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3309
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Frank Johnson's brass band was the best-known musical group in the state from 1830 to 1870. A former slave, he organized a band that traveled the state to play for plantation aristocracy and public events.
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5748
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Parramore discusses North Carolina inventors who were pursuing the goal of powered flight before and after the Wright Brothers' historic flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903. These include Luther Paul of Beaufort, who between 1902 and 1907, built a helicopter that flew unmanned, the world's first machine to lift vertically off the ground.
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Parramore discusses the Wright Brothers' work leading up to the historic flight on December 17, 1903, and the contributions in work and support of the Outer Bankers and men of the life-saving station.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 3, Mar 2003,
p43-45, 47, il
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Parramore describes a way of life that lasted for over one hundred years on the Albemarle Sound and its tributaries, the use of great sweep-seines to harvest runs of shad, herring, and other fish. He discusses the work and skill of the workers who manned the seines, which could often stretch up to two miles. The work period was short, lasting from around eight weeks in the early spring, when the fish swarmed the waters in uncountable numbers. By the beginning of World War II, use of the great seines on the Albemarle waters was over; they were victims of smaller and more efficient equipment.
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Spain had a formal claim to what is now North Carolina up to 1670, but most history books fail to mention that Spaniards actually occupied portions of the land for extended periods of time. Several clues indicate that this is true. When Virginia explorers landed in the Albemarle region in 1653, they came across a Native American who insisted that the explorers meet a wealthy Spaniard who had been residing with the Tuscarora Indians for seven years. Three years prior to this encounter, Edward Bland was instructed to make inquiries about a white man living with the Tuscaroras. 17th-century maps of the region, such as W. J. Blaeu's and Mercator's maps, also indicated possible connections with Spain. Spaniards might have resided with the Tuscarora Indians to keep an eye on England's settlement in the region. It is possible that Spain might have even supplied trading and arms to the Tuscarora in the Tuscarora War of 1711-1713.
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Dr. Walter Reed of Murfreesboro was in Cuba in 1900 and discovered yellow fever to be transmitted by a particular kind of female mosquito, single-handedly abolishing the health threat of the disease. His home in Murfreesboro is set to be restored and used as a Satellite Medical Center. Reed, born in Virginia in 1851, courted and married Emily Lawrence of Murfreesboro. Reed died in 1902.
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On September 7, 1970, a hurricane struck New Bern, destroying homes and businesses and flooding much of the town. Seven people were killed by flying debris or flood waters. New Bern recovered almost entirely within fifteen months of the storm.
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8.Was “The Yellow Rose†a Tar Heel? by Parramore, Thomas C. The State Vol. 41 Issue 10, Mar 1974
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10060
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North Carolinians like James Morgan and Bob Potter both played integral roles in Gen. Santa Anna's defeat in the Texas War of Independence. Other contributors include the mulatto slave-girl named Emily D. West, subject of the popular song “The Yellow Rose of Texas.†Accounts say West kept Gen. Santa Anna preoccupied and off guard during the outset of the decisive Battle of San Jacinto.
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A rather inconspicuous man named Eli Foote is buried at Winton with two headstones from both sides of his family. Foote is the grandfather of famous author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Foote had traveled from New York to Hertford County to trade New England products in North Carolina markets. Eli and his brother Larry found strong markets for their products and decided to remain. Foote died in 1792 and was buried with a headstone from his New York family and his wife's North Carolina family.
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Pre-Civil War slave rebellions were not uncommon in North Carolina. Across northeastern North Carolina in the spring of 1802 rumors of a slave uprising abounded. \"The Coleraine Letter\"Â and other plots, real or imagined, launched the worst insurrection panic in North Carolina history. The plot, however, was uncovered. Trials in Hertford and Bertie counties resulted in the hanging of eleven slaves and the whipping and deportation of others.
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16370
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The Fool Killer is probably one of North Carolina's most notable contributions to the gallery of American folk heroes. Jesse Holmes the Fool Killer was the fictional creation of Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans, editor from 1841 to 1883 of the weekly Milton Chronicle in Caswell County. There have been several letters discovered written by the Fool Killer in an attempt to bring justice upon the fools in mid-19th-century North Carolina society.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 23 Issue 3, Aug 1975,
p70-74, il
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16375
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North Carolina is well-known today for team sports, including basketball and football. The state was also known in the 1800s and 1900s for its role in horse racing. It is not well-remembered, however, that antebellum North Carolina sports entertainment included fistic gladiators, a form of boxing popular during this period.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 22 Issue 2, May 1974,
p55-62
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16707
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Dr. James Norcom, a prominent figure in eastern North Carolina during the 19th-century, was an active local politician and respected doctor who was accused by his slave, Harriet Jacobs, as being ruthless and lascivious in her autobiography. Parramore examines the disparate portrayals of Dr. Norcom in Jacob's account and in historical records, concluding while aspects of Jacob's description are accurate, the doctor's sexual relations with his slaves and her overall characterization is prone to emotional exaggeration.
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The Carolina Aircraft Company was established March 31, 1918 in Raleigh by Harry Atwood. During World War I, the company crafted seaplanes designed by Atwood. The endeavor was short-lived due to lack of demand following the conclusion of the war.
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Although North Carolina cast her fortunes with those of the Confederacy in 1861, it was not until February 1862 that the Civil War was seriously felt in the eastern region of the state. During that time, Winton, a village on the Chowan River, was burned by Union troops. This event resulted in the disgrace of an entire regiment as an object in the futility of war.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 39 Issue 1, Jan 1962,
p18-31, f
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