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Collection Number: 03925

Collection Title: John Augustus Winfield Papers, 1965-1969.

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Size 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 85 items)
Abstract John Augustus Winfield (born 1904) of Beaufort County, N.C., was a farmer and conservationist, and onetime director of the Division of Markets, United States Department of Agriculture at Raleigh, N.C. The collection includes the papers of John Augustus Winfield concerning the problems of ground-water penetration in Beaufort County, N.C., following the establishment of phosphate mines and fertilizer plants near Aurora, N.C., by the Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. This material includes correspondence with citizens and state agencies, proceedings of public hearings, resolutions, and proposed legislation.
Creator Winfield, John Augustus, b. 1904.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the John Augustus Winfield Papers, #3925, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Lanny L. Hiday of Chapel Hill, N.C., June 1971.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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John Augustus Winfield (born 1904) of Beaufort County, N.C., was a farmer and conservationist, and onetime director of the Division of Markets, United States Department of Agriculture at Raleigh, N.C.

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The collection includes the papers of John Augustus Winfield concerning the problems of ground-water penetration in Beaufort County, N.C., following the establishment of phosphate mines and fertilizer plants near Aurora, N.C., by the Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. This material includes correspondence with citizens and the North Carolina Department of Water Resources and the State Stream Sanitation Committee, proceedings of public hearings, resolutions, and proposed legislation. There are also copies of letters addressed to officers of Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. and some relevant newspaper clippings and printed brochures.

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Contents list

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Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1

Undated

Folder 2-5

Folder 2

Folder 3

Folder 4

Folder 5

1965-1966

Folder 6

1967

Folder 7

1968

Folder 8

1969

Folder 9

Clippings and printed brochures

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