Browse Items (932 total)

This is a brief account of the destruction of an illicit still by Sheriff Jesse James Bailey and W.I. Tweed in 1921. The still was on Walnut Creek's Heck's Creek in Madison County.

This is material from Jesse James Bailey's campaign for sheriff of Buncombe County, asking voters to choose him on November 6, 1928.

Minutes from the Fifth Annual Convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of North Carolina, held at Goldsboro, North Carolina, October 31 - November 2, 1887. The officers and department heads at the meeting were from all over the state.

Excerpt from "The Story of White Rock," a short book written c. 1921 by Francis R. Bellamy. The book talks about the mission work of Frances Goodrich and Dr. George Packard and the establishment of the White Rock Hospital in northern Madison County…

Ethel Ward Roberts (who graduated from Mars Hill College in 1908) recalls teaching at Rector's Chapel and Sodom Laurel, both in Madison County, North Carolina. She also shares some reminiscences of the Presbyterian Mission School in Sodom Laurel.

This is a fundraising brochure describing the mountain school work of the Baptist Home Mission Board.

This is the first page of a six-page pamphlet describing the mountain school missions of the Southern Baptist Convention.

A six-page pamphlet describing the "Baptist front in the mountain regions," including a mention of a loan fund for ministerial students at Mars Hill.