Chatham Historical Journals

1988-2008 Click on Journal number and date to link to pdf of issue.

Volume 1 - 1988 No. 1 - September History of Mann’s Chapel, by J. Lamont Norwood. ~ Notes concerning Dr. James McCarroll and his descendants, by Wade Hadley. ~ Comments on the diaries of Bishop Asbury & Chatham County, by J. Lamont Norwood. ~ Lacy Johnson and John London reminisce about former times, transcribed by Jane Pyle.

No. 2 - December Membership certificate of charter members of Chatham County Historical Association. ~ Patrick St. Lawrence in Chatham Co. 1783-1797, by Wade Hadley. ~ Chatham's first county seat, by Wade Hadley. ~ Private or family cemeteries in Chatham Co, NC, by Wade Hadley. ~ Growing up in Chatham Co. part 1, by Ruth Waddell Horton. ~ Photographs: Daughters of William Henry Burns, Sr. - The Western Railroad's locomotive.

Volume 2 - 1989

No. 1 - August Growing up in Chatham County, part 2, by Ruth Waddell Horton. ~ Work and culture in a Piedmont mill village, part 1, by Douglas DeNatale, w/ photos.~ Fillers: Courthouse bricks – Vestal home - champion cotton pickers. ~ Photographs: Snow Camp Foundry Dam.

No. 2 - October Work and culture in a Piedmont mill village, part 2, by Douglas DeNatale, w/photos. ~ Fishing in streams in Chatham over 100 years ago, by Wade Hadley. ~ Photographs: Breaking ground for Siler City Post Office Building.

Volume 3 - 1990

No. 1 - April Wading through error and confusion: An update of a study of the Endor Iron Works, by R. A. Wiesner. ~ Earliest dated death on gravestone at Napton Cemetery, by Wade Hadley, w/photo. ~ Undefeated Siler City team from fifty seasons ago, by Robert Hughes, w/photo. ~ Millwood: a vanished Chatham County town, by Wade Hadley, w/photo. ~ Intended Confederate bayonet factory in Chatham Co., by Wade Hadley.

No. 2 August Union infantryman scorns Sherman's Raiders during visits to Haywood, by Robert Hughes. ~ Siler City and the census of 1900, by Wade Hadley. ~ The Rev. Thomas Mann, pioneer circuit-riding preacher, part 1, by J. Lamont Norwood.

Volume 4 - 1991 No. 1 - January The Rev. Thomas Mann, pioneer circuit-riding preacher, part 2, by J. Lamont Norwood. ~ Water-powered grist mills in Chatham Co., NC as of 1880, by Wade Hadley, w/photo, map.

No. 2 - June The Chatham County Court House, by Wade Hadley, w/photo, drawing. ~

George Soelle, one of the first itinerant preachers in the new county of Chatham, by J. M. Cooper.

No. 3 - July Charles Manly law office, Pittsboro, NC, by Jane Pyle, w/photos. Charles Manly biographical sketch, by Doris Goerch Horton. ~ Fillers: Wild silkworms - 'poisoned' well claimed three lives, by Wade H. Hadley, Jr.

No. 4 - December A native son: Wade Hadley, part 1 by Jane Pyle, w/photo. ~ Life on the

rural Chatham County farm in the nineteenth century, by Sara Jo Blair, w/photo.

Volume 5 - 1992

No. 1 - April A Chatham native son: Wade Hadley, part 2, by Jane Pyle, w/photo. ~ The 'Chatham Rabbit,' by Wade H. Hadley, Jr.

No. 2 - July

Frank Marsden London, artist, part 1, by Bonnie Vargo and Anne Lazenby Williams, w/photos.

No. 3 - August Frank Marsden London, artist, part 2, by Bonnie Vargo and Anne Lazenby Williams, w/photos. ~ The post offices of Chatham County, NC, by Wade H. Hadley, Jr., illustrations

Volume 6 - 1993

No. 1 - January A letter from Chatham County, Transcribed by Jane Pyle, illustrated. ~ Early land grants in Chatham County, by J. M. Cooper, illustrated.

No. 2 September Chatham County's coal, by Wade H. Hadley, Jr., w/photos, map

No. 3 - November Deep River bayonet operations of Heck, Brodie & Company during the Civil War, by Robert A. Wiesner and Matthew W. Norman, w/map.

Volume 7 - 1994

No. 1 - March Some early Baldwin and related families of Chatham Co., NC, by Barbara Roth, w/genealogical charts.

No. 2 - May Some Means of livelihood in Chatham County around 1850, by Wade H. Hadley, Jr., w/photo. ~ Moringsville, an early Chatham community, by Ernest A. Dollar, Jr., w/map

No. 3 - September Mt. Pleasant Church and Pace's Mill Bridge, by J. Lamont Norwood, w/photo, map. ~ Passenger automobiles and trucks registered in Chatham County in 1923, by Wade H. Hadley, Jr., w/photo. ~ Chatham soldiers: Chatham Masons, by Ernest A. Dollar, Jr., w/photo

No. 4 - November St. Mark's Chapel: Migratory and Enduring, by Wade H. Hadley, Jr., w/photos. ~ Inventory of gravestones and burials, St. Mark's cemetery, by

Jane Pyle.

Volume 8 - 1995

No. 1 - May

Hominy: an almost-lost art in food preparation, by Inez Mann. ~ Silk culture in Chatham County, by Wade H. Hadley, Jr., illustrated. ~ A reminiscence of John London, by Fred Nooe. ~ Photograph: Rock Rest - Bishop Cheshire at St. Mark's - Gulf

No. 2 - September Down at the railway depot, by Wade H. Hadley, Jr., w/illustration. ~ Photograph: Schoolhouse at Gulf, c. 1932 ~ An accounting of the estate sale of John Baldwin, 1811, prepared by Jane Pyle. ~ The initial minute book of Hadley-Peoples Manufacturing Company, by Wade H. Hadley, Jr.

