October is NC State Fair month. The Fair was established in Raleigh back in 1852 by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society. There is a great blog post from UNC Library at this link.            October 1853: The North Carolina State Fair You can also check out the programs of the Fair through its history. Have you seen the program from the year you were born? Here is mine!     State Fair Ephemera     1956 NC State Fair program link Have fun browsing. Visit Wake County Genealogical Society's Website  -  Homepage  |  WCGS Events  |  Join WCGS  |  Publications  |  Wake Cemetery Survey Images  |  Society Surnames  |  Digital Resources  |  History Resources  |  More Links and Resources  |   Contact - info(at)wakecogen(dot)org

There is a list of early North Carolina Tax Records online at NCDigital . These records cover the Colonial and Revolutionary timeframe and include 34 files from fifteen early counties. The description of the list reads as follows:   “"The Tax Lists and Records digital collection features tax records from the holdings of the State Archives of North Carolina drawn from General Assembly, Treasurer & Comptroller, and Secretary of State records. The bulk of the records are from the Colonial and Revolutionary War eras, but some lists date from as late as 1809. Each set of tax records includes slightly different information. References to “polls” below relate to poll taxes, a tax of a fixed amount levied on adult males, female heads of households, and enslaved people.”   The Tax List for 1815 Wake County is included and makes for a fascinating browse if you are researching the county in the early days. I confess to losing more than a couple afternoons to this list as I trie...