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For over a year, Madison County's Mountain Park Hotel served as a makeshift compound for World War I German prisoners of war. None had actually fought against the United States; they were civilians who had worked on German and Austrian merchant ships and were interned as “enemy aliens†when the United States entered the war on April 6, 1917. Hodge describes the internees' year at Hot Springs.
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Among the Cherokees and other tribes, the game of stickball has been for generations part ceremony, part organized combat, and a true test of athletic skill. Native Americans count it as one of their favorite and most revered recreational activities. The game brought tribes together for a competitive game of skill and strategy. Hodge discusses the pre-game ceremonies and how the Cherokees played the game.
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Bill Payne, called North Carolina's number one outlaw, and his sidekick, Wash Turner (alias Jack Borden) escaped from the Halifax County's Caledonia prison camp on February 1, 1937. The two went on a crime spree that included car theft, kidnapping, and murder. The pair robbed a number of banks across the state, but it was the robbery the Bank of Candor, in Montgomery County, September 29, 1937, that many people remember. Brought to justice in Sanford by G-Men under the supervision of J. Edgar Hoover, the two were executed in 1938 for murdering a state trooper.
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The Bechtlers, Christopher, son Augustus, and nephew Christopher, Jr., German immigrants, arrived in New York in 1829. After a short stay in Philadelphia, they moved to Rutherford County in 1830. Experienced in making watches and jewelry, they saw that the economy was hindered because little gold was in circulation. Rutherford County at that time was the geographic center of gold mining in the nation, and the Bechtlers opened a mint, which operated from 1831 to 1840. Over $2 million in gold coins was minted and used during that period. The money boosted industry and helped people to buy and sell goods.
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Cancetto Farmica was a young Italian carnival worker who was killed in a fight just across the state line in South Carolina in 1911. The nearest place to have a body embalmed was in Laurinburg, North Carolina, at the McDougald Funeral Home. Founded in 1881, the home is today the oldest operating family-owned funeral service in the state. Farmica's father paid for the embalming and said he would sent money for the funeral. The money never came. The funeral home retained the body in a glass case. The business moved four times over a sixty-year period, and each time took the body, now known as the Laurinburg Mummy, with it. Hodge recounts events from these sixty years and the final disposition of the body.
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Hodge recounts the history of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, located near Mount Holly in Gaston County. The church was built in 1843 and claims to be the oldest Catholic church building in the state. It is also one of the smallest, being 40 feet long and 30 feet wide. Regular services at the church stopped in the late 19th-century, and at one time the building was used to store hay. Plans for restoration began in 1974, and on November 2, 1975, St. Joseph's was rededicated. In 1979, the church was named a National Historic Site by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the state of North Carolina.
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Across North Carolina forty-four roads, or sections of roads, have been designated by the state as scenic byways. Two others have National Scenic Byway designations: the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Cherohala Skyway. Scenic byways vary in length from 3 miles to 173 miles and were chosen for their “cultural, natural, and historic features.†These include the French Broad Overview, Drovers Road Byway, Colonial Heritage Byway, Brunswick Town Road, and Alligator River Route.
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Latta Place, the home of Scotsman James Latta in Mecklenburg County, was a thriving cotton and corn plantation around 1800. Today, the 1,290-acre tract contains Latta's restored home and the Latta Plantation Nature Preserve, one of the country's most modern rehabilitation facilities for injured birds of prey. Hodge describes the preserve, house, and recreational things to do on a visit there.
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Born in France in 1746, botanist Andre Michaux was sent to America by the French government in 1785 to collect seeds, trees, shrubs, and plants. In the process he roamed through 30 North Carolina counties, where he either discovered or described 300 plants. Yet, though he covered more territory than Daniel Boone and made many botanical discoveries, Michaux remains relatively unknown in this country.
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Six small transportation museums spread across the state highlight the machines that move us by land, sea, and air. These include the Carolina Aviation Museum (Charlotte); C. Grier Beam Truck Museum (Charlotte); the Daniel Stowe Carriage House, part of the Gaston County Museum (Dallas); Piedmont Carolina Railroad Museum (Belmont); North Carolina Maritime Museum, Southport Branch; and the Norlina Museum (Norlina).
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Because North Carolina's coastline has so many penetrable openings, a number of wartime forts were constructed to protect the interior. Hodge describes a number of these forts, including forts Branch, Raleigh, Anderson, Macon, and Fisher.
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Chimney Rock, a 2,280-foot monolith, towers over Hickory Nut Gorge in Rutherford County, giving scenic views as far as 75 miles. Chimney Rock, now a state park, opened to the public in 1892 and is one of the state's oldest attractions.
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A number of North Carolina citizens participate in recreating the Revolutionary War period with historical accuracy in dress and battle. Reenacting can be expensive, with uniforms and accessories costing thousands of dollars. Revolutionary War reenactments, having between 300 and 500 participants, are smaller than Civil War ones, which can have thousands.
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The Battle of Bentonville in Johnston County, fought in the spring of 1865, was the last great battle of the Civil War and the largest ever fought in North Carolina. On March 18-19, 2000, around 3,500 reenactors with twenty artillery pieces will recreate parts of the battle in observance of its 135th anniversary.
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Over 50,000 individuals in North Carolina and around the world participate in recreating the Civil War period with historical accuracy in dress and battles. The participants are drawn to reenacting through a love of history, the chance to play on opposing sides to gain the opponent's perspective, camaraderie, family participation, and the spiritual aspect of being where family members fought or died.
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