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Dodge Hall
Dodge Hall – Livingstone College’s earliest men’s dormitory. Built in the late 1800s.
Livingstone College, 1944
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.
Thomas Howard Wholesale Grocery wagon
Thomas Howard Wholesale Grocery wagon. Date unknown circa 1910-1920.
Huntington Hall
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.
Cook with Gas
Cook with Gas - advertisement from a local drug store promoting gas stoves circa 1915.
Louise Rountree
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…
Winsel O. Black
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…
Rev. James Morton
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…
Stone Masons
Stone masons – Laborers laying granite blocks in front of the Salisbury Depot in the early 1900s.
"Uncle" Joe Ballard
“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…
Ballard Industrial Hall
Ballard Industrial Hall. One of the Livingstone College’s first four buildings. Constructed in the late 19th century.
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A Salisbury Evening Post newspaper clipping dated October 4, 1970 documenting Reg Kirchin's career as a stone cutter.
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A Salisbury Evening Post newspaper clipping dated September 4, 1972 proclaims Rowan County is 60,000 pounds lighter as a slab of pink granite is transported by rail to Hartford, Connecticut.
RK Referral
A referral letter given to Reginald Kirchin from his employer, The Harris Granite Quarries Company.
The letter, dated May 3, 1922 at Salisbury, NC reads as follows:
To Whom it May Concern.
Reginald Kirchin started work in the employ of The Harris…
HK Declaration
Declarations of Intention (also known as First Papers) are the initial step in an immigrant's naturalization process. Harry Kirchin's Declaration of Intention was signed on December 28, 1910 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
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. …
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…
Narrows of the Yadkin
The Narrows of the Yadkin
The Narrows of the Yadkin was an area in Montgomery and Stanly Counties where the river’s flow was constricted by the Uwharrie Mountains. Anson, Davidson, Montgomery, Randolph, Richmond, Rowan, and Stanly counties in the…
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…
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.…
Whitehead-Stokes Sanatorium #3
Another view of the enlarged Whitehead Stokes Sanatorium.
The Albertype Co. Brooklyn N.Y.
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.
No…
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…
Interior of Machine Shop
The Back Shop structure was built in 1905 and served as the major overhaul facility for steam locomotives where they were disassembled with the aid of a crane. Parts were re-machined on Lathes and milling machines before the locomotives were…
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…
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…
2nd Grade, Batavia System
The Salisbury Graded School at some point must have instituted the Batavia System of education. The Batavia System of Individual Instruction, byJohn Kennedy, published in Syracuse, N.Y. by C.W. Bardeen in 1914 is a method of classroom organization…
8th Grade Football Team
Salisbury N. C. Graded School, 8th Grade Football Team.
Not a usual team shot, as the boys are in suits, not uniforms, but they are showing their purpose with the football (dated 1907). Team sports as part of the regular school activities did not…
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…
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…
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…
Gymnasium
Salisbury, N.C. Graded School Gymnasium
Exercise class using Indian clubs circa 1907.
The Indian Club is an exercise devise with a fanciful tale attached to it in the “Emperor’s New Clothes” tradition. It seemed that the luxurious job of being king…
Chemistry Class in Laboratory
Salisbury, N.C. Graded School A Chemistry Class in Laboratory.
As early as 1854, a “practical” education was advocated for public High Schools. As a result, education in the latter part of the 19th century moved away from the teaching of the…
1st Grade Planting in Garden
Salisbury NC Graded School 1st Grade planting in garden.
In the 17th century, school gardens began to be seen in Europe. By 1869, there was an Austrian mandate that all schools must have a garden. Similar mandates followed in other European…
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…
Graded School and Superintendent's Residence
Salisbury, N.C. Graded School and Superintendent’s Residence.
Even though laws establishing public education were enacted in 1839, in Salisbury prior to the Civil War, there was little progress in public education. Following the war, public schools…
The New Passenger Depot
This front view of the depot was a popular postcard, obviously from a drawing rather than a photograph.
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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…
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 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 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…
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.
Michael Braun Graveyard, Near the Old Rock House
The Michael Braun Graveyard near the Old Rock House, Salisbury, N.C. Series 0250 Raphael Tuck & Sons.
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,…
Nazareth Orphans' Home - Ready for Work
Ready for Work at the Nazareth Orphan’s Home, Crescent N.C.
Raphael Tuck & Sons’ Post Card Series No. 0201 “Salisbury, N.C.”
Nazareth Orphans' Home - Main Building
The Main Building of the Nazareth Orphan’s Home, Crescent, N.C.
Raphael Tuck & Sons’ Post Card Series No. 0201 “Salisbury, NC” phototyped in Berlin.Nazareth Child and Family Connectionhttps://www.nazcfc.org/
Nazareth Orphans' Home #2
Raphael Tuck & Sons’ Post Card Series No. 0201 “Salisbury, N.C.” Phototyped in Berlin