Wilkesboro & Wilkes Co. History Links

1944 - Lovette Poultry Co., Inc. was formed by the Charles Odell Lovette (1900-1978) family.
1953 - Charles Fred Lovette and wife, Margaret, grew the company to be one of the world’s largest poultry producers.
1961 - Lovette's family and 16 other business owners and leaders integrated and formed Holly Farms Poultry Industries Inc.
1968 - Holly Farms merged with The Federal Company of Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.
1989 - Holly Farms was acquired by Tyson Foods, which is operated until today in Wilkesboro and in Wilkes County and surrounding counties.

HISTORICAL PLACES
Wilkes Heritage Museum ~ Old Wilkes Jail Museum ~ Robert Cleveland Log Home
Tory Oak	Going Home for History - Wilkes County
New River Notes	Overmountain Victory Trail
NCpedia - Wilkes County	Tharpe's Mill Restoration
Old North Wilkesboro Speedway	MerleFest - Official website
Wilkes County Public Library has a Genealogy Room Wilkes Genealogy Society

NOTABLE PEOPLE FROM WILKES COUNTY
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Richard Allen Sr.	Sallie Chapman Gordon Law
B	General William Lenoir
Bobby G. Billings	William B. Lenoir - eldest son
Rhoda Billings	Collett Leventhorpe
Daniel Boone	Charles Fred Lovette
William H. Bower	Charles Odell Lovette
Carl R Brantley as Former Pro-Wrestler Vladimir Koloff	Lowes Foods and James Lucius Lowe
John Brown	M
Chang & Eng Bunker - The Siamese Twins	Graham Lunsford "Doc" Mathis
Robert Byrd	Issac Clinton Miller
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Gaither Carlton	William Vance Nichols
Captain Benjamin Cleveland	O
Dean Combs	Allen Ferdinand Owen
William L. Couch	P
D	Jimmy Pardue
Tom Dula aka Tom Dooley	Benny Parsons
E	Harry Hall Pearson Jr
John Patton Erwin	James Larkin Pearson
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Percy Wright Foote	Waylon Reavis
G	Shirrel Rhoades
Zach Galifianakis	S
Roger Gambill	Ralph Seagraves
George A. Gilreath	Morgan Shepherd
Christopher Gist	Montfort Stokes - father
James B. Gordon	Montfort Sidney Stokes - son
Deneen Graham	John Swofford
Gladys Gunzer	William Oliver Swofford
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Richard N. Hackett	Irene Triplett
Jim "Cracker" Hamby	W
Roger Hamby	R. Tracy Walker
I	Doc Watson
Elijah Isaacs	Merle Watson & MerleFest
J	Otto Wood: The Bandit Play & The Man
Junior Johnson	Y
	Tyre York
POULTRY FARMS in Wilkesboro and Wilkes County, N.C. 1944 - Lovette Poultry Co., Inc. was formed by the Charles Odell Lovette (1900-1978) family. 1953 - Charles Fred Lovette and wife, Margaret, grew the company to be one of the world’s largest poultry producers. 1961 - Lovette's family and 16 other business owners and leaders integrated and formed Holly Farms Poultry Industries Inc. 1968 - Holly Farms merged with The Federal Company of Memphis, Tennessee in 1968. 1989 - Holly Farms was acquired by Tyson Foods, which is operated until today in Wilkesboro and in Wilkes County and surrounding counties.

WILKES COUNTY HISTORY LINKS

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POULTRY FARMSin Wilkesboro and Wilkes County, N.C.

POULTRY FARMS
in Wilkesboro and Wilkes County, N.C.