Search found 135 matches
- Thu July 4, 2013, 8:02 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: TRAIN WRECK AT HAMLET... 20 PEOPLE KILLED, 1906
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3762
TRAIN WRECK AT HAMLET... 20 PEOPLE KILLED, 1906
FROM: KEOWEE COURIER, Pickens Court House, S.C., July 25, 1906 TWENTY KILLED IN WRECK. Charlotte, July 22. — Seaboard Air Line passenger train No. 44 collided with an extra freight train one mile west of Hamlet to-day, and from 18 to 25 people are reported to have met death. The wreck occurred at 7:...
- Wed July 3, 2013, 9:18 am
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: BOILER EXPLODES IN SEABOARD SHOPS; HAMLET... 1912
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5267
BOILER EXPLODES IN SEABOARD SHOPS; HAMLET... 1912
News item taken from the KEOWEE COURIER, Pickens Court House, S.C. January 1, 1913. BOILER BURSTS; NINE KILLED. FEARFUL DISASTER IN SEABOARD AIR LINE SHOPS IN HAMLET, N.C. Hamlet, N.C., Dec. 28. — Nine men, three white and six negroes, were killed here to-day when a stationary boiler at the Seaboard...
- Thu June 20, 2013, 7:13 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: SIGNIFICANCE OF "air line".
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5453
Re: SIGNIFICANCE OF "air line".
Thanks, Jody, for that bit of info because I was way off in what I thought was the reason for including "air line" in a railroad company name. Being just a little mechanically inclined, I thought the term referred to the braking system. Something like more dependable air brakes as opposed ...
- Tue June 18, 2013, 3:18 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: SIGNIFICANCE OF "air line".
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5453
SIGNIFICANCE OF "air line".
While I was searching old newspaper files I came across this item in a March 1888 Kansas publication: The Denver, Texas & Fort Worth Railroad is completed. There is now an air line from Denver to Fort Worth and thence to the Gulf of Mexico . I know that the SAL touted itself as an "air line...
- Sat June 8, 2013, 9:35 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: State Magazine 1953
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5303
- Fri May 10, 2013, 9:00 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: McEachern Murders
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18594
- Wed January 30, 2013, 3:13 pm
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Just Curious:
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17433
@Terry, I don't know how far afield ypu want to go with the Leviners but you can find Whiteford Leviner's parents and other ancestors here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~leviner/Descendants%20of%20John%20Leviner%20of%201792.html The Freeman-Leviner cemetery mentioned by Lynn is l...
- Tue January 29, 2013, 12:59 am
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Just Curious:
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17433
- Mon January 21, 2013, 1:01 pm
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Hamlet - five SAL lines?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11191
- Mon December 17, 2012, 9:37 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: Train Pictures
- Replies: 15
- Views: 21744
- Thu December 13, 2012, 10:21 am
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Another celebrity railroad traveler
- Replies: 18
- Views: 23709
Aaah, those ol' sloughed off brain cells do make us forget. My memory of the two Lynn wrote about is that he was in line to be king and she was a divorcee by the name of Wallis Warfield Simpson. The part of being divorced put the kibosh on Edward taking the throne. (I didn't google this, just took i...
- Sun November 11, 2012, 11:34 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Who was he?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14277
- Sat November 10, 2012, 11:57 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Rex Howell 1949
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11008
Maybe David holds the answer to the rest of this story. So how about it, David, do you have a newspaper clipping describing the incident? If David doesn't have the complete item, Im sure it can be found on microfilm at the local library. I know the film is there because I searched old Hamlet newspap...
- Mon October 29, 2012, 10:51 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Rex Howell 1949
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11008
I suppose there will always be more than one account given for any one incident. I don't recall James Diggs as being from Hamlet but instead he was passing through the area while fleeing from farther north. I recall rumors that he had just recently killed members of his own family — wife and others ...
- Thu October 25, 2012, 10:58 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Rex Howell 1949
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11008
I remember this incident and it was the topic of conversation for many weeks. Word around town was the bullet was in such a location that surgery was considered to be too dangerous. A few days later the bullet fell out. James Diggs managed to elude the manhunt. But, about 20 or 30 years ago, while r...
- Sat June 23, 2012, 6:10 pm
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Can you help identify?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16936
I'll probably be 180 degrees off in my analysis but I'm going to take a stab anyway. The narrow belt on the fellow with a bow tie, plus slacks with cuffs, and the calf-length dresses of the girls in the first photo dates this to about the middle 1950s. It appears that both photos were made in the sa...
