Rowan Public Library’s Edith M. Clark History Room concentrates primarily on Western North Carolina genealogy and history including all areas of old Rowan County. Our holdings include over 19,000 books, 5,700 microforms, 268 manuscript collections, dozens of genealogical journals as well as a solid collection of civil war and civil war prison materials. Genealogy materials include abstracts, indices, and guides to the primary source material used by genealogists as well as popular online databases - Ancestry.com, Fold3, and African American Heritage. Local and regional oral histories, films, and maps also supplement the collection. Three of our larger manuscript collections are kept primarily as surname vertical files and an index for these is available.
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