Dudley Shoals Explained

Dudley Shoals, North Carolina
Pushpin Map:North Carolina#USA
Pushpin Label:Dudley Shoals
Coordinates:35.863°N -81.3784°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:North Carolina
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Caldwell
Elevation Ft:1,148
Postal Code:28630
Area Code:828
Subdivision Name3:Little River
Subdivision Type3:Township

Dudley Shoals is a populated place and former village[1] located in the Little River township of Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States.[2] It is located about 10 miles (16.09 km) northeast of the town of Granite Falls.[3]

Dudley Shoals houses Dudley Shoals Elementary School, part of the Caldwell County Schools school district.[4]

Geologically, Dudley Shoals is abundant in Sillimanite crystals.[5]

History

The earliest known use of the name "Dudley Shoals" was in an 1875 document summarizing the first session of the Forty-third United States Congress; the name described the land containing the post roads a mail carrier would pass through to get from Hickory (then called Hickory Tavern) to Wilkesboro (then called Wilksborough).[6]

Dudley Shoals was purchased around 1881 by A. J. Hamilton to build "a flour, saw, and single mill".[7] He called his mill the Dudley Shoals Cotton Milling Company, planting cotton fields still in use today by yarn plants.[8]

The area had a Baptist church by 1884.[9]

By 1907, 179 students were enrolled in the mill-funded Dudley Shoals School, which provided 10 grades.[10]

In 1913, Dudley Shoals was defined by the state of North Carolina as a village.[11]

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, three large Sillimanite deposits were discovered and studied in Dudley Shoals.[12] [13]

On January 1, 1947, Geitner George of the company Shuford Mills had purchased the cotton mills of Dudley Shoals and Granite Falls.[14] [15] [16]

In 1978, Dudley Shoals lost its status as a village and was reclassified as a populated place.[17]

In 1979, the existing Dudley Shoals Elementary School was formed.[18]

Notable people

Notes and References

  1. Book: Carolina, North . Laws and Resolutions of the State of North Carolina . 1913 . en.
  2. Web site: Geographic Names Information System . 2022-09-30 . edits.nationalmap.gov.
  3. Web site: 2000 Road Map of Caldwell County, North Carolina . 2022-09-30 . www.carolana.com.
  4. Web site: Search for Public Schools – School Detail for Dudley Shoals Elementary . 2022-09-30 . nces.ed.gov . EN.
  5. Book: Survey (U.S.), Geological . Geological Survey Professional Paper . 1961 . U.S. Government Printing Office . en.
  6. Book: States, United . Revised Statutes of the United States Relating to the District of Columbia and Post Roads: Passed at the First Session of the Forty-third Congress, 1873–'74 : Together with the Public Treaties in Force on the First Day of December, 1873 . 1875 . U.S. Government Printing Office . en.
  7. Book: American Miller . 1884 . en.
  8. Web site: Borneman . Jim . Shuford Mills Spins Off Yarn Company Textile World . 2022-10-01 . en-US.
  9. Book: Lasher, George William . The Ministerial Directory of the Baptist Churches in the United States of America ... . 1899 . Ministerial directory Company . en.
  10. Book: College, Columbia University Teachers . Contributions to Education . 1925 . Columbia University . en.
  11. Book: Carolina, North . Public Laws and Private Laws of the State of North Carolina (other Slight Variations) . 1913 . en.
  12. Book: Resources, North Carolina Division of Mineral . Information Circular – Division of Mineral Resources . 1940 . North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development, Division of Mineral Resources . en.
  13. Book: Resources, North Carolina Division of Mineral . Bulletin – North Carolina, Department of Conservation and Development, Division of Mineral Resources . 1950 . Division of Mineral Resources. . en.
  14. Book: Davison's Textile Blue Book: United States and Canada . 1948 . Davison Publishing Company . en.
  15. Book: Poor's Register of Directors and Executives, United States and Canada . 1940 . Standard and Poor's Corporation . en.
  16. Book: Young, Marjorie Willis . Textile Leaders of the South . 1963 . J. R. Young . en.
  17. Book: Standards, United States National Bureau of . Codes for Named Populated Places and Related Entities of the States of the United States . 1978 . Bureau (For sale as a two-volume set by National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va.) . en.
  18. Book: Federal Register . March 1979 . Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration . en.
  19. Web site: History of Eric Church in Timeline – Popular Timelines . 2022-09-30 . populartimelines.com . en.
  20. Book: Bluegrass Unlimited . 1973 . Bluegrass Unlimited. . en.

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