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A 5 page research paper that offers the historiography of an antebellum artifact-- a 12 foot tall tin coffee pot that stands in Old Salem, NC. The writer gives the complete history of the coffee pot from its creation in 1858 as a sign for a tinsmith's shop to the present, explaining how it has come to be viewed as a symbol for the present day city. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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File: D0_khcofpot.rtf
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sect from Germany known as Moravians (Old Salem, 2004). The village of Old Salem is rather like a small scale version of the restored colonial sites at Williamsburg, Virginia
(Old Salem, past and present, 2004). Part of the scenery in this restored colonial village is an antebellum artifact -- an enormous artifact --that dates from 1858. It is a
coffee pot, 16 feet in circumference and more than 12 feet in height, which was erected by Julius Mickey are a sign of his craft as a tinsmith (Big coffee
pots, 2004). The story of the coffee pot actually begins in 1803 when the town board voted to permit a meat market to be located on the Main Street
side of Salem Square. Fifty years later, the town board woke up to the fact that the meat markets presence in the square was rather crass and they voted
to remove it (Davis, 1966). That same year, a young merchant, Julius Mickey, was endeavoring to open a grocery store. The town leaders sold Mickey the Salem Square market building
and gave him permission to move the old building (Davis, 1966). Mickey opened his grocery and, because there was room, he opened a tin shop as well (Davis, 1966).
Mickey soon discovered that his services as a tinsmith were in far greater demand than his services as a grocer. A first-rate craftsman, Mickey sold tinware to the visitors
who came to town to sell their tobacco and who camped in the public camp grounds across the street from his shop. Davis (1966) points out that in the antebellum
era, tinware was in great demand. Mickeys shop was a source for "cups, plates, pots, and pans, of all sizes and types, coffee and tea pots, buckets and dippers, cake
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