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Bartonsville’s Rise and Fall Told in North Carolina History
In this historical sketch AP correspondent Dr HK G JONES recounts Bartonsville North Carolina once a thriving mill village on the upper Chowan River. The piece traces founder Stephen Barton Clara Barton’s brother, the town’s heyday with plow handle production, a school and wharf trade, its Civil War decline, and final burning by Union forces as documented in The Bartons of Bartonsville and featured in the North Carolina Historical Review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HK. G. Jones
Associated Press
Raleigh
Bartonsville
North Carolina
Chowan
Stephen Barton
Clara Barton
Red Cross
Oxford
Mass
Clara
Stephen
David
Massachusetts
Hertford County
Barton
Thomas C. Parramore
Meredith College
North Carolina Historical Review
Carolina
Roanoke
William S. Powell
University of North Carolina At
Chapel Hill
Robert V. Parker
North Carolina State University
Forks of the Creek
Robert C. McMath, Jr
Georgia Institute of Technology
Historical Publications Section
Division of Archives and History
East Jones Street
N.C