Known Names of Incarcerated Workers on the Western North Carolina Railroad
This information comes from the North Carolina Penitentiary Descriptive Register of Convicts,1869-1884, on file in the Prison Records Group at the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh. To receive PDF scans of this document, please contact cayla@unc.edu.
The names listed below are people who were incarcerated and leased to the Western North Carolina Railroad. Sometimes this was indicated in the Descriptive Register, while other times their names appears on “receipts,” in newspaper reports, in government documents, or on census records.
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Cayla B. Colclasure 