Today is May 1st known to most all Southerners has May Day. The tradition of May Day goes back centuries to a pagan celebration marking the midpoint between the spring equinox and summer solstice and thus meant to celebrate spring and fertility. The celebration was brought to America and was a mainstay event on the…
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Carolina College
Carolina College By Blake Tyner The Reverend S.E. Mercer discussed the idea of a Methodist college for women at an October 1906 meeting of. Several locations were considered but the final vote was to build on the heritage of Maxton, it being the site of the former Floral College. Mercer was appointed financial agent and…
Robeson County Railroads – pt 2
Maxton, Alma & Southbound Railroad The Maxton, Alma & Southbound Railroad Company history extends back to March 1881 when the North Carolina legislature incorporated the Alma and Little Rock Railroad Company. The charter issued to Messrs. J.B. Wilkinson and P.A. Fore of Alma who proposed to build a railroad from Alma to Little Rock, S.C.,…
McDonald, NC
Main Street McDonald When looking at this wonderful postcard of main street McDonald you feel as though you have stepped into the old west. The town grew up on the lands of Richard Townsend. A special 1910 supplement to The News and Observer gives a wonderful account of the founding of McDonald. The town dates…
Swiss National Library Source of East Lumberton Photographs
I have been blessed enough to find bits of history on Robeson County in old barns and the universities archives around the country. I have knocked on doors and emailed people asking them to share what they have with the public. Today’s find comes from a place that is the last place I would expect…
1930s Road Construction
I am constantly searching for new bits of information and not seen before photographs to document Robeson County’s rich history. I found these great photographs while sitting in a traffic jam this morning. Robeson County road construction work on US 74 and the Lumberton-Fairmont toad in the 1930s. Courtesy of the Luther J. Jordan Photograph…
Oxendine Couple.
Lumbee couple Archibald “Archie” and Margaret “Peggy” Oxendine. Her maiden name was also Oxendine, her parents were James and Elizabeth “Besty” (Revels) Oxendine. Betsy was the daughter of Nathaniel Revels. This photograph is courtesy of UNCP University Relations and is featured in my book Images of America Robeson County.
Burnt Swamp Baptist Church
The Burnt Swamp Baptist Church was organized in 1877 in the Jamestown Community east of Pembroke. The old church building was relocated to the grounds of the Burnt Swamp Baptist Association in the 1980s. This photograph is featured in my book Images of America Robeson County.
Down the Road
History revisited… {transcript of the video} I grew up in Robeson County surrounded by history. I spent much of my childhood with my great-grandparents where I gained a love for the stories of Robeson County and her people. Many of the stories that I grew up with fueled the fire in my adolescent, but growing,…