need to gather and evaluate the images that we have, and scan anything remaining. Here is the link to the old exhibit. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/exhibits/bath/htm/
| Completed | libdigital | 11/12/2009 12:00:00 AM |
| Completed | libdigital | 11/12/2009 12:00:00 AM |
| Returned | 11/12/2009 1:55:32 PM | |
| Cataloged | sharpc | 1/7/2014 11:15:39 AM |
| PID | Identifier | Title | Date | Description | |
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| 10478 | PS3551.R58 B52 | Blackbeard: Knight of the Black Flag program | In the summers from 1977 to 1986, the outdoor drama "Blackbeard: Knight of the Black Flag," written and directed by Stuart Aaronson, was produced at an amphitheatre in Bath. The play is a fictional account of the time spent in Bath by Edward Teach, better known as the pirate Blackbeard. The play is scheduled to be revived in the summer of 2005 for the 300th anniversary of Bath.
different years in the catalog...need to find out which year we scanned and update identifier. mr
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| 10479 | 480.42.c | Bonner House | This snapshot of the Bonner House, which was built around 1830, shows it long before restoration. The view from the front of the house at about this same period can be seen on the 1905 souvenir calendar Ye Old Bath Town, 1705-1905 as the picture for March. The present view is the second picture in the series of 2005 photographs of the Bonner House. | ||
| 10480 | 1025.1.f.10 | Bonner House | The following three pictures depict the Bonner House today. The Bonner House, restored by the Beaufort County Historical Society and the Historic Bath Commission, was opened to the public in 1962. In 1989, fire struck the house. Following modern restoration, including analysis of the original interior and exterior colors, the house reopened to the public in 1993. The first picture in the series was taken by Adrienne Dunning Rea, and the second and third pictures were taken by Ashley Noble, both of East Carolina University. | ||
| 10481 | 481.12.Bath Talk | Herbert Paschal talk on Bath history | One of the people active in the preservation of Bath history was Herbert R. Paschal. Paschal had been approached by the groups organizing the 250th anniversary celebrations about writing a history of Bath, which he wrote in a few months and which remained for many years the standard history of the town. Paschal became a professor of history at East Carolina College (now East Carolina University) in 1955 with a specialty in colonial North Carolina history. The following is an undated talk prepared, most likely, for presentation to a group coming to visit Bath either during the period of its restoration or soon after restoration had been completed. | ||
| 10482 | 481.4.EDMOI | John H. Bonner to Edmund Harding | On information that Michael Coutanch (or Coutanch), a mid-eighteenth-century resident of Bath, had built the house, John H. Bonner went back top the Beaufort County records. In this follow-up report to Edmund H. Harding, chair of the Beaufort County Historical Society, Bonner reports that he has not found enough evidence to credit the building of the house to Coutanche. | ||
| 10483 | 481.4.EDMOI | John H. Bonner to Edmund Harding | John H. Bonner continued to feel unsatisfied with the evidence he had found in the Beaufort County records, so in one more look, he located evidence that Michael Coutanche probably had built the Palmer-Marsh house. It has since been found that Coutanche probably did build the Palmer-Marsh house in 1751. | ||
| 10484 | 481.4.EDMOI | Report by John H. Bonner on the Palmer-Marsh House | Soon after the Beaufort County Historical Society purchased the Palmer-Marsh house, Washington, North Carolina, attorney John H. Bonner searched the Beaufort County deed books in an attempt to find out who had built the Palmer-Marsh house. The original report led to the two follow-up letters to Edmund Harding. | ||
| 10485 | 21.13.d | Governor Luther Hodges to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | One of the state's celebrities who was asked to help with the celebration of Bath's 250th anniversary was best-selling historical novelist Inglis Fletcher, who lived in Edenton. Letter from Governor Luther Hodges asking Fletcher to be on the commission to celebrate Bath's 250th anniversary. Includes a short personal note in Hodge's handwriting at the bottom. | ||
