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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…
Old Stone House #1
German immigrant Michael Braun (Brown) built this house of native stone in 1766 near Granite Quarry. The son of Stephen Braun, he had arrived in Philadelphia with his family on the ship the “Glasgow” in 1738. The family settled in Lancaster County,…
Old Stone House #2
Another view of the Old Stone House. It was also called the Old Rock House. Published by Theo.Buerbaum, Salisbury, N.C.
On the Banks of the Yadkin
On the Banks of the Yadkin near Salisbury, N.C.
The Yadkin River rises in southern Watauga County and flows through Caldwell and Wilkes Counties and then along the Surry-Yadkin, Yadkin-Forsyth, Davie-Forsyth, Davie-Davidson, Davidson-Rowan and a part…
On the Playgrounds
On the playgrounds of the Salisbury, N.C. Graded School, April, 1907.
While this is obviously a group portrait of students and staff, it is interesting that it is on what they called a “playground.” Physical education did not appear in public…
Painting the Stand-Pipe
Painting the Stand-Pipe, Salisbury N.C.
The Stand-Pipe, a noticeable land mark in Salisbury for many years, was located on West Fisher Street between Church and Main Streets. A standpipe is a tank or pipe for holding water in an elevated position to…
Randolph Shaft, Gold Hill Copper Co.
Randolph Shaft, 800 Foot Level
The Randolph Shaft was the deepest shaft in the area. During the time gold was mined in the shaft, it reached a depth of about 750 feet. Later, when copper was mined, the depth was extended to 800 feet and the deeper…
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…
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 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 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 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 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…
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…
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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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…
Salisbury Graded School
Graded School, Salisbury, N.C.
The postcard is postmarked Oct. 14, 1906. Built in 1904, this large edition was connected to the Old Graded School.
51588 Buerbaum’s Bookstore, Salisbury, N.C, (Germany)
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50th Anniversary Edition, Salisbury…
Salisbury High School
Salisbury High School was built in 1904 and attached to the Graded School built in 1881. It was the second high school in the state. In 1926, Boyden High School was built on Lincolnton Road and was named for Col. Archibald Henderson Boyden who was…
Salisbury Prison
This is Theo. Buerbaum’s postcard of C.A. Kraus’s 1886 drawing of the Salisbury Prison. The former cotton factory contained an old blacksmith shop, used as a guard house and later as the “dead” house, an old well, brick buildings used for officers…
South Main Street from the Grubb Building
South Main Street, from Grubb Building. Salisbury N.C.
Theo. Buerbaum would often go to a location and just aim his camera in four different directions. Apparently after the Grubb Building was completed, he went to the top and photographed the city…
South River Bridge
The South River Bridge at the Rowan Davie County line was built to replace the ferry. In the background is the Lindsay-Foard Grist Mill. The people on the bridge were P. B. Beard, P. A. Hartman, and C. G. Bailey, the Bridge Committee. Cicero M.…
South River Dam
South River Dam
Narrow roads from Salisbury in Rowan County and from Jerusalem in Davie County lead to a favorite swimming place just below the South River Dam on the south Yadkin River. From the Civil War era through the early 1900s, the South…
Southern R. R. Depot
The Southern Railroad Depot in Salisbury, built in 1907, was designed by noted architect Frank Milburn and is considered an outstanding example of Spanish mission-style architecture. The building spans the length of two city blocks with a dark red…
Spencer, NC Graded School
The first public school in Spencer was a wood frame structure built in 1901, but the school quickly outgrew that building, and a brick building was erected in 1906. The two-story, three-bay brick building had a truncated hip roof and a…
St. John's Mill near the Indian Trading Ford
Located near the Trading Ford on the Yadkin River, St. John’s Mill was built before the Civil War. Peter Hairston of Cooleemee owned it during that time and in August of 1888, J.B. Lanier, local businessman and distiller, bought it at auction. …
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
The Stable, Spencer Shops
The Southern Railway chose a location midway between Burlington and Charlotte for its shops in 1896. By 1920, as many as 250 cars daily were handled in the transfer shed and as many as 2,500 people were employed there making it Southern’s largest…
Under the Trees
Under the Trees in front of the Salisbury N.C. Graded School.
Theo Buerbaum was famous for his street scenes. This one shows the yard of the school planted with trees and the street—probably Ellis Street.
Raphael Tuck & Sons Postcard Series…
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…
Washington Building
Washington Building, Salisbury, N.C.
The Washington Building on North Main Street was built in 1902 and described as being in the Richardsonian Romanesque style with rusticated ashlar facings. Rusticated ashlar refers to roughly finished cut stones…
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.