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Heather Leah
Lost Towns of North Carolina
9781467159791
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Forgotten History in the Tar Heel State
Take an adventure through ruins of ghost towns and lost communities in the Old North State. Explore isolated settlements like Lost Cove, hidden so deep in the mountains that no roads reach it. Ferry out to Portsmouth Island, where a ghost town has withstood multiple wars and generations of hurricanes. Explore the ruins of Brunswick Town, a port community of secret rebels destroyed in the Revolutionary War as punishment for “treason” against the British. Visit decaying remains in Snow Camp, a community that sheltered freedom seekers in the Underground Railroad.
Author Heather Leah details the lost and forgotten towns of North Carolina.
Helen Hill Norris
Historic Tales of Highlands
9781467149457
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%
Helen Hill Norris grew up in Horse Cove, perched high in the Southern Appalachians outside Highlands, North Carolina. For a decade starting in 1958, she wrote a weekly column for the Highlander called "Looking Backward." Drawing on her childhood and the tales her elders would tell around the fireplace, Norris conjures a bygone frontier world of covered wagons, gold miners, traveling peddlers and headstrong shopkeepers. Witness a harrowing Civil War encounter with the notorious Kirk's Raiders. Come along as a six-mule wagon carries a Steinway grand piano across the treacherous Chattooga River. Watch two uncles go to extremes to settle an argument over whether moles have teeth. Evocative, richly detailed and often laugh-out-loud funny, these stories reveal Norris to be one of the finest unsung storytellers of the American South.
Arcadia Publishing
Hidden History of Chapel Hill
9781467153553
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Delve into the forgotten past of town and university.
Well known as a university town, Chapel Hill’s rich and fascinating history dates back to the eighteenth century. Learn all about the origins of the 1,200-acre Strowd plantation and its complete transformation into a modern neighborhood. Robert Strowd was vital to the town’s prosperity, growth and image. Meet aristocratic slaveholder Hardy Morgan, who grew tobacco in today’s Glen Lennox area and wealthy dry goods merchant Jesse Hargrave, whose plantation home stood in today’s Greenwood. Learn about Adelaide Walters, who in 1957 became the town’s first female alderman, and Harold Foster, the Black high schooler who spearheaded the 1960s fight against segregation. Witness the thirteen-year controversy over fluoridating water and dig into the details of a mysterious case of cyanide poisoning on the UNC campus.
Author Brian Burns recounts lesser known tales of Chapel Hill.
Matthew Ericson
The Civil War in Hampton Roads and the Outer Banks
9781467156776
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%April 1861 marked the beginning of America’s darkest trial, and nowhere was its shadow more immediate than the waters of Hampton Roads and the Outer Banks. As President Lincoln faced the chaos of rebellion, Southern secessionists seized forts, arsenals, and naval yards throughout the South. Yet one stronghold refused to fall: Fortress Monroe, the “Gibraltar of the Chesapeake.” From this powerful bastion on Virginia’s coast, Union forces launched bold campaigns that would define the early course of the war. Their presence threatened Confederate supply lines and opened the way to North Carolina’s vulnerable shoreline. Across both regions, two vital canals linked the Confederate heartland to the coast, transforming Hampton Roads and the Outer Banks into a single, high-stakes theater of war. Historian Matthew Ericson unites these interconnected battles into one compelling narrative. Witness the Union buildup at Fortress Monroe, General Ambrose Burnside’s daring victories along the Carolina coast, and the legendary clash of ironclads that changed naval warfare forever. Richly detailed and deeply researched, these stories reveal how these coastal conflicts shaped the Union’s early strategy and turned the tide in a war for the nation’s very survival—a forgotten front that deserves its place in Civil War history.
