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North Carolina is currently the top producer of sweet potatoes in the United States. It is also the third largest producer of pork.
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7678
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Joel Queen is an eighth-generation potter. Queen, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, has always been interested in arts and crafts, but has worked as an artist full-time only for the past four years. In 2005, he opened his own gallery near Cherokee to show and sell his work. Queen's creations have been displayed at the Smithsonian Institution, the British Museum in London, and at Monticello.
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3.A County Name Changes by Koonts, Russell S. Tar Heel Junior Historian Vol. 44 Issue 2, Spring 2005
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Koonts discusses the interesting connection between Arthur Dobbs, the royal governor of North Carolina; James Glasgow, the first North Carolina secretary of state; and General Nathaniel Greene, the Revolutionary War hero. Present-day Greene County at one time bore the name of each man. Koonts discusses how the name changes occurred.
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In 1862, Union troops under General Ambrose Burnside occupied New Bern and a large portion of Eastern North Carolina. Escaping slaves found a safe haven behind their lines and soon became a source of wartime labor and even military service for the Union. A number formed a community of churches, schools, and homes on Roanoke Island which soon grew to 3,500 men, women, and children by 1864. Lanier interviewed Virginia Simmons Tillet, one of the colony's descendants, about this little-known Civil War story.
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Mewborn discusses the role Dr. Cartwright played in forming the Tar Heel Junior Historian Association in 1953. Dr. Cartwright was a professor at Duke University from 1951 to 1980. Previously he had served as the historian for the Military District of Washington during World War II and taught history and education at Boston University. He had been involved with a junior historian program in Minnesota.
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The state adopted its first slave code in 1715. This document defined the social, economic, and physical places of enslaved people. Most of the slaves purchased in the colony came from Virginia and South Carolina, and most lived on large plantations in the eastern section. The largest plantation was Stagville, established in 1787, and located in parts of what is now Orange and three other counties. More than 900 slaves worked on the 30,000-acre plantation.
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The Blue Ridge Parkway began as a Public Relief Project during the Great Depression. The objective was to supply jobs for destitute North Carolinians and to link Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountain National Parks. Once approved by President Roosevelt, debates erupted over the proposed route the parkway would take.
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36637
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The author talks of being a Lumbee tribe cultural liaison and reconnecting with the Indian youth to keep the teachings alive of the culture, like unity, sobriety and respect. He talks of working within the native communities in North Carolina to promote cultural rejuvenation and fellowship, selflessness and duty.
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36396
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A history of the Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church, Guilford Co., NC, by Joy Gattis, Northeast Guilford Junior High School, McLeansville, NC.
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41168
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A history of Blackbeard’s flagship included its beginnings in France and circumstances of its end, in what was Topsail Inlet.
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16281
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For many years North Carolinians had led separate lives in public activities, public schools, and sporting events, based on whether they were white, African American, or Native American. For many Native American communities in Robeson County and elsewhere, segregation in sporting events would end in 1967. Brayboy discusses what basketball was like before integration.
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Scientists world-wide are continually searching for ways to fight diseases. Some of the most important work in that fight was carried on in the late 20th-century in North Carolina by Gertrude Elion and George Hitching. In 1988, they shared the Nobel Prize in medicine with England's Sir James Black. Their revolutionary discoveries led to drugs to fight leukemia, malaria, gout, organ rejection, rheumatoid arthritis, and certain bacterial infections, and laid the foundation for work leading to AZT, the first treatment for AIDS.
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During the United States Civil War, General Braxton Bragg became one of the most hated officers in the Confederate army. Yet, this general has a major modern U.S. Army post named after him: Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Why? During the Mexican-American War, Bragg was viewed as a star artilleryman.
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14.A Look at the Cherokee Language by Frey, Ben Tar Heel Junior Historian Vol. 45 Issue 1, Fall 2005
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About 22,000 people speak the Cherokee language today. The language is part of the Iroquoian language family, and the Cherokee represent the only group of Southern Iroquoian speakers. Through the efforts of a Cherokee named Sequoyah, tribal members began to read and write in their own language. Relocation of a large part of the Cherokees to Oklahoma and educational prohibitions against speaking their native language caused the language to almost die out. In recent years the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina have taken steps to reclaim their language.
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Lying off the coast of North Carolina is a stretch of ocean known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Many ships and sailors have met disaster there. Survivors could count only on people in coastal communities on the Outer Banks for help. It was not until 1870 that the federal government established the United States Life-Saving Service to aid ships in distress. The name was later changed to United States Coast Guard.
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