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Dodge Hall – Livingstone College’s earliest men’s dormitory. Built in the late 1800s.

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Livingstone College, 1944. This picture, crafted in 1944, shows the college’s newest building, Price Hall, and four administrators, President William Trent, Registrar-Treasurer Julia Duncan, Dean Frederick Drew, and Dean of Women Hattie Flack.

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Thomas Howard Wholesale Grocery wagon. Date unknown circa 1910-1920.

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Huntington Hall - The first building at Livingstone College. Sold by a local lawyer to the AME Zion Church, who used it as the foundation for their new campus. The building burned down in 1918.

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Cook with Gas - advertisement from a local drug store promoting gas stoves circa 1915.

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Louise Rountree – Livingstone College librarian. In 1976, she compiled an introductory guide to Salisbury-Rowan County African-American history – A Brief Chronological History of Black Salisbury-Rowan – that forms one key foundation for historical…

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Winsel O. Black – First African-American doctor to practice at Salisbury’s hospital. Black relocated to Salisbury from Asheville in the early 1960s and opened numerous practices in his forty-plus years practicing medicine. When he started practicing…

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Rev. James Morton – Relocated to Salisbury in 1909 to head up Church Street Presbyterian. He oversaw the development of the congregation and construction of a new building. The congregation stayed there until migrating to a yet-larger building when…

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Stone masons – Laborers laying granite blocks in front of the Salisbury Depot in the early 1900s.

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“Uncle” Joe Ballard – Local blacksmith and politician who featured in many postcards from the turn of the century. Reputed to have been Chairman of the Republican Executive Committee of Rowan County. Founded and ran Salisbury’s first waste collection…

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Ballard Industrial Hall. One of the Livingstone College’s first four buildings. Constructed in the late 19th century.

Spanish Influenza 1918 YouTube Presentation.mp4
A presentation of the Spanish Flu 1918 in Rowan County given by Gretchen Beilfuss Witt and Paul Birkhead

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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…

Spanish Influenza 1918.pdf
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…

Narrative for Rowan County  the Spanish Influenza.pdf
A narrative of the Spanish Flu 1918 in Rowan County

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Salisbury, NC Red Cross Nurses - Christmas Day 1918

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

WINKLER.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

WHITESIDE.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

WHISINANT.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

WARLICK.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

WALK.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

TURRENTINE.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

TURNAGE.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

TRANSOU.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

TOMLINSON_4.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

TOMLINSON_3.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

TOMLINSON_2.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

TOMLINSON_1.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

TIMMERMAN.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

THOMASON_3.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

THOMASON_2.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

THOMASON_1.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

SWEARINGEN.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

SUTHER.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

SPRUCE.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

SLUDER.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

SKEEN.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

SHEETS.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

RUSSELL_2.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

RUSSELL_1.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

RODMAN.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

RIBELIN_2.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

RIBELIN_1.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

PRICE_2.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

PRICE_1.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

POSTON.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

PLESS.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

ORRELL.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.

NEWMAN.pdf
Materials relating to specific surname(s) of immigrants and residents of Rowan County NC from its earliest years (1750s) and up as well as related families or collateral lines.
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