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Please join us for our next meeting! |
We invite
anyone with an interest in the Walkertown area to attend the historical society meetings. You do
not have to be a member.
We are searching
for information, photographs, sites and artifacts to document and share.
Meetings will be held at 6:30 pm at the Walkertown Branch Library located
at 2969 Main St, Walkertown, NC 27051. (336) 703-2990.
Following the September 23rd meeting, the Society will meet bi-monthly on
the third Tuesday of the month.
Tuesday,
November 18, 6:30 pm
Sylvie St. Georges, former Exhibition Curator for the National Museum of
Québec and the National Art Gallery of Canada in Ottawa will give a
presentation on
"Historic Artifacts: Collection? Preservation? Conservation?".
Feel free to bring photographs and artifacts. We will have a camera and
a scanner at the meeting.
Book for Sale - "Peddicord Junction"
We will be taking orders for the book, "Peddicord
Junction" at our next meeting.
This is a beautiful book about the history of some Forsyth County
families.
It is hard bound, 8" x 10", with over 300 pages for the cost of only
$10.
If you are interested in purchasing this book, but cannot attend the
meeting, please email
info@WalkertownAreaHistoricalSociety.org.
Some of the names listed are:
PEDDICORD (spelled many different ways) - BAKER - BEESON -
BODENHAMER - BRANNOCK - BROWN - CARTER - CREWS - DAVIS - ELLIOTT -
FULP - HAMILTON - HARMON - HARRISON - HASTINGS - HEDGECOCK - HESTER
- HOLT - JOHNSON - JONES - LEDFORD - MASTEN - MORRIS - MOSS -
MURPHEY - PARHAM - REAVIS - SELL - SELLS - SMITH - SNYDER - STANLEY
- SWAIM - WEAVIL - WILSON
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Director/
President |
Wallace Baird |
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Director |
Wayne Biby |
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Director |
Enos Jumper |
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Director/
Assistant Treasurer |
Jane Morris |
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Director |
Joanne Neal |
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Director |
Harold Warner |
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Vice President |
Sarah Weavil Welch |
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Secretary |
Nancy Farnham |
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Assistant Secretary/
Membership Chair |
Jennifer Ziglar |
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Treasurer |
Lynn McKinnie |
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Archives Chair |
Elizabeth Baird Barnette |
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Committee |
| Elizabeth
Baird Barnette |
| Elizabeth
"Libby" Adams |
| Ann
Hamilton |
| Tom
Hamilton |
| Terrie
Hart |
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Publicity Committee |
| Kenwyn
Caranna |
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WAHS Directors, July 2008
Left to right: Harold Warner, Enos Jumper, Wayne Biby, Jane
Morris, Joanne Neal & Wallace Baird. |
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Sharon Lane checking out one of five
displays featuring some historical sites of Walkertown. |
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Getting acquainted at the first WAHS
meeting July, 2008 |
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