Elizabeth Duncan Koontz was born in Salisbury, North Carolina on June 3, 1919. She graduated from Livingstone College, A.B. 1938; and received the M.A. degree…
Below you will find Rowan County journal titles for the first three years of our journal. Many libraries will have copies of these journals, but…
The story of the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road is the story of the German and Scots-Irish settlement in America. For nearly 150 years after North…
John Steele was the son of Elizabeth Maxwell Steele and her second husband, William Steele. The following is a letter among the “Papers of John…
Matthew Rowan Matthew Rowan, though of Scotch descent, was doubtless of Irish birth. The Rowan family was established in the parish of Govan, in the…
Built in 1896, in the Second Empire Period style, Grimes Mill is one of the last roller mills in America. The mill opened in 1897…
This is part 2 of 2 on temperance and prohibition in Rowan County, North Carolina. Carry Nation, circa 1910. Boyden was Salisbury’s postmaster for seventeen…
Temperance and prohibition groups had been active in Salisbury since 1820 when drunkenness was the leading cause of death. But during a statewide referendum in…
Have you ever found an older photograph with ladies in hats and long dresses, or men with beards but no mustaches? Did you wonder when…
To learn more about our ancestors beyond the basics of censuses and vital records, successful researchers access lesser known record sets, archives, and manuscript collections.…