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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1935
Page
5
The article traces High Point history from a crossroads village to an industrial hub and features the Barbee family connection to the Barbees Hotel built in 1851 by Jeremiah Piggott, marking a key chapter in the town’s early development.
High Point landmark Barbee House once hosted 6000 wounded and disease stricken soldiers during the Civil War as a wayside hospital under W G Barbee and wife. Read of its conversion from hotel to hospital, burial of 50 soldiers at Oakwood cemetery, and Laura Wesson who died nursing smallpox patients.
A historic look at High Point’s wood using industries and regional timber supply. The piece recalls past forests in Guilford and surrounding counties, wartime hospitals in High Point, and shifts in furniture manufacturing staffing and capacity. It notes North Carolina’s leading output in furniture and bed gear and suggests High Point’s ongoing promise as a furniture center.
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