Record #:

18528

Author(s):

Goerch, Carl

Abstract:

Continuing his travels to North Carolina's counties, Goerch visits Madison County. Located in the mountains, it covers 450 square miles. The county is one of the leading producers of pure-bred cattle as well as being the state's largest grower of burley tobacco. Marshall, the county seat, has the courthouse and business district located on a narrow strip of land beside the French Broad River, while the high school stands on an island in the river.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 9 Issue 47, Apr 1942, p1-2, 16-19, il

Subject(s):

Madison County--Description and travel

Record #:

18529

Author(s):

Lawrence, R.C.

Abstract:

Frances Christine Tiernan (nee Fisher) of Salisbury wrote under the pseudonym Christian Reid. She was a prolific writer of short stories, serialized novelettes, and 46 published books during the 19th- and early 20th-century. Her most remembered book is The Land of Sky, which became a descriptive name for western North Carolina. She died of pneumonia and is buried in Salisbury.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 9 Issue 47, Apr 1942, p3, 20

Subject(s):

Tiernan, Frances Christine Fisher (Christian Reid), 1846-1920; Authors, North Carolina--Women

Record #:

18541

Author(s):

Gaddy, Hazel Ross

Abstract:

Hazel Ross Gaddy and her husband Lockhart have been looking after geese and ducks on their Ansonville farm since 1934. The farm is better known as Lockhart Gaddy's Wild Goose Refuge. Each year thousands Canada geese and wild ducks winter here. Mrs. Gaddy gives a vivid description of the recent maneuvers of the wild geese as they prepare to fly northward toward home.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 9 Issue 47, Apr 1942, p6, 22, il

Subject(s):

Wildlife refuges--Anson County