HISTORICAL PLACES

Wilkes Heritage Museum   ~   Old Wilkes Jail Museum   ~   Robert Cleveland Log Home

Tory Oak

Going Home for History - Wilkes County

New River Notes

Overmountain Victory Trail

NCpedia - Wilkes County

Tharpe's Mill Restoration

Old North Wilkesboro Speedway

MerleFest - Official website

Wilkes County Public Library has a Genealogy Room  Wilkes Genealogy Society

NOTABLE PEOPLE FROM WILKES COUNTY  

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Richard Allen Sr.

Sallie Chapman Gordon Law

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General William Lenoir 

Bobby G. Billings

William B. Lenoir - eldest son

Rhoda Billings

Collett Leventhorpe

Daniel Boone

Charles Fred Lovette

William H. Bower

Charles Odell Lovette

Carl R Brantley as Former Pro-Wrestler Vladimir Koloff

Lowes Foods and James Lucius Lowe

John Brown

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Chang & Eng Bunker - The Siamese Twins

Graham Lunsford "Doc" Mathis

Issac Clinton Miller

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Gaither Carlton

William Vance Nichols

Captain Benjamin Cleveland

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Dean Combs

Allen Ferdinand Owen

William L. Couch

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Jimmy Pardue 

Tom Dula aka Tom Dooley

Benny Parsons

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Harry Hall Pearson Jr 

John Patton Erwin

James Larkin Pearson 

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Percy Wright Foote

Waylon Reavis 

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Shirrel Rhoades 

Zach Galifianakis

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Roger Gambill

Ralph Seagraves 

George A. Gilreath

Morgan Shepherd

Christopher Gist

Montfort Stokes - father 

James B. Gordon

Deneen Graham

Gladys Gunzer

William Oliver Swofford

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Richard N. Hackett  

Irene Triplett 

Jim "Cracker" Hamby

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Roger Hamby

R. Tracy Walker

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Doc Watson 

Elijah Isaacs

Merle Watson & MerleFest

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Otto Wood: The Bandit Play & The Man

Junior Johnson

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Tyre York  

POULTRY FARMS
in Wilkesboro and Wilkes County, N.C.

1944 - Lovette Poultry Co., Inc. was formed by the Charles Odell Lovette (1900-1978) family.
1953 - Charles Fred Lovette and wife, Margaret, grew the company to be one of the world’s largest poultry producers.
1961 - Lovette's family and 16 other business owners and leaders integrated and formed Holly Farms Poultry Industries Inc.
1968 - Holly Farms merged with The Federal Company of Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.
1989 - Holly Farms was acquired by Tyson Foods, which is operated until today in Wilkesboro and in Wilkes County and surrounding counties.