Record #:

2344

Author(s):

Holland, Ron

Abstract:

Though land was cheap, rugged mountains, the lack of good roads, political conflict with the east, and isolation were challenges to those who came to the mountains to farm, start businesses, or search for gold.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Spring 1995, p23-26, il

Subject(s):

Migration--Internal; Land settlement; North Carolina, Western--History

Record #:

2345

Author(s):

Lennon, Donald R.; Ragan, Fred D.

Abstract:

Whites left the state in the 19th Century because of farm problems and poor state government, while lack of opportunities and a repressive environment caused Blacks to leave. As conditions improved for both, the need to leave lessened.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Spring 1995, p27-32, il, por

Subject(s):

Migration--Internal; Rural-urban migration; African Americans--Relocation

Record #:

2346

Author(s):

Hendricks, Christopher E.; Hendricks, J. Edwin

Abstract:

Following the Great Wagon Road and the Great Indian Trading Path, settlers began moving into the Piedmont shortly before the Revolution. Despite Indian warfare and the Regulator conflict, the best land was occupied by farms and towns by the 1770s.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Spring 1995, p16-21, il, por

Subject(s):

Migration--Internal

Record #:

2351

Author(s):

Baum, Laura; Stuart, Alfred W.

Abstract:

From 1980 to 1990 about 400,000 people moved to the state. New jobs and industries in the three largest metropolitan areas attracted Blacks to return, as well as large numbers of Asians and Hispanics. In-state residents moved to urban from rural areas.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Spring 1995, p33-36, il

Subject(s):

Migration--Internal; Rural-urban migration

Record #:

1075

Author(s):

Sharpe, Bill

Abstract:

Information extracted from the 1990 Census reveals how North Carolina residents have moved within and outside the state.

Source:

North Carolina State Data Center Newsletter (NoCar HA 552 N6x), Vol. 15 Issue 1, Mar 1993, p1-8, map

Subject(s):

Demographic transition; Migration--Internal

Record #:

9276

Author(s):

Davidson, Chalmers G.

Abstract:

Many of North Carolina's 19th-century settlers were from Northern Ireland. Most came to port in Maryland and Pennsylvania and drove covered wagons to North Carolina. Many lived in homesteads and not manor-houses. The Ulster Folk Museum at Holywood, County Down, in Ireland is a recreated North Ireland county town open to the public.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 46 Issue 8, Jan 1979, p12-13, 58, il, por

Subject(s):

Migration--Internal; Irish; Irish--Migrations

Record #:

20514

Author(s):

Wooten, Hugh Hill

Abstract:

This article looks at the heavy migration from Iredell County between 1800 and 1850. An examination of land records and wills indicates that military bounty lands in Tennessee and land sales in Kentucky were early motivators for the exodus, however the popularity of westward migrations skyrocketed as people moved towards the waters of Ohio, Tennessee and Mobile, as well Missouri, Illinois and the western states seeking land employment opportunities as population pressures in counties in NC were increasing. Some reprints of letters written by migrants to family or friends back in Iredell country are included.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 30 Issue 1, Jan 1953, p61-71, il, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Migration--Internal; Iredell County--Migration