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A presentation of the Spanish Flu 1918 in Rowan County given by Gretchen Beilfuss Witt and Paul Birkhead

Newspaper Clipping:

Rules Governing Management Flu Yadkin Valley Herald, Salisbury NC Nov 22, 1918

Adopted by the Rowan County Board of Health for Parents, Guardians, Householders and Adults Capable of Transmitting the Disease.

The…

Rowan County & the 1918 Spanish Influenza   Slide 1 & 2. Title & Timeline At the time of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, the world was still at war. Soldiers returning from overseas were the first to contract the flu and the virus initially…

A narrative of the Spanish Flu 1918 in Rowan County

Salisbury, NC Red Cross Nurses - Christmas Day 1918

A summary of Rowan County's battle with the Spanish Flu of 1918.

A slide image of a map that shows the distribution of granite and allied rocks in the United States.  The map was compiled from other maps by G.F. Loughlin in 1918. For some background information on the geologist, Gerald Francis Loughlin, click…