RESEARCH - Internet Sources and Books

For additional information regarding the history of Stanly County, click on the following links:
  
Stanly County History Center Heritage Room
Additional resources can be found via links at the bottom of the page.
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The Digital Heritage Center, housed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, works with cultural heritage institutions across North Carolina to digitize and publish historic materials online. 
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North Carolina Family Records Online is comprised of family history materials from the
holdings of the State Archives of North Carolina and State Library of North Carolina.
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see the "Resources" tab
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“NC ECHO searches across digital collections at a variety of
cultural heritage institutions around North Carolina.  
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The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries,
archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.”
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Albemarle – 1902, 1908, 1913, 1922 (see NC Live above for 1929 & 1941)
Other North Carolina cities available
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Albemarle – 1937, 1940, 1947, 1951, 1957, 1958/59, 1960, 1961/62, 1963
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for reviewing property owners and obtaining vital records information
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for reviewing property records via countywide map
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Cemetery records from all over the country
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WorldCat.org
connects to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RESOURCES FOR GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT STANLY COUNTY AND ITS WRITERS
Compiled by Dr. Annabelle Morgan

Albemarle: One Fifty Commemorative Magazine. Albemarle: Sesquicentennial Committee, 2007.

Allen, Ted L. et al. Historic Sites Inventory: A Comprehensive Survey of Stanly County. Albemarle: Historic Properties Commission, 1977.

Bramlett, Lewis P. Albemarle Opera House. Raleigh: Lulu Press, Inc., 2013.

Bramlett, Lewis P. “It’s Not History Until It Can Be Proven”: A Tribute to Mrs. Elizabeth Parker Reynolds. Raleigh: Lulu Press, Inc., 2014.

Buchanan, D. Douglas. Images of America: Stanly County. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.

Buckner, Sally, editor. Our Words, Our Ways: Reading and Writing in North Carolina. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1995.

Curlee, Ricky J., Dale R. Smith, and Sherry E. Nance, editors. Peeking Into the Past: A Pictorial History of Stanly County, North Carolina. Marceline, Missouri: D-Books Publishing Company, Inc. 1996.

Dodenhoff, Donna. Stanly County: The Architectural Legacy of a Rural North Carolina County. Charlotte. Albemarle-Stanly County Historic Preservation Commission, 1992.

Eubanks, Georgann. Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Eudy, Zelma and Pam Holbrook, editors. Stanly County Heritage, North Carolina, Volume 1. Waynesville: County Heritage, Inc., 2002.

Glass, Brent D. Badin: An Historical and Architectural Survey. Albemarle: Stanly County Historic Properties Commission, 1982.

Hamilton, Ian, editor. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Hairr, John and Joey Powell. Images of America: Gold Mines in North Carolina. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2004.

Horton, Clarence E. and Kathryn L. Bridges, editors. Piedmont Neighbors: Historical Sketches of Cabarrus, Stanly, and Southern Rowan Counties from the pages of Progress Magazine. Concord: Historic Cabarrus, Inc., 1999.

Hoyle, Bernadette. Tar Heel Writers I Know. Winston Salem: John F. Blair, 1956.

Flora, Joseph M. and Robert Bain, editors. Fifty Southern Writers After 1900: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Foglia, Virginia Stone, editor. Albemarle, Stanly County Centennial: The Bridge from Yesterday into Tomorrow. Albemarle: Stanly County Historic Preservation Commission,1957.

Laskey, Robert T. and Karen Garvey. editors. Albemarle Tales: A Treasury of 20th Century Memories. Hickory: Hometown Memories Publishing Company, 1998.

Laskey, R. T. and Sallie Holt, editors. Mules, Mud, and Homemade Soap. Hickory: Hometown Memories Publishing Company, 2004.

Life Sketches of Lutheran Ministers: North Carolina and Tenneessee Synods 1773-1965. Columbia, South Carolina:North Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, 1966.

McClughan, C. F. et al. editors. Revisited: The 20th Century of Stanly County. Marceline, Missouri:D-Books Publishing, Inc.,2001.

Morgan, Annabelle P. Images of America: Oakboro. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2012.

Morgan, Fred T. et. al., If These Graves Could Speak: Stories of Struggle and Accomplishment from Albemarle’s Oldest Cemetery. Albemarle: Stanly County Historic Preservation Commission with the Albemarle Pee Dee Avenue Cemetery Group, Inc., 2000.

North Carolina Authors: A Selective Handbook. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina  Press, 1952.

Powell, William S. North Carolina Fiction 1734-1957: An Annotated Bibliography. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958.

Powell, William S. The North Carolina Gazetteer. Chapel HIll: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.

Sharpe, Ivey L. and Edgar F. Pepper, III. Stanly County U. S. A. - The Story of an Area and an Era (1941- 1991): A History of Stanly County, NC. Greensboro: Greensboro Media Press, Inc., 1990.

Stanly County, N. C. 1841 - 1991. 150th Celebration. Albemarle: 150th Celebration Committee, 1991.

Stevenson, George. North Carolina Local History: A Select Bibliography (rev. ed.). Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1975.

Thornton, Mary Lindsay, editor. A Bibliography of North Carolina: 1589-1956. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958.

Varner, Elizabeth. Images of America: Albemarle. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2004.

Walser, Richard. Literary North Carolina: A Brief Historical Survey. Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1970.

Walser, Richard, editor, North Carolina Poetry. Richmond: Garrett and Massie, Inc., 1951.

Walser, Richard, editor. Poets of North Carolina. Richmond: Garrett and Massie, Inc., 1963.


Walser, Richard and Mary Reynolds Peacock. Young Readers’ Picturebook of Tar Heel Authors (rev.ed.). Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1961.