Posted in Postcards on February 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the past month and a half, we’ve uploaded postcards from several new locations to our North Carolina Postcards website. You can check out these new towns here: Gibsonville, Alamance and Guilford Counties Polkton, Anson County Crossnore, Avery County Pantego, Beaufort County Highshoals, Gaston County Henrietta, Rutherford County
Posted in From the Stacks, Postcards, Tar Heelia on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the postcard that Lew Powell mentioned in a recent comment, along with another from the collection that shows Republican President William Howard Taft on that same May 20, 1909 visit. Taft was in Charlotte to celebrate the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
Posted in Tar Heelia on February 5, 2009 | 9 Comments »
It’s time for a new installment of “Where the Heel?,” but I’m adding a twist to this one. Instead of identifying a place based on an image, we’re looking for the North Carolina location that is described by a specific slogan. Can you fill in the blank below? If you have a guess, leave it [...]
