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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William A. Lash Papers, #3900, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchase 1969

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Revised by: Roslyn Holdzkom, July 2011; Laura Smith, June 2023

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Bank of Fayetteville (N.C.)
• Bank of New Hanover.
• Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway Company.
• Davis, J. W.
• Farm life--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Farm management--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Gray, R. T. (Robert Terelius), 1848-1912.
• Holt, Thomas M. (Thomas Michael), 1831-1896.
• Lash, William A.
• Morehead, James Turner, 1840-1908.
• Murchison & Co. (New York, N.Y.)
• North Carolina--Economic conditions.
• North State Improvement Company.
• Railroad companies--History.
• Railroads--Finance.
• Railroads--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Stokes County (N.C.)--History.
• Stokes County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
• United States--Economic conditions--1865-1918.
• Withers, W.

William A. Lash was president of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad, with offices at Greensboro, N.C., and owner of a farm at Walnut Cove, Stokes County, N.C.

The collection includes railroad and other business papers, mainly 1892-1893, of Lash relating to the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad and to his farm at Walnut Cove, Stokes County, N.C. Many of the railroad business papers are letters to and from bankers and brokers affiliated with the Bank of New Hanover, the Bank of Fayetteville, and Murchison & Co. of New York, N.Y., and Wilmington, N.C., about railroad bonds and other financial matters. J. Turner Morehead and R.T. Gray are among the major correspondents. Also included are letters about the business of the North State Improvement Company. Of particular note is a letter, 1891, from Thomas M. Holt about problems of the nation's economy. Papers relating to Lash's farm include letters from J.W. Davis in 1890 and W. Withers after 1890, who were apparently managing Lash's business in Walnut Cove. These letters discuss crops, rents, farm work, visitors to the farm, and other matters.