| 10486 | 21.13.d | Edmund Harding to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | Edmund H. Harding, a native of Washington, North Carolina, chaired the committees in charge of the 1955 celebrations at Bath. Harding was a retired insurance and fertilizer salesman who had turned to public speaking. Harding's connection with Bath went back to his childhood in the 1890s when his father had served as rector of both St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Washington and St. Thomas Church in Bath. Letter from Edmund Harding about Fletcher's being asked to be on the commission. Handwritten note on the bottom urges her to accept. | ||
| 10487 | 21.13.d | Edmund Harding to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | Inglis Fletcher was asked to play the role of Queen Anne in the pageant Queen Anne's Bell. Letter from Edmund Harding expressing his regrets Fletcher couldn't be at their earlier meeting and noting that he will be using some of her suggestions for the pageant. | ||
| 10488 | 21.13.d | Paul. A Johnston to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | As a state appointed organization, members of the Commission to Celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Bath received official state commissions. Letter of commission for Fletcher to be on the Commission to Celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Bath. | ||
| 10489 | 21.13.e | Mrs. Inglis Fletcher to Ruth Coltrane Cannon | In a letter to Ruth Coltrane Cannon, president of the North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Antiquities (now the Historic Preservation Society of North Carolina) misdated September 7th rather than October 7th, 1955, Inglis Fletcher both notes the success of the 250th anniversary celebration. In the tentative program for the North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Antiquities given on the second page, a report on St. Thomas Church is included. Dated Sept 7, 1955, but more likely 10-7-1955 (for opening line mentions returning from the October 1, 1955, Bath celebration.) More about the Elizabethan gardens, but describes the Bath 250th celebration as successful, with every seat for the pageant sold and not everyone able to get into the amphitheater. Tentative schedule for the December meeting of the [North Carolina Society for the Preservation of] Antiquities mentions St. Thomas Church in Bath. | ||
| 10490 | 21.13.e | Edmund Harding to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | The pageant was produced as professionally as possible. Lights were borrowed from the outdoor drama "The Lost Colony" on Roanoke Island, and as this letter indicates, costumes for many of the performers were rented from out-of-town theatrical costume companies. Letter from Edmund Harding (on personal letterhead--"The Tarheel Humorist / /Humor, Philosophy, Music") about her costume for the Bath pageant and about extending the pageant for a second night. | ||
| 10491 | 21.13.e | To Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | As plans for Queen Anne's Bell were finalized, cast members were asked to confirm their participation. Postcard postmarked 9-14-1955 casting Fletcher as Queen Anne. | ||
| 10492 | 21.13.e | M. David Samples to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | M. David Samples was brought in from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to direct Queen Anne's Bell. Handwritten notes can be found on the pages of the script that Samples sent to Inglis Fletcher covering her role as Queen Anne. The darker ones are most likely Samples' directions. The notes in blue, however, may be Fletcher's suggested changes to the script mentioned in her reply to Samples dated 26 September 1955. | ||
| 10493 | 21.13.e | Mrs. Inglis Fletcher to David Samples | As a writer of historical novels, mainly set in Great Britain’s North Carolina colonies, Fletcher felt the need to suggest revisions to the script as pertained to her role as Queen Anne. Some of these changes might be those seen in blue on the script pages included with director M. David Sample’s letter to Fletcher dated 24 September 1955. | ||
| 10494 | 21.13.e | M. David Samples to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | M. David Samples, director of the pageant Queen Anne's Bell, accepted the script changes suggested by Inglis Fletcher. His letter also indicates some of the problems in dealing with a large cast, many members of which were from out of town. | ||
| 10495 | 21.13.e | M. David Samples to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | Immediately after the October 4th production of Queen Anne's Bell, director M. David Samples sent cast members thank you notes. | ||
