Killer Market

All chapter captions are taken from The Great Industries of the United States, Hartford: J.B. Burr & Hude, 1872.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSSpecial thanks to Mary Ellen Hiatt, Executive Director of the Southern Home Furnishings Association, who first suggested that Deborah come to High Point and showed me a whole new world. Thanks also to all the men and women of High Point who graciously answered questions and let me look behind the scenes, especially Ann A. Pickering, Director of Operations at Market Square, and her assistant, Ginger Hicks; Susan M. Andrews, formerly of Furniture/Today; Yolanda Jackson of The Father’s Table; Detective J.L. Grubb of the High Point Police Department; and Dawn Brinson, Executive Director of the Furniture Discovery Center and former proprietor of the sorely missed bookstore, One for the Books.