Project: The Middle Tennessee History Coalition (MTHC), in collaboration with the Tennessee State Library and Archives the North Carolina State Library, and the University of North Carolina, proposes a project that will digitize the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina. This is a collection of approximately 9,400 documents that cover a period from European settlement to the founding of the United States and beyond. All twenty-six volumes will be digitized. The colonial records of North Carolina were originally compiled before 1886 by William Saunders, and covered the period between early settlement of the colony and 1776. Saunders was a newspaper editor, lawyer, and ultimately the Secretary of State for North Carolina. Saunders …show more content…
The core philosophy of the MTHC is that the true value of preserving historical records is only realized when they are accessible to everyone. The MTHC has endeavored to accomplish this through heritage interpretation programs, in-school history programs, funding historical preservation, and with the completion of this project, funding the digital preservation of historical records. The history of North Carolina is the history of Tennessee. Prior to statehood, the area that is now Tennessee was part of the colony and eventually the State of North Carolina. Founded in 1663 under a royal charter granted by King Charles II, the colony extended west to the Pacific and included all lands between the colony of Virginia and Florida. What we now know as Tennessee was ceded to the newly created government of the United States by North Carolina to satisfy war debts and tax burdens owed to the new Federal government and became known as the Southwest Territory. Many prominent figures in the colonial and early state governments of North Carolina went on to play a significant role in settling and developing what is not Tennessee. The first governor of the Southwest Territory was William Blount. Blount was a member of the North Carolina delegation to the …show more content…
Metadata will include access management, preservation, administrative, descriptive, technical and structural data. Much of the metadata will have to be created. The original volumes had no table of contents, index, or other description of the records. Additionally, volumes were arranged chronologically with no attention paid to document type, source, or content. In addition to author, title, publisher, and date, descriptive metadata will be expanded include keywords regarding subjects, individuals, locations, or events referenced in the document, as well as any related documents. This will be a time consuming and costly effort, but it required to maximize the value of the online data to researchers, students, teachers, etc. An index for all volumes was completed after the fact in 1909 and that index will be incorporated into a referential database behind the web page front end, rather than in the metadata itself. A complete list of metadata elements are provided in Appendix
In 1607 a group of English settlers built village in Jamestown, Virginia. King Jaime I of England founded a colony in the first seven months after its arrival. Within these colonies we find the New England colonies and South Carolina colonies. We will analyze and compare the government systems, religious and economic development of both colonies and how they were related.
William Tryon was appointed the new royal governor after Arthur Dobbs died in 1765. Tryon had more of a military background then the other royal governors. He combined his organisation skills with his own ambition to bring about a change in North Carolina. Tyron did more to change the colony than any others done in the past century. His goals were straight to the point he wanted to organize north carolina to take advantage of the resource, and money. Tryon wanted to make the people of North Carolina respect authority,and to please his boss back in england and to make North Carolina pay in its own way.
With over 250 years of history as a county in North Carolina, Mecklenburg County has an extensive and fascinating story to tell. Established in 1762, the county that I call home has been a part of this country since before we gained our independence from Great Britain. When most Americans hear the surname “Polk,” they automatically think of our nation’s eleventh president, James Knox Polk. A fraction of those people are able to tell you that James was born in Mecklenburg County and spent the first ten or so years of his life in present-day Pineville. Very few, however, could tell you of James’ great-uncle, Thomas Polk, who was crucial to the founding and progress of Mecklenburg County.
The reconstruction period was the period right after the Civil War. It lasted from 1865 until 1877. During the reconstruction period the North tried to rebuild the South after the Civil War. Since the North won the war they were in charge of who got to come back into the Union and what they had to do to come back into the Union. The enemies of reconstruction prevented true progress in the reconstruction period.
North Carolina has been around for quite some time. They have had seventy five governors, and their current governor is Roy Cooper. He has been governor since January 2017. Up till 1663 North Carolina was actually called SouthVirginia. South virginia was the twelfth state. The Roanoke colony is today's North Carolina’s Dare county.
