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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…

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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.

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Another view of the enlarged Whitehead Stokes Sanatorium.  The Albertype Co. Brooklyn N.Y.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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National Cemetery, Salisbury, N. C. Pub. By Theo Buerbaum, Salisbury N. C.Salisbury Historic National Cemetery https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/salisbury.asp

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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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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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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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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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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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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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