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A political campaign dispute between Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr., and John Stanly culminated in the summer of 1802, when the men fought the state's most famous duel in New Bern. Spaight was mortally wounded.
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In the 1925 General Assembly, Hoke County Representative S. Scott Poole introduced a bill to prohibit the teaching of evolution in state-supported schools. The issue was fought over by fundamentalists and education forces until its defeat in 1927.
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8997
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This year marks the 190th anniversary of George Washington's visit to the Guilford Courthouse Battlefield. This year is the bicentennial celebration of that battle, and events will take place at the courthouse on April 14th and 15th.
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Willie Jones, a wealthy pre-Revolution aristocrat began his political career as a Royalist but deferred summons from his Majesty's Council of the Province to join radicals in support of the Revolution. Jones was known for his leadership abilities and acted as a virtual governor as president of the Council of Safety during the war. Jones was also instrumental in founding Raleigh, North Carolina.
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William Gaston (1788-1844) remains one of North Carolina's most distinguished historical figures to date. In addition to serving as a Senator, Representative, and judge of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Gaston was president of the Bank of New Bern, author of the state song, THE OLD NORTH STATE, a University of North Carolina trustee for 42 years, and was nearly appointed Secretary of War by John Adams. Gaston County and Gastonia were named in William Gaston's honor.
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Judge William Gaston penned the North Carolina state song, The Old North State, in 1835. One account of the song's origins claims the tune was provided by a group of \"Swiss Bell-Ringers\" who one night serenaded Judge Gaston from his window. Gaston wrote the lyrics and set them to the tune of the serenade.
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UNC Alumnus James Hervey Otey, the first Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, was the co-founder of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee and its first president. Otey, originally from the backwoods of Virginia, moved to Chapel Hill as a student and met Betty Pannell, whom he later married.
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A tetra style Greek portico complete with Ionic columns once adorned the south face of Gerrard Hall, the fourth oldest building on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. The portico was removed seventy-two years ago because the building was thought to face the wrong way toward a proposed road. The road was never built. Preservationists are requesting the portico to be rebuilt.
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Construction on Old East, the first building erected at the University of North Carolina, America's first state university, was begun in 1793. Among the objects sealed inside its cornerstone at the time was a bronze plaque commemorating the laying of the cornerstone on the 12th day of October in the 18th year of American Independence. The plaque was stolen by vandals during the Civil War and, as years turned to decades, campus officials abandoned hope of its recovery. In 1916, Thomas Bledsoe Foust, owner and proprietor of the Clarksville Foundry and Machine Works in Clarksville, TN was given the plaque by his foreman, who had been using it as a molding tool. Foust, a 1903 UNC graduate, recognized the names on the plate and, through a series of communications with other UNC alums, determined it to be the missing cornerstone plaque from Old East. On October 12, 1916, the 123rd anniversary of the laying of Old East's cornerstone, a ceremony was held and the long lost plaque was presented to the university.
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Lotteries were once respectable among North Carolinians. In 1801,the General Assembly authorized the University of North Carolina to sponsor a lottery to raise money for the completion of South Building, then a dormitory and now UNC's administration building. Some of the state's leading citizens, such as U.S. District Court Judge Henry Potter, State Treasurer John Haywood, and State Senator Henry Seawell, helped sell the tickets in an effort to aid the struggling young university.
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James Phillips, an Englishman who taught mathematics at the University of North Carolina from 1826 to 1867, is the ancestor of several North Carolinians who have made distinguished contributions to the life of their state. His daughter Cornelia Phillips Spencer, for whom UNC's Spencer Hall is named, was instrumental in the 1875 reopening of the university after it had been closed during the Reconstruction era. His son Charles was a mathematics professor at UNC and his other son, Samuel, was a lawyer who went on to become speaker of the North Carolina House of Commons, auditor in Governor Zebulon Vance's Civil War cabinet, and United States solicitor under President Grant.
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Chapel Hill is building a dormitory named after famous alumnus James Polk. Polk, United State President and Mecklenburg County native, attended Chapel Hill in the 1810s. Polk's school roommate was William D. Moseley, later Governor of Florida. As president, Polk returned to the university in 1847 and he visited with high ranking staff members.
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Lillington, North Carolina native, Margaret Baggett Dolan, is the only Southerner ever to be named President of the American Nurses Association. Elected in 1962, Dolan is the head of the Department of Public Health Nursing at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health and a member of President Kennedy's Advisory Committee on Health resources.
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