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

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

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…

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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91297 Published by Theodore Buerbaum, Salisbury, N.C. GermanyThuya Orientalis in Episcopal Church Yard, Salisbury N.C. 65 feet high St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, is one of Salisbury’s oldest and most historic churches. Created in 1753 by and act of…

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St. Luke’s Parish, established by and act of Colonial Assembly, 1753, extending to the Pacific Ocean West, Salisbury N.C. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 131 West Council St., just one block west of the old court house and community building.  Formed in…

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Cedar of Lebanon in the Yard of the Residence of Rev. F. J. Murdoch, Transplanted from Palestine 50 years ago, Salisbury N. C. In 1846, Francis Johnstone. Murdoch was born in Asheville, North Carolina to Irish parents.  He attended the Citadel and…

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St. Luke’s Parish, established by act of Colonial Assembly, 1753, extending West to Pacific Ocean, Salisbury N.C. This is the black and white version of an early view of the church.  Raphael Tuck & Sons’ Postcard Series No. 0201 “Salisbury,…

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Episcopal Church, Salisbury N.C. This view is hand-colored and of a larger format than the other postcards.  It also shows the additions made in 1909.  Albertype Post Card

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

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

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Named in honor of Governor Zebulon Vance, the Vance Cotton Mill was organized in 1891 by N. B. McCanless, D. R. Julian, Dr. C. M. Van Poole, Julius Lineberger, Rev. Francis Murdoch, and others.   It was located at 1303 North Lee Street.  Murdoch was…

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

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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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Salisbury in the 1930s and 1940s
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