Rural North Carolina History

The soldiers on the fighting front, the people of the United Nations, and the civilians of countries won back from axis control are looking...

Published Dec. 22, 1939, in the  Albemarle News and Press By F.H. Jeter, Extension Editor, North Carolina State College, Raleigh In Stanly...

Margaret Brown, 13, of Mecklenburg County, one of the first members of Tomato Canning Clubs in North Carolina, wrote the following descript...

The first cotton mill not only in the State but in the South, and also the first mill south of the Potomac operated by water power, was esta...

From the Salisbury Evening Post , published Dec. 18, 1940 Farm women of Rowan County, attending the biennial banquet of the federation of ...

Traveling Libraries By Mrs. Edith S. Johnson, Johnston County “Mr. Stephenson,” Mama called to Daddy. “Do you remember that story in The Pr...

“Our story is not sensational, but it is valid history of an era that is only a memory.” By George C. Allen Sr., 1988 The century farm I ...