Is this the book someone was asking about? Betty Pace As long as we are recommending books, I thought of one that I thoroughly enjoyed (got it thru inter-library loan). Hope Summerell Chamberlain wrote "This Was Home" about her childhood and young adult life in Salisbury, Rowan Co., during the late 1880s up to her marriage, when she moved north with her young husband, as I recall. She was born in 1870 to NC parents. Her father was Dr. Summerell and I think her mother was the daughter of a college professor in Rowan Co., NC. She does cover some of her father's recollections about the Antebellum Period through Reconstruction in NC. I think her parents moved to Salisbury around 1840, so she had quite a time span to write about. I liked reading about where my grandparents and great grandparents lived in Salisbury. I remember her saying that the streets were in very poor condition but they had isntalled giant granite stepping stones in the road that you could use to keep your shoes clean, and yet they were set low enough that carriages could pass over them. Some prominent citizens are mentioned, but that is not the focus of the book. As I recall, it did not have an index. This is not a book that will help you with your genealogy but if you like studying the history of the period from a personal viewpoint, I highly recommend this book. It was published at Chapel Hill in 1938 by the Univ. of NC Press. Betty Pace