Postcard showing The American Tobacco Company cigarette plant in Reidsville, North Carolina.
We’ve recently finished digitizing and publishing online more local history materials from Rockingham County Public Library. This is another batch coordinated as part of a 2014-2015 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) EZ Digitzation Grant, and we’re excited to share these with you.
Periodicals added with this batch include Insights to Jerusalem, a newsletter published by the Jerusalem United Holy Church of America in Reidsville, NC. These volumes, from 1990-1994, include church news, recipes, short essays, and more. Old Rockingham County Magazine, also published during the 1990s, is a variety magazine with stories, historical anecdotes, household hints, ads, and local lore.
There are also a number of additional volumes of research on a variety of Rockingham County residents and topics by local historian John T. Dallas.
- Confederate Veterans of Rockingham County
- J. Oscar Thomas Letters and Others
- Jabez L. Dallas & Elizabeth Wells Dallas
- James B. Robertson, Caswell County, North Carolina
- Robert Dallis & Nancy Turner of Sandy River
- Roberts of Rockingham County, NC
- The Thomas Family
- Wentworth High School, 1923-1961
The remaining items include materials about the American Tobacco Company (The Story of Lucky Strike, and a postcard of the plant in Reidsville), two reports on civil rights in Reidsville, and a scrapbook full of newspaper clippings and ephemera documenting Washington Mills.
