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Stonework experienced a renaissance in counties like Orange and Macon. The comeback had come from masons Steve Magers, Lyn Walters, Suzanna Stewart, and Tom and Joe Kenlan. Their chimneys were featured as an illustration of stonemasonry at its most creative.
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35992
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A true down homer was about more than just being born in a local town or having one’s name affiliated with a local building. What made Charlie Gray Sr. so included turning down job offers after graduation from North Carolina State College, so he could own a local grocery store. Being a down homer was also reflected in his promotion of education for the area. During his almost fifty year career as a school principal and teacher, he professed a hope for Hatteras Island to have a central accredited high school.
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Colonel Hardy Murfree of Hertford County fought in the American Revolution and lived both near Murfreesboro, NC and Murfreesboro, TN, the latter having been named for him. He was buried with full Masonic honors.
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The North Carolina Booklet
(NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 17 Issue 3, January 1918,
p160-164
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22556
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There have been four Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge, St. John's Lodge with Grand Jurisdiction of North Carolina. From 1791 to 1811, John Louis Taylor served as Grand Master for three terms, later attaining fame as a lawyer and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Following Richard Dobbs Spaight's retirement in 1832, it was not until 1850 that Alonzo T. Jerkins, prominently connected in industry, finance, and transportation, became Grand Master. Following Jerkins three consecutive terms as Grand Master, Charles Cauthen Clark, a native of New Bern and member of Congress, was elected Grand Master in 1870.
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The North Carolina Booklet
(NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 22 Issue 1,2,3,4, July-Oct 1922,
p53-62
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15227
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John Huske Anderson, of Raleigh, next week will be elevated to the rank of the highest Masonic office in the United States, Grand Master. Anderson will thus have the highest office ever attained by a North Carolina Mason.
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40825
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40841
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40853
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40865
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29598
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The 1938 Masonic Marker is located seventeen miles from Waynesville, North Carolina at the Balsam Gap Camp entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The marker is a monument featuring over six-hundred stones and minerals collected from other shrines, including Plymouth Rock, an Egyptian pyramid, and the White House.
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Stones, weighing from two ounces to 400 pounds, will be used in making the Masonic marker to be unveiled on July 11th at the Black Camp entrance of the Great Smokey Mountain National Park at Waynesville. The marker will stand on the spot where the North Carolina Grand Council of York Rite Masons buried a memorial chest July 5th, 1937. The chest will be opened in 1972, the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Grand Council of North Carolina.
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34494
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In 1993, the Order of the Eastern Star, an auxiliary Masonry branch, celebrated their 50th anniversary in North Carolina. The Beaufort and Morehead City chapters, established in 1943, remain active in the community through their support of a local senior center, and Shriners Hospitals. The article also discusses founding members and current group aims.
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