Granville County, North Carolina
Subtitle: looking back
By: Lewis Bowling.
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781596293335
Subjects: Granville County (N.C.) -- History -- Anecdotes; Granville County (N.C.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes; Granville County (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes; Biography
Notes: Based on the author's newspaper column entitled Looking back in the Oxford public ledger, Oxford, N.C.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Welcome to Granville County; title: Granville County timeline; title: Oxford; title: A drive through Oxford in 1886; title: Now ride with me; title: A visit to Oxford in 1908; title: Christmas celebrations; title: Street names; title: Hall's Drug Store; title: Happenings around Stovall; title: A letter of encouragement; title: Ed Meadows, all-American; title: Some "goings on" in 1914; title: Education; title: Oxford's orphanages; title: Granville County and the Civil War; title: Tobacco; title: To the moon; title: A good man; title: Camp Butner; title: A great victory for Stem High School; title: Thad Stem; title: Hanging around a country store; title: A World War II experience; title: Granville County people; title: Granville County Hospital; title: Richard H. Thornton Library; title: Creedmoor; title: An Oxford boy makes the big leagues; title: A few good poems; title: A college in Oxford; title: The Hester family tragedy.