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Author : Alfred Moore Waddell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Cape Fear River Valley (N.C.)
ISBN : LCCN:11013552
Author : Alfred Moore Waddell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024977095
New Hanover was established as a precinct in Bath County in 1729. This work covers the history of the region from about that time down through the American Revolution. The author apparently intended to continue his work, this volume being marked "Volume I;" however, no subsequent volumes were published. Although this history touches on most of the usual topics, identifies the early plantations and their owners, and mentions the various communities in the county, the emphasis is on events during the Revolutionary War era and on Wilmington. There is a map and several illustrations of people or sites mentioned in the text.
Author : Alfred Moore Waddell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0832869074
Author : Chris Eugene Fonvielle
Publisher : HPN Books
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781893619685
Author : Susan Taylor Block
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0752409654
Author : Philip Gerard
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469602073
Down the Wild Cape Fear: A River Journey through the Heart of North Carolina
Author : William A. Kretzschmar,William A. Kretzschmar Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226452832
Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providing a unique look at the correspondence of language and settlement patterns. This handbook is an essential guide to the LAMSAS project, laying out its history and describing its scope and methodology. In addition, the handbook reveals biographical information about the informants and social histories of the communities in which they lived, including primary settlement areas of the original colonies. Dialectologists will rely on it for understanding the LAMSAS, and historians will find it valuable for its original historical research. Since much of the LAMSAS questionnaire concerns rural terms, the data collected from the interviews can pinpoint such language differences as those between areas of plantation and small-farm agriculture. For example, LAMSAS reveals that two waves of settlement through the Appalachians created two distinct speech types. Settlers coming into Georgia and other parts of the Upper South through the Shenandoah Valley and on to the western side of the mountain range had a Pennsylvania-influenced dialect, and were typically small farmers. Those who settled the Deep South in the rich lowlands and plateaus tended to be plantation farmers from Virginia and the Carolinas who retained the vocabulary and speech patterns of coastal areas. With these revealing findings, the LAMSAS represents a benchmark study of the English language, and this handbook is an indispensable guide to its riches.
Author : Kerby A. Miller,Arnold Schrier,Bruce D. Boling,David N. Doyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195045130
Publisher's description: Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic immigration to America. Through exhaustive research and analysis of the migrants' letters and memoirs, the editors explore why the immigrants left Ireland, how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, and how their experiences and attitudes shaped society, culture and politics, and created modern Irish and Irish-American identities, in America and Ireland alike.
Author : Bradford J. Wood
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1570035407
Between 1700 and 1775 no colony in British America experienced more impressive growth than North Carolina, and no region within the colony developed as rapidly as the Lower Cape Fear. In his study of this eighteenth-century settlement, Bradford J. Wood challenges many commonly held beliefs, presenting the Lower Cape Fear as a prime example for understanding North Carolina - and the entirety of colonial America - as a patchwork of regional cultures.
Author : Enoch Lawrence Lee
Publisher : North Carolina Division of Archives
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : New Hanover County (N.C.)
ISBN : 0865261288
Brief history of the first settlers in the Cape Fear region, including the development of Brunswick Town and Wilmington. Information on the county from its creation in 1739 to the 1970s.
Author : Alan D. Watson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786485284
This biography is about one of North Carolina's early governors, an advocate for public education in the post-Colonial period. Benjamin Smith (1757-1826) came from a distinguished South Carolina family and acquired enormous wealth in the Cape Fear region as a member of the planter class. Like his elite white peers, Smith was active in public life, in county government and as a legislator in state politics. He promoted public schools, the University of North Carolina, domestic manufacturing, banking, penal reform, and internal improvements. Earning the nickname "General" because of his militia activities, he rose to governorship but ended up dying in poverty.
Author : William N. Still Jr.,Richard A. Stephenson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780865264953
In their comprehensive and authoritative history of boat and shipbuilding in North Carolina through the early twentieth century, William Still and Richard Stephenson document for the first time a bygone era when maritime industries dotted the Tar Heel coast. The work of shipbuilding craftsmen and entrepreneurs contributed to the colony's and the state's economy from the era of exploration through the age of naval stores to World War I. The study includes an inventory of 3,300 ships and 270 shipwrights.
Author : Peter P. Hinks
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271038357
In 1829 David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century, Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian treatment blacks suffered in the United States, Walker challenged his "afflicted and slumbering brethren" to rise up and cast off their chains. Walker worked tirelessly to circulate his book via underground networks in the South, and he was so successful that Southern lawmakers responded with new laws cracking down on "incendiary" antislavery material. Although Walker died in 1830, the Appeal remained a rallying point for African Americans for many years to come, anticipating the radicalism of later black leaders, from Malcolm X to Martin Luther King, Jr. In this new edition of the Appeal, the first in over thirty years, Peter P. Hinks, the leading authority on David Walker, provides a masterly introduction and extensive annotations that incorporate the most up-to-date research on Walker, much of it first reported by Hinks in his highly acclaimed biography, To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren. Hinks also includes a unique appendix of documents showing the contemporary response--from North and South, black and white--to the Appeal itself and Walker's attempts to distribute it in the South. Historians and political activists have long recognized the importance of Walker's Appeal. At last we have an edition worthy of its persuasive immediacy and its enduring place in American history.
Author : Walter Conser
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813171463
While religious diversity is often considered a recent phenomenon in America, the Cape Fear region of southeastern North Carolina has been a diverse community since the area was first settled. Early on, the region and the port city of Wilmington were more urban than the rest of the state and thus provided people with opportunities seldom found in other parts of North Carolina. This area drew residents from many ethnic backgrounds, and the men and women who settled there became an integral part of the region’s culture. Set against the backdrop of national and southern religious experience, A Coat of Many Colors examines issues of religious diversity and regional identity in the Cape Fear area. Author Walter H. Conser Jr. draws on a broad range of sources, including congregational records, sermon texts, liturgy, newspaper accounts, family memoirs, and technological developments to explore the evolution of religious life in this area. Beginning with the story of prehistoric Native Americans and continuing through an examination of life at the end of twentieth century, Conser tracks the development of the various religions, denominations, and ethnic groups that call the Cape Fear region home. From early Native American traditions to the establishment of the first churches, cathedrals, synagogues, mosques, and temples, A Coat of Many Colors offers a comprehensive view of the religious and ethnic diversity that have characterized Cape Fear throughout its history. Through the lens of regional history, Conser explores how this area’s rich religious and racial diversity can be seen as a microcosm for the South, and he examines the ways in which religion can affect such diverse aspects of life as architecture and race relations.
Author : Robert M. Dunkerly
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786490240
Nestled on the banks of the Cape Fear River, Wilmington, North Carolina, remains famous as a blockade-running port during the Civil War. Not as renowned is the city's equally vital role during the Revolution. Through the port came news, essential supplies, and critical materials for the Continental Army. Both sides contended for the city and both sides occupied it at different times. Its merchant-based economy created a hotbed of dissension over issues of trade and taxes before the Revolution, and the presence of numerous Loyalists among Whigs vying for independence generated considerable tension among civilians. Based on more than 100 eyewitness accounts and other primary sources, this volume chronicles the fascinating story of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear during the Revolution.
