For nearly forty years, Dr. Robert Hart of Hickory, North Carolina, has rescued and restored Carolina life of the nineteenth century, creating in the rolling countryside of Catawba County an entire village, Hart Square – the largest collection of original, historical log structures in the United States. Dr. Hart is now making his new 400-page coffee table book, Hart Square: One Man’s Passionate Preservation of North Carolina’s Pioneer Heritage…

The LCHA is thrilled to report that we have hard copies of Shoe Cobbler's Kin, Volume I and One Wise Man, and digital copies of German Speaking People and Shoe Cobbler's Kin, Volume II by Lorena Eaker.  We are also excited to be the home of Lorena's extensive geneaology collection.  Currently, we have less than half of the collection in house, and we hope to have the remaining portion by the end of 2012.  Brittany Dismuke, a student at Belmont Abbey College and LCHA intern, is now…

Although I live in Texas, my ancestors settled in Lincoln County, North Carolina.  That is why I chose Lincolnton to be the setting of my book about two boys who find a treasure map that leads them to discover more than a treasure chest buried in the 1840s.  I hope you will read, "The Lost Treasure of Lincoln County" by Nancy Sifford Alana and enjoy reading about the American flag, pride in America, Ramsour's Mill, the Flood of 1916, Fourth of July Parades down Main Street, and small town…

We're sure that many of you can tell from recent photograph albums that our staff and volunteers have been working hard to photograph gravestones in cemeteries throughout Lincoln County.  In the process, we have uncovered some incredible information on stonecutters and engravers who crafted beautiful gravestones of soapstone, schist, and marble, and engraved on them some of the most amazing funerary art.  We have been very fortunate to have access to some amazing people such as Bill Beam,…

Over the past sixteen years, we have been inundated with calls, emails, and in-person visits concerning photographs of historic buildings in Lincoln County.  Contained within the Gaither Shrum Collection are photographs taken by Historic Preservation Consultant and Architectural Historian Marvin A. Brown during his architectural survey of Lincoln County during the mid-1980s.  We assume that Mr. Shrum made copies of these images from Mr. Brown's negatives, but are not exactly sure.  Upon…

The Lincoln County Historical Association will hold a two-day window restoration workshop at the old Lincolnton Recreation Youth Development Center (old Recreation Building) on East Pine Street in Lincolnton on Wednesday, July 6, and Thursday, July 7, 2011.  The workshop will begin each day at 9:00 a.m. and conclude at 5:00 p.m.  David Hoggard of Double Hung Historic Window Restoration of Greensboro, North Carolina, will lead this two-day workshop.

The cost for the workshop…

Did you know Family & Consumer Sciences and the Extension & Community Association are responsible for:

• war bond sales that provided over one-half of the $4 million cost for the WWII hospital ship, Larkspur?

• libraries and book mobiles in many rural counties?

• hot lunch programs in North Carolina’s rural schools?

• raising $100,000 from “butter and egg” money to jump-start state funding for the…

Please send me the obituary for:

Monroe Seagle, January 24, 1908

Monroe is my Great Great Grandfather

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In the midst of all that the LCHA is currently working on, we are endeavoring to inventory all of our newsletters from the later 1970s to the present.  This inventory will include a spreadsheet of featured articles published in each of the newsletters.  This is not a monumental or original idea, and we only decided to start the process after receiving a number of very specific requests from out-of-town members who emailed us with requests for articles that researchers have cited in articles…

My paternal grandmother was Sally Ann 'Annie' Hager Tilley.  Her father was Charles Littleton Hager and his father was Sterling Alexander Hager Jr.  I have traced their line back to the Hager's that originally settled in Tryon Co, NC abt 1750.  I am interested in finding any documents that pertain to the Hager's that created Hager's Ferry and lived in and around Hager's Ferry.  Thanks, Mark