No. 3 - November Bygone mills on the Haw River in Chatham Co., by Herbert Poole, w/map, illustration.

Volume 9 - 1996

No. 1 - April

The Sapona Iron Company of Chatham County, by Robert A. Wiesner, w/drawing, photograph.

No. 2 - July Lawyers of Chatham County, part 1, by Walter D. Siler, w/photo.

No 3 – September Lawyers of Chatham County, part 2, by Walter D. Siler, w/photo.

Volume 10 - 1997 No. 1 - May

The Hadley Civil War letters [Transcriptions by Jane Pyle.]

No. 2 - October John L. Cowan, Chatham County’s “Especial Artist” of 1865, by Herbert Poole, w/illustrations

No. 3 - December The Chatham Historical journal, 1988 – 1997 (Table of contents and index) ~ Other Association publications

Volume 11 - 1998 No. 1 - September Sounds of the past, by Vivian Cole. ~ Mt. Pleasant Church and the Burnett family, by J. Lamont Norwood, w/photo

No. 2 - November A letter from Chatham County (Transcription of a letter from George Luther, Martha's Vineyard to Mr. Comstock, editor of The Silk Culturist), illustrated. ~ Dr. Lloyd, by Vivian Cole. ~ Illustration: N.M. Hill Livery and

Feed Stables business card.

No. 3 - December The Chatham County Home, by Will Heiser and Jane Pyle, w/maps

Volume 12 - 1999 No. 1 - February A reminiscence of Pittsboro, by Thomas Letson Nooe

No. 2 - November

Chatham County's military service in World War I (including listing of persons in service and their hometowns), w/photographs, part 1

No. 3 - November Chatham County's military service in World War I (including listing of persons in service and their hometowns), w/photographs, part 2

Some additions and corrections to the World War I articles in Vol. 13, No. 1 & No. 2

Volume 13 - 2000 No. 1 - March A letter from Charles Manly, Comments and notes by Jane Pyle, w/illustrations, photographs. ~ Addendum, Chatham County people in military service in World War I, w/photographs

No. 2 - October Washerwomen and Tramps, by Vivian Cole. ~ Addendum, Chatham County people in military service, w/photographs. ~ Pittsboro tax list for 1876, Jane Pyle.

No. 3 - November Dr. David Watson, by Brooks W. Gilmore, illustrated

Volume 14 - 2001 No. 1 - March Springtime, by Vivian Cole. ~ Saved from drowning by a mule's tail, by Joe Burke. ~ Culture Shock, by Joe Burke. ~ Photograph: Lt. Governor Wilkins P. Horton.

No. 2 - June Growing up on a sharecropping farm in Bonlee, by Joe Burke

No. 3 - December The Cape Fear Power Plant Village at Moncure, by Johnny Odom and James Watson, w/photographs & maps.

Volume 15 - 2002 No. 1 - March

Remembering Granny and Granddaddy Durham, [on the Graham Road five miles from Pittsboro], by William H. Durham, w/photographs. No. 2 – December

Recipes from Chatham County, compiled by Barbara Irwin

Vol. 16 – 2003

No. 1 – August Gilmore Lodge, by Brooks Gilmore, w/photographs

No. 2 – December

James W. Horton: Citizen and Soldier of Chatham County, by Gregory A. Coco, photographs ~ Gravemarkers of Civil War Veterans in St. Bartholomew’s Cemetery, Pittsboro, w/photographs

Vol. 17 – 2004

No. 1 - April Gravestone Gleanings (summary of Chatham County cemetery survey), by Keith J. Brown, w/photographs No. 2 – September Borden/Bonlee Shooting Club, by Jane Pyle, w/photographs

Vol. 18 – 2005

No. 1 – January Family and Farming in Chatham County, memoir by Jim Cooper, illustrations ~ Rosenwald Schools in Chatham County, by Jane Pyle, w/illustrations and photographs

No. 2 – April The Prince Family of Chatham County, by William B. Gresham, Jr., w/photographs

No. 3 – September Pittsboro in the Twenties and Thirties: A Reminiscence, by Lula Foushee Hinton Hoskins ~ photograph of 1938 graduating class, Pittsboro High

School ~; Growing Up in Gorgas, memoir by Margaret Pollard

Vol. 19 – 2006

No. 1 – April

“The School-Girl” [1866 student newspaper of the Locust Hill Female Seminary in Pittsborough], by Jane Pyle, illustrations No. 2 – September

A Nineteenth-Century Soap Opera: Eliza Lutterloh’s Memoir, part 1, notes by Jane Pyle, illustrations No. 3 – September

A Nineteenth-Century Soap Opera: Eliza Lutterloh’s Memoir, part 2, notes by Jane Pyle, illustrations ~ Nicknames, by Walter “Corkey” Harris

Vol. 20 – 2007

No. 1 – October Newspapers in Chatham County: A Personal Look, by Bob Wachs, illustrations

No. 2 – December Letters from Home [Letters written to Dr. John Hanks by his father and stepmother], by Virginia McGee, illustrations

Vol. 21 – 2008

No. 1– December “A Search for Hatch’s Mill,” Part I, by Jane Pyle, map, photographs, genealogical chart No. 2– December “A Search for Hatch’s Mill,” Part 2, by Jane Pyle, photographs, Chart showing agricultural production of four 19th century Hatch farmers in Chatham