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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 265 265 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 152 152 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 53 53 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 46 46 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 42 42 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 31 31 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 28 28 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 28 28 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 17 17 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 16 16 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], The home Gazette. (search)
developing these immense resources, which will be of incalculable advantage to the section of country in which they are found, (which, for prudential reasons, is not more particularly referred to.) "It is singular that the immense mineral treasures of this region, far surpassing the wildest dreams of hidden and fabulous treasures of the dreamy, imaginative Orientalist, should be directly under the noses of the inhabitants, and remain undiscovered or unnoticed until this time." [In 1859 or '60, we were on Dunkard creek and throughout the neighborhood. We stayed one night at the house of "Squire" S. A. Hibbs, who lives some few miles from the creek. Mr. Hibbs told us that the old inhabitants had handed down a tradition that, in that neighborhood, there was a lead mine, from which the Indians, during the border wars, had always been able to supply themselves plentifully with that useful article. He added, that the mine had been searched for again and again by many people wh