Clover Garden
"Between North Carolina's coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the Piedmont: some 250 linear miles of rolling, long-settled lands covering almost half of the state. Geologically speaking, piedmont regions are…
Local theme
Farming, tobacco, granges, and rural communities.
261 works in the index name this theme.
What it was and why it mattered
Organizations that keep the county’s own knowledge
Works across North Carolina libraries and archives whose catalog description names this theme. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.
"Between North Carolina's coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the Piedmont: some 250 linear miles of rolling, long-settled lands covering almost half of the state. Geologically speaking, piedmont regions are…
Braeburn Farm, Snow Camp, Alamance County / Melissa Brady -- Cane Creek Farm, Saxapahaw, Alamance County, Paul Bieber and Tom Simon -- Dawnbreaker Farms, Hurdle Mills, Orange County / Ellie Marshall and Madeline Wentz -…
"The Smith fortune was made by Mary's grandfather, Revolutionary War veteran Francis Jones, and survived the profligacy of his son-in-law, Dr. James Smith, before being willed to the university and the North Carolina Ep…
Nancy Holt grew up in North Carolina's Cane Creek community, where the land played a large role in her upbringing. Despite the physical distances between them, neighbors often cooperated with each other, especially when…
Bobby Kirk, a dairy farmer living near Cane Creek and the first president of the Cane Creek Conservation Authority (CCCA), discusses his opposition to the Cane Creek reservoir and speaks of some of the early steps resid…
Descendants of John Kirkland, of Lochfergus, Scotland and his wife Elizabeth Smith, who were married in 1696. Specifically the descendants of John's great-grandson, William Kirkland (1768-1836) who married Margaret Blai…
More to discover
The Friends connects people with new library materials, local writers and publishers, and resources documenting Orange County.
