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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Henderson Monroe Fowler Diary and Account Books, #264-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Florence Fowler prior to 1940.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Account books.
• Alamance Cotton Mill (Alamance County, N.C.)
• Alamance County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Diaries.
• Fowler, Henderson Monroe.
• Holt family.
• Holt, Edwin Michael, 1807-1884.
• Textile industry--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Textile workers--North Carolina--Social life and customs--19th century.

• See also Alamance Cotton Mill records (#4); Edwin Michael Holt papers (#350).

Henderson Monroe Fowler managed the Alamance Cotton Mill founded by Edwin Michael Holt in Alamance County, N.C. Fowler was also possibly a school teacher and religious worker.

The collection includes Henderson Monroe Fowler's diaries, 1871-1889 and 1907, containing brief entries relating to textile mill work and workers, neighborhood news, the weather, and Edwin Michael Holt and his family. Enclosed in one of the diaries is a contemporary copy of a court record of 1815 and other items. Also included is a volume of miscellaneous accounts.