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The following titles have been added to the Carolina Room collection in the month of September, 2019:
Abercrombie, Janice L. Virginia revolutionary "publick" claims, V 1-3
Mayors of Charlotte
1851-52 William K. Reid* 1852-53 Alexander Graham* 1853-57 William F. Davidson* 1857-59 David Parks* 1859-61 Jennings B. Kerr*
*Called Intendant instead of Mayor
ONE OF THE MOST exciting and disastrous events that ever occurred in Brooklyn was the big fire of 1917. The day was a pleasant one, and most of our family was at home pursuing various duties and engaging in bits of homey conversation when we heard that there was a fire on a nearby street.
PERPLEXING to the motorist traveling along the highway from Charlotte to Lancaster, South Carolina, paralleling the eight-mile stretch of the north-south boundary line between the Carolinas, are two signs but a few miles apart.
THE PAMPHLET published by the legislature of North Carolina in 1831 sought to answer all questions then being asked about the Mecklenburg declaration. It introduced documentary evidence to support the Mecklenburg claim.
A RAMBLING WOODEN, two-story building known as Myers Street School was the hubcap in the spoke wheel of Brooklyn. This enormous, ungainly structure with several large shade trees surrounding it was in the middle of a square plot of land fronting on Myers Street.