Old pictures of Township of Marks Creek

c. 1922

‘Seaboard Transfer’

1949

Family

c. 1920

West Jefferson

c. 1931

Aerial view

c. 1922

Trade Street

1886

Erathquake

c. 1935

Oyster season

1860

Rockville Plantation Negro church

1861

Slavery

1938

Farm woman

c. 1890

GENERAL VIEW

c. 1918

RURAL FAMILY

1912

New Bern Football Team

1938

Segregation Drinking fountain

c. 1895

Unidentified family

c. 1934

Mae Gouge weaving

1885

Children

1862

"Contraband" planting sweet potatoes on Hopkinson's Plantation

1936

Snowstorms

1910

Ringling Bros parade

c. 1940

Four musicians performing at the Mountain Music Festival

1869

General Lee and his Confederate officers in their first meeting

1910

Girls' basketball team.

1864

Group at headquarters of the Provost Marshal Department

1862

Enslaved family

1965

Wolf Creek at the town park

1949

PlayBoy founder Hugh Hefner with his first wife Millie Williams

1909

Three young girls working as oyster shuckers.

1912

Child Labor in an Oyster Processing Plant

c. 1920

MAIN ST.

c. 1865

Group of old folks at home

1845

Robert E. Lee, around age 38, and his son William Henry Fitzhugh Lee

1864

A captured Confederate encampment

1864

13 inch mortar Dictator

1865

Dead Confederate soldier inside Fort Mahone

1865

Soldiers boxing in a Union camp

1865

Field workshop in the Ninth Army Corps.

1942

DOWNTOWN

1938

Former miners' boardinghouse

1898

Gathering water at a spring.

1865

General Rufus Ingalls and group.