The Edith M. Clark History Room is located on the third floor of the headquarters branch of Rowan Public Library in Salisbury, North Carolina. People…
From “A Trip Through Europe: June 19-September 2, 1938 written for the amusement of my friends” by Father William Regnat, one time priest at Sacred…
The article below was published in the Heritage of Rowan County, North Carolina, and can be found in the Rowan County library in Salisbury. Also…
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…
The following is a letter among the “Papers of John Steele,” from Elizabeth Steele (his mother) to Ephraim Steele (his uncle.)1 The letter was addressed…
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. Boyden was Salisbury’s postmaster for seventeen years and mayor from…
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…
“Mamie” McCubbins 1874-1954 Mamie McCubbins was a tireless genealogical researcher, in part due to a unique connection to Rowan County records. She researched and documented…