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Size | 46.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 6500 items) |
Abstract | The collection documents the business dealings of white supremacist, industrialist, and agriculturalist Hugh MacRae, specifically through the Carolina Trucking Development Company, Hugh MacRae and Company, Oleander Development Company, and the Carolina Real Estate Trust Company. Collection materials include correspondence, ledgers, contracts, maps, and deeds, 1940s-1970s. Also included are items related to the neighborhoods and farming colonies established by MacRae in southeastern North Carolina, including Artesia, Audubon, Castle Hayne, Marathon, New Berlin, Long Bridge Bay, Noble Lands, Oleander, Penderlea, St. Helena, Van Eeden, Winter Park Heights, and Woodburn, and a small amount of material related to the Linville Land, Manufacturing, and Mining Company (later the Linville Improvement Company), Invershiel Farm, and the development of Wrightsville Beach. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection. |
Creator | MacRae, Hugh, 1865-1951. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
A summary description was created in August 2017 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.
Encoded by: Laura Smith, August 2017
This finding aid compiles archival collecting, description, and preservation work performed by Biff Hollingsworth, Meaghan Alston, and Nancy Kaiser, May 2021
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Hugh MacRae (1865-1951) was a white industrialist and agriculturalist in twentieth-century North Carolina, as well as a leading figure in the 1898 massacre and coup in Wilmington, and grandfather to conservationist photographer Hugh Morton. MacRae began his career mining in western North Carolina, eventually purchasing tens of thousands of acres of land for tourist development. In the 1890s through early 1900s, MacRae moved to Wilmington and developed numerous consolidated transportation, power, real estate, and land development companies. MacRae played a central role in planning and executing the overthrow of the Republican-led government in Wilmington in November of 1898, by holding meetings at his home, drafting grievances, and organizing gatherings. During the twentieth century, he was most noted for developing a modern tourism economy in southeastern North Carolina beaches, and for spearheading experimental farming colonies geared toward attracting European immigrants to North Carolina.
Back to TopThe collection documents the business dealings of white supremacist, industrialist, and agriculturalist Hugh MacRae, specifically through the Carolina Trucking Development Company, Hugh MacRae and Company, Oleander Development Company, and the Carolina Real Estate Trust Company. Collection materials include correspondence, ledgers, contracts, maps, and deeds, 1940s-1970s. Also included are items related to the neighborhoods and farming colonies established by MacRae in southeastern North Carolina, including Artesia, Audubon, Castle Hayne, Marathon, New Berlin, Long Bridge Bay, Noble Lands, Oleander, Penderlea, St. Helena, Van Eeden, Winter Park Heights, and Woodburn, and a small amount of material related to the Linville Land, Manufacturing, and Mining Company (later the Linville Improvement Company), Invershiel Farm, and the development of Wrightsville Beach.
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