Lake Norman, Piedmont History
Author: Ken Brotherton
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Published: 1995-11-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781886057012
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Lake Norman - Piedmont History
Author: Ken Brotherton
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of Lake Norman
Author: Chuck McShane
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-09-30
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 1625850220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJournalist and historian Chuck McShane traces the triumphs and troubles of Lake Norman from the region's colonial beginnings to its modern incarnation. On a muggy September day in 1959, North Carolina governor Luther Hodges set off the first charge of dynamite for the Cowan's Ford Dam project. The dam channeled Catawba River waters into the largest lake in North Carolina: Lake Norman. The project was the culmination of James Buchanan Duke's dream of an electrified South and the beginning of the region's future. Over the years, the area around Lake Norman transformed from a countryside of cornstalks and cattle fields to an elite suburb full of luxurious subdivisions and thirty-five-foot sailboats.
A Town by Any Other Name
Author: Leslie B. Rindoks
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780970465160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA look at a small North Carolina towns history as it celebrates its centennial, with archival photographs and beautifully illustrated maps by artist David Wilgus.
Mysterious Tales of the North Carolina Piedmont
Author: Sherman Carmichael
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1467144061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the Tar Heel State is filled with mysterious and creepy tales. Legends say that several places in North Carolina have been visited by the devil, from the Devil's Tramping Ground near Siler City to the footprint he left in the Devil's Rock in Warren County. Learn why the Banshee of the Tar River first appeared and why her bloodcurdling screams continue to be heard. The Catsburg Ghost Train still appears on moonless nights. Sightings of Normie, the monster of Lake Norman, have been reported since the lake was created in the early 1960s. Join master storyteller Sherman Carmichael as he explores the lore of North Carolina's Piedmont.
North Carolina’s Wild Piedmont
Author: Adam Morgan
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015-08-17
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1625853262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe North Carolina Piedmont is rich in natural beauty and wildlife. Home to eleven state parks, three state natural areas, a national wildlife refuge and a national forest, the region offers more than just gently rolling hills. Tour the wild wine vines in Medoc Mountain State Park, marvel at the floodplains of the Haw River and follow the migratory birds in Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge. Experience the natural history, field research, interviews with park rangers and firsthand experiences of the state's largest physiographic region. Author Adam Morgan joins in a rich tradition of nature writing to paint the majestic beauty and raw power of North Carolina's wild Piedmont.
Gaston County, North Carolina, in the Civil War
Author: Robert C. Carpenter
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-04-29
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1476662444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCivil War histories typically center on the deeds of generals and sweeping depictions of battle. This unique study of one Southern county's war experience tells of ordinary soldiers and their wives, mothers and children, slaves, farmers, merchants, Unionists and deserters--through an examination of tax records. The recently discovered 1863 Gaston County, North Carolina, tax list provides a detailed economic and social picture of a war-weary community, recording what taxpayers owned, cataloging slaves by name, age and monetary value, and assessing luxury items. Contemporary diaries, letters and other previously unpublished documents complete the picture, describing cotton mill operations, the lives of slaves, political disagreements, rationales for soldiers' enlistments and desertions, and economic struggles on the home front.
Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Author: Robin Beck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-06-24
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1107355052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a new conceptual framework for understanding how the Indian nations of the early American South emerged from the ruins of a precolonial, Mississippian world. A broad regional synthesis that ranges over much of the Eastern Woodlands, its focus is on the Indians of the Carolina Piedmont - the Catawbas and their neighbors - from 1400 to 1725. Using an 'eventful' approach to social change, Robin Beck argues that the collapse of the Mississippian world was fundamentally a transformation of political economy, from one built on maize to one of guns, slaves and hides. The story takes us from first encounters through the rise of the Indian slave trade and the scourge of disease to the wars that shook the American South in the early 1700s. Yet the book's focus remains on the Catawbas, drawing on their experiences in a violent, unstable landscape to develop a comparative perspective on structural continuity and change.
The North Carolina Historical Review
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 528
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAround Lake Norman
Author: Cindy Jacobs
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2008-06-23
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1439619689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis history of industry and energy development around Mooresville, North Carolina tells the story of the early use of harnessing hydropower for the textile industry, and resulted in the creation of Lake Norman. The year 1957 brought change to Mooresville and southern Iredell County, and that change arrived in trucks. Big white ones flashed the logo of Burlington Industries, the new owners of the Mooresville Cotton Mills. Bright yellow ones from the Duke Power Company brought earth-moving machines to clear the Catawba River bottomland. That project, envisioned by James Buchanan Duke, Dr. Gill Wylie, and William States Lee Jr., had the end goal of harnessing the energy of the Catawba River to provide electricity for the textile industry in the Carolinas. Duke Power's plan for Cowans Ford Lake was the last piece of the network of hydroelectric stations, and the result was beautiful Lake Norman.
