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18522
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Continuing his travels to North Carolina's counties, Goerch visits Davie County. He describes it as having many new and beautiful places, including the Cooleemee Plantation. Daniel Boone's parents are buried there; Judge Richmond Pearson conducted a famous law s school at Richmond Hill; and Marshall Ney, Napoleon's famous general, is said to have escaped execution in France and taught school in the county.
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36403
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The story of the Roberts House, near Mocksville, NC, which had a hidden tunnel from the house to Dutchman’s Creek. The tunnel may have been used during the Civil War and for the Underground Railroad.
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36407
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The author talks of Advance, Davie County, NC was a leading center for distilling whiskey. In 1905, the NC General Assembly passed a law prohibiting distilling in towns with a population of less than one thousand and the distilleries in Advance closed on Dec. 31, 1905.
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40976
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The home affiliated with Davie, who had a history of service in education, politics, and the military, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Renovation work decades later, taking place in three phases, is restoring his only house still standing to its glory.
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North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine
(NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 11 Issue 6, November 2019,
p20-22
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Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820; Historic houses--Halifax County--William R. Davie House ; Revolutionary War--William R. Davie; North Carolina Historic Sites; Historic Halifax State Historic Site; Friends of Historic Halifax--William R. Davie House; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill--William R. Davie; National Register of Historic Places--William R. Davie House; Revolutionary War--Nathanael Greene--William R. Davie; Davie County--History; Davie County--Description and travel; William R. Davie Park (Charlotte)