This is the only guidebook to Gastonia's many vanished landmarks. Within these covers you will take tours of the city as it was just as its vitality was being sapped by eastward movement and development that began during the 1970's and reached a crescendo by the turn of the century. You will witness the final days of Downtown as the retail and social center and see, step by step, the development of the railroad-lowering project that is now referred to as merely "the ditch."

A Glimpse As It Passed is "a sentimental scrapbook of memories and images of buildings and sites that were once part of the fabric of daily life in the Combed Yarn Center of the World." More than 500 copies sold!

A Glimpse As It Passed: Scenes from a Vanished Gastonia, North Carolina, 1972-1992
ISBN 978-0-9754958-1-0
187 pages
Profusely illustrated
$15.00
Available from our retail partners.

The first book published by Trenton Creative Enterprises. It is now in its sixth year and second printing. You will find Winsor City to be vaguely familiar.


"Strange things happen to the residents of Winsor City. Could an old flight jacket, a forgotten package, or a diamond ring with a past solve the mysteries of Three Tales? The answer lies within these covers."   


Three Tales
ISBN 978-0-9754958-0-3
135 pages
$10.00
Available from our retail partners.   

More than just a church history, A Centennial History of Loray Baptist Church, Gastonia, North Carolina, 1905-2005 is a comprehensive history of the Center City and West Side. Based upon 27 years of research, the book contains much information from all the classic Gastonia sources plus interviews with eyewitnesses of the Gastonia story as it unfolded. If you know nothing about the South, North Carolina, the Southern textile industry, Gastonia, and old West Gastonia, this book is a good place to start!

A Centennial History of Loray Baptist Church, Gastonia, North Carolina,
1905-2005
ISBN 978-0-9754958-2-7
246 pages
More than 300 illustrations
$15.00
Available from our retail partners.

  This is the story of a grand adventure experienced by Troop 9, Boy Scouts of America in 1981. Troop 9 BSA, sponsored by the historic Loray Baptist Church, is one of the oldest continuously-chartered Baptist church-sponsored Scout Troops in the United States and has served uninterrupted since 1920. This little book tells the story of a fifty mile hike between the Revolutionary War battlefields of Kings Mountain and Cowpens, both located in the Upstate of South Carolina.




50 Miles A Quarter Century Ago
ISBN 978-0-9754958-3-4
85 pages
Illustrated with line drawings, newspaper articles, and photographs.
$9.00
Available from our retail partners.

Historical 48-Star Flag of the United States of America--   
Durable 3X5 inch vinyl sticker for car window or bumper.
Comes complete with a history of the flag and its continuing significance today.
$4.00
Available July 15 at Arts Desire Framing and Gifts! (May be ordered through all other Retail Partners.) 

 

First of a Series!
8 1/2 X 11 inch mini-poster of the Donut-Dinette.

Currently available only at Arts Desire Framing and Gifts.
Suitable for framing.
Comes in a mailing tube ready to surprise that far-away Gastonian! 

$5.00