Author: Evelyn Scales Thompson, Ph.D.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439612978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
From slavery in the 1800s to freedom in the 1950s, Black America Series: Around Surry County traces the footsteps of African Americans through their transition from house servants and field hands to land owners, farmers, and successful small business proprietors. This detailed pictorial history celebrates and honors the strong faith, courage, and determination of the Surry County area's black community.
Around Surry County
Author: Evelyn Scales Thompson, Ph.D.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439612978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
From slavery in the 1800s to freedom in the 1950s, Black America Series: Around Surry County traces the footsteps of African Americans through their transition from house servants and field hands to land owners, farmers, and successful small business proprietors. This detailed pictorial history celebrates and honors the strong faith, courage, and determination of the Surry County area's black community.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439612978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
From slavery in the 1800s to freedom in the 1950s, Black America Series: Around Surry County traces the footsteps of African Americans through their transition from house servants and field hands to land owners, farmers, and successful small business proprietors. This detailed pictorial history celebrates and honors the strong faith, courage, and determination of the Surry County area's black community.
Surry County
Author: Carolyn Boyles
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439627746
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Founded in 1771 from parts of Rowan County, Surry County possesses a special charm and an engaging history in the northwest corner of the Tar Heel Statea heritage famous for rolling hills, autumn festivals, and the birthplace of Mayberry, which attracts countless tourists and visitors each season to the countys 15 townships. This volume, containing over 200 black-and-white images, transports readers into the Surry County of yesteryear, a time when the countys unpaved roads echoed with a cadence of noisy wagons matched with the sounds of early automobiles. Through these historic photographs, readers will explore the landscape of a bygone era, from the 1880s through the 1930s, and travel through each of the countys townships: Franklin, Bryan, Elkin, Marsh, Dobson, Stewarts Creek, Mount Airy, Eldora, Rockford, Siloam, Shoals, Pilot, Long Hill, Westfield, and South Westfield. Surry County uncovers the personal side of the countys history by touching upon many elements of everyday life, from family gatherings, church services, various occupations, daily work on the farm, early rural schoolhouses, and people at play. These scenes serve as fitting testimony to Surry Countians sheer will and determination to carve successful and lasting communities into this beautiful setting.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439627746
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Founded in 1771 from parts of Rowan County, Surry County possesses a special charm and an engaging history in the northwest corner of the Tar Heel Statea heritage famous for rolling hills, autumn festivals, and the birthplace of Mayberry, which attracts countless tourists and visitors each season to the countys 15 townships. This volume, containing over 200 black-and-white images, transports readers into the Surry County of yesteryear, a time when the countys unpaved roads echoed with a cadence of noisy wagons matched with the sounds of early automobiles. Through these historic photographs, readers will explore the landscape of a bygone era, from the 1880s through the 1930s, and travel through each of the countys townships: Franklin, Bryan, Elkin, Marsh, Dobson, Stewarts Creek, Mount Airy, Eldora, Rockford, Siloam, Shoals, Pilot, Long Hill, Westfield, and South Westfield. Surry County uncovers the personal side of the countys history by touching upon many elements of everyday life, from family gatherings, church services, various occupations, daily work on the farm, early rural schoolhouses, and people at play. These scenes serve as fitting testimony to Surry Countians sheer will and determination to carve successful and lasting communities into this beautiful setting.
History of Surry County, Or, Annals of Northwest North Carolina
Author: Jesse Gentry Hollingsworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surry County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surry County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Surry County Virginia Tithables, 1668-1703
Author: Edgar McDonald
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806353589
Category : Segraves Collection
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Reprints. Lists originally published in the Magazine of Virginia genealogy, February 1984-August 1986; Interpreting headrights in Colonial-Virginia patents: uses and abuses originally published September 1987 in National Genealogical Society quarterly.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806353589
Category : Segraves Collection
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Reprints. Lists originally published in the Magazine of Virginia genealogy, February 1984-August 1986; Interpreting headrights in Colonial-Virginia patents: uses and abuses originally published September 1987 in National Genealogical Society quarterly.
Surry County Records
Author: Surry County (Va.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surry County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surry County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Marriages of Surry County, North Carolina, 1779-1868
Author:
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 080630975X
Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Marriages of Surry County contains abstracts of all extant marriage bonds and licenses for the period 1779 until 1868 when bonds, as prerequisites for licenses, were discontinued. The data in this volume are arranged throughout in alphabetical order by the surname of the groom, and each entry provides the name of the bride, the date of the marriage bond, and the names of the bondsmen, clergymen, and justices of the peace. Altogether the text bears reference to approximately 16,000 persons.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 080630975X
Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Marriages of Surry County contains abstracts of all extant marriage bonds and licenses for the period 1779 until 1868 when bonds, as prerequisites for licenses, were discontinued. The data in this volume are arranged throughout in alphabetical order by the surname of the groom, and each entry provides the name of the bride, the date of the marriage bond, and the names of the bondsmen, clergymen, and justices of the peace. Altogether the text bears reference to approximately 16,000 persons.
Surry County, North Carolina, Abstracts Deed Books A, B, and C (1770-1788)
Author:
Publisher: Southern Historical Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780893081720
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Cover title: Surry County, North Carolina, deed books A, B, and C (1770-1788)
Publisher: Southern Historical Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780893081720
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Cover title: Surry County, North Carolina, deed books A, B, and C (1770-1788)
The Surry County Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surry County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surry County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Surry County Records, Surry County, Virginia, 1652-1684
Author: Eliza Timberlake Davis
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806309040
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Deriving from two volumes of court order books--the oldest extant records of Surry County--this work consists of abstracts of court proceedings and legal transactions and includes recordings of deeds, inventories, coroners' inquests, powers of attorney, and bills of sale. In short, this work encompasses all the public records of the newly created county, doubtless embracing references to some 6,000 persons listed in the index.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806309040
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Deriving from two volumes of court order books--the oldest extant records of Surry County--this work consists of abstracts of court proceedings and legal transactions and includes recordings of deeds, inventories, coroners' inquests, powers of attorney, and bills of sale. In short, this work encompasses all the public records of the newly created county, doubtless embracing references to some 6,000 persons listed in the index.
How Come Surry County and how Hit Got Along
Author: Surry County American Revolution Bicentennial Commission (North Carolina).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surry County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surry County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description