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Interview no. | R-0756 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | R.42. Special Research Projects: West Southern Pines, N.C. |
Project description | This is a collection of interviews conducted in 1982 by Nancy O. Mason of Southern Pines, North Carolina with residents of part of Southern Pines which used to be its own, predominantly Black township in the 1920s, called West Southern Pines. West Southern Pines was annexed back into Southern Pines in the 1930s, but the twenty-six interviews attest to the longevity of the West Southern Pines community. Both black and white residents of West Southern Pines tell their recollections of the incorporation of West Southern Pines and the daily lives of its inhabitants. |
Date | 29 June 1982 |
Interviewee | Holloman, Mary. |
Interviewee occupation |
Agricultural laborers Child care workers Church workers |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Mason, Nancy. |
Abstract | Mary Holloman was born in Richmond County, North Carolina. She arrived in West Southern Pines in 1921 on Hamlin’s Farm. Holloman harvested strawberries, asparagus, and dewberries on Mr. Hamlin’s farm. During the winter she did housework and childcare for Greaman Turner, who was the owner of the Highland Pines Inn. She married and left West Southern Pines in 1923, and returned in 1926. Holloman states she did not hang out at Amos Broadway’s because she was a church worker and attendee at the AME Zion Church. She recalls that Jimtown (the early name for West Southern Pines) as “cut up into tracts of land and the people of East Southern Pines wanted streets.” Mart Holloman’s husband was in favor of keeping West Southern Pines as one town, because he didn’t feel that residents in West Southern Pines had enough money or power to completely run their own town. The interview concludes with Holloman describing her memories of early churches and their Reverends who led them. This interview was conducted by Nancy Mason for the Town of Southern Pines on June 29, 1982. It is part of a series of interviews with people who lived in or around West Southern Pines as it had existed as a separate and entirely African American municipality from 1923 to 1931. |
Subject Geographic | Southern Pines (N.C.) |
Citation | Interview with Mary Holloman by Nancy Mason, 29 June 1982, R-0756, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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