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In reply to the discussion: Documents Dating Back to 1840 Intentionally Destroyed in Franklin County, N.C. [View all]loudsue
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Documents Dating Back to 1840 Intentionally Destroyed in Franklin County, N.C. [View all]
G_j
Jan 2014
OP
They would be the same Carpetbaggers that sentenced my family to sharecropping!
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#1
The ancient principle of "because we say so". I'd bet that G_j has understated the case.
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2014
#9
Yes, it was on the 11:00 news the night after it happened, and there is a big stink
loudsue
Jan 2014
#27
Same thing in Ireland, same thing to the Spanish/Mexican land grants....the beat goes on.
Alameda
Jan 2014
#43
This is the county I live in. I knew about it at the time, and it was on the news in Raleigh, NC
loudsue
Jan 2014
#8
I totally agree, and one of the historians in the county DID manage to copy a few hundred documents
loudsue
Jan 2014
#15
And I think that is the bottom line: she didn't know shit about her actual job duties.
loudsue
Jan 2014
#30
Get to the bottom: who ordered, make them testify, sue them. Throw the book. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2014
#12
With all the techniques available? Yes. To a county that isn't always broke. The State
loudsue
Jan 2014
#18
"work one wooden floor above this room" = black mold wouldn't be confined to papers -- if her
El_Johns
Jan 2014
#45
Hi KoKo. Most of the fracking will start down near Lee County, and I don't know what is going on
loudsue
Jan 2014
#23
No. This was her own doing. She had the records hauled out and carried down to the incinerator.
loudsue
Jan 2014
#24
Thank you for that information. Now that I've read that, I would assume she will be charged
loudsue
Jan 2014
#31
1882-1968 there were 101 lynchings in North Carolina 86 black people,15 white people
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2014
#52