Posted in Postcards, Tar Heelia on October 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Attention NCC, NC Miscellany, NC History, and NC Postcard lovers (and those of you stumble-upon-this-website-web-friends!): while postcard transcriptions are readily available at the wonderful NC Postcards website (http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/nc_post/), we thought we’d take their quite Droll and Merry content and attempt to fit it in, you guessed it, 140 characters! As we continue to transcribe and [...]
Posted in History, Postcards, Tar Heelia on October 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The winter resort village of Pinehurst, N.C. began in 1895, and the Carolina hotel opened there in 1901. It was the largest hotel in the community, and at the time of its construction, the largest hotel in the state. Pinehurst featured several other hotels, boarding houses, and cottages for rent, but none offered the same [...]
