Gaston Avenue
Gaston Avenue is named after William Henry Gaston. He was a Captain in the Confederacy army. He served in the Hood's Texas Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia. He later after recovering from typhoid fever was assigned as a recruiter for the Confederate army in Texas, then he was reassigned to be a Confederate purchasing agent in the Trans-Mississippi Dept.
After the Civil War and a couple of cotton crops Gaston shows up in Dallas, Texas with $20,000 in gold and becomes a banker. Speculation is that some of the gold came from his days as a Confederate purchasing agent. This information comes from the online Texas State Historical Association handbook entry for Gaston which is online at
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fga63
There is also a bibliography for Gaston Avenue and Junius Street. I have it after the mapping.
After the Civil War and a couple of cotton crops Gaston shows up in Dallas, Texas with $20,000 in gold and becomes a banker. Speculation is that some of the gold came from his days as a Confederate purchasing agent. This information comes from the online Texas State Historical Association handbook entry for Gaston which is online at
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fga63
There is also a bibliography for Gaston Avenue and Junius Street. I have it after the mapping.
Mapping of slave narratives to Gaston Street
In the PDF I am mapping slave narratives to Gaston Avenue. I have just put in one narrative, but will be updating this page over time to add in more narratives. In some sense walking down the streets will be following their adventures and their sufferings will be like stations of the cross.
Historical Resources
1. Moses Roper's narrative can be purchased by itself or in a collection of the North Carolina slave narratives in "North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, & Thomas H. Jones," edited by William L. Andrews, Univ. of North Carolina Press.
It is also online https://archive.org/stream/narrativeofadvenrope#page/n9/mode/2up You can read it online, or you can download it, and it is available in multiple formats.
Historical Resources
1. Moses Roper's narrative can be purchased by itself or in a collection of the North Carolina slave narratives in "North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, & Thomas H. Jones," edited by William L. Andrews, Univ. of North Carolina Press.
It is also online https://archive.org/stream/narrativeofadvenrope#page/n9/mode/2up You can read it online, or you can download it, and it is available in multiple formats.
The following is the PDF of the mappings done so far.
| gaston_avenue_slave_narratives__web.pdf |
Bibliography for Gaston Avenue and Junius Street
I will be including this in the mailings to the residents of Gaston Avenue and Junius Street.