North Carolina

Name: Johnston County
Brand: K. Todd Johnson
SKU: 9780738568812
Price: 24.99 USD
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A heavy fog drifts over the Blue Ridge Parkway. German U-Boats lurk off the Outer Banks. Shadows lengthen across the Piedmont. Shine some light on the Tar Heel State with our North Carolina history books. Wander the gardens at Biltmore Estate and hike to the Land of Oz. Catch the flash of a bald eagle fishing lunch from Jordan Lake. Be sure to take a faithful companion with you, like a Plott Hound. Or a North Carolina history book. [View all North Carolina books]

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Johnston County

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$24.99

A History of North Carolina Wine

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A Life in Antebellum Charlotte

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Johnston County

9780738568812

$24.99

Photographs can bring history to life and help us to make connections between the past and our daily
lives. With Johnston County, authors Todd Johnson and Durwood Barbour have created a work that truly
teaches us and guides us from the past of this area into the new millennium. In this exciting new work, every one of the county's seventeen townships has been covered, with rare images dating primarily from the turn of the century to 1945. Mostly candid shots of people who have influenced Johnston's social, cultural, and economic development, these images bring us to a time when the pace of life was slower. Other, more well-known citizens we meet include film star Ava Gardner and Lunsford Richardson, inventor of Vick's VapoRub. Also featured in this book are images of important events, like the highly publicized, catastrophic munitions truck explosion near Selma in 1942.

A History of North Carolina Wine

9781596299528

$21.99

Take a journey through the long and exciting history of North Carolina grapes and vines. The state's native grapes grew with a wild abandon that uniformly impressed early explorers. Wine production, however, is another story--one with peaks and valleys and switchbacks. Alexia Jones Helsley recounts a tale of promise that was long unfulfilled, of disappointments and success and of competing visions and grapes. These pages speak to those intrigued by the romance of the native muscadines, appreciative of the complex varieties of North Carolina wine and fascinated by the enduring drama of human beings and their dreams. In the Old North State, the highly acclaimed vineyards of today have deep roots in the state's past.

A Life in Antebellum Charlotte

9781596290884

$21.99

In 1837 Sarah Frew Davidson began keeping a private journal recording the events of her daily life. Years later, her collection provides an intimate glimpse into antebellum life in North Carolina. Sarah, as mistress of one of North Carolina's largest plantations—The Grove—offers the reader a nineteenth-century perspective on slavery, education and the impact of religion on the lives of Southern women. Begun in the wake of the religious revival that swept the South in the mid-nineteenth century, this journal serves as a candid perspective into life in the changing village of Charlotte, capturing the effects of the newly constructed U.S. Mint and the Carolina gold mining rush on this small community. Editors Dyer, McConnell and Williams, along with a team of Rosedale historians, meticulously transcribed the original hand-written journal to be presented here in its entirety. Also included in this edition are supplementary historical annotations, maps and biographical details that provide a comprehensive background for the events and people mentioned in the journal. The day-to-day events of Sarah's life reveal much about the realities of plantation life as well as an understanding of the complexities of religion and slavery in the antebellum period.