Browse Collections (15 total)
Spanish Influenza 1918

The Spanish Influenza was a deadly pandemic that spread across the globe during 1918 and 1919. North Carolina and Rowan County grappled with the…
African-American Heritage Trail

The African-American Heritage Trail has many sites where visitors can experience the rich and diversified heritage of Salisbury and Rowan County. The…
Contributors: Rowan County Convention & Visitors Bureau and Edith M. Clark History Room of the Rowan Public Library
Theo Buerbaum's Salisbury

The 87 postcards in this project are from two collections from the Edith M. Clark History Room at the Rowan Public Library, The Miscellaneous Postcard…
Kluttz Maps

In 1995, James W. “Bill” Kluttz published a set of 6 maps that indicated the earliest land purchases in the area of North Carolina we now identify as…
Travels with Balfour Pink

A few years ago, Rowan Public Library was given a collection of glass slides from a local family. These magic lantern slides documented various…
Wiley Lash Interview
Wiley Immanuel Lash was born to Reverend Wiley Hezekiah and Mayzonetta (Mary) Grundy Lash in 1908. After his graduation from college, Lash returned…
Archibald Henderson Collection

Archibald Henderson (1877 - 1963) was a descendant of Salisbury's Henderson family, financiers of Daniel Boone's trek into Kentucky. Archibald was a…
Mamie McCubbins Collection

In 1954, the research papers of Mrs. Mamie (Mary Louisa) Gaskill McCubbins were acquired by the Rowan Public Library. Over the years, her research…
Georgia Jordan Papers

Georgia Irene Watson Jordan (pronounced "Jerdin") was born in 1865 and died in Salisbury, NC in 1941. She was buried in Salisbury's Chestnut Hill…
Dr. McCorkle's Sermon
Reverend Samuel Eusebius McCorkle (1746-1811), was a Presbyterian minister and an educator. McCorkle was called to pastor Thyatira Church in Rowan, NC…
Asa Ribelin Papers

Asa Ribelin was an ethnic German school teacher living in Rowan County in the 19th Century. He was employed by parents in the 1830's as the first…
Butner Maps of Salisbury

In 2012, the Butner family gave the library a copy of a Salisbury City map. Mac Butner’s mother, who operated an antiques shop at 1428 N. Main…