Record #:

9275

Author(s):

Mosseller, Lillian Mills

Abstract:

Helen Ashley Carver came to Tryon in 1885 when wages for men were 50 cents a day and for women, 25 cents a day. Carver paid her gardener 65 cents a day and paid a vineyard caretaker $1 a day, after which she was found guilty of raising wages and subsequently became unpopular.\r\n

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 46 Issue 8, Jan 1979, p10-11, il, por

Subject(s):

North Carolina--Economic conditions--19th Century