Person in the county’s record
“Confederate General, Governor of S.C., 1876-79, U.S. Senator. His summer home, "High Hampton," stood 1 1/3 miles southeast.”
State historical marker: Q-1: Wade Hampton
2 works in the index name this person.
What it was and why it mattered
Newspapers, photographs, and records of the time
Organizations that keep the county’s own knowledge
Works across North Carolina libraries and archives whose catalog description names this person. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.
Papers of Hoke, Confederate general and operator of ironworks in Lincoln, Orange, and Mitchell counties, including letter (1852) to Hoke at school in Kentucky; photocopies of letters concerning death of Col. Isaac E. Av…
The Civil War Collection, 1860-1965, contains petitions for pardon, bounty payrolls, quartermaster department records (express receipts, vouchers, pay records, and supply and requisition records), disabled veterans' cla…
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