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• Rowan County (N.C.) -- Biography
• Rowan County (N.C.) -- Church history
• Back Creek Presbyterian Church (Rowan County, N.C.) -- History

• Sketches of western North Carolina, historical and biographical : illustrating principally the Revolutionary period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln, and adjoining counties, accompanied with miscellaneous information, much of it never before published (Raleigh News Steam Job Print, 1877), by C. L. Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Rowan County, North Carolina. (J. J. Bruner, 1881), by Jethro Rumple (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prophet of Zion-Parnassus, Samuel Eusebius McCorkle (Published for the authors by Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1934), by James Franklin Hurley, Julia Goode Eagan, and Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Committee of Publication (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Rowan County, North Carolina : containing sketches of prominent families and distinguished men, with an appendix (Republished by the Elizabeth Maxwell Steele Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1916), by Jethro Rumple and N.C.) Daughters of the American Revolution. Elizabeth Maxwell Steele Chapter (Salisbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical: Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous Information, Much of It Never before Published, by C. L. Hunter (Gutenberg ebook)

• A colonial history of Rowan county, North Carolina. (The University, 1917), by Sam J. Ervin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historical sketch of the Waddel family (Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1891), by John N. Waddel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Rowan County, North Carolina. (J. J. Bruner, 1881), by Jethro Rumple (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Rowan County, North Carolina : containing sketches of prominent families and distinguished men, with an appendix (Republished by the Elizabeth Maxwell Steele Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1916), by Jethro Rumple and N.C.) Daughters of the American Revolution. Elizabeth Maxwell Steele Chapter (Salisbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clifton Clay (Ray Print. Co., 1908), by A. L. Coburn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual convention of the Rowan County Sunday School Association of North Carolina : at the Presbyterian Church, Salisbury, N.C., Thursday and Friday, Aug. 29th and 30th, 1889 : also the anniversary of the Rowan County Bible Association ... (Published by the Executive Committee, 1889), by Rowan County Sunday School Association (N.C.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical address delivered at the dedication of Back Creek Church, March 21st, 1857 (Herald Office, 1857), by S. C. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Back Creek Presbyterian Church, Rowan County, N. C., for 100 years ([Mooresville, N. C., Enterprise Steam Job Print, 1905), by S. C. Alexander and John K. Goodman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Back Creek Presbyterian Church 150th anniversary, 1805-1955. (The Church, 1955), by N.C.) Back Creek Presbyterian Church (Rowan County and M. Emma Goodman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Two-hundredth anniversary, 1745-1945 : Organ Lutheran Church, Salisbury, North Carolina. (The Church?, 1945), by O. W. Aderholdt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Back Creek Presbyterian Church 150th anniversary, 1805-1955. (The Church, 1955), by N.C.) Back Creek Presbyterian Church (Rowan County and M. Emma Goodman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Town of China Grove, North Carolina, Rowan County ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, Federal Insurance Administration, [1978], 1978), by United States. Federal Insurance Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Town of East Spencer, North Carolina, Rowan County ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, Federal Insurance Administration, [1978], 1978), by United States. Federal Insurance Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rowan County, North Carolina unincorporated areas. ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, Federal Insurance Administration, [1979], 1979), by United States. Federal Insurance Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Salisbury & Spencer, North Carolina city directory (Piedmont Directory Co., 1907), by Ernest H. Miller and Piedmont Directory Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• An historical address delivered at the dedication of Back Creek Church, March 21st, 1857 (Herald Office, 1857), by S. C. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Back Creek Presbyterian Church, Rowan County, N. C., for 100 years ([Mooresville, N. C., Enterprise Steam Job Print, 1905), by S. C. Alexander and John K. Goodman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report upon the mine and mills with estimates for the use of the "North Carolina Gold Amalgamating Co." (Collins, Printer, 1874), by Thomas Jefferson Cram (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Organ Church, Rowan County, N.C. : with an account of the centennial celebration of the first edifice, May 6, 1894 (Aull & Houseal, 1894), by George H. Cox, E. H. Aull, and G. D. Bernheim (page images at HathiTrust)

• Two-hundredth anniversary, 1745-1945 : Organ Lutheran Church, Salisbury, North Carolina. (The Church?, 1945), by O. W. Aderholdt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Annual convention of the Rowan County Sunday School Association of North Carolina : at the Presbyterian Church, Salisbury, N.C., Thursday and Friday, Aug. 29th and 30th, 1889 : also the anniversary of the Rowan County Bible Association ... (Published by the Executive Committee, 1889), by Rowan County Sunday School Association (N.C.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A historical sketch of Third Creek Church, in Rowan County, N.C. : read at the centennial, May 13th, 1892 (s.n.], 1892), by J. G. Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)

• The prophet of Zion-Parnassus, Samuel Eusebius McCorkle (Published for the authors by Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1934), by James Franklin Hurley, Julia Goode Eagan, and Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Committee of Publication (page images at HathiTrust)

• The prophet of Zion-Parnassus, Samuel Eusebius McCorkle (Published for the authors by Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1934), by James Franklin Hurley, Julia Goode Eagan, and Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Committee of Publication (page images at HathiTrust)

