Local History Quick Links:
- Goldsboro City Directories – Search a collection of Goldsboro business directories from various years ranging from 1911-1962. More directories are available in-person at the library.
- Wayne County High School Yearbooks – This collection of yearbooks includes various schools from the county. These are easily searched by name.
- Digitized Wayne County Newspapers -Browse a collection of digitized Wayne County newspapers dating back to 1850.
- DigitalNC: Wayne County Items – Find a collection of digitized Wayne County items such as photographs, yearbooks, newspapers, and other documents all in one place.
- Cemetery Map – This map was created and provided by Julio Garrido, Wayne County GIS Coordinator.
- Goldsboro News-Argus (from NewsBank) – Search full-text articles on local news, issues, events, people and more from 2017-present.
- Digital Sanborn Maps (1867-1970) for North Carolina – More than 660,000 Sanborn maps chart the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Sanborn maps are large-scale plans of a city or town, drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. They were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property. The maps list street blocks and building numbers including numbers in use at the time the map was made and previous numbers.
- WCPL Youtube Channel – find Local History home videos and recordings.