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8196
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In 1863, a mob of Confederate soldiers' wives and mothers, fed up with the inflation from the ongoing Civil War, marched through Salisbury with axes and hatchets demanding the scarce foodstuffs that various speculators were stockpiling to sell out of state at high prices. Through intimidation and force the women collected twenty-three barrels of flour, two sacks of salt, a barrel of molasses, and twenty dollars in Confederate money. After the women appealed to Governor Zebulon Vance, he permanently banned the export of foodstuffs and cloth out of the state.
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20469
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With the immigration of thousands of Germans, Scotch-Irish, Welsh, English, and Huguenot to western North Carolina, the northern portion of Anson County was cut off to form Rowan County. In the 1750s, the court of Rowan began administering for the new county. In 1755, the town of Salibury was formally created when a 635 acre grant was made to James Carter. Carter played a prominent role in the establishment of Salisbury not only as a deputy surveyor and trustee, but also as justice of the peach and register of deeds.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 39 Issue 2, Apr 1962,
p131-139, f
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22572
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This article details a tailor from Salisbury, North Carolina who specializes in making historically accurate military uniforms, from the American Revolution through World War II and other conflicts. The author discusses how he got his start, and how his attention to detail has made him a sought after source of information.
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27284
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Salisbury is a small town in Rowan County. Food Lion was founded there and the town is also home to Catawba College. In the late twentieth century, early Food Lion investors became millionaires due to the success of the supermarket chain. Many of these investors stayed in Salisbury and invested the money in their community, all the while helping to preserve it.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 84 Issue 5, October 2016,
p60, 62, 64, 66, 68-69, il, por, map
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31721
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The son of the famous African missionary met his untimely fate in Salisbury. After changing his name and joining the Union Army as a substitute, Robert Livingstone was captured in VA and sent to a confederate prison in Salisbury, NC. There he died in a possible escape attempt and was buried in an unmarked mass grave.
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36371
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Penny Treece made a model of the Governor Ellis House and created a ring binder containing photographs, historical research and an account of the hours spent building her model. She won First Place for Individual Arts Special Achievement during the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Awards Day program of the Tar Hill Junior Historian Association.
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38296
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The highway as North Carolina’s colonists knew it was the primary pathway for many. Covering 700 miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to August, Georgia, this road largely traveled by foot played a pivotal role in creating some of the state’s metros and major cities. Commemorating the importance of the Great Wagon Road are items in the Rowan Museum such as a wagon made by John Israel Nissen, descendant of original travelers of the road. A personal sign of the road’s importance is on display at the Knox Farm: the rim of one of The Great Wagon’s wheels. John Knox’s eighth generation descendants can’t attest the rim was on their ancestor’s wagon; they only know it’s always been part of the farm’s landscape.
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Indian paths--Great Wagon Road; Colonial North Carolina paths--Great Wagon Road; Great Wagon Road; Charlotte--History; Winston-Salem--History; Salisbury--History; Rowan Museum (Salisbury); Rowan County--History; Frontier roads--North Carolina--Great Wagon Road; Frontier roads--Great Philadelphia Wagon Road; Stokes County--History; North Carolina--Warrior's Path; Bethabara; Bethania--History; Revolutionary War--Great Wagon Road; American Revolution--Great Wagon Road; Colonial North Carolina--Travel ; Colonial North Carolina--Transportation