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Archives Month: Sanitaria in Western North Carolina
Contributed by Ashley McGhee Whittle By the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, sanitaria had become a health craze and in the tourist destination of Asheville. The sanitaria became a mecca for those suffering from tuberculosis and other ailments. The … Continue reading
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Archives Month: Dorothea Dix Hospital Project
Contributed by Leah Tams and Robert Allen Since our presentation at the 2019 SNCA Conference, the Community Histories Workshop (CHW) at UNC Chapel Hill has continued its excavation of historical records from the Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina. … Continue reading
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Archives Month: Central Piedmont Community College Nursing Program
Contributed by Erin Allsop, Archivist at Central Piedmont Community College Central Piedmont’s nursing program is the oldest nursing program in the N.C. Community College System and has graduated more than 3,000 students since its inception. When the Associate Degree program … Continue reading
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Archives Month: Health Alert!! Polio Outbreak on UNC Campus! UNC-NC State Football Game Cancelled!
Here begins a series of posts celebrating SNCA’s 2020 Archives Month theme of “20th Century Health and Medicine.” This post was contributed by Dawne Lucas. This post originally appeared on the “For the Record” blog of the University of North … Continue reading
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Exhibit on RiverLink: Asheville-Based Activism in the French Broad Watershed
UNC Asheville Special Collections recently posted a blog about their exhibit for Archives Month. Contributed by Gene Hyde. The month of October is considered Archives Month across the nation and the theme for the upcoming year is Activism and Social Justice in … Continue reading
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A&Tiques Roadshow: Voices of Aggie Generations
Contributed by James Stewart On October 24 & 25 at North Carolina A&T State University, the F. D. Bluford Library Archives and Special Collections and the Library Community Engagement Committee are putting on the 2nd annual “A&Tiques Roadshow,” a show … Continue reading
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2019 Archives Month theme
Contributed by Patrick Dollar and Colin Reeve We’re already gearing up for Archives Month 2019! The Archives Month Committee is pleased to announce the theme of Archives Month 2019: Activism and Social Justice in North Carolina! Although we’re still a … Continue reading
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Archives Month: Lake Junaluska
Contributed by Sarah Downing Lake Junaluska, situated amidst the verdant mountains of Haywood County, hosted its first grand assembly in 1913. Its beginning can be traced five years earlier at a meeting of the Layman’s Missionary Movement held in Chattanooga, … Continue reading
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Archives Month: Lake Tahoma
Contributed by Sarah Downing Lake Tahoma, located between Mount Mitchell and the town of Marion, was created in 1924 by a group of local investors interested in land development. The lake’s water supply is Buck Creek and Little Buck Creek, … Continue reading
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Archives Month: Andrews Geyser
Contributed by Sarah Downing This man-made landmark, found in the McDowell County town of Old Fort, was constructed in 1885 on the site of the Round Knob Lodge, a fashionable hostelry in operation at that time. It served to mark … Continue reading
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