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The marker was erected on Burke Square in Raleigh to commemorate the Executive Mansion. Before the Executive Mansion, state governors lived in various locales and sometimes hotels around Raleigh before Governor Thomas Jarvis insisted on an official residence. The Executive Mansion was the product of this plea and Governor Daniel G. Fowle was the first to reside in the mansion.
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15697
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The 300th anniversary of New Bern was celebrated in grand form at the not yet opened N.C. History center. Many historically significant artifacts were on display for the grand celebration including North Carolina's copy of the Bill of Rights and the Elizabeth II sailed from Roanoke Island Festival Park.
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10721
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In North Carolina, Native Americans were considered occupants of the land, not owners, but they were allowed to hold their lands more securely by defensible fee simple estate rather than by sufferance. The state has had seven such tracts, all but one held by Native Americans in fee simple. Stevenson describes each tract and the tribe that held it.
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15764
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The Office of Archives and History oversees the Alamance Battleground, site of the climatic conflict between rogue farmers and Governor William Tryon's colonial militia in the War of Regulation on May 16, 1771. A collaborative effort between the Office of State Archaeology, Research Branch of the Office of Archives and History, and the Division of State Historic Sites and Properties will pursue a multi-disciplinary project reviewing the archaeological and historical record.
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Four miles north-east of Morganton a highway historical marker was erected to mark the site of Fort San Juan. The fort was a 16th century Spanish outpost named after Captain Juan Pardo who, with a 125 conquistadors, trekked from Florida north to an Indian village called Joara. Pardo's fortification and garrison of 30 soldiers survived eighteen months before being destroyed by its neighbors.
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15767
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Archaeological excavations reopened in Brunswick Town forty-one years after Dr. Stanley A. South's work in the 1960s. Contemporary work focused on Civil War-era earthworks that stretch across the Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site and aim to answer questions about construction and gun placement within the earthworks. John Mintz, assistant state archaeologist, oversaw the work which took place from April 6-9th.
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30726
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During his presidency, many claims were made toward the paternity of Abraham Lincoln. Such claims suggest Thomas Lincoln was not the true father, but rather a man named Richard Inloe (Inlow, Enlow, Enloe). This article only outlines these claims that tie Lincoln’s family to North Carolina, while giving no evidence stringent enough to sway historians.
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9747
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Mattox recounts the experiences of two men from North Carolina who flew for the Royal Air Force in World War I.
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Carolina Comments
(NoCar F 251 C38), Vol. 56 Issue 1, Jan 2008,
p35-38, il, por, bibl
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9748
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Robert Edwin Stipe of Chapel Hill died September 23, 2007. Stipe, a former director of the Division of Archives and History, had a lifelong involvement with preservation in both the public and private sectors.
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15773
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The production of a film series dedicated to North Carolina history is a collaborative project between UNC Center for Public Television and Office of Archives and History. Six hours will be dedicated to exploring the state's history at a local, statewide, and national level to generate interest in tourism.
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15774
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The Cemetery Survey and Stewardship Program was developed by the Office of Archives and History to preserve and protect North Carolina's overlooked cemeteries. Guardianship of these cemeteries was largely under the charge of local historians and as of 2002 seventeen counties had complete survey records. The program aims to organize records, provide technical advice, and create a database to account for these resources before any are lost.
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15775
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On March 24th, Judge Henry W. Hight Jr. awarded North Carolina formal ownership of the state's original copy of the Bill of Rights. North Carolina's copy had been removed from the capitol by a Union officer and confiscated by the FBI in Philadelphia. The document will remain in state archives vaults.
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A document displayed in England illuminated the story of an escaped Brunswick County slave. A pamphlet was printed detailing the life of James Johnson, who fled the Confederate States aboard a Union vessel and made his home in Oldham in 1866. The pamphlet, titled The Life of the Late James Johnson (Colored Evangelist), an Escaped Slave from the Southern State of America, was exhibited a the Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) Archives, Oldham.
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January 24, 2008 at 3:45 a.m., authorities were alerted to a fire which started at the childhood home of Governor Charles B. Aycock. Damage from the fire affected several rooms, the worst damage in the parlor, and destroyed several artifacts. Other damaged artifacts and a portion of the structure will have to be cleaned and restored.
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15828
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Between 1777-1896 ten paper mills operated in six counties manufacturing paper for Northern markets. Before the Civil War, production of paper brought about $145, 000 annually and represented a modernizing industry with the introduction of machinery from Europe. These mills were located in Cleveland, Cumberland, Forsyth, Lincoln, Orange, and Wake Counties.
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