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Robert F. Hoke, a Confederate general, owned most of Iron Mountain, a mile north of Chapel Hill, and was the prime mover of the State University Railroad, built under an 1873 charter. He served as its unpaid superintendent, and his Iron Mountain Company subscribed $6,000 toward building it.
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Papers of Robert F. Hoke, 1852 to 1967. Hoke was a Confederate general and ran ironworks in Lincoln, Orange and Mitchell counties. Items include an 1852 letter to him at school in Kentucky, copies of letters on the death of Col. Isaac E. Avery in 1863, reports of troop movements in 1865 and his printed farewell to his division. The Chapel Hill Iron Mountain Railroad also appears. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.64.
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Business records of the Chapel Hill Iron Mountain Company, 1828 to 1917. Topics include iron mines and mining in nineteenth century North Carolina, industry at Chapel Hill and real property, and include William J. Askew, Preston L. and R. R. Bridgers, Robert F. Hoke and William S. Primrose. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4201-z.
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Papers of Calvin J. Cowles, 1817 to 1885. A Wilkes County merchant, Cowles was a Unionist Whig and later a Republican, presided over the Constitutional Convention of 1868 and ran the United States Branch Mint at Charlotte from 1869 to 1884. Early letters involve his father and business partner Josiah of Surry County. Reconstruction, Governor W. W. Holden and Orange County come up. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.111.
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