Download or read book Remembering Craven County written by Bill Hand and published by American Chronicles. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated in the heart of picturesque eastern North Carolina, Craven County--New Bern in particular--has as much rich history as quaint charm. As local author Bill Hand says, New Bern is much more than a couple of rivers, a lot of carved and sculpted bears and a collection of quaint restaurants and shops. We're history. In this engaging selection of historical stories, Hand reveals the quirky characters and fascinating events in Craven County's history that connect its generations of residents, past and present. Included is the story of James Davis, who set up North Carolina's first printing press and published its first newspaper, and the details of the life of Swiss playboy Baron Christopher DeGraffenried, who founded the town of New Bern. And many, many more. With a keen eye for history and a unique, clever style, Hand takes readers on a romp through Craven County's history and paints a fascinating picture of the area's past that is sure to delight locals and visitors alike.

Download or read book Some Colonial History of Craven County written by Francis Hodges Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Some Colonial History of Craven County written by Francis Hodges Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Craven County written by Lynn Salsi and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterways, including the Neuse and Trent Rivers, have shaped the history, industry, and culture of Eastern North Carolina's Craven County. With pre-colonial beginnings as home to Native Americans of different nations, this county became a center for royal government and a genteel destination after Baron Christof de Graffenreid risked his fortune to create the permanent settlement of New Bern. After redefining itself time and time again, Craven County has now emerged as a modern community without losing a drop of its original ambience. The charm of Craven County has been enjoyed not only by North Carolinians, but also by the English during the Revolutionary War, the Union during the Civil War, merchants visiting for trade, and well-to-do hunters who came for the wildlife. Within these pages, readers will discover the landscape that has for centuries surrounded locals and visitors alike with unequaled beauty. This volume uncovers the county as it once was, a contrast between the sophistication of the city once dubbed the "Athens of North Carolina" and the pastoral quality of life in the rural farmlands and hunting clubs. Longtime residents will no doubt recognize scenes in these vintage photographs that show landmarks and views of the waterfront from times past, while those new to the area will delight in seeing their home as it once was.

Download or read book HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL SKETCH OF CRAVEN COUNTY SO CA written by FREDERICK A. PORCHER and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Remembering North Carolina s Confederates written by Michael C. Hardy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Civil War was scarcely over when a group of ladies met in Raleigh and began to plan commemoration for the honored Confederate dead of North Carolina. In 1867, they held their first memorial service. Two years later in Fayetteville, the first monument to the state's fallen Confederate soldiers was erected. Over the next 14 decades, countless monuments were commissioned in cemeteries and courthouse squares across the state. Following Reconstruction, the veterans themselves began to gather in their local communities, and state and national reunions were held. For many of the Confederate veterans, honor for their previous service continued long after their deaths: accounts of their sacrifice were often chiseled on their grave markers. The images within this book--photographs of veterans and reunions, monuments, and tombstones--are but a sampling of the many ways that the old Confederate soldiers are commemorated across the Old North State.

Download or read book Historical and Social Sketch of Craven County So Ca written by Frederick A. Porcher and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical and Social Sketch of Craven County, So; Ca: From the April No; Of Southern Quarterly Review This county sends ten members to the assembly." This is all from him, but it is enough. "The Unsteady assembly" is, itself, a text. We shall expatiate on what he has so briefly said, and add to the extent of the history, if we do not greatly increase its value. Our work is not that of the review exactly; but there is nothing misplaced in subjecting countries to the same treatment which we bestow on books. It is as an old resident that we give our regards to Craven county in South-Carolina. Local attachments are strongest among the inhabitants of the country. Those especially whose youth has been nurtured among mountains, are bound by a chain, stronger than adamant to the homes of their infancy. The denizen of a crowded metropolis is vain-glorious, perhaps proud, of his city, but he has no love for it. He forms a very insignificant atom in the vast mass of humanity which surrounds him, and he easily transfers his affection to whatsoever portion of the world may contain his household gods. Not so with the rural citizen or the inhabitant of a village. No throng of uninterested spectators ever torments him with a consciousness of his own littleness. He feels that he is a man of note; that he holds a conspicuous and an important place in society; he can calculate the political value of his life. He doubts whether his existence is not necessary to the well-being of the world; and he rewards, with the devotion of his whole heart, the spot which confers such importance upon him. It has been remarked, in many localities, that the youth who had grown up amid them, however far they may have roamed in quest of fortune, invariably return to close their days within reach of the scenes hallowed by their early associations. It is said that every sweep who ascends the chimneys of Paris, has constantly in his mind the picture of some cherished nook in the Savoy Alps, the hope of returning to which as its owner, gives him courage to toil and fortitude to save the rewards of his labours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Historical and Social Sketch of Craven County So Ca written by Porcher Frederick A. and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Covingtons Remembered written by Da Costa Euclid Covington and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of records of many people surnamed Covington in England and America.

