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- Wed September 25, 2013, 10:48 pm
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Pate Lovin
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12811
Re: Pate Lovin
No, Lynn. The cemetery I was looking at is southwest of Old Wix Rd. http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=34.85283,-79.76224&z=17&t=S&marker0=34.85283%2C-79.76224%2CCemetery My notes on who owns the property are out in the truck, but I do remember I couldn't locate a valid phone number for the indi...
- Fri September 20, 2013, 11:24 am
- Forum: Hamlet Pictures
- Topic: Engine & Caboose Painting project
- Replies: 23
- Views: 26125
Re: Engine & Caboose Painting project
Jody is absolutely correct. The semaphore positions indicate stop, one governing one track and one governing an adjacent track. Multiple light signals (yellow over green for instance) for a particular track would have been stacked. Notice that the blades of these semaphores have square ends. They ar...
- Wed September 18, 2013, 4:28 pm
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Pate Lovin
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12811
Re: Pate Lovin
Speaking of Z. V. Pate, with a tie in to Terry Gibson's off topic request, about Dolly (Rachels) Leviner, in Bruce Brown's "Just Curious" topic of this /Looking for Information/ thread, Z. V. Pate was the informant for her Death Certificate. The Pate and Rachels families intermarried regul...
- Tue September 17, 2013, 2:58 am
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Pate Lovin
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12811
Re: Pate Lovin
Thanks for the contact Wayne. I'll try to call him tomorrow some time (I guess the would be today) since it's currently 2:53 am). Lynn - The cemetery used to be called Morrison Cemetery, but the last person I know of being buried there, Elijah Walter Terry, was buried in the Terry Family Cemetery ac...
- Mon September 16, 2013, 9:32 pm
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Pate Lovin
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12811
Pate Lovin
Pate Lovin , perhaps Thomas Pate Lovin who died in Hamlet in 1989. My understanding is that he lived out on Spring Hill Church Road. Does anyone know where he lived out there, and, if so, can you tell me which house? There's a cemetery I'm looking for behind the house with some very old graves in i...
- Mon September 16, 2013, 8:21 pm
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Grady Steen
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14430
Re: Grady Steen
I was wondering if that was your family. I did most of the enumerations of the Steen Cemetery on findagrave. My 'nom de plume' on findagrave is CemeteryMan. Is Leoma the correct spelling for your mom?
- Mon September 16, 2013, 8:15 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: SEABOARD CHANGES FROM COAL TO WOOD-FIRED ENGINES.. 1902
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5799
Re: SEABOARD CHANGES FROM COAL TO WOOD-FIRED ENGINES.. 1902
I read, also, that trains running to Florida south of Hamlet were converted to wood because wood was more plentiful than coal in the deep south. Some of the conversions were done at the Hamlet Shops. As a historian I apologize for not being able to cite my source, but I swear I read it. It's fairly ...
- Mon September 16, 2013, 7:55 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: S.A.L. CRASH KILLS 5 AT HAMLET... 1911
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5872
Re: S.A.L. CRASH KILLS 5 AT HAMLET... 1911
If you know where the old coal tipple sat then you can get a sense of where the accident occurred.
The passengers/spectators are sitting on the embankment, station side, of where Pine Street and Raleigh Street intersect—and end.
The passengers/spectators are sitting on the embankment, station side, of where Pine Street and Raleigh Street intersect—and end.
- Mon September 16, 2013, 4:21 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: CHARLESTON, SUMTER and NORTHERN R.R. CONNECTS AT HAMLET.1891
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6143
Re: CHARLESTON, SUMTER and NORTHERN R.R. CONNECTS AT HAMLET.
June 24, 1891 was the date. The CS&N finally made it to Gibson and opened the tracks on October 1, 1892 where it connected with the Raleigh & Augusta. Remember that the R&A is the company that built the Gibson spur in the first place. CS&N never actually connected with the Carolina C...
