Dudley Shoals, North Carolina
Dudley Shoals is located in North Carolina
Dudley Shoals
Dudley Shoals
Dudley Shoals is located in the United States
Dudley Shoals
Dudley Shoals
Coordinates: 35°51′46.9656″N 81°22′42.1176″W / 35.863046000°N 81.378366000°W / 35.863046000; -81.378366000
CountryUnited States
StateNorth Carolina
CountyCaldwell
TownshipLittle River
Elevation
1,148 ft (350 m)
Area code828

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

References

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