Record #:

14916

Author(s):

Lawrence, R.C.

Abstract:

Ten women, out of the many influential females in the state, are highlighted for their distinguished service to North Carolina. The ten include: Dolly Madison, Flora MacDonald, Cornelia Spencer, Francis Fisher Tiernan, Susan Dimock, Elizabeth Ann Macrae, Katherine Shipp, Fannie E. S. Heck, Delia Dixon-Carroll. These women were selected because of affiliation with advances in education, literature, medicine, politics, warfare from the colonial period to the 1940s.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 11 Issue 25, Nov 1943, p1-2, 24, 26, il

Subject(s):

Tiernan, Frances Christine Fisher (Christian Reid), 1846-1920

Record #:

14917

Author(s):

Moore, Louis T.

Abstract:

Blockade running off the state's coast ran primarily out of Wilmington. Speedy steam engines attempted to pass Union blockading vessels from 1861 to the bitter end of the Civil War in 1865. In 1943, shipwrecks remains found were victims of the elements or enemy ships. A list is presented for wrecks off Hanover County and points south: Phantom, Nutfield, Wild Darrell, Fanny and Jenny, Doe, Venus, Lynx, Hebe, Beauregard, Night Hawk, Modern Greece, Condor, Petrel, Duoro, Raleigh, Arabian, Antonica, Spunky, Georgianna Mccaw, Bendigo, Elizabeth, Ranger, Dare, Vesta, etc.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 11 Issue 25, Nov 1943, p9, 14, il

Subject(s):

Wilmington--History; North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Blockade runners

Record #:

19193

Author(s):

Rambeau, Howard

Abstract:

Winston, a native of Bertie County, was a judge, lawyer, and biographer, and spent most of his active life in Raleigh. He wrote biographies of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Horace Williams, as well as his own autobiography.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 11 Issue 25, Nov 1943, p6-7, por

Subject(s):

Winston, Robert Watson, 1860-1944

Record #:

19194

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

Abstract:

Winston-Salem is the state's largest industrial city with more concerns than the article's limited space can do justice to. The best-known industry in the city is the Reynolds Tobacco Company. Throughout the county there are 127 industrial enterprises employing over 30,000 people. Tobacco is the county's cash crop, with sales earning the growers over $10 million annually. A number of other food crops are grown as well.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 11 Issue 25, Nov 1943, p16-23, il

Subject(s):

Forsyth County--Industry and agriculture