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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Washington Mining Company Account Book #2161-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from B. H. Wall of Chapel Hill, N.C., in October 1949.

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Processed by: Rebecca Hollingsworth, January 1993

Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, February 2008

Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas, January 2021

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Account books.
• Company stores--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Davidson County (N.C.)--Commerce.
• Davidson County (N.C.)--History.
• Enslaved persons--North Carolina--Employment.
• Industries--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Mines and mineral resources--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Washington Mining Company.

• dSee also Silver Hill Mining Company Ledger (#3152) in the|aSouthern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Washington Mining Company ran the Washington Mine, which was probably the precursor of the Silver Hill Mine in Davidson County, N.C.

The collection is a daybook, 1845-1846, 225 pages, of a general merchandise business at the Washington Mine, run by the Washington Mining Company in Davidson County, N.C. The book contains accounts for small purchases of general merchandise by individuals. A few entries are accounts of labor performed; some relate to slaves and are labeled "Negroes expenses." None deal with mining operations.