List of Chatham Historical Journals

Volume 1 - 1988

No. 1 - September
Notes concerning Dr. James McCarroll and his descendents. ~ Comments on the diaries of Bishop Asbury & Chatham County.

No. 2 - December
Patrick St. Lawrence in Chatham Co. 1783-1797. Chatham's first county seat . ~ Private or family cemeteries in Chatham Co, NC. ~ Growing up in Chatham Co. Part 1. ~ Photographs: Daughters of William Henry Burns, Sr. - The Western Railroad's locomotive.

Volume 2 - 1989

No. 1 - August
Growing up in Chatham County, part 2 ~ Work and culture in a Piedmont mill village, part 1 w/ photos.~ Fillers: Courthouse bricks - champion cotton pickers. ~ Photographs: Snow Camp Foundry Dam.

No. 2 - October
Work and culture in a Piedmont mill village, part 2 w/photos. ~ Fishing in streams in Chatham over 100 years ago ~ Photographs: Breaking ground for Siler City Post Office Building.

Volume 3 - 1990

No. 1 - April
Wading through error and confusion: An update of a study of the Endor Iron Works. ~ Earliest dated death on gravestone at Napton Cemetery, w/photo. ~ Undefeated Siler City team from fifty seasons ago, w/photo. ~ Millwood: a vanished Chatham Clunty town, w/photo. ~ Intended Confederate bayonet factory in Chatham Co.

No. 2 August
Union infantryman scorns Sherman's Raiders during visits to Haywood. ~ Siler City and the census of 1900. ~ The Rev. Thomas Mann, pioneer circuit-riding preacher, part 1.

Volume 4 - 1991

No. 1 - January
The Rev. Thomas Mann, pioneer circuit-riding preacher, part 2. ~ Water-powered grist mills in Chatham Co., NC as of 1880, w/photo, map.

No. 2 - June
The Chatham County Court House, w/photo, drawing. ~ George Soelle, one of the first itinerant preachers in the new county of Chatham.

No. 3 - July
Charles Manly law office, Pittsboro, NC w/photos. ~ Fillers: Wild silkworms - 'poisoned' well claimed three lives.

No. 4 - December
A native son: Wade Hadley, part 1 w/photo. ~ Life on the rural Chatham County farm in the nineteenth century, w/photo

Volume 5 - 1992

No. 1 - April
A Chatham native son: Wade Hadley, part 2, w/photo. ~ The 'Chatham Rabbit'

No. 2 - July
Frank Marsden London, artist, w/photos, part 1

No. 3 - August
Frank Marsden London, artist, w/photos, part 2. ~ The post offices of Chatham County, NC, illustrations

Volume 6 - 1993

No. 1 - January
A letter from Chatham County, illustrated. ~ Early land grants in Chatham County, illustrated.

No. 2 September
Chatham County's coal, w/photos, map

No. 3 - November
Deep River bayonet operations of Heck, Brodie & Company during the Civil War, w/map.

Volume 7 - 1994

No. 1 - March
Some early Baldwin and related families of Chatham Co., NC, w/genealogical charts.

No. 2 - May
Some Means of livelihood in Chatham County around 1850, w/photo. ~ Moringsville, an early Chatham community, w/map

No. 3 - September
Mt. Pleasant Church and Pace's Mill Bridge, w/photo, map. ~ Passenger automobiles and trucks registered in Chatham County in 1923, w/photo. ~ Chatham soldiers: Chatham Masons, w/photo

No. 4 - November
St. Mark's Chapel: Migratory and Enduring, w/photos. ~ Inventory of gravestones and burials, St. Mark's cemetery

Volume 8 - 1995

No. 1 - May
Hominy: an almost-lost art in food preparation. ~ Silk culture in Chatham County, illustrated. ~ A reminiscence of John London. ~ Photograph: Rock Rest - Bishop Cheshire at St. Mark's - Gulf

No. 2 - September
Down at the railway depot, w/illustration. ~ Photograph: Schoolhouse at Gulf, c. 1932 ~ An accounting of the estate sale of John Baldwin, 1811.

No. 3 - November
Bygone mills on the Haw River in Chatham Co., w/map, illustration

Volume 9 - 1996

No. 1 - April
The Sapona Iron Company of Chatham County, w/drawing, photograph.

No. 2 & 3 - July, September
Lawyers of Chatham County, w/photo

Volume 10 - 1997

No. 1 - May
The Hadley Civil War letters.

No. 2 - October
John L. Cowan, w/illustrations

No. 3 - December
The Chatham Historical journal, 1988 - 1997

Volume 11 - 1998

No. 1 - September
Sounds of the past ~ Mt. Pleasant Church and the Burnett family, w/photo

No. 2 - November
A letter from Chatham County (from George Luther, Martha's Vineyard), illustrated. ~ Dr. Lloyd. ~ Illustration: N.M. Hill Livery and Feed Stables business card.

No. 3 - December
The Chatham County Home, w/maps

Volume 12 - 1999

No. 1 - February
A reminiscence of Pittsboro

No. 2 & 3 - November
Chatham County's military service in World War I (including listing of persons in service and their hometowns), w/photographs

Volume 13 - 2000

No. 1 - March
A letter from Charles Manly, w/illustrations, photographs. ~ Addendum, Chatham County people in military service, w/photographs

No. 2 - October
Washerwomen and Tramps. ~ Addendum, Chatham County people in military service, w/photographs. ~ Pittsboro tax list for 1876.

No. 3 - November
Dr. David Watson, illustrated

Volume 14 - 2001

No. 1 - March
Springtime. ~ Saved from drowning by a mule's tail. ~ Photograph: Lt. Governor Wilkins P. Horton.

No. 2 - June
Growing up on a sharecropping farm in Bonlee

No. 3 - December
The Cape Fear Power Plant Village at Moncure. w/photographs & maps.

Volume 15 - 2002

No. 1 - March
Remembering Granny and Granddaddy Durham," [on the Graham Road five miles from Pittsboro], photographs.