The History of Alamance
Author: Sallie Walker Stockard
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 194
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Author: Sallie Walker Stockard
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 194
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Murray Vincent
Publisher: HPN Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 1893619982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated history of Alamance County, North Carolina pared with histories of the local companies
Author: Sallie Walker Stockard
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 166
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carole Watterson Troxler
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 9780998731704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this lively two-part narrative, Carole W. Troxler and William M. Vincent place the legacy of Alamance County solidly in the context of regional and national history. Using a broad social scope and the conventional break at 1865, they connect themes and stories across that artificial line. The resulting threads link pre-Civil War divisions with the post-Emancipation violence that made the area the storm center of the state in the 1870s. Thereafter, recovery and renewal depended on leadership, education, and especially labor -- the constant back-and-forth motion of the shuttle across the loom and its parallel, the plow along the furrow.Shuttle & Plow spans more than three centuries, twice the age of the county carved from western Orange County in 1849. The greater Alamance story includes cultural changes over time, including religious dynamics that came to distinguish much of Southern life. Economic currents begin with deerskin trade and the impact that Native American trading paths had on where new arrivals settled. Methods of farming and home manufacturing are explored, along with the functions of crossroads trading and manufacturing centers before the coming of the railroad. After the Civil War, transitions to wage labor and commercial farming reinforced the rise and domination of textiles. Refinements and adjustments in the textile industry and farming are a major twentieth century theme, along with increasing economic diversity. Changes in labor relations and race relations are important features of the county's social heritage.Shuttle & Plow reveals previously untold stories, many in the words of their actors. Its research grasped longstanding thorns, such as the controversial reputation of a Quaker abolitionist/slave owner and the identity of Wyatt Outlaw. Since the book's 1999 publication, its depth and documentation are encouraging learners and established scholars alike to research further into this microcosm of the American South that is Alamance County. North Carolina Libraries calls the book ?a scholars dream . . . and one of the finest county histories in the nation. . . . Shuttle & Plow sets the standard.' The Alamance County Historical Association is pleased to reissue it for a broader market.
Author: Sallie Walker Stockard
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015-06-25
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781330368466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The History of Alamance That our American Republic sprang into life fullformed like Pallas from the head of Zeus seems miraculous, but there is nothing wonderful about either. Both England and Zeus, you know, had been troubled with head pains. The English Church and Presbyterianism were significant. Runnymede, Magna Charta, the strength of the Anglo-saxon speech against the French and the Latin, the Cornish and the Celt, attest to the elasticity and might of the English consciousness. Every bill of rights foretold a possible America. Moore's Utopia was like an index finger pointing to Columbia, "The land of every land the pride." But to see things in their general light is easier than to dissect and vivisect particularly. And it might be pleasanter to write a history of the Feejee Islanders, than to sit down among a people whose conflicting opinions have become a matter of history, and to try to tell the truth, absolute, unprejudiced. An account of the Indians is given, in the first place, for the children; again, because they were the former landowners. Haw River took its name from them. Alamance, in Indian speech, they say, means all men's land, a universal sort of country; and indeed it well might be so named; Governor Morehead called the lovely sloping fields between Stinking Quarter Creek and the Big Alamance, his Eden. An Indian grave-yard has been found, not far from Glencoe; the skeletons show them to have been buried in a sitting position. 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.
Author: Carole Watterson Troxler
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 9780962655838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter E. Whitaker
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 296
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Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781016386395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 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. 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.
Author: Walter E. Whitaker
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 270
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