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Henry R. Austin (ca. 1808-1872), a builder and cabinetmaker in the part of Rowan County that became Davie County, is one of the few artisans linked with the substantial antebellum buildings of the western Piedmont. In 1833 he advertised in the Salisbury Western Carolinian that he wished to "employ in the cabinet-making business, two...
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Robert Hay (ca. 1754-1850), a native of Scotland, was a skilled woodworker--chairmaker, wagonmaker, carriage maker, and briefly a house carpenter--prominent in New Bern in the early 19th century. According to Hay's obituary in the Newbernian of December 10, 1850, he arrived in America at the close of the American Revolution and settled in New...
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James Puttick (ca. 1807-after 1860) was one of the numerous stonecutters from Great Britain who worked on the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh during the 1830s. Because of the exacting workmanship the building required and the large scale of the project, the commissioners and superintendents including architect David Paton recruited stonecutters and other...
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