Books

For fifty years, the 1972 murders of Bryce and Virginia Durham and their teenage son Bobby on a bitter winter’s night in Boone, North Carolina were unsolved, but in 2022, the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office announced that their killers had finally been identified. Based on information from Georgia, four men associated with the Dixie Mafia...

Prior to its formation in 1849, Watauga County was a hunting ground for the Cherokee and part of the trail blazed by frontiersman Daniel Boone, for whom the county seat was later named. Primarily settled by whites after the Revolutionary War, many of the county’s earliest families came to the Appalachians from the Piedmont region of North...

This 325-page book outlines the ancestors and descendants of the author's great, great, great-grandparents, Alf and Letha Watson Yates, who moved from Wilkes County, North Carolina to neighboring Watauga County, North Carolina in 1875. It includes many details of Alf Yates's military service as a Confederate soldier, including the Battle of...

This 384-page book covers nine generations of the Henson Family of Watauga County, North Carolina. It contains family stories, numerous photographs, and a history of Henson's Chapel United Methodist Church.

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This two-volume, 1908-page book documents 13 generations of the Harman/Harmon family of Watauga County, North Carolina and contains family stories, photographs, and a brief history of the Pfautz/Fouts family.

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