Download or read book Historical and Social Sketch of Craven County So CA written by Frederick A. Porcher and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Everybody s Problem written by Karen M. Hawkins and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-12-10 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Offers a new interpretation of the war on poverty by demonstrating the centrality of moderate local leadership (both white and black) in launching and operating antipoverty programs.”—Marisa Chappell, author of The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America “Hawkins has done a remarkable job of mining the sources and reconstructing the reality of what was going on in eastern North Carolina.”—Frank Stricker, author of Why America Lost the War on Poverty—And How to Win It While many scholars have argued that confrontation and protest were the most effective ways for the poor to empower themselves during the social change of the 1960s, Karen Hawkins demonstrates that moderate leadership and biracial cooperation were sometimes just as forceful. Everybody’s Problem shows these values at play in the nation’s first rural-based Community Action Agency to receive federal funding as a part of Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty. Hawkins describes the founding of Craven Operation Progress in one of the poorest regions of North Carolina. She discusses the philosophies and tactics of its directors and outlines the tensions that arose between local leadership and federal control. Using previously untapped primary sources, including oral interviews with antipoverty workers and local citizens, records from the U.S. Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, and documents from the North Carolina Fund, Hawkins adds to the story of the factors that helped lower poverty rates and advance economic development during the 1960s and beyond. A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller

Download or read book Families Remembered written by John Albert Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genealogy of the ancestors of John Albert Burnett born 1 Nov 1961 in Waycross, Georgia. He is the son of John Allen Burnett (1935-1986) and Jamie Kay Walker (1941-1978).

Download or read book Deaths Outside of Craven County written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Craven County Line written by C. Hope Clark and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the blink of an eye... Quinn Sterling—part-time investigator and owner of Sterling Farms—expected the day to go well. Expected all of Craven County to put in an appearance at the much-anticipated, annual Fourth of July celebration on the farm grounds. Expected the temperature would hit hot-enough-to-peel-the-paint-off-a-pickup-truck. What she did not expect was the appearance of a long-lost uncle and new cousin. And she certainly never expected the county sheriff to seriously question her childhood friend, deputy Ty Jackson, as a suspect in the murder of his ex-wife Natalie in the next county over. When Ty is carted off mid-celebration by his boss and in front of his eight-year-old son Cole, Quinn realizes that she may be the only one willing to believe in his innocence regardless of damning evidence to the contrary. With the murder out of her county, Quinn has no contacts to lean on. She has no standing in the investigation. What she can do is make sure Ty has the best defense attorney in the state while she finds a way to prove what her heart knows. Even if that means crossing every line she's ever drawn for herself in pursuit of the real killer. Praise for C. Hope Clark: "Plot twists with grit, and a little fried okra on the side. Truly an excep¬tional mystery writer."—Cindy Ervin Huff, BookBub Reviews on The Craven County Mysteries "Badge of Edisto further establishes Clark's well-earned reputation as a master of the mystery genre."—Jonathan Haupt, coeditor, Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy Hope Clark's books have been honored as winners of the Epic Award, Silver Falcion Award, the Imaginarium Award, and the Daphne du Maurier Award. "The ending is explosive and wild. More great Lowcountry crime fiction from Clark."—C. Brad Cox, Amazon Vine Voice Reviewer on Badge Of Edisto About the author: C. HOPE CLARK is author of The Carolina Slade Mystery Series, and The Craven County Mysteries as well as The Edisto Island Mysteries, all set in her home state of South Carolina. In her previous federal life, she performed administrative investigations and married the agent she met on a bribery investigation. She enjoys nothing more than editing her books on the back porch with him, overlooking the lake, with bourbons in hand. She can be found either on the banks of Lake Murray or Edisto Beach with one or two dachshunds in her lap.

Download or read book Craven County written by Dorothy Williams Potter and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book To the Free holders of Craven County written by C. B. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book HISTORICAL SOCIAL SKETCH OF written by Frederick a. (Frederick Adolphu Porcher and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.