| 10496 | 21.13.e | M. David Samples to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | Following the Bath 250th anniversary events, participants made closer connections, as shown in this more personal thank you letter from Queen Anne's Bell director M. David Samples to novelist Inglis Fletcher. | ||
| 10497 | 21.13.e | Mayor Aubrey Lee Brooks to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | Rounds of congratulatory thank you letters were made in the weeks following the Bath 250th anniversary events. | ||
| 10498 | 21.13.e | Edmund Harding to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | Relationships that began to develop during the Bath 250th anniversary celebration remained important after the events. Edmund H. Harding would continue to call on Inglis Fletcher to help as plans to restore historic buildings in Bath grew following the celebrations. | ||
| 10499 | 21.14.b | Edmund Harding to Bath Commission | Edmund H. Harding was appointed chair of the Historic Bath Commission when it was created by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1959. By 1960, work was well under way to restore the Palmer-Marsh house, and in this letter to the commission and its ancillary group, The Chairman's Group of Fifty, Harding outlines plans for a benefit concert to raise money to reshingle the Palmer-Marsh house roof. | ||
| 10500 | 21.14.c | Edmund Harding to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | Edmund H. Harding continued to use the friendship he had forged with Inglis Fletcher during the Bath 250th celebrations, though they may have met earlier. In this letter, he asks her to write a twenty-minute historical play about Christmas in Edenton to go along with three other such plays, including one about Christmas in Bath. The society that these plays were to be presented to is not identified, and it does not appear that the plays were ever written. | ||
| 10501 | 21.14.c | Edmund Harding to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | In early 1961, Inglis Fletcher donated several antiques from her own home in Edenton to help furnish the almost restored Palmer-Marsh house. | ||
| 10502 | 21.14.c | Rachel Tankard to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | Rachel Tankard, a member of the Bath Historic Commission, thanks Inglis Fletcher for the donation of antique furniture for the Palmer-Marsh house and reports on some of the other items picked up while in Edenton picking up Fletcher's donations. | ||
| 10503 | 21.14.c | Mrs. Donald Carrow to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher | The town of Bath continued to feel a connection to Inglis Fletcher even after the Palmer-Marsh and Bonner houses had been restored and opened to the public, as shown through this request from the Bath Public Library for copies of Fletcher's novels. | ||
| 10504 | 54.4.e | Diary entry about Bath visit | In the fall of 1892, nineteen-year-old Mary Octavia Laughinghouse from the town of Grimesland in Pitt County, North Carolina, took a daytrip to Bath, a carriage ride of some 25 miles. Her companions for the day were her neighbors, twenty-four-year-old John Bryan Grimes and his sisters, twenty-two-year-old Charlotte and twenty-year-old Mary. Two years later, Mary and Bryan would be married. Their trip to Bath is both the story of young people having fun on a day out and a description of Bath as a country crossroads with a decaying history. | ||
| 10505 | 580.2.d | Journal entry about labors in the missionary field | In the spring of 1902, Mormon missionary James M. Taylor visited Bath while staying in the small crossroads of Yatesville, some five miles northeast of Bath. Taylor notes the state of disrepair of St. Thomas Church and gives a version of the legend of eighteenth-century evangelist George Whitefield's curse on the town. | ||
| 10506 | 571.54.h | Resolution on new Bath Creek bridge | As more and more people came to visit Bath, particularly St. Thomas Church, local Bath residents and Beaufort County commissioners used increased tourism as a way to argue for better roads and bridges leading into the town. | ||
| 10507 | 571.16.f | Junius D. Grimes to Charles C. Crittenden | During the summer of 1938, with instigation from the recently appointed minister of St. Thomas Church, the Reverend A.C.D. Noe, the State of North Carolina looked into historic preservation of Bath's colonial structures. As seen in this, the preceding, and the following letter, the project was of interest not only to locals, such as the Rev. Noe and Washington, North Carolina, attorney Junius D. Grimes. The project was also of interest to Dr. C.C. Crittenden, Secretary of the North Carolina Historical Commission, who was sent by Governor Clyde R. Hoey to report on the viability of restoring Bath. Nothing ever came of the report. | ||
