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The Maco Light is one of a number of unexplained and unsolved mysteries that have occurred in North Carolina over the years. Sixty years ago, at Maco, located fifteen miles west of Wilmington, a passenger train crashed into the rear of a freight train. The flagman aboard the freight frantically waved his lantern, but the engineer of the oncoming train did not stop. The flagman was killed, and ever since a bobbing light has been seen on the tracks at various times where the accident happened.
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10670
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Mount Tirzah, the Lincoln County home of Capt. Alexander Brevard and his descendants, was built about 1800, and it was the largest of the ante-bellum plantation houses in the Catawba River region. The home stood until 1968, when it was burned to the ground by vagrants.
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