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12218
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Settled after the Tuscarora War, in approximately 1711, Granville County is a community located on the Virginia border. Encompassing 531 square miles, residents of Granville began as agriculturalists and have evolved into modern day industrial workers.
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30753
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In 1981, small business owner and civil rights activist Eddie McCoy began an African American oral history project in Granville Co, NC. While not a trained historian, McCoy’s interviews stand apart from other oral history projects with respect to the insight and perspective he could elicit from his subjects, which possible reflects his own membership within the surveyed community.
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18472
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Goerch started his visit to Granville County by stopping at an unusually fine place to eat, the Walters House in Oxford, then progressed on to a 48-room house. He also wrote of the former grave of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, a frustrated romance, and some interesting history and towns.
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20047
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This article on legal and political history of Granville County examines the role of the colonial squire as a dominant figure in provincial and local government.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 4, Oct 1941,
p339-359, f
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28319
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The residents of Granville have another fight on their hand. Residents oppose the construction of the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility proposed for construction in Butner, NC by the Department of Homeland Security. Granville residents and the Granville Non-Violent Action Team have defeated repeated government attempts to place undesirable projects in their neighborhoods including an atomic-particle super collider, a hazardous waste incinerator, and a low-level radiation waste facility. The county and its residents will be fighting a large group of influential political forces to keep the facility out of the county. One of the biggest concerns is the potential effect wastewater will have on the water supply.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 41, October 2007,
p4, 7
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19686
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Granville County was once considered a \"frontier county\" because it functioned from 1746-1752 largely without government organization and its sheer size encompassed a large area which is now split into Orange, Vance, Warren, and Franklin counties. This article reviews the geographical traits of the area and early settlement patterns within the large territory.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 11 Issue 1, Jan 1934,
p1-19, f
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