Box 2

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Includes deed, correspondence and invoices with attorney and Soil Conservation Service regarding property, boundary change; revised Soil and Water Conservation plan; timber sales; power of attorney of cousin Lavinia Potts Lassiter to Potts regarding selling trees; record of saw timber and pulp wood.

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Includes correspondence, contracts and invoices to cousin J. Kenneth Lassiter regarding timber sales; North Carolina State Forest Service surveying and site clearance; and certificate regarding Potts's tree farm.

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Includes letters and copy of blueprint from North Carolina Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources approving funding of Potts's forest management plan.

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Includes letters, contract, notes, and newspaper clipping regarding Sunrise Trust using Potts' Flat Rock property.

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Includes letter with budget from St. John in the Wilderness Church; letter with excerpts from South Carolina textile statistics; and photocopied newspaper clippings regarding war insurance for timber.

Scope and Contents Typescripts by Potts, A History of the Early Black Families Flat Rock, giving the history of Mud Creek Baptist Church, Society of Necessity, a Black social aid group, and The Kingdom of Happy Land, a community near the North Carolina-South Carolina border established by emancipated slaves from Mississippi (circa 1867) descendents of Flat Rock. Also includes an essay by Ernest Mims regarding Kingdom of Happy Land; with photocopied newspaper clipping regarding Flat...

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Manuscript by Potts on the Society of Necessity of Flat Rock, 1885-1975; with announcement of annual Society benefit.

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In which Potts served as Board of Director.

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Includes Letter from United States Department of the Interior National Park Service regarding Potts' position as a Seasonal Ranger (Historian). Also, includes copy of transcript from television show, See It Now, with Edward R. Murrow interviewing Sandburg; and newspaper clippings regarding Sandburg in Flat Rock.