Thanks to our partners at High Point Museum and the Heritage Research Center at High Point Public Library, a new batch of materials including a beautiful series of programs from swim competitions, booklets on High Point manufacturers, and full-color maps of Guilford County. The materials range from as far back as 1920 to as recent as 2018, encompassing nearly a century of North Carolina memory. They will join an already massive collection of High Point Museum materials already online at DigitalNC, with nearly four hundred objects already digitized.

The highlight of this collection is absolutely the nine beautifully illustrated maps that detail the geography of High Point and its surrounding area. These nine maps each date from different eras of Guilford County history, and reflect the changing landscape of one of North Carolina’s largest manufacturing centers throughout the years. Care is taken with many of the maps to label the individual streets and businesses, and include meticulously maintained directories. Event maps, such as for the Henredon Classic and North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, include historic blurbs and art for visitors to appreciate. A truly massive amount of care and attention for High Point was poured into the creation of each map, and that care leaps from the page even today.

You can find these new maps, along with the rest of this batch, online now at DigitalNC here. Interested in learning more about High Point’s history? You can find the partner page for our friends at High Point Museum here and the Heritage Research Center at High Point Public Library here. Interested in looking at more historic maps? Try our maps collection online here!