Roanoke Beacon Abstracts Update
Over the weekend I spent some time indexing issues of the Roanoke Beacon. I extracted articles from the March – June 1890 issues to the NC People in the Papers database. As usual, I focused on articles of genealogical interest such as obituaries, marriage notices, births, and mentions of specific family relationships. With this [...]
1881 Fire
A marker near the Washington County Courthouse mentions three fires that burned it – 1860, 1862, and 1881. While indexing old issues of the Alamance Gleaner (paper of Alamance County, NC), I found a reference to the 1881 fire. The loss is described as $127, 000, of which there was little insurance.
News from the Chicago Defender
Chicago Defender July 12, 1924, p. A10, col. 6 Plymouth, N.C. Most every Race church in the city is undergoing reconstruction or anticipates such. The cornerstone to the New chapel’s new building was laid Monday. The sermon for the occasion was preached by Dr. C.W.B. GORDON of Petersburg, Va. The stone was laid by the [...]
New Court Proceedings Page
Whenever I find some spare time, your county coordinator likes to abstract information from old issues of the Roanoke Beacon Newspaper. This is a personal project I’ve been doing for the past few years and I’ve learned a lot about life in the Plymouth area in the late 1800s. For my abstracting project I’ve [...]
