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for The State Vol. 3 Issue 16, Sept 1935
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Abstract:
The slogan \"The Land of the Sky\" was adopted to represent the mountainous western portion of the state. Miss Frances Christine Fisher wrote a novel about a North Carolina family moving from the Piedmont area to the mountains. While she lived in Salisbury the author penned the aforementioned novel, and two plays \"The Princess Nadine and \"Under the Southern Cross\" all under the pseudonym Christian Reid.
Abstract:
Cotton factory turned Confederate prison; in 1935 all that remained of the 40 acre Civil War encampment was a single cottage in the town of Salisbury, Rowan County. Around 1845, Maxwell Chambers built a large brick building to process cotton and six smaller structures to house mill workers. With outbreak of war, the factory was transformed for mustering grounds and a prison to hold Federal prisoners.