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Rice Monument
Chestnut Hill Cemetery is the burial place of Cathew Albert Rice (born March 9, 1857, died February 2, 1907) and his wife Carolina V. Marsh Rice (born June 7, 1863, died March 14, 1946). The monument was made by Carolina Marble & Granite Co.
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In Fulton Heights Park
As an inducement to people to buy lots in the new Fulton Heights neighborhood, Salisbury’s first development outside of the city’s boundaries, promoters opened Fulton Heights Park in 1906. The July 4th celebration included a sunrise salute, parade,…
Drive in National Cemetery
Drive in National Cemetery, Salisbury N.C.
No series no. Published by Theo Buerbaum, Salisbury, N.C.
National Cemetery
National Cemetery, Salisbury, N. C.
Pub. By Theo Buerbaum, Salisbury N. C.Salisbury Historic National Cemetery https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/salisbury.asp
Residence of W. S. Blackmer
The Walter Steele Blackmer residence was located at 425 West Horah Street. Walter Steele and Clara de Roulhac Alderman Blackmer had three sons, Walter, Sidney, and Luke. Blackmer, a local businessman, was the son of Luke Blackmer, a prominent local…
Residence of Mayor A. H. Boyden
The A. H. Boyden House at 204 S. Church Street was most likely built by one of the previous owners of the property, possibly Adlai Osborne or Spruce Macay, and added to by later owners. It is known that A. H. Boyden made further additions to the…
Residence of the late E. B. C. Hambley
The Hambley-Wallace house was built for Egbert Barry Cornwall Hambley, an English mining engineer in 1902. The two-and-a-half story yellow brick Jacobean styled structure was designed by Charles Christian Hook, a Charlotte architect, and built by…
Residence of James Hill Ramsay
The residence of James Hill Ramsay, located at 208 South Fulton Street, is now the Rowan Oak House, a Bed & Breakfast. Built in 1901, the house is an elegant Queen Anne Victorian featuring wrap-around porch, and leaded and stained glass…
Residence of Hon. R. Lee Wright
The home of Honorable R. Lee Wright, located at 302 South Fulton Street, was built in 1912 by architect Louis Asbury. Asbury, an architect educated at Trinity College (Duke University) in Durham and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was…
Residence of U.S. Senator Lee S. Overman
This stately home was located at the corner of West Innes and South Ellis Streets and was the residence of Lee Slater Overman, a United States Senator. The house was torn down to build a bank.
Lee Slater Overman was born in Salisbury. He was…
Whitehead-Stokes Sanatorium #1
Entrance to the Whitehead-Stokes Sanatorium
Whitehead-Stokes Sanatorium was opened in 1899 at the northeast corner of Fulton and Liberty Streets. The 40-bed facility was named Dr. John Whitehead and Dr. J.E. Stokes who ran the facility along with…
Whitehead-Stokes Sanatorium #2
Whitehead-Stokes Sanatorium, opened in 1899 as a 40-bed facility, grew to a 60-bed hospital by 1921. Located at the northeast corner of Fulton and Liberty Streets, it served the community until Rowan Memorial Hospital was opened in July of 1936.
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Whitehead-Stokes Sanatorium #3
Another view of the enlarged Whitehead Stokes Sanatorium.
The Albertype Co. Brooklyn N.Y.
Yesterday Photos
Salisbury in the 1930s and 1940s
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A group photo showing Harry Kirchin and three other men dressed up. Photo taken at the Dixie Studio in Salisbury, NC.
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Photo showing street paving on Depot Street in Salisbury, NC. The building on the left is the Yadkin Hotel. On the right is the Salisbury Depot.
According to a trade magazine article, Salisbury, NC had the first streets in America paved with Durax…
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A Salisbury Evening Post newspaper clipping dated September 4, 1972 proclaims Rowan County is 60,000 pounds lighter as a slab of pink granite is transported by rail to Hartford, Connecticut.
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A Salisbury Evening Post newspaper clipping dated October 4, 1970 documenting Reg Kirchin's career as a stone cutter.
Ballard Industrial Hall
Ballard Industrial Hall. One of the Livingstone College’s first four buildings. Constructed in the late 19th century.
"Uncle" Joe Ballard
“Uncle” Joe Ballard – Local blacksmith and politician who featured in many postcards from the turn of the century. Reputed to have been Chairman of the Republican Executive Committee of Rowan County. Founded and ran Salisbury’s first waste collection…
Stone Masons
Stone masons – Laborers laying granite blocks in front of the Salisbury Depot in the early 1900s.
Rev. James Morton
Rev. James Morton – Relocated to Salisbury in 1909 to head up Church Street Presbyterian. He oversaw the development of the congregation and construction of a new building. The congregation stayed there until migrating to a yet-larger building when…
Winsel O. Black
Winsel O. Black – First African-American doctor to practice at Salisbury’s hospital. Black relocated to Salisbury from Asheville in the early 1960s and opened numerous practices in his forty-plus years practicing medicine. When he started practicing…
Louise Rountree
Louise Rountree – Livingstone College librarian. In 1976, she compiled an introductory guide to Salisbury-Rowan County African-American history – A Brief Chronological History of Black Salisbury-Rowan – that forms one key foundation for historical…
Cook with Gas
Cook with Gas - advertisement from a local drug store promoting gas stoves circa 1915.
Huntington Hall
Huntington Hall - The first building at Livingstone College. Sold by a local lawyer to the AME Zion Church, who used it as the foundation for their new campus. The building burned down in 1918.
Thomas Howard Wholesale Grocery wagon
Thomas Howard Wholesale Grocery wagon. Date unknown circa 1910-1920.
Livingstone College, 1944
Livingstone College, 1944. This picture, crafted in 1944, shows the college’s newest building, Price Hall, and four administrators, President William Trent, Registrar-Treasurer Julia Duncan, Dean Frederick Drew, and Dean of Women Hattie Flack.
Dodge Hall
Dodge Hall – Livingstone College’s earliest men’s dormitory. Built in the late 1800s.