Record #:

16128

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

Abstract:

Clarence Twiford reminisced about growing up and living in Powells Point. He was born September 23, 1917 and learned the fishing trade from is family and became a life-long fisherman in the Currituck Sound.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 23 Issue 1, Fall 1983, p12-13, il

Subject(s):

Fishermen; Twiford, Clarence, 1917-1979

Record #:

16129

Author(s):

Hairston, Eric Ashley

Abstract:

Old London School was the more recognized name for the Walnut Cove Colored School. It operated between 1910 until 1918 before a new facility was built in 1923. Yet another facility would replace the 1923 five room schoolhouse in 1952 and was called the London High School.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 23 Issue 1, Fall 1983, p14-16, il

Subject(s):

African Americans--Education

Record #:

16130

Author(s):

Hester, Jim

Abstract:

In 1915, Miss Charlotte Yale and Miss Eleanor Vance opened the Tryon Toy Shop at Tryon. It operated successfully until the Depression and then a fire which wiped out their equipment and patterns. The business was later taken over by Moss Guilbert in 1949 and later by Chuck Hearon in 1977.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 23 Issue 1, Fall 1983, p17-19, il

Subject(s):

Toy making