Category: Exhibits & Stories
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Kingville High School
Kingville School’s history is listed below the photographs. In 1936, Stanly County built new brick school buildings in Norwood and Kingville. Below are links to Kingville’s architectural plans. (The following information is excerpted from the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Albemarle Graded School – Central Elementary School written in 2013. An updated…
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Rosenwald Schools and the Kingville Community
In 1912, Booker T. Washington approached philanthropist Julius Rosenwald about his concept to build rural schools desperately needed for African American children across the segregated south. That partnership sparked an initiative that eventually created more than 5300 schools, vocational shops and teacher’s homes across 15 states in the South and Southwest from 1912-1932. North Carolina…
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Walter Horace Carter (The Editor and the Dragon)
Walter Horace Carter (January 20, 1921 – September 16, 2009) was an American newspaper publisher in Tabor City, North Carolina, whose paper won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the activities of the Ku Klux Klan and his editorials opposing it. After witnessing a Ku Klux Klan motorcade drive through Tabor City, North…
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The Badin Bulletin (1918 – 1920)
The Badin Bulletin was published by the Tallahassee Power Company from September 1, 1918 – December 1, 1920. All 27 issues are available online through DigitalNC.
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Dr. Francis Kron
Dr. Francis Joseph Kron—1798 -1883 The home of pioneer physician, Dr. Francis Joseph Kron, sits on a picturesque hillside in Morrow Mountain State Park. The Kron family named their plantation Attaway Hill and referred to it in the manner in all correspondence. Dr. Kron purchased the home site in 1834. The original site contained 234…
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Exhibits and Stories
The Stanly County Museum is housed in quarters too tight to exhibit and display all of our artifacts or tell all of our stories. These pages will supplement our physical space with virtual tours of our resources. Please visit these pages often for glimpses into our collection and to learn more about Stanly County’s fascinating…
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Fred T. Morgan
Fred T. Morgan is a longtime resident of the Uwharries. He worked for thirty-four years as the award-winning Feature Editor for the Stanly News and Press. He has also written special projects for corporations such as Ford and Alcoa, and authored numerous magazine articles. His published books include Ghost Tales of the Uwharries, Haunted Uwharries,…
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Freeman-Marks House
A Brief History of the Freeman-Marks House Local merchant and civic leader Daniel Freeman is thought to have constructed this Federal style home in the early nineteenth century. However, archival evidence first mentions the house in 1847. By either date, the house is now the oldest public building still standing in Albemarle. The Freeman home was…
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Snuggs House
A Brief History of the I.W. and Ellen Snuggs House The Isaiah and Ellen Snuggs House is the oldest dwelling in Albemarle which still stands on its original site. The Snuggs house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1995 as #95000190, along with the Freeman-Marks House which is situated in…