Publisher's Synopsis
With many images published here for the first time, Sampson County will take you on an incredible visual journey through the county's past.Known throughout the state for its turpentine and tar industry, helping the state to earn its nickname "the Tar Heel State." Sampson County is the quintessential North Carolina county, a combination of beautiful rural landscapes, charming small towns, and hard-working people of all walks of life. This coastal plains county, still dominated by its agricultural economic base of cotton and tobacco, has evolved from an early, rowdy pioneer character into one shaped by the early Baptist and Presbyterian preachers and Methodist circuit riders who infused religion into the county's identity. This volume, with many images published here for the first time, will take you on an incredible visual journey through Sampson County's past, from the Civil War to the mid-twentieth century. A collection of unique and v