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By 1864, Georgia was the most important state left to sustain the Confederacy’s war effort. Its factories and agriculture supplied Confederate armies throughout the South, and the city of Atlanta was at the center of Georgia’s war production and railroad network. As a junction between four railroads, Atlanta had grown to become a primary Confederate base to transport troops, supplies, and treat injured soldiers during the Civil War. For the Union, capturing Atlanta meant cutting the South’s vital railroad network and supply lines (Still). According to William Sherman, the Union general who led the Atlanta Campaign, “This city [Atlanta] has done more and contributed more to carry on and sustain the war than any other, save perhaps Richmond. We have been fighting Atlanta all the time … and now since they have been doing so much to destroy us and our Government we have to destroy them” (Still). By destroying one of the most important cogs in the
West Virginia was the 35th state in the United States on June 20, 1863 and it’s the mountain state. This state usually ranks up to the top ten apple production. The states bird is the Northern Cardinal, Flower Rhododendron, animal black bear, tree sugar maple, colors old gold, blue and song is Carry me back to old Virginia. West Virginia is home to More than 1.85 people. In West Virginia about 82% is livestock and 18% is crops. This state was separated from Virginia State during the civil war. West Virginia is located in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains.
In 1799, an event occurred in the southern Piedmont that made North Carolina a very desirable place to live-the discovery of gold! Long ago a stone/rock was found in Cabarrus County, North Carolina by Conrad Reed at Little Meadow Creek. The Conrad family who found this rock didn’t know what it was or who it belonged to or neither did they know what it was made out of. The family looked at the rock and found out it was a seventeen pound rock made of gold but now called a golden nugget. After all, they found more gold that came from the creek eventually this made the Conrad’s family and father wealthy and rich. Soon gold was being found in neighboring counties Montgomery, Stanly, Mecklenburg, Rowan, and Union and people was anxious to find gold
“Murder begins where self-defense ends.” This quote from Georg Buchner can be used to describe the tragic deaths of three little boys who were rendered defense-less against their attackers. On May 5, 1993 in West Memphis, Arkansas, three young second-grade boys, by the names of Christopher Byers, Steven Branch, and Michael Moore, were brutally murdered after being beaten and hogtied by their own shoelaces. A year later, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were convicted and sent to prison for this heinous crime. Even though the three men were convicted for the crime, there is still great controversy as to who actually killed the three boys. Throughout all this controversy, evidence, testimony, confessions, and more point towards the three men known as the “West Memphis Three”, to be the real killers.
The city of Greenwood, Mississippi was founded in 1830 by John Williams also known as Williams Landing. In 1844 Greenwood was initially named after Choctaw Chief Greenwood Leflore. Greenwood, Mississippi is also known as the heart of the Mississippi Delta. The city of Greenwood is well known for being rich in vegetation and wildlife. Greenwood has also been known for having lots of cotton and is known for being the cotton market. Being known for cotton, Greenwood was named “The Cotton Capital of the World. Prior to the Civil War Greenwood shipped cotton throughout New Orleans, Louisiana, Memphis, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Missouri.
Before we decided on the topic of Reconstruction, we initially wanted to do the Civil War, but decided it was too broad and general. Which led us to something a lot simpler; The Battle of Gettysburg, but because it was a battle there wasn’t an actual compromise, only a conflict. That’s when we finally decided on the topic of Reconstruction after the Civil War.
History is comprised of actual accounts of things that happened, forces that have shaped us, and lessons that we gain. As stated in the introduction, ““Wee will have noe Lords, noe Landgraves noe Cassiques we renounce them all.” With these words, the earliest settlers of North Carolina declared their complete rejection of any social hierarchy in their colony” (I). In Noeleen McIlvenna’s book, A Very Mutinous People, McIlvenna discusses how North Carolina doing their own thing made North Carolina’s history much different from that of any other early North American colony. It is said that, “North Carolina’s story fits none of the familiar models of colonial American history” (14). As a whole, this book reviews the political struggles of the earliest settlers in North Carolina and their eventual loss of freedom. Many were there to escape debt, persecution, and indentured servitude. They became closely allied in the political and sometimes physical fight to retain their lack of connection to the gentrified world.
The Ole Miss experience is one that is unique to us all. Whether that be late night stargazing by the Oxford Airport or walking the Bailey's Woods National Recreation Trail to Rowan Oak on a rainy day, the Ole Miss experience is limitless. However, what if the journey you follow and the things you think are a must do before you graduate could become a part of the Ole Miss Legacy? So we invite you to submit your ideas of "Must-Dos" before you graduate for the chance for your idea to be among the Ole Miss Bucket List: 100 THINGS YOU MUST DO BEFORE
LIM 503- Organization, Access, and Retrieval of Information deepened my understanding of bibliographic tools and the ability to identify and create records using the necessary mechanics. Due to this course, I have the competence to recognize, create, and manage bibliographic records. This course deepened my appreciation for the attention to detail of the practices that must be considered when developing and maintaining information.