Wilkes County Post Cards Collection


Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Detailed Description of the Collection
Contact Information:
Learning Resources Center
Wilkes Community College
PO Box 120
Wilkesboro, North Carolina 28697
Phone: (336) 838-6114
Fax: (336) 838-6515
Email: byrdf@wilkes.cc.nc.us
URL: http://www.wilkescc.edu
Staff:
Dr. Fay Byrd, Director
Janet Atwood, Librarian
Christy Earp, Librarian
Vickie Cothren-Millsaps, Library Technician
Rebecca Queen, Secretary
Processed by:
Janet Atwood, Librarian
Encoded by:
Christy Earp, Librarian
Date Encoding Completed:
May, 2003
Under the Direction of:
Dr. Fay Byrd, Library Director
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
Learning Resources Center, Wilkes Community College
Title
Wilkes County Post Card Collection.
Location
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult Wilkes Community College.
Abstract
The Wilkes County Post Card Collection includes post cards from the early 1900's until around 1960. The collection contains local historical sites, including the Giant Lumber Company's Flume and the C. C. Smoot and Sons Tannery; events, including the Wilkes County Fair and turkeys being driven to market; and historic places, including the homes of local heroes like Colonel Benjamin Cleveland.
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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Wilkes County Post Card Collection, Learning Resources Center, Wilkes Community College.
Copyright Notice
Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors, their descendants, or Wilkes Community College in accordance with U.S. copyright law. These images may not be reproduced without permission from copyright holders.
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Detailed Description of the Collection

Following is a list of all the post cards in the Wilkes County Post Cards Collection, along with descriptions of what the post cards depict. By clicking on the links below, you can view images of the fronts of the post cards.

An 80-gallon "Moonshine Still" in the heart of the mountains.[Digital image.]

First Methodist Church. 409 6th Street, North Wilkesboro, NC. "Cool in Summer-Warm all the year around."[Digital image.]

[First] Baptist Church, North Wilkesboro, NC.[Digital image.]

Glen Addie Falls, Wilkes Co., N. C. [Digital image.]

Building the Turnpike, Wilkes Co., N. C.[Digital image.]

C. C. Smooth [sic] Sons & Co. Tannery, North Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

Smoot & Son's Tannery, North Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

View of Brushy Mountains from North Wilkesboro, N. C. [Digital image.]

On the Turnpike, Wilkes Co., N. C.[Digital image.]

Scene looking West, North Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

On the scenic highway in the Blue Ridge Mountains near North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.[Digital image.]

Kensington Heights, North Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

First Methodist Church and Parsonage, North Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

Bird's Eye View of International Shoe Company's Tannery, North Wilkesboro, N. Car.[Digital image.]

"The Red House" when owned by the Gordons more than a century ago. "Fairmont" when later owned by the Finley's until the founding of North Wilkesboro, and now the center of that place. In front, private car of Colonel A. B. Andrews attached to first train in August 1890.[Digital image.]

Court House, Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

Hackett's Mill, North Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

Flume of the Giant Lumber Co., North Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

"Palmyra," former home of General Samuel Finley Patterson, State Treasurer, 1836. Happy Valley on Yadkin River, near North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.[Digital image.]

Main Street, looking East, North Wilkesboro, N. Car.[Digital image.]

Mountain scene, near North Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

Federal Building, Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

View of a Residential Street, North Wilkesboro, N. C. Looking up the Yadkin Valley, with Grandfather Mountain, Hawks Bill and Table Rock in Distance.[Digital image.]

Presbyterian Church, Wilkesboro, N. C. [Digital image.]

[Lu]mber Flume 20 miles into the Blue Ridge, in which millions of feet of lumber is floated into North Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

Wilkes County Court House, Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

Yadkin River and Bridge, Wilkes County, N. C.[Digital image.]

The Yadkin Valley and Birdseye View of North Wilkesboro, N. C. [from Wilkesboro--handwritten on card.][Digital image.]

Approaching North Wilkesboro, N. C. "On the Boone Trail."[Digital image.]

Wilkes Hospital, North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.[Digital image.]

The Tannery, North Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

Scene looking west, North Wilkesboro, N. C. (Pub. by Somers & Co. 5 and 10c. Stores, North Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

Moravian Falls, Wilkes County, N. C.[Digital image.]

Court House, Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

North Wilkesboro Fair Grounds from Main Street, North Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

North Wilkesboro High School Building.[Digital image.]

Formerly "Roundabout," the house of Colonel Ben Cleveland of revolutionary fame. In more recent years the Hickerson Plantation at Ronda, near North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.[Digital image.]

Bank of North Wilkesboro, North Wilkesboro, N. Car.[Digital image.]

First Baptist Church, North Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

Turkeys being driven to Market at North Wilkesboro, N. C.[Digital image.]

The Old Historical Oak. On which several Tories were hanged in Revolutionary days, is still standing in the northeast corner of the Court House yard at Wilkesboro, N. C. [Digital image.]

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Online access to this finding aid was supported with money from funds created through the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). These funds came through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which is administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. This grant is part of the North Carolina ECHO, Exploring Cultural Heritage Online, Digitization Grant Program.