| 10508 | 574.16.e | Charles C. Crittenden to Junius D. Grimes | During the summer of 1938, with instigation from the recently appointed minister of St. Thomas Church, the Reverend A.C.D. Noe, the State of North Carolina looked into historic preservation of Bath's colonial structures. As seen in this and the following two letters, the project was of interest not only to locals, such as the Rev. Noe and Washington, North Carolina, attorney Junius D. Grimes. The project was also of interest to Dr. C.C. Crittenden, Secretary of the North Carolina Historical Commission, who was sent by Governor Clyde R. Hoey to report on the viability of restoring Bath. Nothing ever came of the report. | ||
| 10509 | 571.16.f | Charles C. Crittenden to Governor Clyde R. Hoey | During the summer of 1938, with instigation from the recently appointed minister of St. Thomas Church, the Reverend A.C.D. Noe, the State of North Carolina looked into historic preservation of Bath's colonial structures. As seen in this and the following two letters, the project was of interest not only to locals, such as the Rev. Noe and Washington, North Carolina, attorney Junius D. Grimes. The project was also of interest to Dr. C.C. Crittenden, Secretary of the North Carolina Historical Commission, who was sent by Governor Clyde R. Hoey to report on the viability of restoring Bath. Nothing ever came of the report. | ||
| 10510 | 1025.1.f.10 | Palmer-Marsh House Chimney | The Palmer-Marsh house was built by Michael Coutanche (or Coutanch) in 1751. Following Coutanche's death in 1761, his widow sold the house to Robert Palmer. The house stayed in the Palmer family until 1802, when it was sold to Jonathan and Daniel Marsh. The Marsh family owned the house until the early twentieth century. The most remarked upon feature of the Palmer-Marsh house is its seventeen-foot wide double chimney which includes windowed closets on the first two floors of the house. The top photograph gives an interior view of the first-floor chimney closet. Earlier views of the house and its chimney can be seen in the 1905 souvenir calendar "Ye Old Bath Town, 1705-1905" as the picture for April 1905 and on page 11 of the 1926 "Forget-Me-Nots of Bath, N.C." The following pictures were taken by Ashley Noble of East Carolina University. | ||
| 10511 | 21.13.d | St. Thomas Church Altar | By the late nineteenth century, the altar area of St. Thomas Church had been renovated to include, among other things, stained glass windows as well as Victorian style altar rails and oil lamps. The picture on the postcard was taken by Bath photographer and souvenir shop owner Thomas R. Draper; the text on the back, by the unidentified "J. N. B.," highlights that Bath tourists were as interested in the town's legendary pirate connections as in its church history. This picture shows St. Thomas Church very much as it would have been when Mary Laughinghouse described it in her 1892 diary entry. | ||
| 10512 | 1025.1.f.13-16 | St. Thomas Church Today | Between 1936 and 1939, St. Thomas Church was stabilized and restored by the Bath Restoration Committee under the leadership of the church's rector, the Reverend A.C.D. Noe. Its bulging walls were straightened, the foundation was reinforced, and the church received a new roof. Just as important, the Victorian era renovations were removed so that the church was once again much like it was when it had first been built--with the addition of electricity and modern heating and cooling. The following pictures were taken by Adrienne Dunning Rea of East Carolina University. | ||
| 10513 | 1025.1.f.06 | Van Der Veer House | The Van Der Veer house was the third historic structure to become part of the Historic Bath State Historic Site. In 1968, Ruth Bowen Smith donated the house to the Beaufort County Historical Society who gave it to the Historic Bath in 1970. The gambrel-roofed house was built by Dr. Ephraim Whitmore sometime in the 1790s and was bought by Jacob Van Der Veer in 1824. The following picture was taken by Adrienne Dunning Rea of East Carolina University. | ||
| 10514 | 472.001 | Survey of Bath Creek | From early on, Bath was defined by land transactions. The following is a mid-nineteenth-century survey of lands that includes mention of eighteenth-century ownership of the land going back to 1722. The Glebe Land (land owned by St. Thomas Episcopal Church to help support the minister) is directly across from the town of Bath. | ||
| 10515 | 329.118 | William Blount Rodman to W. B. Midgett | North Carolina state officials, such Secretary of State William Blount Rodman, agreed to play roles in the pageant Queen Anne's Bell. | ||
