Peter Evans Smith Papers, 1738-1944

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Peter Evans Smith Papers, 1738-1944

1738-1944

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00677/

Peter Evans Smith of Halifax County, N.c., civil and mechanical engineer, inventor, surveyor, cotton planter, and railroad employee. The collection includes personal and business correspondence, business Papers, and various other records of Smith and his relatives. Much of the correspondence is about family matters, but many items relate to Smith's inventions and patents, most of which, such as his electric buoy, were related to navigation, agriculture, and railroads. Other items concern Smith's work on the Confederate ironclad ; navigation on the Roanoke River; planting and lumbering before, during, and after the Civil War; relations with African Americans as slaves, tenant farmers, and laborers; his work with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; his interests in Vine Hill Academy and the Episcopal Church in Scotland Neck, N.C.; and many other matters. There is also material relating to Smith's daughter Lena, a schoolteacher who established the Cottage Home School in Scotland Neck after her deafness caused her to lose her teaching job. The collection also includes scrapbooks and commonplace books, photographs, clippings, bills, receipts, genealogical notes, and historical sketches, mostly of Civil War incidents and including regimental histories of the 1st and 3rd North Carolina Cavalry, by Smith and others. Also of note is a series of letters written during World War II from a woman missionary in China. Albemarle

2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1500 items)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6629043

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Peter Evans Smith of Halifax County, N.c., civil and mechanical engineer, inventor, surveyor, cotton planter, and railroad employee. From the description of Peter Evans Smith papers, 1738-1944 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23765356 William Ruffin Smith (1803-1872) and his brother James both married daughters of Peter Evans (1781-1852), who owned Egypt plantation in Chatham County, N.C., and whose LaGrange Mining Co. produced coal for the Confederacy. ...