Smithfield Township, Johnston County (N.C.)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
C. Stanton Coats Collection
Collection — Legal box PC 129-139
Identifier: PC00132
Dates:
Record Keeping: 1992 February 10
Confederate Memorial Day 2001 Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: PHC00070
Dates:
Record Keeping: 2001 May 31; 2001 May 10
Copy of postcard of Gurkin's Tavern and Cabins, three miles north of Smithfield, N.C.
Item
Identifier: 22.009
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection, composed of eight photographs and one copy of a postcard, documents the aftermath of the Catch-Me-Eye explosion on US 301 at US 70 in Selma, N.C. on March 7, 1942. The explosion occurred after a car rear ended an ammunition truck headed to Fort Bragg with 30,000 pounds of explosives. The truck and car caught fire around 1:30 am, and a crowd formed to watch the blaze as firefighters from Smithfield attempted to put it out. The crowd was told to stay back, but this was not...
Dates:
Record Keeping: 1993 April 13; March 1942
Elizabeth United Methodist Church Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: PHC00154
Dates:
Record Keeping: 2005 May 18
Gardner Hudson Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: PHC00032
Dates:
Record Keeping: 1994 October 31; circa 1890s
Henry Burwell Marrow Papers
Collection
Identifier: PC00002
Scope and Contents
The collection contains items dating from Marrow's years in Chapel Hill (1912-1915) to his work on the state's public school laws following Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Two letterpress books (PC 2.1 and 2.2) containing letters and memos sent out from the Superintendent's office from 1924 to 1941, provide an excellent source for studying the school consolidation movement of the 1920s and the subsequent impacts of the Great Depression in the 1930s.Several county maps from...
Dates:
Record Keeping: 1991 October 28; 1912-1955
J. P. (Primrose) Parker Paper
Collection — Legal box PC 141-160
Identifier: PC00157
Scope and Contents
The J. P. (Primrose) Parker Paper contains a receipt dated February 27, 1908, for the removal of human waste from a privy in the amount of $.75.
Dates:
Record Keeping: 1992 March 23; 1905-1906
Photograph of Jeff Wallace with airplane, circa 1930-1931
Item
Identifier: 21.010
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection is made up of eleven photographs, five of which are of Camp Tuscarora in Wayne County, NC. Other photographs in the collection include two of the Smithfield High students in both the band and the orchestra from the early 1930s. Two photographs are of a plane piloted by a naval officer out of Norfolk, VA. According to eyewitness reports, he had to make an emergency landing in a field near Smithfield High, where a basketball game was being played. The game was paused and the...
Dates:
circa 1930-1931
Photograph of Navy Pilot out of Norfolk, VA with airplane , circa 1930-1931
Item
Identifier: 21.009
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection is made up of eleven photographs, five of which are of Camp Tuscarora in Wayne County, NC. Other photographs in the collection include two of the Smithfield High students in both the band and the orchestra from the early 1930s. Two photographs are of a plane piloted by a naval officer out of Norfolk, VA. According to eyewitness reports, he had to make an emergency landing in a field near Smithfield High, where a basketball game was being played. The game was paused and the...
Dates:
circa 1930-1931