| 10516 | 329.118 | William Blount Rodman to Edmund Harding | As plans for the celebration of the founding of North Carolina's first incorporated town came together, the importance of the celebration became clearer. North Carolina Secretary of State William Blount Rodman, in his role as a Bath Commission member, was able to provide a list of all the state dignitaries who ought to be invited. | ||
| 10517 | 329.118 | Junius D. Grimes to William Blount Rodman | On the heels of the performance of Queen Anne's Bell, people generally agreed that the pageant and all the Bath’s 250th anniversary commemorative events had been a success. | ||
| 10518 | 329.118 | William Blount Rodman to Edmund Harding | Rounds of congratulatory thank you letters were made in the weeks following the Bath 250th anniversary events. | ||
| 10519 | 329.118 | Edmund Harding to William Blount Rodman | Even as congratulations went around, the need to pay the bills for the event was at the fore of people's minds. | ||
| 10520 | 329.119 | Mayor Aubery Lee Brooks to William Blount Rodman | Rounds of congratulatory thank you letters were made in the weeks following the Bath 250th anniversary events. | ||
| 10521 | F264.B3 R63 1904 | Souvenir calender / Ye Old Bath Town, 1705-1905 | In 1904, Lida T. Rodman of Washington, North Carolina, decided to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the founding of Bath by publishing a 1905 calendar. Several of the calendar's pictures were of historic Bath -- including St. Thomas Church, the view of Bath Creek from the Bonner house, the famous chimney on the Palmer-Marsh house, and a portrait of Christopher Gale. However, many of the other pictures depicted other aspects of eastern North Carolina history and progress. Interestingly, none of the pictures of progress featured Bath but were, instead, focused on Washington, the town that had eclipsed Bath as the county's center of commerce in the late eighteenth century. | ||
| 10522 | 329.166.e | Forget-me-nots of Bath N.C. | Local Bath resident Ada Satterthwaite Bragg published the following collection of poems in 1926, soon after the 1924 dedication of a marker commemorating Bath history and as North Carolina's Episcopalians were beginning to travel to St. Thomas Church as something of a pilgrimage. Bragg's poems are a fascinating mix of themes. Using subject matter derived mainly form Bath's history, Bragg both praises and condemns the people of Bath's past. Of particular interest is Bragg's lengthy poem "The Settlers" which treats everything from the Tuscarora War of 1711-1713 to Blackbeard to the Reverend George Whitefield's curse on the town of Bath. | ||
| 10523 | 329.118 | Beaufort County Road Commission to William Blount Rodman | One constant concern for Bath was access by road. This letter from the Beaufort County Road Commission to William Blount Rodman, Jr., illustrates the difficulties of maintaining a road through farmlands that needed constant drainage. | ||
| 10524 | 329.118 | R.A. Braddy to William Blount Rodman Jr. | As a farming community, the area around Bath was poor, as seen in this and the following letter from R. A. Braddy to William Blount Rodman, Jr., about trying to collect drainage taxes from the local residents. | ||
| 10525 | 329.118 | R.A. Braddy to William Blount Rodman Jr. | As a farming community, the area around Bath was poor, as seen in this and the prior letter from R. A. Braddy to William Blount Rodman, Jr., about trying to collect drainage taxes from the local residents. | ||
| 10526 | 329.118 | Governor Luther Hodges to William Blount Rodman | North Carolina Secretary of State William Blount Rodman, a native of Washington, North Carolina, was asked to be a member of the Bath Commission. | ||
| 10527 | 329.118 | William Blount Rodman to Governor Luther Hodges | North Carolina Secretary of State William Blount Rodman, a native of Washington, North Carolina, was asked to be a member of the Bath Commission. | ||
| 10528 | 329.168 | St. Thomas Church | The following photographs were taken by local Bath photographer Thomas R. Draper soon after he set up shop in Bath around 1890. As written alongside the photograph and penned-in on the stone above the door, construction on the church began in 1734, though it wasn't completed until 1735. At some point, there was probably a wooden tower or steeple was attached to the front of the building, but it collapsed during a storm sometime in the mid-nineteenth century. This picture shows St. Thomas Church very much as it would have been when Mary Laughinghouse described it in her 1892 diary entry. |