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Granville County, North Carolina : looking back /
- Title
- Granville County, North Carolina : looking back / Lewis Bowling.
- Author
- Bowling, Lewis.
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- 125 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Anecdotes.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Note
- Based on the author's newspaper column entitled Looking back in the Oxford public ledger, Oxford, N.C.
- Contents
- Introduction: Welcome to Granville County -- Granville County timeline -- Oxford -- A drive through Oxford in 1886 -- Now ride with me -- A visit to Oxford in 1908 -- Christmas celebrations -- Street names -- Hall's Drugstore -- Happenings around Stovall -- A letter of encouragement -- Ed Meadows, all-American -- Some "goings on" in 1914 -- Education -- Oxford's orphanages -- Granville County and the Civil War -- Tobacco -- To the moon -- A good man -- Camp Butner -- A great victory for Stem High School -- Thad Stem -- Hanging around a country store -- A World War II experience -- Granville County people -- Granville County Hospital -- Richard H. Thornton Library -- Creedmoor -- An Oxford boy makes the big leagues -- A few good poems -- A college in Oxford -- The Hester family tragedy.
- ISBN
- 9781596293335
- 1596293330
- LCCN
- 2007040044
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library