• Western North Carolina: Its Mountains and its People to 1880 (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1977), by Ora Blackmun (PDF and Epub at appstate.edu)
• First Steps in North Carolina History (Raleigh, NC: A. Williams and Co., 1889), by Cornelia Phillips Spencer (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• North Carolina History Stories (Richmond: B. F. Johnson Pub. Co., 1901), by W. C. Allen (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• School History of North Carolina, From 1584 to the Present Time (revised and enlarged edition, c1882), by John W. Moore (Gutenberg text)
• The Colonial and State Political History of Hertford County, N. C. (1906), by Benj. B. Winborne (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• The Dickson Letters (Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton, printers, 1901), by William Dickson, ed. by James O. Carr
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• In Ancient Albemarle (Raleigh: Commercial Printing Company, 1914), by Catherine Albertson, illust. by Mabel Pugh (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers (New York: R. Carter, 1846), by William Henry Foote
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Lumber River Scots and Their Descendants: The McLeans, the Torreys, the Purcells, the McIntyres, the Gilchrists (Richmond, VA: William Byrd Press, 1942), by Angus Wilton McLean, John Edwin Purcell, Archibald Gilchrist Singletary, and John Edwin Purcell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937), by Guion Griffis Johnson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Star of empire; phases of the westward movement in the old Southwest (The Seeman printery, 1919), by Archibald Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• James Sprunt historical monographs. ([University of North Carolina], 1900), by University of North Carolina (1793-1962) and Historical Society of North Carolina (page images at HathiTrust)
• The James Sprunt historical publications. (University of North Carolina., 1910), by University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Department of History and Government and North Carolina Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lawson monographs of the Trinity College Historical Society (Seeman printery, 1910), by Trinity College Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Western North Carolina; a history (from 1730 to 1913) (Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1914), by John Preston Arthur and Asheville National Society Daughters of the American Revolution of North Carolina. Edward Buncombe Chapter (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of North Carolina (C. L. Van Noppen, 1908), by Samuel A. Ashe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketches of North Carolina, from 1584 to 1851. (Lippincott, Grambo and co., 1851), by John H. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Motley Morehead and the development of North Carolina, 1796-1866 (William J. Campbell, 1922), by Burton Alva Konkle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers of the Trinity College Historical Society ser. 18-19 (The Society, 1897), by North Carolina Conference Historical Society and Trinity College Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• North Carolina, the Old north state and the new. (The Lewis publishing company, 1941), by Archibald Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• School history of North Carolina, from 1584 to the present time. (American book company, 1882), by John W. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences and memoirs of North Carolina and eminent North Carolinians. (Columbus print. works, 1884), by John H. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home" (The Century Co., 1917), by Julian Street (page images at HathiTrust)
• North Carolina history stories, by W. C. Allen (B. F. Johnson publishing company, 1901), by W. C. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of North Carolina (Lewis Publishing Co., 1919), by Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton, William K. Boyd, and R. D. W. Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tar Heel tales. (State Dept. of Archives and History, 1946), by Mattie Erma Edwards Parker and North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In ancient Albemarle (Commercial Printing Company, 1914), by Catherine Albertson and General Society of the Daughters of the Revolution. North Carolina (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical and literary activities in North Carolina, 1900-1905 ... (Nash Bros., printers and binders, 1904), by North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History, Clarence Hamilton Poe, and W. J. Peele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leroy Lee Smith : a lawyer of the old school (Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1916), by Marion Timothy Plyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chronology of North Carolina : showing when the most remarkable events connected with her history took place, from the year 1584 to the present time, with explanatory notes (J.M. Edney, 1858), by D. K. Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary and historical activities in North Carolina, 1900-1905. (Raleigh, 1907), by North Carolina State Department of Archives and History and W. J. Peele (page images at HathiTrust)
• School history of North Carolina, from 1584 to the present time. (American book co., 1901), by John W. Moore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• School history of North Carolina, from 1584 to 1879. (A. Williams & co., 1879), by John W. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The necessity of preserving the memorials of the past and of transmitting to posterity a just and impartial history of North Carolina. An address by Col. Wm. H.S. Burgwyn, delivered before the Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina, June 4, 1890, in Memorial Hall at Chapel Hill. (Edwards & Broughton, Printers, 1890), by William Hyslop Sumner Burgwyn and YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ante-bellum builders of North Carolina (The College, 1914), by R. D. W. Connor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• North Carolina history stories (B.F. Johnson publishing company, 1901), by W. C. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A child's history of North Carolina (Authors co-operative pub. co., 1916), by W. C. Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grandfather's tales of North Carolina history. (Edwards & Broughton, Printers, 1901), by Richard Benbury Creecy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The North Carolina Council of defense historical committee. (Edwards & Broughton printing co., 1917), by North Carolina. Council of Defense (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide book of N. W. North Carolina, containing historical sketches of the Moravians in North Carolina (L. V. & E. T. Blum, printers, 1878) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the first North Carolina reunion at Greensboro, N. C., October eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth, nineteen hundred and three (J.J. Stone & Co., 1905), by George S. Bradshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• School history of North Carolina, from 1584 to the present time. (A. Williams & co., 1882), by John Wheeler Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of North Carolina : with maps and illustrations (E.J. Hale, 1859), by Francis L. Hawks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The James Sprunt studies in history and political science. (The University, 1900), by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of History, University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Department of History and Government, and North Carolina Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ante-bellum builders of North Carolina. (The College, 1914), by R. D. W. Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• School history of North Carolina, from 1584 to the present time. (A.Williams, 1884), by John Wheeler Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketches of North Carolina from 1584-1851 (Lippincott, Grambo and co., 1851), by John H. Wheeler and Hickory National Society Daughters of the American Revolution of North Carolina. John Hoyle chapter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Western North Carolina : a history from 1730-1913 (Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1914), by John Preston Arthur and N.C.) Daughters of the American Revolution. Edward Buncombe Chapter (Asheville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sprunt studies in history and political science (The University of North Carolina, 1900), by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dept. of History and Government, and North Carolina Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The long leaf pine. With prefatory remarks on the political and geological history of North Carolina and The Sandhills. Including a summary of the flora and fauna. (The Sandhill Citizen Print (Foss & Morris), 1923), by Thomas Parker Ivy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foot prints-- on the sands of time : a history of-- south-western Virginia and north-western North Carolina (Star Pub. Co., 1900), by A. B. Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hero tales from American history (Century Co., 1915), by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketch of the Indians who inhabited the eastern part of North Carolina from 1524 to the present time (C. Benjamin Richardson], 1857), by Frederic Kidder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The memories of fifty years : containing brief biographical notices of distinguished Americans, and anecdotes of remarkable men ... (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1870), by W. H. Sparks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Addresses (Printed by Weston R. Gales, 1843), by Archibald D. Murphey, W. R. Gales, and University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dialectic Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tar Heel state : a leaflet of interesting information about North Carolina. (State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1945), by North Carolina. Dept. of Public Instruction (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Old North State (Lippincott, 1906), by R. D. W. Connor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Young people's history of North Carolina (Alfred Williams, 1923), by Daniel Harvey Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia dare. (Capital Printing Company, 1901), by Graham Daves (page images at HathiTrust)
• The antecedents of the North Carolina convention of 1835. ([S.l.], 1910), by William K. Boyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proceedings of the State Literary and Historical Association of North Carolina (s.n.] (, 1919), by North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, Walter Raleigh, Walter Raleigh, and R. D. W. Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• First steps in North Carolina history. (A. Williams & Co., 1889), by Cornelia Phillips Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young people's history of North Carolina (Alfred Williams & Co., 1907), by Daniel Harvey Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of North Carolina : historical and biographical, illustrative of the principles of a portion of her early settlers. (Published by H.J. Dudley for the Committee on Historical Matters of the Synod of North Carolina, 1965), by William Henry Foote (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of North Carolina (C.L. Van Noppen, 1925), by Samuel A. Ashe (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of North Carolina (Edwards & Broughton Print. Co., 1925), by Samuel A. Ashe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The War of the Regulation and the Battle of Alamance, May 16, 1771. (State Dept. of Archives and History, 1949), by William Stevens Powell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical and literary activities in North Carolina, 1900-1905. (s.n.], 1904), by North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History, Clarence Hamilton Poe, and W. J. Peele (page images at HathiTrust)
• A disastrous flood : a true and fascinating story (Smith Print. Co., 1976), by Ivery C. Greene (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Carolina chats (Edwards & Broughton, 1944), by Carl Goerch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of North Carolina. (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1956), by Hugh Talmage Lefler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 1933), by Alex Mathews Arnett and Walter Clinton Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• North Carolina: rebuilding an ancient commonwealth, 1584-1925. (Reprint Co., 1973), by R. D. W. Connor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tar Heel tales. (State Dept. of Archives and History, 1957), by Mattie Erma Edwards Parker and North Carolina State Department of Archives and History (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Down home (Edwards & Broughton company, 1943), by Carl Goerch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• North Carolina, rebuilding an ancient commonwealth, 1584-1925 (American historical society, inc., 1929), by R. D. W. Connor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical sketches of Hertford County (1877), by John W. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minutes of the Kehukey Association (Baptist) : with letter of Joel Battle Fort, and with introduction and notes (University Press, 1904), by Kehukee Baptist Association, Joel Battle Fort, and Kemp P. Battle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why North Carolina claims the designer of the "Stars and Bars," first flag of the confederacy (1917), by Fannie Ransom Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biennial report of the North Carolina Department of Archives and History, July 1, 1950 to June 30, 1952. (North Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1952), by North Carolina State Department of Archives and History (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lessons from our North Carolina records: an address read before the faculty and students of Trinity College, November 27, 1888 (Trinity College, 1889), by William L. Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
• North Carolina yesterday and today (©1941, 1941), by Jule B. Warren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• North Carolina sketches ([publisher not identified], 1949), by Mary Moore Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In Ancient Albemarle, by Catherine Albertson, illust. by Mabel Pugh (Gutenberg ebook)

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