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
A	L
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	Lowes Foods and James Lucius Lowe
Carl R Brantley as Former Pro-Wrestler Vladimir Koloff	M
John Brown	Graham Lunsford "Doc" Mathis
Chang & Eng Bunker - The Siamese Twins	Issac Clinton Miller
Robert Byrd	N
C	William Vance Nichols
Gaither Carlton	O
Captain Benjamin Cleveland	Allen Ferdinand Owen
Dean Combs	P
William L. Couch	Jimmy Pardue
D	Benny Parsons
Tom Dula aka Tom Dooley	Harry Hall Pearson Jr
E	James Larkin Pearson
John Patton Erwin	R
F	Waylon Reavis
Percy Wright Foote	Shirrel Rhoades
G	S
Zach Galifianakis	Ralph Seagraves
Roger Gambill	Morgan Shepherd
George A. Gilreath	Montfort Stokes - father
Christopher Gist	Montfort Sidney Stokes - son
James B. Gordon	John Swofford
Deneen Graham	William Oliver Swofford
Gladys Gunzer	T
H	Irene Triplett
Richard N. Hackett	W
Jim "Cracker" Hamby	R. Tracy Walker
Roger Hamby	Doc Watson
I	Merle Watson & MerleFest
Elijah Isaacs	Otto Wood: The Bandit Play & The Man
J	Y
Junior Johnson	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

HISTORICAL PLACES

NOTABLE PEOPLE FROM WILKES COUNTY

A

L

B

M

N

C

O

P

D

E

R

F

G

S

T

H

W

I

J

Y

POULTRY FARMSin Wilkesboro and Wilkes County, N.C.

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