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15452
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Started in 1837, Davidson College will celebrate its hundredth anniversary this year. The history of the institution has been one of steady progress. The College was first organized as a manual labor seminary, named in honor of General William Lee Davidson of Revolutionary fame. Today, the College has a rating second to none in the country, an endowment of approximately a million dollars, with grounds, buildings, and equipment valued at around two million dollars.
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Calvary Episcopal Church, located at Fletcher, between Asheville and Hendersonville, commemorates the lives of noted artists, writers, musicians, and benefactors of the South through the erection of bronze markers on granite boulders. To date twenty-five markers have been erected, and like England's Westminster Abbey, the boulders are in rows, like the \"Poet's Corner\" and \"Statesmen's Corner.\"
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A scenic effect that is the praise of travelers from all parts of the nation is found down in the valley between Heartbreak Ridge and Bernard Mountain, 1,500 feet above sea level. This is Andrews' Geyser, which commemorates the memory of Colonel A.B. Andrews of Raleigh a noted Confederate soldier and civic and political leader of Raleigh.
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When the colonists of the Albemarle section of North Carolina were in danger, Betsy Dowdy rode her pony in 1775 to spread the news and succeeded in halting the advance of the British troops into North Carolina.
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Johnson Blakely is considered a lively historic character, though not native to North Carolina, who quickly gained notoriety in the state. Blakely moved from Ireland to Wilmington in 1781 as a boy and when old enough attended University of North Carolina. He gained a reputation for fearlessness at the University which carried through to his naval career. In 1799 he joined the Navy and served as a midshipman for 12 years. Promoted to lieutenant, he captained the brig Enterprise and then the brig Wasp. His career ended aboard the Wasp when the ship went missing; last seen on October 19, 1814.
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15860
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Seay recounts some of the forgotten events that are revealed by the old files of some of the state's early railroad companies of one hundred years or more ago. The information shows quite a bit of contrast between railroading then and now.
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20789
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Seay describes what railroading was like in North Carolina almost a century ago.
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15278
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Elisha Mitchell, scientist, minister, and University of North Carolina professor, lost his life trying to prove that Black Dome, now called Mount Mitchell, was the highest peak in the eastern United States. In 1881-1882, the United States Geological Service confirmed his measurements and named the peak after him. Mitchell determined its height in 1835 and was killed in a fall on the mountain in 1857.
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Although not generally known, it was Colonel Samuel Davison who blazed the trail for the first permanent settlement across the Blue Ridge, where he later met a tragic fate.
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15374
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Colonel Samuel Davidson bravely explored western North Carolina and was a trailblazer for future settlers. Davidson with his wife, daughter, and servant settled at the base of Jones Mountain in July, 1784. He would be murdered by members of the Cherokee tribe and his wife, child, and servant fled fifteen miles back to the safety of Old Fort.
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After July 1 1935, the state's criminals sentenced to death received lethal injection rather than the being sent to the electric chair. Henry Spivey was the last convict hanged near Abbottsburg on March 11, 1910. The day before, Walter Morrison was the first man to be electrocuted. Twenty-five years of electrocutions left 150 men dead, 120 were African-American. North Carolina's adoption of lethal injection in 1935 made it only the fourth state to switch.
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Seay describes the peach industry in the Sandhills. Twenty-five years ago land was hardly worth anything there, but growing peaches has changed all that. J. Van Lindley of Greensboro is credited with having planted the first commercial orchard there in 1892, but it has been only in the last decade that the industry has developed. Over two hundred varieties of peaches grow in the country. The Elberta, Georgia Belle, and the Hilly are the most widely-grown varieties in the Sandhills.
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Anna McNeill, the subject of James McNeill Whistler's painting, Whistler's Mother, was born in North Carolina. Though, McNeill's early life in North Carolina is largely lost to history, the author draws conclusions about the woman through the eyes of her son who left behind diaries, poetry, and portraits.
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Blakely, a naval officer and hero of the War of 1812, was a native of Ireland. At the age of two, his parents brought him to Wilmington. He attended the University of North Carolina then sought a career in the U.S. Navy. He became midshipmen in 1800 and later commanded the WASP during the war. Blakely, his crew and ship were last seen October 19, 1814. Nothing is known of them from that date.
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On two different occasions, vast sums of money have been spent in order to obliterate Lake Mattamuskeet through systems of pumping in order to use the land for crops. However, nature has refused to be conquered and the Lake has continually returned. In 1934, the Federal Government purchased the Lake as a migratory waterfowl refuge and black bass feeding ground.
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