Hyco

In 1805 Hyco (Hico) Academy in Caswell advertised Rev. Hugh Shaw, who had formerly taught at the Caswell Academy, as its principal and Rev. Thomas Cottrell, a Methodist preacher and a doctor of medicine, as his assistant.

North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915

In 1834, Hyco announced that its principal was "a man who has enjoyed the advantages of a regular collegiate education."

North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915

Besides these there are several other respectable Academies and Grammar Schools in the State, viz: at Hyco, Caswell; Asheville, Buncombe County; Salisbury, Salem,

The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I Charles Lee 1908

The southern side of the county most abounds in these soils, but in the northern section among the high rolling lands of Hyco river, the product is equally abundant and in no way inferior.

North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896

Caswell county has a somewhat thin gravelly soil, though with rich bottoms along Dan river, which flows along and through its northern border and along Country Line and Hyco creeks.

North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896

The Hyco river lands are adapted to the growth of corn and grain, and the grasses, as well as the fine yellow tobacco for which Person is celebrated.

North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896

Thomas McGhee, [father of Montford McGhee, Esq.,] was a wealthy farmer on Hyco, and served five sessions in the State Legislature [lower branch] 1826-'29-'30-'31-'33, and was Governor's council during the administrations of Dudley and Morehead and was many years president of the bank at Milton.

Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884

"But the Hyco is not in Williams County," said his listener.

Bricks without Straw A Novel 1880

H'yer I lib ober on de Hyco twenty year er mo '-- nobody but ole Marse Potem an' de Lor ', an' p'raps de Debble beside, know 'zackly how long it mout hev been -- an' didn't hev but one name in all dat yer time.

Bricks without Straw A Novel 1880

The tobacco grown on the Hyco and other plantations in that belt was manufactured at his own establishment, supplied his eastern laborers and those which wrought in the pine woods to the southward at the production of naval supplies.

Bricks without Straw A Novel 1880