Anson County, NC - Anson Hotel Fire, 1868

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Anson Hotel Fire

1868 - July Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Anson County:
It is ordered by the Court for the information of those who succeed 
us and the living present alike that the following be made a part 
of the records of this Court: 

On Thursday morning, April 2, 1868, between twelve and one o’clock, 
a fire occurred in the town breaking out near the store house of 
J. R. Hargrave, then unoccupied except as a depot for some cotton, 
which rapidly extended to the store houses occupied by Morton’s 
Brewery and the Anson Hotel, destroying them; thence communicating 
northward burning the store houses of S.W. Cole, A. E. Bennett and 
Jesse Edwards, involving the Court House, the entire records of the 
Superior Court, the most part of those of the County and Equity 
Courts, and the line of buildings extending thence eastward to and 
including the jail and kitchen, where by great efforts and the 
blessings of Our Heavenly Father, it was stopped. About 32 buildings 
were destroyed. In consequence of the loss of the Court House, the 
Court met at the Baptist Church within the corporate lands of the 
Town of Wadesborough. 

Remarks from the memory of Risden F. Bennett recorded Sept. 13, 1912. 
Minute Docket N./79 -NCA

Transcribed from original court records (at NC Archives) for Anson County.