What to see in America . that employed an average of forty-five hands, while a half century later there were seven times as many mills each employing three times as many hands. At Salisbury, forty miles north of Charlotte, was one of the chief Confederate prisons, and it has a National Cemetery which contains the graves of more than 12,000 soldiers who died in captivity there. At Holmans Ford, a little to the north of Salisbury, is a granite shaft fifteen feet high in the form of an Indian arrowhead, erected to the memory of Daniel Boone. Close by is a log cabin, which is an exact duplicate of
What to see in America . that employed an average of forty-five hands, while a half century later there were seven times as many mills each employing three times as many hands. At Salisbury, forty miles north of Charlotte, was one of the chief Confederate prisons, and it has a National Cemetery which contains the graves of more than 12,000 soldiers who died in captivity there. At Holmans Ford, a little to the north of Salisbury, is a granite shaft fifteen feet high in the form of an Indian arrowhead, erected to the memory of Daniel Boone. Close by is a log cabin, which is an exact duplicate of the one that formerly stood there, and which w^as Boones home for nineteen years of his young manhood. On the banks of the Yadkin River, not far away, is Boones Cave, to which the family retreated whenclosely pressed bysavages. Raleigh, the City ofOaks, on high groundnear the center of thestate, has been the cap-ital since 1794. In the_ early years several vil- The State House, Raleigh lagCS SerVcd in turn aS A I - 1{(. 166 AVhat to See in America
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