Today I want to highlight two historical photographs of loggers in the Great Dismal Swamp. In the foreground of one of the photographs, we can see a man named Willis Warren Powell. His great-grandson shared the photographs and his family's stories with me.
Gates County N.C.
“White Supremacy is the Motto:” Gen. W. P. Roberts and the Gatesville Rally of 1900
On a summer day in 1900, an old Confederate general stood before a white supremacy rally of thousands in a hamlet on the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp.
David Cecelski 