History and images have been compiled from various sources including, among others, the 1987 National Register of Historic Places, Stack & Beasley's 1902 Sketches of Monroe and Union County, Union County Public Library (Patricia Poland, Genealogy & Local History Librarian), the Heritage Room Photo Collection, North Carolina Map Collection, Rootsweb - An Ancestry.com Community and Ancestry.com family histories.

1863 Union County, Monroe, N.C. 10 Cent Note

This note was issued "for the relief of Solders' families" during the Civil War.
Signed by J. E. Irby and D. A. Covington.
Source: Ancestry.com, Rootsweb, J.H. Ganis