- Mon September 16, 2013, 2:05 pm
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Grady Steen
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14430
Grady Steen
Grady Steen's death certificate, 1963, says he was a Merchant in Hamlet. What type of merchant was he and where was his store located. His wife was Leona or Leoma (Caulk) Steen.
- Mon January 21, 2013, 6:35 pm
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Hamlet - five SAL lines?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11942
- Mon January 21, 2013, 5:28 pm
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Hamlet - five SAL lines?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11942
I admit it is a fine point of distinction, but the Gibson Branch didn't switch off the Wilmington Division, now the Wilmington Subdivision, until what is now called, in railroad terms, East Junction and that is not, nor ever has been in Hamlet per se. Nit picking? Probably, but historians are wont t...
- Mon January 21, 2013, 11:55 am
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Hamlet - five SAL lines?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11942
Hamlet - five SAL lines?
Often reported as if it were a fact is the statement that Hamlet, at one time, had "five Seaboard Railroad lines leading out" of town. By my reckoning there were, and have only ever been, four. If there ever was a fifth, which direction was it headed and where were the tracks located?
- Fri March 9, 2012, 8:52 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: 1954 1st Grade Fairview Heights
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4879
- Mon March 5, 2012, 10:44 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Do you remember??? Hamlet Coca-Cola
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16756
- Sun March 4, 2012, 8:48 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: 1951 Seaboard Air Line Crews
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12045
Our Hamlet is about memories and I have one to share, unrelated to the photographs, but sparked by the fact that Jim Crooke shared the images. I remember a trip to Raleigh with my father, Wilbur Scarborough, on one of his fact finding tours. Now you know where I get it—genetics. He was taking one of...
- Sun March 4, 2012, 8:11 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: 1951 Seaboard Air Line Crews
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12045
- Sun March 4, 2012, 6:06 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: 1952 at the Diamonds
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4061
1952 at the Diamonds
Taken sometime in 1952, or so I am told, this is a view of the trains that were always stacked up across from the depot. That is to say, from the photographer's position the depot is to your left (visible in the reflection of the Harriman passenger car). Off in the distance is the coal tower, called...
- Sun March 4, 2012, 5:00 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: 1951 Seaboard Air Line Crews
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12045
- Wed April 6, 2011, 2:47 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: City Manager vote 1972
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4062
- Wed March 30, 2011, 3:44 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: W. R. Land Co., 1911
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15819
- Wed March 16, 2011, 10:17 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: 1927 HHS Football Team
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5760
- Tue March 15, 2011, 6:03 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: 1927 HHS Football Team
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5760
- Wed February 2, 2011, 2:06 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: Seaboard Yards 1955
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9009
- Sun January 2, 2011, 1:00 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Campbell Pharmacy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17601
- Sat January 1, 2011, 10:56 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Campbell Pharmacy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17601
- Sat January 1, 2011, 10:52 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Campbell Pharmacy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17601
When I was younger I would rather endure the pain of drilling than have a needle stuck in my gums... go figure. So whenever your dad had to put a filling in, he drilled away and I gripped the arms of that chair until I'm sure my knuckles were white. Despite all the pain I suffered, obviously at my o...
- Sat January 1, 2011, 10:43 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Campbell Pharmacy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17601
- Sat January 1, 2011, 10:34 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Campbell Pharmacy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17601
Wasn't that the Campbell house on the corner of Dogwood and Hawthorne? John Bill Brittingham lived across Hawthorne and Erline and Bill Byrd eventually built a house diagonally across from them. Gulledge's field was on that same block? If I remember correctly, we used to cut through the back field o...
