Record #:

9822

Author(s):

Rouse, Parke, Jr.

Abstract:

The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road, which cut diagonally through North Carolina's Piedmont, was the primary southbound route for English, Scotch-Irish, and Germanic immigrants who began arriving in Pennsylvania in the 1720s. By 1760, it had become the most heavily traveled road in America, fostering the establishment of new towns throughout the south, including Salisbury, Charlotte, and the Moravian settlements of Bethania and Salem in North Carolina. Revolutionary War battles fought along the Wagon Road include Camden, Cowpens, King's Mountain, and Guilford Courthouse.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 40 Issue 1, June 1972, p6-8, il, map

Subject(s):

Immigrants; Great Philadelphia Wagon Road; Germans--North Carolina--Immigration; Scots--North Carolina--Immigration; Irish--North Carolina--Immigration; English--North Carolina--Immigration

Record #:

9902

Author(s):

Morgan, Fred T.

Abstract:

The last 15 years have seen the establishment and explosive growth of inland fish houses in the Piedmont and western counties of North Carolina. Stanly County, which is the epicenter of this culinary phenomenon, is known as “The Fish House Capital of the World” and its six major restaurants, including the original Stony Gap Fish House, seat 3,000 people and serve approximately 10,000 meals per day collectively.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 40 Issue 1, June 1972, p10-11, il

Subject(s):

Fish as food; Stanly County--Restaurants

Record #:

9903

Author(s):

Hall, Lewis Phillip

Abstract:

Wild horses, thought to be descendants of domesticated horses that were abandoned by Spanish colonists in 1526, once roamed the grassy plains between the Great Caw Caw Swamp and the Waccamaw River in Brunswick County. Despite attacks by wolves and panthers, domestication by Indians and European settlers, and a yearly round-up that still occurred as late as 1897, the wild horses endured for approximately 400 years.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 40 Issue 1, June 1972, p12, 24, il

Subject(s):

Horses--Brunswick County

Record #:

9904

Author(s):

Kaylor, Mike

Abstract:

Randolph Edwards “Moon” Mullins, of Hickory, operates a small, backyard museum filled with over 250,000 Indian tools and relics, 4 meteorites, various Civil War artifacts, and an amateur movie theater with associated memorabilia. Mullins hopes to expand his collection, which is thought to be the largest of its kind in the country, to include artifacts from every state in the country.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 40 Issue 1, June 1972, p14-15, il, por

Subject(s):

Art museums--Hickory