Person in the county’s record
“Secretary of Interior, 1893-1896, Governor of Georgia, United States Senator, was born, 1855 at Catawba College, then located at this point.”
State historical marker: O-23: Hoke Smith
1 work 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…
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