- Sat May 26, 2012, 1:16 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Retouched photo
- Replies: 22
- Views: 23444
- Fri May 25, 2012, 9:46 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Retouched photo
- Replies: 22
- Views: 23444
I've seen this photo a few times and always come away a little confused. Could someone get me properly oriented with this shot? Where are north and south? Is the engine (seen at the left side) coming off the north-south main line and heading west toward Rockingham? If that's the case then the termin...
- Wed April 25, 2012, 10:39 am
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Tell me the name of this cemetery
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24046
This is great! Ask one little question and get a history lesson. If only my history classes had been so interesting. According to the Richmond County GenWeb web site, the King Freeman cemetery and the Freeman-Leviner cemetery are two and distinctly separate cemeteries. FindAGrave web site for King F...
- Tue April 24, 2012, 6:04 pm
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Tell me the name of this cemetery
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24046
I did a bit more searching and found that the cemetery I asked about is identified on the Richmond County GenWeb site as the King Freeman Cemetery. So I guess the person who made the first contribution to FindAGrave in March 2011 for interments in the Freeman Cemetery— and probably the one who ident...
- Tue April 24, 2012, 12:00 am
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Tell me the name of this cemetery
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24046
Wayne, Thanks for the info. I checked FindAGrave and it is identified as Freeman Family cemetery. I used to go there and read the marker inscriptions when I was a kid, way back in the early 1950s, and was just curious if anyone had entered the names into FindAGrave website. Someone had and I was sur...
- Mon April 23, 2012, 9:16 pm
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Tell me the name of this cemetery
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24046
Tell me the name of this cemetery
There is an old cemetery on Gin Mill Road, about two miles south of Hamlet, in the southeast quadrant of the intersection where Gin Mill Road and Freeman Mill Road cross. What is the cemetery's name?
- Wed February 29, 2012, 1:26 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Photos from Bruce Sellars
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4683
- Sat February 18, 2012, 10:57 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Main St 1962
- Replies: 20
- Views: 20731
It appears that there were about 15 to 20 cars on Main Street at the time the photos were made, which clearly shows that Hamlet was once a vibrant little town. And the more so when the time of day is considered. The long shadow extending onto the north side of the street suggests that this photo was...
- Thu February 16, 2012, 4:56 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Main St 1962
- Replies: 20
- Views: 20731
- Fri December 30, 2011, 6:20 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Boyd's Lake
- Replies: 18
- Views: 24828
- Tue November 15, 2011, 8:58 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Red & White 1963
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17003
- Tue November 15, 2011, 1:12 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Red & White 1963
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17003
- Wed September 14, 2011, 9:41 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Do you remember??? Sanitary Laundry
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8594
I remember Sanitary Laundry, that is, if it was the one on Vance Street, just a hop, skip and jump to the east of Pansy Fetner School. Although I doubt my family ever used the laundry's washing services since we had a washer and clothesline, the chances are good that we had dry cleaning done there. ...
- Sat September 10, 2011, 10:20 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Do you remember??? Hamlet Coca-Cola
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16682
Way back in 1948 the Coke bottling plant was on US #74 east of town, just a couple hundred feet or so from the junction of N.C. #381. A little bit of searching on Google maps will show the building still there, although I don't remember the two wings being on the building. My memory only conjures up...
- Sat August 6, 2011, 7:39 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Do you remember??? Buttercup Ice Cream
- Replies: 17
- Views: 79109
Hey, I remember Buttercup well. Had some kinfolk who worked there in the late 40s and into the 50s. I remember seeing a Buttercup sign several years ago, a lighted plastic one about 3 feet in length. It was hanging at an abandoned gas station on route 38, smack dab in the middle of Blenheim, a few m...
- Sat July 16, 2011, 7:35 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Do you remember??? Hamlet Gin & Supply
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12203
Lynn, Ellerbe Grove Church Road lies to the west of N.C. 177. It begins at Lock Haven Road and runs south. After a couple of name changes it eventually reaches U.S. 1 at Everetts Mill pond. I never knew the name of the road until I posted a reply to this string. But I had traveled it many times goin...
- Thu July 14, 2011, 10:05 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Do you remember??? Hamlet Gin & Supply
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12203
Lynn, You know what? I probably ate some of those peaches your kinfolk raised there in the sandhills. Well, maybe not, but I remember my aunts preserving several bushels at a time. That was way back in the early 50s and I remember them saying that they were $2-a-bushel culls from the packing houses....
- Wed May 25, 2011, 10:53 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Frank Wetzel
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9295
I don't remember these murders since my family had moved from Hamlet four years before they happened. But I do remember another shooting that happened in the early 1950s, probably around 1951 or 1952. That was the day city policeman Rex Howell was shot point-blank in the mouth by a fugitive from up ...
- Sun January 16, 2011, 9:06 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: My Book Report by Jody Meacham
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4889