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The battle between the two ships lasted barely twenty minutes. But when the smoke cleared, Johnston Blakeley emerged as an American hero. Considered North Carolina's greatest naval hero of the War of 1812, Blakeley and his crew commanded the USS WASP during their defeat of Great Britain's HMS Reindeer.
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28913
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Kiffin Yates Rockwell (1892-1916) was a North Carolinian who volunteered to help fight for the Allies during World War I before the United States entered the war. Rockwell flew for France in an air squadron known as the Lafayette Escadrille as part of the French Foreign Legion. Rockwell’s personal history before the war and his death during the war are detailed.
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3148
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The Protestant religion had a strong influence in antebellum society, with most people being either Baptist or Methodist. Not only was the church a place of worship, it was also a social gathering place, community disciplinarian, and education promoter.
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16062
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Governor Josiah Martin, the state's last royal governor, lived in Tryon Palace when the American Revolution began. The governor made a critical error in not destroying the supplies at Tryon, instead burying them to be discovered by the rebels who desperately needed the powder and guns.
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How do schools get their names? Crissman provides a number of possibilities for names, including a person (Booker T. Washington Elementary); a place (Beech Mountain Elementary); a direction (Northwest High School); and a lofty idea (First Flight Elementary). Every North Carolina school system has a policy for naming its schools.
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North Carolina gave over 125,000 troops to the Confederate Army. Almost 20,000 were killed, and another 20,000 died of disease. Thousands more suffered crippling wounds. The harsh life of a soldier is revealed through letters of Jeremiah Glover, Rowan County; Bryan Grimes, Pitt County; and Samuel H. Walkup, Union County.
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14357
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Garrison uses historical sources to create a day in the life of a soldier doing camp activities.
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16132
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Women performed a range of tasks on late 19th- and early 20th-century farms throughout rural North Carolina. Women cared for livestock, grew gardens, and completed household chores.
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3853
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Afro-Americans chose to establish their own congregations and churches, partly because of segregation and partly because of a need to express their own African-Christian beliefs. The most prominent was the African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME Zion) Church, organized in 1820 in the North and in New Bern in 1864.
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36387
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An article about the revival of architecture in the Fourth Ward Residential District in Charlotte, NC by Frank Vagnone, Albemarle Road Junior High School, Charlotte, NC.
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36632
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The author gives the history of Dr. William Sharpe, a neurosurgeon from New York, who bought the Hammocks and Bear Island, near Swansboro, NC. To save it from development, he eventually turned it over to the NC Teachers Association in 1950 and it became Hammocks Beach State Park in 1961
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36388
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An article about the Greensborough Junior Historians visit to the Bert Smith farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Patrick Co., VA by April Rose, Mendenhall Junior High School, Greensboro, NC.
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36413
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The author retells a tale about the devil visited Molly Hunt before death and how she had killed her daughter’s boyfriend. Her daughter, Daisy Hunt, saw the killing and it upset her so badly, she gave birth to Jack Hunt, who was covered in scales.
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16109
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The Committee for the Study of Abandoned Cemeteries in North Carolina was formed by the General Assembly and charged with surveying selected counties including; Lenoir, Halifax, Rutherford, Moore, Hyde, Guilford, and Madison. The popularity and importance of the committee's work caught on and those involved asked volunteers to survey the remaining counties.
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16194
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In 1936, Dr. Milton Quigless, a young African American man, graduated from medical school and moved to Tarboro, a segregated town lacking a doctor for African American patients. He travelled around the county to treat patients until he was able to open the Quigless Clinic in 1947, an institution devoted to treating African Americans who were denied at 'white hospital'. The clinic operated until 1975 when Quigless was forced to close it due to building code violations.
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