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Tate, Samuel McDowell, 1830-1897. Samuel McDowell Tate papers, 1810-1918.

Title: Samuel McDowell Tate papers, 1810-1918.

Correspondence and other papers of Samuel McDowell Tate. Correspondence pertains chiefly to political and business matters relating to the affairs of the railroad, which was involved in corruption during Reconstruction. Tate's political correspondents included most of the Redeemer element of the state. Also included are papers and a volume relating to state bonds; telegraph lines; land speculation; marble, mica, and talc mining; state elections; Burke County schools; a proposed change in the judicial system; prohibition; Wilberforce College; and the Western Insane Asylum. Lastly, there is a small amount of military papers, including appointments and a pardon for enlisted men who had been arrested for being absent without leave; newspaper clippings; and ephemera. There are few Civil War items. The addition of January 2004 consists of correspondence and financial and legal documents. Letters are mainly addressed to Samuel McDowell Tate, but a few early and undated letters are addressed to his wife, Jennie Pearson. The majority of the letters relate to business, railroad, and political affairs. Financial and legal materials include account sheets, receipts, court documents, and deeds. Some early documents pertain to accounts for Tate's father-in-law, R. C. Pearson.

ArchivalResource: About 2350 items (3.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24864408 View

Western North Carolina Railroad Company. Papers, 1855-1895.

Title: Papers, 1855-1895.

Stockholders' and directors' minutes, annual reports (1855-1866), correspondence, contracts, and other records.

ArchivalResource: .3 cubic ft. and 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28414163 View

Avery, Alphonso Calhoun, 1835-1913. Alphonso Calhoun Avery papers, 1761-1977 [manuscript].

Title: Alphonso Calhoun Avery papers, 1761-1977 [manuscript].

Personal and professional correspondence, legal papers, financial materials, and other papers of Alphonso Calhoun Avery. Correspondence concerns family and business affairs, legal work, land transactions, politics, and various legal and historical publications to which he contributed. Included are letters from Avery's son, Isaac Erwin Avery, about his experiences in Shanghai, China, 1894-1895. Legal papers consist of deeds, indentures, surveyors' reports, land plats, powers of attorney, and papers relating to Avery's legal career. Financial papers consist of bills, receipts, purchase lists, and account books. Also included are legal and financial papers relating to Western North Carolina Railroad contractors Chambers and Avery and to various family members' estates. Other papers include biographical and genealogical materials relating to the Love, Erwin, Thomas, and other families; Avery's publications and writings on Civil War and western North Carolina history; Civil War papers relating to Avery and his brother, Colonel Isaac Erwin Avery; recipe and remedy books of Susan Washington Morrison Avery; and volumes containing notes on legal cases, lectures on legal topics, and Civil War clippings and letters. Also included are letters and legal papers relating to land holdings of William Holland Thomas, Sallie Love Thomas Avery's father, who represented the North Carolina Cherokee and acquired vast amounts of land that came under dispute following his financial collapse. Letters concern the Thomas heirs' legal claims, some handled by Charles Walter Tillett, to the land, mineral rights, and Cherokee land boundaries. Legal papers relate to court cases about the lands and include indentures, plats, petitons, notes, testimony, and Thomas's power of attorney for the North Carolina Cherokee.

ArchivalResource: 3000 items (9.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27183539 View

