collections to locate and document the lives of these otherwise ordinary, obscure women. Some appeared in court as abused, sometimes abusive, wives, as victims and sometimes perpetrators of violent assaults, or as participants in ilicit, interracial relationships. During the Civil War, women freqently were cited for theft, trespassing, or rioting, usually in an effort to gain goods made scarce by war. Some women were charged with harboring evaders or deserters of the Confederacy, an act that reflected their conviction that the Confederacy was destroying them. These politically powerless unruly women threatened to disrupt the underlying social structure of the Old South, which depended on the services and cooperation of all women. Bynum examines the effects of women's social and sexual behavior on the dominant society and shows the ways in which power flowed between private and public spheres. Whether wives or unmarried, enslaved or free, women were active agents of the society's ordering and dissolution.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Randolph County written by J. A. Blair and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South written by Hinton Rowan Helper and published by Gale Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1860 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century.
Download or read book Born Missionary The Islay Walden Story written by Margo Lee Williams and published by Margo Lee Williams, Personal Prologue. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1879, Islay Walden, born enslaved and visually impaired, returned to North Carolina after a twelve-year odyssey in search of an education. It was a journey that would take him from emancipation in Randolph County, North Carolina to Washington, D. C., where he earned a teaching degree from Howard University, then to the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Along the way, he would publish two volumes of poetry and found two schools for African American children. Now ordained, he would return to his home community, where he founded two Congregational churches and common schools. Despite an early death at age forty, he would leave an educational and spiritual legacy that endures to this day. Born Missionary uses Walden's own words as well as newspaper reports and church publications to follow his journey from enslavement to teacher, ordained minister, missionary, and community leader.
Download or read book Slavery in the State of North Carolina written by John Spencer Bassett and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
