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Section One / Butner Map of Salisbury
Map of Salisbury, NC
Section Two / Butner Map of Salisbury
Map of Salisbury, NC
Section Three / Butner Map of Salisbury
Map of Salisbury, NC
Section Four / Butner Map of Salisbury
Map of Salisbury, NC
Section Five / Butner Map of Salisbury
Map of Salisbury, NC
Butner Map of Salisbury
Map of Salisbury, NC
Jersey / Butner Map of Salisbury
Map of Salisbury, NC
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.
Faith Reformed Church
The cornerstone of Faith Reformed Church, located at the corner of West Horah and South Church Streets, was laid September 2, 1897. The church name changed to First Reformed Church on May 4,1919. In 1934, the church became First Evangelical and…
Baptist Church
Baptist Church, Salisbury, NC
The First Baptist Church was organized in 1849 with eighteen charter members. The Jersey Baptist Church of Davidson County provided guidance for this. In 1892, a one-room building was erected at North Church and West…
St. Luke's Episcopal Church #1
91297 Published by Theodore Buerbaum, Salisbury, N.C. GermanyThuya Orientalis in Episcopal Church Yard, Salisbury N.C. 65 feet high
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, is one of Salisbury’s oldest and most historic churches.
Created in 1753 by and act of…
St. Luke's Episcopal Church #2
St. Luke’s Parish, established by and act of Colonial Assembly, 1753, extending to the Pacific Ocean West, Salisbury N.C.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 131 West Council St., just one block west of the old court house and community building. Formed in…
St. Luke's Episcopal Church #3
Cedar of Lebanon in the Yard of the Residence of Rev. F. J. Murdoch, Transplanted from Palestine 50 years ago, Salisbury N. C.
In 1846, Francis Johnstone. Murdoch was born in Asheville, North Carolina to Irish parents. He attended the Citadel and…
St. Luke's Episcopal Church #4
St. Luke’s Parish, established by act of Colonial Assembly, 1753, extending West to Pacific Ocean, Salisbury N.C.
This is the black and white version of an early view of the church.
Raphael Tuck & Sons’ Postcard Series No. 0201 “Salisbury,…
St. Luke's Episcopal Church #5
Episcopal Church, Salisbury N.C.
This view is hand-colored and of a larger format than the other postcards. It also shows the additions made in 1909.
Albertype Post Card
First Methodist Church and Parsonage
The First Methodist Church was formed between 1780 and 1784 as part of the Yadkin Circuit. The church building and parsonage pictured here were approved for construction in 1857. A. B. Herndon designed this Romanesque style church. It was…
Kesler Cotton Mill
The Kesler Cotton Mill was organized in 1895. It was named for Tobias Kesler, a wealthy farmer and the mill’s largest stockholder. Other stockholders included Napoleon Bonaparte McCanless, D. R. Julian, O. D. Davis, and the Rev. Francis Murdock. …
Salisbury Cotton Mill
Salisbury Cotton Mill was built in 1888 and operated continuously for 111 years at the same location, 705 South Railroad Avenue. The mill was founded as the result of a revival meeting that took place in Salisbury at the Farmer’s Warehouse in…
Vance Cotton Mill
Named in honor of Governor Zebulon Vance, the Vance Cotton Mill was organized in 1891 by N. B. McCanless, D. R. Julian, Dr. C. M. Van Poole, Julius Lineberger, Rev. Francis Murdoch, and others. It was located at 1303 North Lee Street. Murdoch was…
Court House
Court House, Salisbury N.C.
No series—Pub. by Theo Buerbaum, Salisbury N.C.
The Rowan County Courthouse built in 1855 is one of North Carolina’s most important Greek Revival buildings. Local contractors Conrad & Williams erected the structure. …
Corner Jackson and Fisher Streets
On the corner of Jackson and Fisher Streets was the home of Leo Cohen Wallace, Sr. (ca 1910-15). To the rear of the Wallace home is the home of Richard Eames, Jr. on South Jackson Street. Today, both houses are still standing and the Rowan Public…
Confederate Monument
Confederate Monument Salisbury, N.C.
Located at West Innes and Church Streets, “Fame,” the Confederate monument, honors Rowan County’s soldiers who fought heroically in the Civil War. The sculptor was Frederick W. Ruckstuhl and the statue stands 14…
Old Rowan House
According the Heritage of Rowan County, the Rowan House was built in 1772 by carpenter Joseph Atkins for Henry Hughes. Legend has it that Andrew Jackson lived at the Rowan House while studying law under Spruce Macay and that Jackson played cards…
Joe Ballard #1
Joe Ballard, born December 20, 1825, was a beloved figure in Salisbury. He was the slave of Miss Margaret Ballard who married John M. Horah, Clerk of Superior Court. Ballard continued working for them after the Civil War had ended. He was a skilled…
Joe Ballard #2
Joe Ballard, born December 20,1825, worked as a skilled blacksmith until he was a very old man. He was a weather prophet, politician and philosopher and one of Salisbury’s most notable citizens. He died February 25, 1917 and was buried with Masonic…
Ballard Industrial Hall
Ballard Industrial Hall was constructed in 1887 from bricks made from the clay pits on campus. Students in the Industrial Department performed most of the work. The building was named for Stephen F. Ballard and has been used as a main classroom…
Faculty Avenue
Monroe Street, formerly Statesville Road and College Avenue, was commonly known as “Faculty Avenue.” This area is part of the Livingstone College Historic District. The first home pictured was that of James E. K. Aggrey, member of the faculty, and…
Residence of Dr. W.H. Goler, D.D. President of Livingstone College
Dr. W. H. Goler was the second President of Livingstone College. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1846. He moved to Boston in 1870 as an apprentice brick-layer. In 1873, he entered Lincoln University Prep School in Pennsylvania. He received…
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.
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Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.
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Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.
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Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.
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Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.
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Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.