Received through the courtesy of Stanley Little. Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. Between 1908 and 1913, the hotel appears to have been successively owned and managed by R. L. Johnson, Sarah Hellen, W. H. Kilpatrick, and T. C. Bryan. The collection is comprised of the hotel's register that contains guests' names, cities of residence, prices paid, and meals eaten during their stays at the hotel.
Several names appear regularly.
Many of the hotel's guests were traveling salesmen or quail hunters from the northern United States. Guests' cities of residence include many in Eastern North Carolina, various states, and the nations of Great Britain, Germany, France, and Cuba. Although information about the hotel's guests is brief, occasional remarks about some visitors appear in the register's margins. Prepared for the web by Susan R. Midgette.