Posted in From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
One of the most famous maps of early North Carolina is the one created in 1733 by Edward Moseley, the Surveyor General of the province (Note: It’s NOT the one above. Keep reading to learn more). Moseley’s A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina is generally cited as the first map [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Memorabilia Moment, Tar Heelia on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The photo above is one of 66 images of historic schools in North Carolina that the State Library of North Carolina added to its Flickr site. Our colleagues are trying to determine where each of these schools stood. The photos were included in the Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Catholic Diocese of Raleigh plans to seek the beatification and canonization of Reverend Thomas Frederick Price, the first North Carolinian to become a Catholic priest. Born in Wilmington in 1860, Price joined the priesthood at the age of 26. From 1886 to 1910 he served Catholics in such eastern North Carolina towns and settlements [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Article 14, Section 8 was adopted during the Constitutional Convention of 1875. The amendment, outlawing interracial marriage, remained a part of the North Carolina Constitution until 1971, when a new state constitution was adopted. In 1977 the General Assembly passed a law validating all interracial marriages that occurred prior to March 24, 1977, the date [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Memorabilia Moment, Tar Heelia on January 11, 2012 | 3 Comments »
A person about to open a dram shop asked another what he should put on his sign. “Beggars made here” was the reply. Two men happening to jostle each other in the streets. Says one,”I never permit a blackguard to take the wall.” “I do,” said the other, and instantly made way. From Henderson’s Almanack [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Literature, On This Day, Tar Heelia on October 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On Thomas Wolfe’s birthday, we recall not only the writer himself, but also those who’ve been inspired by him. Here’s one story of those who interpreted Wolfe’s words through art. In early 1945 the Limited Editions Club, a New York publisher, held a contest to find illustrators for about 45 literary classics, including Thomas Wolfe’s [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia on September 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today’s assignment is to compare and contrast. The images above are portions of fire insurance maps depicting Carrboro. The top one is a 1915 map produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance Company. The other is a 1947 map produced by Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Companies. The full maps are included on North Carolina Maps. [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, Just A Bite on September 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This map depicting the coal fields of Chatham County and other mineral deposits in 1874 is the most recent addition to our North Carolina Maps online collection. It seemed as good a map as any to remind you that we’re still adding to the site. We’re now up to 3,395 maps. We’re proud of the [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, On This Day, Tar Heelia on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Next Day, about 10 a Clock, we struck out of the Way, by the Advice of our Old Indian. We had not gone past two Miles, e’er we met with about 500 Tuskeruros in one Hunting-Quarter. They had made themselves Streets of Houses, built with Pine-Bark, not with round Tops, as they commonly use, but [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History on September 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The State Library of North Carolina has digitized and uploaded a number of Civil War related publications (both state documents and publications by the NC Confederate Centennial Commission) to the NC Digital Collections. Bloody Sixth: the Sixth North Carolina Regiment http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,284870 Bloody Sixth: the Sixth North Carolina Regiment: Footnotes http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,285391 Register of North Carolina troops, [...]
