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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…

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…

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…

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…