Rockbridge County Artists and Artisans
Rockbridge County Artists and Artisans

Author: Barbara Crawford

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780813916385

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The development of many artisans in the fine arts, textiles, furniture, clocks, rifles, ironwork, and pottery is traced from 1750 through the post-Civil War years.

Carolina Cradle
Carolina Cradle

Author: Robert W. Ramsey

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014-02-01

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1469616793

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This account of the settlement of one segment of the North Carolina frontier -- the land between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers -- examines the process by which the piedmont South was populated. Through its ingenious use of hundreds of sources and documents, Robert Ramsey traces the movement of the original settlers and their families from the time they stepped onto American shores to their final settlement in the northwest Carolina territory. He considers the economic, religious, social, and geographical influences that led the settlers to Rowan County and describes how this frontier community was organized and supervised.