Record #:

22561

Author(s):

Alexander, Violet G.

Abstract:

An iron marker now sits at the site of the Confederate Navy Yard in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Navy Yard operated from spring of 1862 until 1865. Commanded by first by General R.L. Page and later by H. Ashton Ramsay, a number of large structures were erected on site, including a gun carriage shop, a laboratory, a torpedo shop, a forge where propeller shafting was forged for all the Confederate ironclads. Rifles, shot, shells, and torpedoes were also manufactured at the Navy Yard in Charlotte.

Source:

The North Carolina Booklet (NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 23 Issue 1,2,3,4, January 1926, p28-37 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Monuments; North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Confederate States of America--Navy

Record #:

22468

Author(s):

Alexander, Violet G.

Abstract:

The Spratt burying-ground in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina is one of the oldest burying places in the state. Many of the inscriptions on tombstones found in the graveyard pre-date the American Revolution.

Source:

The North Carolina Booklet (NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 15 Issue 3, January 1916, p152-157 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Gravestones; Mecklenburg County--History; Cemeteries

Record #:

22476

Author(s):

Alexander, Violet G.

Abstract:

As early as 1737, Colonel John Selwyn was granted tracts of land in the Piedmont region of North Carolina by the British Crown. Neither Colonel Selwyn or his son George ever set foot on their land in Carolina, and with the death of George in 1791 the name all but disappeared in the region with the exception of a street named Selwyn in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Source:

The North Carolina Booklet (NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 16 Issue 1, July 1916, p32-38 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775