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In 1774, Hezekiah Alexander built what generations of Charlotteans knew as the 'Old Rock House'. Alexander, who was a lawyer by trade, was a signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence in 1775, an elected member of North Carolina's provincial Congress in 1776, and one of the founders of Queen's College in Charlotte. In an effort to restore the Alexander Home and open it as a museum, a group of Charlotte's leading citizens have formed the Hezekiah Alexander Foundation.
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North Carolina's earliest railroads were plagued by mechanical failures that often resulted in wrecks, derailments, and deaths. Even after the introduction of steam engines, many tracks and rails were constructed completely of wood or, later, wooden rails capped with thin strips of metal. The wooden rails would often fail outright, and the metal-capped rails often lost their tops, which would then bend upwards, piercing the floor of the rail car. The grandson of Governor Edward Dudley was seriously injured and his nurse killed by an unfastened rail in 1845.
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In a ceremony held at Waterrock Knob in June of 1970, Representative Roy A. Taylor of the 11th N.C. Congressional District officially dedicated a mountain to the late R. Getty Browning, a location engineer for the N.C. State Highway Department who became known as The Pathfinder for the Blue Ridge Parkway. Browning Knob, as the previously unnamed mountain is now known, is marked by a commemorative plaque mounted on a large native boulder.
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