Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 10:15:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim and Bev Wiggins
Subject: Great gift idea–Chatham history
Need a unique and thoughtful gift for someone on your list? The Chatham County Historical Association offers a number of interesting and informative publications that will delight anyone interested in learning more about our fair county. We have note cards, maps, DVDs and books on a wide range of topics—from architecture to railroads, gravesites to coalfields, and more. Prices begin at $3 and many items are $10 or less. Chatham Historical Association memberships–only $12 for a family–also make great gifts.
Selected publications are available at The Other Person Gallery in Siler City, or Old Pittsboro Antiques in Pittsboro. Publications are also available at the Chatham Historical Museum (in the Chatham County Courthouse), which is open on Wednesday afternoons from noon to 3:00pm. Cash or check only, please.
For a complete listing of our publications and a printable order form, see our website: www.chathamhistory.org. Questions about ordering publications can be sent to .
Your purchases will help support the preservation of Chatham history, support our local economy, and please your gift recipient. Thank you!
Here’s a sampling of our best-sellers:
Tales Beyond Fried Rabbit Fred Vatter’s delightful saunter into some of the many corners of Chatham County’s past. Fred’s stories tell us of old houses, aged country stores, church yards with intriguing gravestones, and venerable public buildings; settlements and cemeteries now lost due to dams and other effects of progress; ordinary people who know the county’s past and would love to tell you about it, as well as prominent civic leaders now long dead. ($23.95)
Chatham County, 1771-1971,1971. Now in its second reprinting, the book contains chapters on the colonial and Revolutionary War period, county government, politics, Civil War, transportation, town and county life, communities and post offices, churches, education, fraternal orders, African Americans, agriculture, industry, and brief summaries of well-known families. ($20)
Map of Chatham County, NC by Capt. N.A. Ramsey, 1870.This attractive reproduction of the original map shows rivers, bridges, mills, churches, roads and railroads, and many family locations. (17″ x 22″). ($5)
The Architectural Heritage of Chatham County North Carolina,1991. A lovely book that will give you a glimpse of Chatham treasures—many not visible from public roads and some now vanished. Sections on the history and architectural development of Chatham County and of Pittsboro are followed by historic architecture inventories of Pittsboro, Siler City, Goldston, Mt. Vernon Springs and Ore Hill, and each of the county’s townships. The book is lavishly illustrated with black & white photographs. ($35)