C. B. Mallett Papers, 1829-1954

Title: C. B. Mallett Papers, 1829-1954

C. B. (Charles Beatty) Mallett (1816-1872), of Fayetteville, N.C., was a manufacturer, merchant, and the president of the Western North Carolina Railroad. With James Browne of Charleston, S.C., he formed the partnership Mallett and Browne. The Mallett family is descended from Peter Mallett (1744-1805). The collection consists primarily of business papers and family correspondence of C. B. Mallett. Included are antebellum correspondence, bills, and accounts related to a textile mill; letters, contracts, bills, accounts, and other records pertaining to the operation of coal mines in Chatham County, N.C., during the Civil War by Mallett and Browne and and of the partnership's supplying the Confederate War Department with coal, iron, nails, and other materials; a volume with accounts, 1845-1854, for cotton bales, cotton cloth, cotton sheeting, meal, and miscellaneous merchandise, a daybook of a kerosene oil works, 1864-1865, and a daybook of a river freight firm, 1867-1868; and miscellaneous records of Mallett and Browne, the Union Manufacturing Company, the Western North Carolina Railroad, and Saint John's Episcopal Church, Fayetteville, N.C. Also included are correspondence and other family papers, chiefly letters from the family of C. B. Mallett's father, Charles Peter Mallett, in North Carolina and in Balstrop, La., in the 1870s. Of particular interest are letters by Charles Peter Mallett in Chapel Hill, N.C., during the town's occupation by Union forces in the spring of 1865.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 750 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/03165/ View

Lee, George E.,. George E. Lee papers, 1861-1867 [manuscript].

Title: George E. Lee papers, 1861-1867 [manuscript].

An unascribed account of the use of the locomotive engine, "General," by Union spies in Georgia; an essay concerning Stoneman's Raid, 1865, by Theodore Buerbaum; and graphs, a time table for the Western North Carolina Railroad; and a newspaper article on George M. Pullman and the "General."

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24270358 View

Western North Carolina Railroad Company Stock Certificate Book, ., 1858-1864

Title: Western North Carolina Railroad Company Stock Certificate Book, . 1858-1864

The collection contains a record of persons to whom Western Carolina Railroad Company stock was issued and the number of shares issued to each.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/w/Western_North_Carolina_Railroad_Company.html View

Tate, William C. Papers, 1780-1874.

Title: Papers, 1780-1874.

Collection contains land grants, deeds, and mortgages; certificates of stock in the Western North Carolina Railroad; a survey, 1874, by J.P. Beck; and a pardon, 1865, granted William C. Tate by President Andrew Johnson.

ArchivalResource: 39 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39632573 View

Kemper, Fannie V. Papers, 1848-1891.

Title: Papers, 1848-1891.

Letters from students at a girls' school in Staunton, Va., from James N. Turner, a cousin of Fannie V. Kemper, and from other relations in South Carolina and Georgia. Includes information on student life in the 1850s, and letters from Turner while he was a surveyor for the Western North Carolina Railroad.

ArchivalResource: 124 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19933370 View

Tate, Samuel McDowell Col., 1830-. Col. Samuel McDowell Tate collection / 1811-1941 1850-1859, 1865-1892.

Title: Col. Samuel McDowell Tate collection / 1811-1941 1850-1859, 1865-1892.

This collection contains Samuel McDowell Tate's correspondence and financial documents from his many years as a banker. It also includes an engraving of Samuel McDowell Tate by F.E. Kernan, a small number of House Bills Tate had prepared, and items of governmental propaganda. There is no material from Tate's time in the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: .8 linear feet (2 manuscript boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64563095 View

Andrews, Alexander Boyd, 1841-1915. Alexander Boyd Andrews papers, 1859-1891 [manuscript].

Title: Alexander Boyd Andrews papers, 1859-1891 [manuscript].

The collection includes papers, 1859-1891, consist of correspondence and other business papers of Alexander Boyd Andrews relating to his career as a railroad executive and capitalist, chiefly correspondence, bills, routine reports and monthly returns, receipts, and bills of lading. Railroads with which Andrews was connected include the Raleigh & Gaston, Chatham, Richmond & Danville, Atlantic & North Carolina, Western North Carolina, and the Southern. The earlier papers relate to railroad construction and specific arrangements for and the volume of business of a ferry on the Roanoke River at Gaston, N.C., including records of individual agents, boatmen, and other employees. In the late 1870s there is correspondence relating to the consolidation of railroads, financing, and the changes of ownership and management. The papers become less numerous after 1875. Also included are a scattering of personal and family letters, personal bills, and accounts, and papers relating to the planting of cotton and the selling of that and other crops through Baltimore commission merchants. The sixteen volumes include records relating to the operation of the ferry, 1866; farm records and accounts, including accounts with tenants and sharecroppers; personal and bank accounts; two volumes relating to Mrs. Andrews's housekeeping and church work, and a volume of data about births, marriages and deaths in the Andrews, Johnston and Hawkins families.

