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Title: Darryl Corriher oral history interview, 2004 January 17
Creator: Corriher, Darryl
Date Created: 2004-01-17
Subjects--Topical: Family farms, Farm management, Land use, Rural, Rural families, Field crops, Landlords, Rural development, Natural areas
Description: Darryl Corriher illustrates the methods that he uses for his farming practices along with the history of his family farming in Rowan County, North Carolina. Mr. Corriher discusses the management of his farm, the preservation of farmland and open s...

Title: Leon Lowder oral history interview, 1999 March 6
Creator: Lowder, Leon, 1906-
Date Created: 1999-03-06
Subjects--Topical: Cotton growing, Country life, Farm life, Farm management, Farm management--Economic aspects, Family farms, Race relations, Political and social views
Description: Leon Lowder recounts his life, family, and work in retail and farming in central South Carolina from the 1930s-1980s. Mr. Lowder describes being the seventh out of eleven children in a farming family and leaving home in 1926 to work in the grocery...

Title: Mike Smith oral history interview, 2019 April 17
Creator: Smith, Mike (Farmer)
Date Created: 2019-04-17
Subjects--Topical: Agriculture, Beef cattle, Farm management, Droughts, Tillage
Description: Mike Smith is the owner and operator of Big Oak Farm in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Mr. Smith shares that the farm has been in his family for nearly two hundred years and has been used to raise cotton, corn, and now beef cattle. In this interview,...

Title: Patterson Family. Elizabeth Potts. Papers
Creator: Potts, Elizabeth, 1798-1860
Date Created: 1825, 1859
Subjects--Topical: Enslavers, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Slave bills of sale, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Wills, Enslavement
Description: Document recording the sale of an enslaved African American girl, Cheany (13), from Elizabeth Potts to Edwin Potts for 400 dollars. Also includes three wills written by Elizabeth Potts that detail the disposition of her property and enslaved indiv...

Title: Patterson Family. William Patterson. Papers
Creator: Patterson, William, 1806-1886
Date Created: 1826-09-09, 1872-04-03
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Farm management, Armies, Swearing, Enslavement
Description: Includes a certificate for militia duty, a marriage license (Photostat), correspondence (concerning typhus fever outbreak among enslaved individuals on the plantation), and a legal complaint by William Patterson against Thomas M. Alexander for pro...

Title: Patterson Family. William Patterson. Receipts
Creator: Patterson, William, 1806-1886
Date Created: 1827, 1868
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Home economics, Enslavers
Description: Primarily receipts, I.O.U.s, and other financial documents about various purchases including medical services, weaving services, textiles, real estate, newspaper subscriptions, butter, eggs, cotton, school tuition, horses, and other farm animals. ...

Title: Patterson family. Margaret Lamira Houston Patterson. Correspondence
Creator: Patterson, Margaret Houston, 1768-1839
Date Created: 1851, 1901
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Valentine's Day, Enslavers
Description: Includes a Valentine's Day poem and party invitation to Margaret Lamira Houston Patterson, and correspondence from Laura Glover to Margaret Lamira Houston Patterson.

Title: Patterson family. William Patterson. Freedmen and enslaved individuals
Creator: Patterson, William, 1806-1886
Date Created: 1832, 1865
Subjects--Topical: Enslavers, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Slave bills of sale, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslaved persons--Emancipation, Sharecropping, Enslavement
Description: Includes slave bills-of-sale, correspondence regarding formerly enslaved people, correspondence regarding the Freedmen's Bureau, sharecropping terms offered to individuals formerly enslaved by William Patterson, and bartering and wage documentatio...

Title: Presbyterian Church Papers. Bethel [Presbyterian] Church. Records
Creator: Morrison, R. H. (Robert Hall), 1798-1889
Date Created: 1841, 1874
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Presbyterian Church, Church history, Clergy, Enslavers
Description: Includes receipts, documents, church histories, and correspondence relating to Bethel Presbyterian Church. Highlights include a letter from A. Springs petitioning to be reinstated as a member of the church, a summary of the pastorate history for B...

Title: Sam Correll, Gloria Correll, and David Correll oral history interview, 2004 January 18
Creator: Correll, Sam, 1943-
Date Created: 2004-01-18
Subjects--Topical: Community organization, Country life, Family farms, Farm management, Land use, Rural, Rural families, Dairy cattle, Field crops, Foreign workers, No-tillage, Church history, Dairy cattle--Breeding, Christian stewardship
Description: Sam Correll was a 61-year-old man, Gloria Correll was a 60-year-old woman, and David Correll was a 29-year-old man at the time of interview, which took place in their home in Rowan County, North Carolina. Sam Correll and Gloria Correll are married...

Title: Sloan family. Julia Sloan. Letter
Creator: DeArmon, Julia Sloan, 1843-1909
Date Created: 1860-03-18
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, College students, Women's colleges, Enslavers
Description: Letter home from Julia Sloan while at Concord Female College in Statesville, NC. In it she references various family members, describes what her curriculum and work routine is like, and expresses her desire to hear and see her friends and family f...

Title: Wetmore and Watson families oral history interview, 2004 February 7
Creator: Watson, Artie
Date Created: 2004-02-07
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Family farms, Farm life, Farm management, Land use, Rural, Rural families, Dairy farming, Field crops, Local produce
Description: The Wetmore and Watson families--Artie Watson, Nancy Wetmore, Laura Watson, Jacob Watson, Libby Watson, and Bill Wetmore--recount the history of Wetmore Farms in the community of Woodleaf, North Carolina. Topics discussed include the field crops t...