Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on April 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
UPDATED: Kevin is right! Pictured below are the three men vying for the Democratic nomination for Governor: Walter Dalton, Bob Etheridge, and Bill Faison. See the post on the DigitalNC blog for more information and links to the digitized yearbooks. Can anyone tell me what these three young men have in common? I’ll post the [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on March 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There was an interesting story on WFAE in Charlotte last week about the new survey of the border between North and South Carolina. In an effort to correctly establish the historical border between the Carolinas, surveyors are making adjustments that may change a few addresses from one state to the other, leaving surprised residents faced [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From the Southern Pines Pilot, March 19, 1937. I especially like the reference to “Sunday-Go-To-Meetin’ Shoes.”
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I found this ad for UNC in a 1907 issue of the Sylvan Valley News, published in Brevard, N.C. We’ve recently added over 400 issues of the paper, ranging from 1900-1911, to the North Carolina Newspapers digital collection. The University has grown just a bit since this ad was posted. There are definitely more than [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on February 28, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I found this very interesting “Chapel Hill Letter” in an issue of The Mebane Leader from May 18, 1915. The letter describes a project led by Kemp Plummer Battle to preserve a collection of “articles used in industries in avocations” in 1915 and seal them up in a “hermetically sealed box” to be opened again [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Word reached these parts today that workers have begun dismantling the old Washington Mills in Mayodan. The mill’s origins date to 1896 when Colonel Francis Fries and W.C. Ruffin built a dam on the Mayo River in Rockingham County and set up a factory to spin uncolored yarn. The town of Mayodan soon formed around [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on February 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
We’ve been working steadily on the North Carolina City Directories digital project and now have well over 300 volumes online, representing 44 different cities and towns. The collection includes every directory from the North Carolina Collection published prior to 1940, as well as a few from the Durham County Library and Forsyth County Library.
Posted in DigitalNC, History, Tar Heelia, tagged bugs bunny, crime slang, daffy duck, dashiell hammett, easter yeggs, golden yeggs, hemp nc, john edwards, robbins nc, southern pines pilot, the glass key, yegg on January 13, 2012 | 2 Comments »
What caught my eye on the 1935 front page of The Pilot of Southern Pines — thank you, NC Digital Heritage Center — was this headline: YEGGS CRACK SAFE IN POSTOFFICE AT HEMP, GET LITTLE Yeggs? Hemp? The Google Ngram Viewer charts the abrupt rise and fall of yegg as slang for safecracker or burglar. [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on January 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
There are a lot of curiosities in the old newspapers we’re digitizing, but rarely do I come across any complete mysteries like this ad, which I found in the Fayetteville Observer from January 8, 1863. Do any of you know anything about Blue Mass?
Posted in DigitalNC, History on January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
If today’s headlines have you down, trying reading old news instead. The NC Digital Heritage Center makes its first foray into Twitter with @ncnewspapers, where we’ll be tweeting a historic headline every day from that day in history. The stories we feature will span the full range of North Carolina history from the 19th and [...]
