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On Tuesday, June 11, 2019, CHW hosted two events at the Power House in the recently renovated Rocky Mount Mills. The afternoon event was a …
On Tuesday, June 11, 2019, CHW hosted two events at the Power House in the recently renovated Rocky Mount Mills. The afternoon event was a …
The 2018 North Carolina Preservation Consortium conference focused on preserving community heritage. At the November 16, 2018 conference held at the McKimmon Center at North …
CHW – represented by Elijah Gaddis, Nicole Coscolluela, Lucas Kelley, and Morgan Vickers – traveled to New Orleans to present at the 2018 National Humanities …
On June 29, I took another look at the storage room of Rocky Mount Mills with the Southern Historical Collection to determine what materials are …
Recently, WRAL’s Brian Shrader was present at a meeting in Rocky Mount between CHW, Capitol Broadcasting Corporation, and Belk Architecture, the architect for the Rocky …
The Rocky Mount Mills team recently published a historical narrative about the mill that considers how the environment shaped the town and industry of Rocky …
We here at CHW are so pleased that UNC’s College of Arts & Sciences recently highlighted the work of Community Histories Workshop. An online article, “Capturing …
An early twentieth-century promotional booklet about Rocky Mount Mills in North Carolina boasts that the mill doesn’t owe its modern success to its past. “Though proud …
We started the Rocky Mount Mills Digital Archive as a way to gather together some of the thousands of archived items from the mill’s two …
Harvesting History in Rocky Mount — An Experiment in Crowdsourcing Documents On February 25, 2017, twenty students from Professor Robert Allen’s AMST 275H (“Documenting Communities”) and …