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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Washington Daily News Church Histories, #2880, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Raymond M. Taylor of Washington, N.C., January 1953.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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• American newspapers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Beaufort County (N.C.)--Church history.
• Beaufort County (N.C.)--History.
• Church buildings--North Carolina--History.
• Washington (N.C.)--History.
• Washington daily news (Washington, N.C.)

Washington Daily News of Washington, N.C., began in 1872 as Washington Gazette. It subsequently operated under the titles Evening Messenger, 1886-1907, and Daily Messenger, 1907-1913, acquiring its current title in 1913.

The collection includes histories and descriptions of 115 churches in Beaufort County, N.C., gathered and compiled by the staff of the Washington, N.C., Daily News for their Annual Tobacco Edition, 19 August 1952, the theme of which was the churches of Beaufort County. The material consists of questionnaires sent to churches, responses received, and other information compiled by the reporting staff. There are also other items relating to the special edition and an explanatory letter, 1953, from Raymond M. Taylor.