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CASWELL, North Carolina in the 1870s: 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. Klan Murders Senator Stephens
    date May 24, 1870map CASWELL, North Carolinatags Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Race-Relations

    Three days passed before the news of Senator Stephens? assassination reached Maria Massey Barringer. On May 21, 1870, Republican Senator John W. Stephens was murdered at the Caswell County Courthouse by members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). On account of his political principles, Stephens was stabbed, choked, and left dying on a woodpile in a rear room of the courthouse. Prior to his murder Stephens had...

  2. Martial Law Declared in North Carolina
    date June 8, 1870 to November 10, 1870map CASWELL, North Carolinatags Crime/Violence, Race-Relations, War

    The Ku Klux Klan began its attempts to undermine the formulating North Carolina state government in 1868. Their attempts to destroy Reconstruction efforts and institute white supremacy created a state of lawlessness and violence in the state of North Carolina. It was pattern that followed the Ku Klux Klan throughout the South. In this the heyday of the Klan, it found support even in the highest positions...

  3. Educational Improvements in North Carolina
    date March 8, 1876map CASWELL, North Carolinatags Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Women

    Mary Graves never imagined that she would be offered a teaching position in Caswell County when she visited as a guest preacher to local Presbyterian congregations from her Leesburg, Virginia home in 1876.Yet, Mary was offered a teaching position, and to her own surprise, left her home in Leesburg and moved to Caswell County to begin her teaching career. She accepted the position on the basis that...