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Thomas J. Pearsall was superintendent at Braswell Plantation, a historic farm-tenantary plantation. The house dated to 1790 but the rest of the property (22,000 acres) sprawled between Halifax, Nash, and Edgecombe Counties. As a business, the plantation operated off of a landlord-tenant scheme. Pearsall required each family, 150 total in 1943, maintain a cow, sow, garden, and sweet potato patch. In return, church, school and community meeting spaces were provided.
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14986
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No longer is the peanut a lowly goober - it has gone to war! While more than two hundred products are now being made form peanuts, there are many more having a wartime strategic value.
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15020
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Since there are no more daffodil bulbs coming to the United States from Holland due to the War, scores of North Carolina farmers are making a profitable business out of growing these flowers.
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Tucker describes the fine architecture that is found in many of North Carolina's older homes, some dating back to the early 1700s. The highlight in many of them is the exquisitely carved mantel, as well as doorways, winding stairs, and beautiful fireplaces. The names of the men who did the work are long forgotten, and are remembered only through their extant works.
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Colonel Jethro Brown built the mansion known as Rose Hill in Caswell County in 1802. Tucker recounts the interesting history of the place as well as the describing the surrounding landscape.
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Colonel John Carson built Buck Creek Mansion on an estate of 80,000 acres in McDowell County in 1770. The Carson family was among the pioneers of that part of the state.
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General James Green Martin was born at Elizabeth City in 1819. He became an outstanding solider during the War with Mexico in 1846, and as a General provided splendid service to North Carolina and the United States.
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14951
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Colonel William Eaton' historic home, Locust Hill, in Vance County dates back prior to the Revolutionary War. It became the seat of famed hospitality as it offered refuge to the wilderness traveler and respite for thousands of families during the French and Indian War.
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The historic Indian Woods lies just north of the Roanoke River in southern Bertie County. The area, almost impenetrable by man and filled with game, was the eminent domain of the warring Tuscaroras awarded through a grant from the white man for allegiance during the great massacre of 1711-1712. Today the reservation boasts some of the largest and richest plantations in North Carolina.
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Asplaugh refers to the historic home of Reverend John Alspaugh who founded Methodism in Forsyth County. He purchased a 230 acre plantation from neighboring Moravians in 1837 and finished his home in 1839. In 1942 the home still stood along the banks of Muddy Creek on the outskirts of Winston-Salem. Reverend Alspaugh was responsible for establishing several churches in the Winston-Salem area including the notable Centenary Church.
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Built in 1820, the historic house, Woodbourne, in Guilford County was the home of Calvin Wiley's parents. Wiley was a writer and published a number of books in the mid-19th century. He founded the Southern Weekly Post in Raleigh and the North Carolina Presbyterian in Fayetteville. Elected to the General Assembly in 1850, he helped pass the law establishing the office of state superintendent of common schools and served as the first superintendent from 1852 to 1865.
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18736
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Three Forks Church in Watauga County, takes its name from three streams that form the headwaters of the New River. The church organized in 1790, and Daniel Boone was a member, as was his nephew Jesse Boone, who caused no end of trouble in the church. Tucker discusses some of the beliefs of the church as well as some of the members.
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President Herbert Hoover's original ancestor in this country is buried in Randolph County, where he and many of his family resided. Andreas Huber came to Pennsylvania in 1738, made a career for himself and married. The Hubers later moved to Maryland, but because they were Quakers, they were not popular in the Catholic colony. Around 1772, they came to North Carolina where he was known as Andrew Hoover. He died in 1794, and President Hoover was responsible for the monument that marks his grave--the first member of the family to settle in the state.
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14985
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In 1941, the Walser house, a brick house constructed by Henry Walser in 1825, still stood in Davidson County. Henry's father, Frederick, fought in the Revolutionary War after immigrating to America in 1770, and Henry served in the State House and Senate prior to the Civil War.
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St. Andrews was an ante-bellum era church located in an obscure part of Rowan County near Woodleaf. Originally built on the highway between Salisbury and Mocksville, the church became deserted after the throughway moved and a new place of worship built in Woodleaf. The Episcopal Church in 1941 only served a congregation on the last Sunday in August, otherwise being closed for services. The small, simple wooden church was constructed in 1840 and all except the roof was original in 1941.
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