Documents & Media

Media

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Summey’s Drugstore

Mount Holly News

Jones Brothers Market

Jenkins Motor Co.

The Quality Store

Documents

Historical Maps

-1945 map of downtown

-History of Mount Holly’s corporate limits, 1879-2001

Historical Documents

-1879 General Assembly Resolution creating Mount Holly

Interviews

-Freedom community residents John Hope and Ruth Moore talk about their lives & growing up there.

-For a recollection of 1930’s downtown by Ernest Stowe, click here.

-Sarah Nixon’s account of working for the Mount Holly News

-A short history of the Massey Company, Inc. by Henry Massey, Jr.

-Memories of directing the band at Mount Holly High School, Robert Black

-Doris Connell’s description of Riverbend Village.

Newspaper/Magazine Articles

-Highlighting a journal of early days at the Mountain Island Mill, by Jim Heffner, Mount Holly News, ca. 2004

-Story of how the Mount Holly Cotton Mill came to be on the National Register, by Jim Heffner, Mount Holly News, date unknown

-Article of the closing of Holland Drug Co., in the Mount Holly News, January 11, 1989

-”Remembering the pavilion“, by Willie Dunn Springs, in the May 21, 1997 Mount Holly News

-Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church:

-”Ghost Army of St. Joseph’s“, by Judy Rozzelle, in the Oct. 2004 Mountain Island Monitor

-”Still Sacred“, by Alan Hodge, in the Nov. 2005 Our State

-”Requiem for St. Joseph’s“, by Judy Rozzelle, in the July 2004 Mountain Island Monitor

Historical Sketches

-History of First Presbyterian Church by Willie Dunn Springs

-History of the post office in Mount Holly, by Hollis E. Dunn

-History of buildings at the Wachovia bank corner, Mount Holly Archives Committee, ca. 1991

-History of schools in Mount Holly, by Hollis E. Dunn

-History of the Robert Alexander property, by Hollis E. Dunn

-Sketch of André Michaux, French botanist and visitor to Mount Holly, by Charles Williams

-Sketch of the Hoffman-Love-McConnell house, author unknown

-History of the Johnston-Nims-Spratt house, by Meg Barnard

-Map and descriptions of sites of historical interest in the Riverbend area, by Ed Cox