ArchivalResource: About 2,500 items (6.0 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25280935 View

Lindsey & Brown. Lindsey & Brown photographs, ca. 1890.

Title: Lindsey & Brown photographs, ca. 1890.

Photographs (chiefly cabinet cards produced by Lindsey & Brown) of street scenes, landscapes, and tourist attractions in late 19th-century western N.C. Descriptive text is printed on the reverse side of many of the photographs. Most photographs were taken in the vicinity of the Swannanoa, Hot Springs, the French Broad River, Round Knob, Hickory Nut Gap, Buck Forest, Highlands, and Asheville. Contains photographs of the Battery Park Hotel, Chimney Rock, Hooker's Mill, McElroy Tunnel, Devil's Pulpit, Paint Rock, the Seven Sisters, the Swannanoa tunnel stockade, the Murphy Division, Devil's Slip Gap, the Western North Carolina Railroad and U.S. Mail boys. Includes several images of African Americans in western N.C. Collection also includes 4 photographs produced by Brown alone and 3 stereoscopic views produced by Nat W. Taylor.

ArchivalResource: 40 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37869813 View

Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894. Zebulon Baird Vance papers, 1824-1915.

Title: Zebulon Baird Vance papers, 1824-1915.

The collection is chiefly political correspondence, 1877-1894, concerning state and national politics, Democratic Party actions, and constituent affairs. Topics include political patronage; railroad matters, especially of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad and the Western North Carolina Railroad; state institutions; tariff and internal revenue laws; the Danville, Va., race riot of 1883; the Blair education bills of 1886 and 1888; presidential elections; the rise of the North Carolina Farmers' Alliance; and the remonetization of silver. There are also business papers related to Vance's real estate, nickel mining, and lumber interests in Buncombe and Mecklenburg counties, N.C. Scattered Civil War items pertain to the secession crisis, Vance's brief service as a colonel of the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, and his gubernatorial activities. After 1894, materials are chiefly of the business and personal correspondence of Vance's oldest son, Charles N. Vance, especially concerning his business interests in the Jellico Mining Company. Some 1895 letters relate to Kemp P. Battle's attempt at writing a biography of Zebulon Vance. Additions to the collection include chiefly correspondence of Zebulon Baird Vance and his son Charles N. Vance, photographs of the Vance family, and various legal papers and land deeds. Correspondence concerns constituent affairs, political appointments, and other political issues of the 1890s. Letters from Vance's second wife, Florence S. Vance, to Charles N. Vance (1894) concern Zebulon's declining health, and additional correspondence and legal papers relate to an inheritance dispute between Charles and his stepmother Florence. Also included is a 28 July 1863 letter from Confederate soldier William T. Dickinson to Governor Vance describing casualties suffered by the 11th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg; more correspondence with Kemp P. Battle; letters and other items relating to North Carolina governor and senator Thomas Jordan Jarvis; and a 27 December 1862 letter written by Vance to South Carolina Governor Milledge L. Bonham asking him to send a letter from Colonel J.W. Hayne that was accidentally omitted from previous correspondence and congratulating Bonham on his recent promotion.

ArchivalResource: About 6300 items (7.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26319956 View

Robertson, W. T., fl. 1880-1889. Stereoscopic views of Southern scenery: photographs, [ca. 1880-1889].

Title: Stereoscopic views of Southern scenery: photographs, [ca. 1880-1889].

Views from western North Carolina primarily of the Western North Carolina Railroad and of urban and rural scenes, mostly at or near Asheville. Includes also a grist mill, steamboat, hotels, bridges, stagecoach, and tobacco field. The photographs are albumen prints.

