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In the summer of 1944, the Emergency Infantile Paralysis Hospital or what was better known as the Hickory Emergency Infantile Polio Hospital was established in Hickory to treat an outbreak of infantile paralysis (polio).
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43220
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In July 1916, remnants of two hurricanes dropped nearly 22 inches of rain in western North Carolina in under one day. Hundreds of families were left destitute. A mill complex in Gaston County was completely washed away.
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Prior to the 20th Century, Diamond City was a series of communities along Shackleford Banks. The inhabitants were eventually forced by storms that leeched saltwater into wells to move inland. Today, Diamond City Homecoming, celebrated every five years, recalls the heritage of those former communities.
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Reference is given to recent research by UNC Greensboro's Honors College student, Abigail Knight and University Archivist Erin Lawrimore. During the time, no one was allowed to leave or enter campus. 200 student contracted the flu but there were no deaths.
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Hurricane Florence made landfall at Wrightsville Beach on September 14, 2018.
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Born into slavery in 1837 in Southport, Galloway escaped at age 20 and fled to Canada. During the Civil War, he became a noted Union Spy. In 1868, he was elected to serve in the North Carolina General Assembly.
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Redford organized a family reunion of descendants of former slaves at Somerset Plantation in Washington County in on August 30, 1986. She later became site manager for Somerset Place Historic Site and authored a book on her family research leading to the 1986 event.
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North Carolina's original copy of the Bill of Rights was stolen during the federal occupation of Raleigh in the Civil War. In 1995, the document was siezed in an undercover operation and in 2005 returned to North Carolina.
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Clement opened her own law office in Asheville in 1917 and became the first woman in North Carolina to establish her own firm without affiliation with a male lawyer. She also accepted a nomination to a seat in the North Carolina General Assembly several months before ratification of the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote.
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The first student drawn cartoons at what is now UNC-Chapel Hill appeared in student publications like the "Yackety Yack" and "Carolina Coll Weevil".
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Wife of Biltmore estate owner, George Vanderbilt, Edith Vanderbilt arrived in North Carolina in 1898. She was president of the North Carolina State Fair from 1921-1924, the first woman president in the fair's history.
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Born in Baltimore and raised in Durham, Murray became an activist for civil rights long before the 1960s Civil Rights movement. In 1941, she helped form the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE). Among many firsts, in the mid 1970s, she became the first African American woman priest ordained by the Episcopal Church,
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Darden was born in Monroe (Union County" .Her life story was one of those included in the book, Hidden Figures: "The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race " (2016). She is recognized as one of the world's top experts on supersonic wing design and sonic boom mitigation.
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Many colleges for women in North Carolina began in the late 1800s. Most were actually more akin to high schools and did not offer degrees. the first state run college for women in the state was established in Greensboro in 1891.
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Barker is recognized prominently among a group of women in Edenton who protested a tax on tea in1774. Their action goes down in history as the first recorded political demonstration by women in America.
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