- Thu December 30, 2010, 5:26 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: 1910 - Hamlet Station
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8800
- Wed December 29, 2010, 6:14 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: 1952 - Wrecker w/ roundhouse in distance
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6943
- Wed December 29, 2010, 6:01 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: 1952 - Wrecker w/ roundhouse in distance
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6943
- Wed December 29, 2010, 5:54 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Pictures
- Topic: Jody Meacham Book Signing at The Historic Hamlet Depot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11259
- Tue December 28, 2010, 8:52 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Pictures
- Topic: Jody Meacham Book Signing at The Historic Hamlet Depot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11259
- Mon December 27, 2010, 11:12 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Pictures
- Topic: Jody Meacham Book Signing at The Historic Hamlet Depot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11259
- Mon December 27, 2010, 7:30 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: 1910 - Hamlet Station
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8800
- Mon December 27, 2010, 12:53 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: 1910 - Hamlet Station
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8800
1910 - Hamlet Station
I thought I had posted this here, but apparently not. Source citation: "A Blizzard Morning, Hamlet, N. C." Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill http://www.ourhamlet.org/forum/userpix/...
- Sat December 25, 2010, 11:24 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Pictures
- Topic: Boyd House Torned Down Monday July 5, 2010
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12216
This should never have been allowed to happen. Don't tear down your history, Hamlet! And don't re-muddle it into some ill conceived modern look and feel. It won't work. The history of Hamlet is a viable calling card that isn't limited to Main Street. Same with the Terminal Hotel, but I won't go there.
- Sun December 19, 2010, 1:22 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: W. R. Land Co., 1911
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15819
I answered my own question, I think. The Mrs. Land mentioned here in association with a China Closet (cabinet), was the wife of Hunter Lawton Land, Sr., brother of William Raines Land. Hunter died of pneumonia (complications from the flu) on 28 October 1918 leaving his wife Velma with a 3 year old d...
- Sun December 19, 2010, 10:08 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: W. R. Land Co., 1911
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15819
- Sat December 18, 2010, 6:39 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: W. R. Land Co., 1911
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15819
W. R. Land Co., 1911
Postcard of W. R. Land Company, about mid-1911. Was that on Front Street between the drug store and the grocery? Actually, in 1911 when the photograph was taken the drug store on the map was a grocery as well. And on an earlier map the dry goods store was only in the right hand portion so they expan...
- Sat December 18, 2010, 12:52 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Hamlet Avenue, 1920s (updated)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3680
Hamlet Avenue, 1920s (updated)
From the North Carolina Collection at Wilson Library, UNC. -- In August of 1920 the three story building on the right was the last building in the block nearest the photographer. The second floor of that building housed the Railroad offices and there was some sort of "hall" on the third fl...
- Sun November 7, 2010, 2:55 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Pictures
- Topic: HHS Class of '70 - Reunion
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12713
- Fri November 5, 2010, 12:14 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Pictures
- Topic: HHS Class of '70 - Reunion
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12713
- Wed November 3, 2010, 11:25 am
- Forum: Hamlet Pictures
- Topic: HHS Class of '70 - Reunion
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12713
- Mon November 1, 2010, 8:40 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Pictures
- Topic: HHS Class of '70 - Reunion
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12713
As we knew them... Front Row: Cheryl Benoy, Barbara Pederson, Joe Scarborough, Wayne Fuller. Second Row: Wanda Branham, Anne Lackey, Deborah Sutton, Terry Duncan, Betty Lynn Williamson, Jenny Wright, Lynda Bostic, Arthur Byrd. Third Row: Bobbie Keziah, Kathy Stutts, Sandra Clewis, Carolyn Howell, Ri...
- Mon November 1, 2010, 8:38 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Pictures
- Topic: HHS Class of '70 - Reunion
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12713
- Tue October 26, 2010, 8:07 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Please tell me about old Moncure Hospital
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19135
- Tue October 26, 2010, 6:46 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Please tell me about old Moncure Hospital
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19135
I had a dog, once, whose name was Whitey. He was a Russian Wolfhound. He was headed off on one of his journeys when momma called him. He turned to look at her as if to say goodbye. I later found him, dead, on the two-rut dirt road leading to old Moncure Hospital. I would say your assessment of it be...
- Fri September 10, 2010, 10:59 am
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: Roundhouse
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7372