Wilson Daily Times, 23 April 1897.
Stemmeries employed hundreds of African-Americans. However, tobacco factory work was not only grueling and low-paying, it was only seasonal.
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Funds sought for Little Union.
Wilson Daily Times, 25 October 1996.
Per the minutes of Turner Swamp Primitive Baptist Association, Little Union pre-dates 1918. It is located just east of Elm City at the fork of East Langley and Haynes Roads.
Photograph by Lisa Y. Henderson, May 2019.
Josie Blount’s disorderly house.
News & Observer, 28 August 1908.
In 1908, a Harnett County runaway (known variously as Eliza Smith, Lydia Smith and Alice Williams) testified against Josephine Blount, who operated a house of prostitution out of the Orange Hotel on East Nash Street.
The 1908 city directory lists Josie Blount as proprietor of the Orange Hotel (though it was actually owned by Samuel H. Vick at the time.) Blount lived next door at 517 East Nash Street and may have been Vick’s relative.