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  • Collection: Theo Buerbaum's Salisbury

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An image of someone who must have been recognizable at the time, but we have been unable to identify him thus far.  On the reverse side of this card is Theo Buerbaum’s Book Store ad: “School books, school-stationery, photo and autograph albums. …

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On the reverse side of this picture is Theo Buerbaum’s Book Store ad: “School books, school-stationery, photo and autograph albums.  Largest stock of Christmas goods in Salisbury, wedding and birthday cards, picture frames made to order, all sizes…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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

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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…

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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. …

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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…

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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…

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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. …

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Meroney Theatre Home of the Masons and Old Hickory Club, Seating Capacity 1200 The second Meroney Theatre opened in 1905 on South Main Street.  The first Meroney Opera House had been owned by brothers T. J. and P.P Meroney, who purchased a building…

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Main Street, Salisbury, N.C. Looking North East In 1905, a street railway connected the city of Salisbury with Spencer, a town of growing importance.  About 1902 the Southern Development Company began building a new subdivision, Fulton Heights,…

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Salisbury distiller Clay Grubb began construction of his “skyscraper” in early 1900 at the corner of Main and Innes Streets.  The building, a Beaux-Arts styled commercial building, stands seven and one half stories tall.  Joseph Fels, millionaire…

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In the center of the square in Salisbury at the intersection of Innes and Main Streets was a fountain installed in 1888 for watering horses and for fire protection.  The fountain was called “Rebecca of the Well.”  It had to be moved to make way for…

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Viewing Salisbury from atop the Grubb Building in the early 1900s.  Looking north shows the First Baptist Church and the Whitehead-Stokes Sanitarium. No series no. The Albertype Co. Brooklyn, NY Source: Sides, Susan Salisbury and Rowan County…

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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…

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Main Street Looking North, Salisbury N.C.  This image was taken in the early 1900s, prior to the streetcars.  This area near the courthouse had a shoe store, grocer, hardware, clothing, drug store, barber shop, cotton broker, and a machinery company…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Main Street Salisbury, N.C. Main Street Salisbury looking southwest in the early 1900s. The picture was taken before many of the electrical and telegraph lines and streetcar tracks were installed in the early part of the century. The Albertype Co.…

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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…

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The Mansion House was built in 1823 on the corner of Main and Innes Street on the site that later held the Grubb-Wallace Building.  It became known as the largest and best-known hotel in Rowan County, and it was a center of political activity.  Late…

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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…

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Empire Hotel Salisbury N.C. No series listed. An early view with the twin domes on the roof.  History of the Empire Hotel The Empire Hotel began as the Boyden House.  Nathaniel Boyden started the building in 1855 and according to an ad in the…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Macadam is an angular aggregate of stone used for paving without any binding medium to hold the stones together.  The macadamized road consisted of multiple layers of crushed stone: the largest stones at the bottom, then another layer of fist-sized…

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Another view of macadamized roads with Buerbaum’s son. No. 1241 Buerbaum’s Bookstore, Salisbury N.C.

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Hoist and office of Gold Hill Copper Company.  The hoist house was directly over the 750 foot deep Randolph shaft, the deepest gold mine shaft in the south.  In the 1850s over 300 hands worked in the mines at Gold Hill. Post Card Series No. 0173 –…

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Gold was first discovered here in 1842.  Over the next fourteen years, production at the various mines totaled two million dollars.  The mines produced less and less and ceased operations at the beginning of the Civil War.  Gold Hill is now a…

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The machinery used for separating gold consisted of the Chilean mill for crushing and grinding after having been broken by hammers, the Tyrolese bowls, the drag-mill, and the Burke rockers.  The Chilean mill was used from ancient times and when it…

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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…

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Another view of the Office, Hoist, and Gold Mill. Raphael Tuck & Sons’ Postcard Series No. 0173 “Salisbury, NC”Historic Gold Hillhttp://historicgoldhill.com/

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The log rocker was a part of the gold milling process.  After the ore came out of the shaft, it was hauled to the mill house where it was broken down manually by cobbers and then as many as five other processes might have been applied to mill the ore…

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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. No…

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The postcard shows a $20.00 Confederate States of America, 6th Issue, bill issued April 6, 1863.  The note has the Tennessee state capital building in Nashville and Vice-president Alexander H. Stephens of Confederate States. The poem below the bill…

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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,…

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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…

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In the Blue Ridge Mountains between Old Fort and Ridgecrest, North Carolina, there are seven tunnels, including McElroy and High Ridge.  These tunnels are part of the Carolina Division of Southern Railway. Pub. by Theo Buerbaum, Salisbury,…

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Drive in National Cemetery, Salisbury N.C. No series no. Published by Theo Buerbaum, Salisbury, N.C.
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