Donald R. Lennon
As of 1995, Donald R. Lennon was coordinator of Special Collections in the J. Y. Joyner Library at East Carolina University in Greenville and taught history at the university. He holds a master’s degree from East Carolina University.
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- Searching for greener pastures: Out-migration in the 1800s
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 4.1
- In the first half of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of emigration flowed from North Carolina to western states and territories. North Carolinians were pushed by a lack of economic opportunity at home and pulled by open land in the West. Only after the 1830s, when a progressive political leadership supported schools and internal improvements, did out-migration slow.
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- By Donald R. Lennon and Fred D. Ragan.
