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| Author | : Larry J. Griffin |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1467135836 |
Slavery is a tragic chapter in the history of Wilkes County with a lasting legacy. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered respect from both white and black residents. Her story is linked to free person of color and noted landowner Henderson Waugh, whose illustrious, slaveholding white father connected the two families--one slave and the other free. Author Larry Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to separate fact from myth as he chronicles the history of slavery in Wilkes County. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered respect from both white and black residents. Her story is linked to free person of color and noted landowner Henderson Waugh, whose illustrious, slaveholding white father connected the two families--one slave and the other free. Author Larry Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to separate fact from myth as he chronicles the history of slavery in Wilkes County.
| Author | : Jennifer L. Pena |
| Publisher | : History Press Library Editions |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2008-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781540218025 |
What do NASCAR, Tom Dula and Lowe s Home Improvement have in common? They all came from Wilkes County, North Carolina. The foothills of Wilkes County are a region of unsurpassed beauty and captivating history. Cradled by the Blue Ridge and watered by the Yadkin River, the county has faced the Revolution and Civil War, cheered on moonshiner and revenuer alike and struggled mightily to become the North Carolina jewel it is today. Join local historians Jennifer Pena and Laurie Hayes as they tell the story of a county steeped in tradition and immersed in history."
| Author | : Mrs. W. O. Absher |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 1989-01-01 |
| Genre | : Pioneers |
| ISBN | : 9780893086442 |
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780893081706 |
A Compilation of the genealogical information found in collections of loose court, estate, land, school, military, marriage, and other records of the ceded lands and Wilkes County, Georgia, from 1773 to 1833, with a few additional papers from earlier and later periods.
| Author | : Grace Gillam Davidson |
| Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
| Total Pages | : 846 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : County government |
| ISBN | : 0806346698 |
| Author | : Oscar Jewell Harvey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 722 |
| Release | : 1909 |
| Genre | : Civic leaders |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Rose M. Haynes |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2013-09-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1476604436 |
How could the peace and quiet of Ashe County, North Carolina (in the mountains, at the Virginia-Tennessee corner), turn into a nightmare of crime and drugs, and the old copper mine itself become a dumping ground for the dead? In 1982, two bodies had been chipped from an icy grave and brought up from the 250-foot mine shaft where they had been thrown while still alive. Now, there were rumors of 21 bodies still down there. If the mine was ever re-opened, what would they find--copper or bodies? Murder, drugs, prostitution and gangs come together in the history of the Ore Knob Mine. A small Appalachian community became the heart of a vicious drug ring ruled by the Outlaws motorcycle gang from Chicago. Ashe County made national headlines when a police informant came forward confessing that he had pushed a man alive into the Ore Knob Mine shaft. This book is the full story.
| Author | : A. M. Wadkins |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2017-01-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1524568120 |
At the tender age of fifteen, author A. M. Wadkins embarked on a journey that would last her a lifetime. A promise is simple enough on the surface, but in this case, that promise was the driving force that would see a young girl through lifes trials and tribulations. Each day, whether met with happiness or tears, diligence was always the key. It this book, meet the author and learn about the promise she made on a mountaintop in Virginia so long ago. Then travel back through the grains of time with the author asthrough her researchshe meets the people that helped shape the United States. Witness their struggles in defining not only who they would become, but who this country would become. Be there as men are sent off to war to fight for either the North or South. Then continue on through the turning of century, when life seemed golden. Take a walk through history with the people who lived it and get to know the faces that made it possible.
| Author | : North Carolina |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 2330 |
| Release | : 1905 |
| Genre | : North Carolina |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : United States. Internal Revenue Service |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 996 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations |
| ISBN | : |
