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A Bold and Beautiful Transformation at the Women’s Building in San Francisco
In August 2020, to mark the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, Benjamin Moore and the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced a year-long campaign celebrating women’s heritage. Expanding their relationship, the organizations identified sites rooted in women’s history to help restore them to their former glory as part of the National Trust’s campaign for Where…
Read MoreLiz Moomey: Historic Salisbury Foundation scavenger hunt connects to city’s past
SALISBURY — Salisbury is known for its history. And while many of us are cooped up due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Historic Salisbury Foundation created a scavenger hunt. The scavenger hunt, which has nine prompts, takes participants around downtown Salisbury to learn about the city’s hundreds of years of history. Sada Stewart, Historic Salisbury…
Read MoreHighlighting Salisbury Women of History: Edith M. Clark & Emma Lewis Speight Morris
Our Women’s History post this week features two women. The first, Edith M. Clark. This information was taken from the Rowan Town and Country feature. Whenever anyone chooses to do in-depth research on Western North Carolina genealogy and history including all areas of old Rowan County, more than likely you will be guided to the…
Read MorePatsy Flint and the origin of the Rowan History Class
By Pete Prunkl For the Salisbury Post The story of the beginning of the popular Rowan History Class is also the story of one remarkable woman. For National Women’s History Month, Historic Salisbury Foundation honors Patsy Flint, the foundation’s first part-time tour director. Without her initiative and outside-the-box thinking, the history class may never have…
Read MoreHighlighting Blanche Spencer Robertson
Today’s Women’s History Month feature is Blanche Spencer Robertson, one of the founding members of Historic Salisbury Foundation and Trustee Emerita. Mrs. Robertson and her husband, Julian Robertson, Sr., left a lasting legacy of civic engagement and philanthropy in Salisbury, so much so that her son, Julian Robertson, Jr. established the Blanche and Julian Robertson…
Read MoreCity approves DOT agreement, Salisbury Station project could begin next year
SALISBURY — Construction for a second platform at the Salisbury Station on Depot Street is expected to begin next year. Local leaders hail the project as one that will improve safety while implementing innovate infrastructure consistent with the historical character of the train station. The Salisbury Station, which contains an Amtrak station, is located at…
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: Highlighting Elsie Bennett
Today marks the start of Women’s History month, and what better way to kick it off than with a local woman, Elsie Bennett! Her shop, West Rowan Farm, Home and Garden on Hwy 801 in Mt. Ulla was on our Century Farms and Barns Tour in 2019 and is shown here in the current issue…
Read MoreHighlighting William W. Smith
William W. Smith is considered the first Black architect in the city of Charlotte. Smith was born in Mecklenburg County where he lived all his life. With no formal education, Smith appeared in the Charlotte City Directory as a brick mason in the early 1890s and at the end of the decade he was briefly…
Read MoreHighlighting Delaine Tabor Fleming, who broke color barriers in nursing, and was ‘the Nightingale of our time’
This article was originally written October 9, 2015 at The Salisbury Post. SALISBURY — Even in the last seven years of her life spent at the Brian Center for health and rehabilitation, Delaine Tabor Fleming found ways to be a nurse, mentor, advocate and friend. Her positive disposition served her well at the center and…
Read MoreLouise Rountree and the Second Jewel of Salisbury
By Pete Prunkl For Historic Salisbury Foundation Historic Salisbury Foundation has long referred to our town’s National Register Historic Districts as the Ten Jewels of Salisbury. The districts — some as small as five houses and others as large as 500 — are indeed preservation gems that other cities would be proud to claim. The…
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