ArchivalResource: 22 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17980163 View

Fisher Family Papers, 1758-1896

Title: Fisher Family Papers, 1758-1896

Members of the Fisher and Beard families of Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C., included Lewis Beard (1754-1820), plantation owner, merchant and county and state official; his son-in-law Charles Fisher (1789-1849), representative to the United States Congress and the North Carolina House of Commons and plantation and gold mine owner; and Charles's son Charles F. Fisher (1816-1861) (Charles Frederick), who was, among other things, president and contractor for the North Carolina Railroad, for whom Fort Fisher, N.C. was named. Charles F. Fisher's daughter Frances married J. M. Tiernan, who was involved in the mining business. She wrote novels under the pen name of Christian Reid. Collection consists mainly of correspondence, legal and financial materials, and other items of Charles Fisher, Charles F. Fisher, and other members of the Fisher and related families. Charles Fisher's correspondence discusses both national and North Carolina politics, especially John C. Calhoun, his presidential aspirations, and the Whig Party; gold mining; his Smith County, Miss., plantation; land speculation in Choctaw Indian territory in Mississippi; and a controversy involving the Bank of Salisbury. Charles F. Fisher's correspondence concerns mining interests, business investments, and work as president of the North Carolina Railroad. In the 1880s and 1890s, there is also correspondence of writer Frances Fisher Tiernan (Christian Reid) from her French editor and from her husband, describing his experiences managing a mine in the state of Durango, Mexico. Financial and legal papers consist of indentures; land grants and surveys; receipts; lists of tools, supplies, and purchases; and work records, contracts, and stock certificates, mostly relating to gold mining in North Carolina, Charles Fisher's Mississippi plantation, construction of the Western North Carolina Railroad, the Choctaw Indian Nation's land claims against the United States government (which Charles Fisher supported), and Charles F. Fisher's procurement of provisions, clothing, and equipment for the 6th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War. Some of the work records relate to hiring of slave labor to for mining and railroad work. There are also political writings; materials relating to the Western Carolinian, a political journal that Charles F. Fisher co-published; and part of a Christian Reid story. Volumes include account books for the Yadkin toll bridge, Lewis Beard's general store, iron foundries, and blacksmith work; Charles Fisher's scrapbooks on politics and economics and account books for his travel on plantation and Choctaw land claims business; and Charles F. Fisher's diary of a trip through northeastern Georgia in 1833, account books, Western Carolinian subscriber lists, and record books of the Western North Carolina Railroad.

ArchivalResource: 7.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 4,050 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00258/ View

Colton, Henry E. Henry E. Colton letter to Samuel McDowell Tate, 1870 October 15.

Title: Henry E. Colton letter to Samuel McDowell Tate, 1870 October 15.

The collection consists of one letter from Henry E. Colton, author of the first North Carolina guidebook, Mountain Scenery, to Confederate Civil War hero Col. Samuel McDowell Tate. Tate was instrumental in planning and sponsoring the construction of the first leg of the Western North Carolina Railroad.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/610055264 View

Clayton family. Clayton family papers, 1855-1922.

Title: Clayton family papers, 1855-1922.

Chiefly letters between Thomas L. Clayton and his wife Emma, many written while he was serving in the Confederate army. Other correspondents include Clayton's father, mother, brother, and friends in the Confederate army. Topics include the election of Abraham Lincoln and the southern reaction, fears of possible slave uprisings, and feelings in Asheville about secession. After Thomas Clayton joined the Confederate army, there are letters relating to Thomas's war experiences, including reports of battles around Atlanta, Ga., and Emma's trials on the homefront. Post-war letters are chiefly about routine personal and business affairs. Also included are a few items relating to railroad surveying, damage caused by federal troops, and other matters.

ArchivalResource: 110 items (0.5 linear ft)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34847462 View

Western North Carolina Railroad Company. Western North Carolina Railroad Company stock certificate book, 1858-1864 [manuscript].

Title: Western North Carolina Railroad Company stock certificate book, 1858-1864 [manuscript].

A record of persons to whom Western Carolina Railroad Company stock was issued and the number of shares issued to each.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23992535 View