Thanks to our newest partner, William B. Umstead State Park (WBU), a batch containing over 150 new records are now available on DigitalNC. This batch holds a wealth of William B. Umstead State Park’s history featuring everything from plats, detailed construction plans of the park during the Great Depression when the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was active, blueprints of a swimming pool, plans for the segregated park areas, plant information, planting schedules, and much more. One of many fascinating finds in this batch was the mention of the Camp Polk Prison Farm (also referred to as Cary ..read more

Thanks to our partners at the Hendersonville High School Alumni Association, DigitalNC is proud to announce that a collection of student life records are now available online for the first time! High school archetypes of all kinds are represented within this collection, which has something for Buellers and Ringwalds alike. Three new scrapbooks and seventy-six issues of the student newspaper are now available online! Two of the scrapbooks featured in this collection were created to record the epic highs and lows of the drama club from 1969 to 1978. The scrapbooks feature all aspects of the dr ..read more

The Olivia Raney Local History Library in Raleigh has contributed three new tax books from 1891, 1895, and 1898 that are now available on DigitalNC! The Olivia Raney Library specializes in materials that facilitate local history and genealogy research, and holds an extensive collection of Wake County tax records. These books are valuable resources for anyone seeking to research specific individuals or property ownership statistics in Raleigh at the turn of the century. We are excited that they are now available digitally for researchers to peruse from anywhere. Our digital collections include ..read more

The Breezes Yearbook Cover, 1951 Thanks to our new partners at Blowing Rock Historical Society, their first batch of materials have been added to Digital NC! This batch of materials include Blowing Rock’s First Voter Registration Roll. The voters registration dates back to the later 1800’s. The Voter Registration Roll is racially segregated but account for both African American and White voters in the region. There is also a ledger from a local store dating back to 1887. You can also view a series of yearbooks from Blowing Rock High School from 1949-1955. To browse more materials related to No ..read more

Thanks to our partners at Campbell University, DigitalNC is proud to announce that four new yearbooks are now available! These issues of Pine Burr are some of the most recent publications from Campbell’s past, spanning from 2016 to 2023. They will join a collection of over one hundred Campbell yearbooks currently hosted on DigitalNC, some of which reach back into the first decade of the twentieth century. The new yearbooks reflect student and faculty life immediately before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating the ways in which university systems adapted both instruction and educati ..read more

A trove of catalogs, magazines, newspapers, and bulletins from North Carolina Wesleyan University has just been uploaded to DigitalNC! NC Wesleyan is a private Methodist university located in Rocky Mount, N.C. that has been operating since 1956. These documents start in 1960 and document the university’s progression and growth over the last six decades and into the present. Researchers can see an abundance of information on NC Wesleyan alumni, faculty and staff, course offerings, sports and events, and more. Wesleyan Magazine, Fall 1999 See all digitized issues of the NC Wesleyan student newsp ..read more

Thanks to our partners at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, DigitalNC is proud to announce that two new scrapbooks are now available online! The scrapbooks commemorate two major administrators of Rowan-Cabarrus Community College: Director C. Merrill Hamilton and Chairperson Harold Kenerly. They are the first of their kind to be added to NC Digital’s repository of Rowan-Cabarrus Community College records, and highlight the college’s vivid history from a brand new light. C. Merrill Hamilton was the first president and director of the community college from 1962 to 1977, during a period when the ..read more

Three new volumes of The Winston-Salem Chronicle are now available on the DigitalNC website, thanks to our partners at UNC Chapel Hill. These new uploads span September 2018 through September 2021, adding to the 2,500+ issue collection we host from the start of the paper’s run in 1974. The Chronicle describes themselves as “Winston-Salem’s oldest and most respected community newspaper. Published every Thursday, our local weekly paper reaches an audited circulation of 7,000. We focus on positive news happening in and around Winston-Salem and surrounding areas.” Explore the paper ..read more

Southwestern Community College Admissions Promotional Material Founded in 1964 Southwestern Community College is located in Sylva, NC. The materials in this batch includes over 40 year of commencement ceremony programs dating back to 1965 up until 2008. There are a variety of ceremonies including Fall, Spring, Summer and specialized ones for majors like Nursing. The programs list out the names of graduates and the degree they received. It is to be noted that the schools name changed throughout the decades and that can be seen in the graduation commencement programs. You can also find annual re ..read more

The 2023 issues of Pine Knoll Shores’s The Shoreline are now available on Digital NC, thanks to our partner The History Committee of the Town of Pine Knoll Shores. With the exception of 2003, Digital NC houses a complete collection of Shoreline papers, dating back from 1973. This recent batch of uploads celebrates the 50th anniversary of PKS, with each issue highlighting a different fun fact of the town’s history – making this a rich resource for researchers. In this beach town’s monthly paper, you can find celebration of both the nature of the town and its residents. Some coverage of local e ..read more