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2779
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Otto Wood was one of the state's more colorful criminals. That he was able to escape from prison ten times and commit numerous robberies and thefts is all the more remarkable because he had only one hand.
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2790
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One of aviation's great early heroes was Belvin Maynard of Sampson County. An Army Air Service officer in World War I and a ministerial student at Wake Forest, he set many air records before his death in a plane crash in 1922.
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R. Don Laws, the feisty publisher of the Moravian Falls newspaper, THE YELLOW JACKET, was known for his barbs and humor. Although the town's population was under 200, the paper had a national reputation and circulation of 250,000.
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The marriage in 1865 of Eleanor Swain, daughter of a former governor and then UNC president David L. Swain, to Union General Smith D. Atkins, was highly controversial and divisive in the town of Chapel Hill.
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The first rebellious act against British rule in the state may have been carried out by nine patriots, known to history as the \"Black Boys of Cabarrus.\" They destroyed Governor William Tryon's munitions train on May 2, 1771, near Concord.
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Because of the difficulties of land travel, the steamboat Mountain Lily was a hoped for alternative route on the French Broad River in the early 1880s between Brevard and Asheville. The project failed after four years.
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In 1783, through legislative action and Governor Alexander Martin's proclamation, North Carolina became the first state to declare July Fourth a legal holiday honoring the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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At 1,800 feet, Whiteside Mountain in Jackson County is the highest sheer precipice in the East. When Augustus Baity fell over in 1911, the courage of Charles N. Wright and Will Dillard saved him. Both received Carnegie heroism medals.
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2984
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A look through William S. Powell's NORTH CAROLINA GAZETTEER reveals that the state is blessed with a collection of towns and places bearing unique and fascinating names.
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3044
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Omar ibn Said, an Arabian prince, was captured by enemies and sold into slavery. Escaping from his cruel master, he became part of the household of future governor John Owen of Bladen County.
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Few individuals compile a career in politics like William Rufus Devane King's. Among his accomplishments were election to congress from North Carolina and Alabama and the U.S. vice presidency on two occasions. He served also as minister to France.
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3096
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In 1905, Lunsford Richardson, a Greensboro druggist, went into business to sell his own medicines. The company became a huge success, and one of the products, Vicks VapoRub, is still famous worldwide after 92 years.
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Laying track to take the Western North Carolina Railroad from Old Fort to Asheville was a feat of engineering. Begun in 1877, the task included building seven tunnels and overcoming steep mountains to bring the first train through on October 3, 1880.
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The desire of rural farm families in 1832 to start a school in Randolph County to educate their children was the first of a series of steps that eventually led to what is now Duke University.
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For championing the cause of rural mail delivery, U.S. Congressman John Steele Henderson of Salisbury is called the father of R.F.D. mail. One of the first routes in the country began in his home county of Rowan, at China Grove, on October 23, 1896.
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