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In search of information about the grandfather that he never knew, G. Kent Strickland discovered a little-known Civil War story. Strickland was told that his grandfather Thomas Strickland died in a railroad accident in Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. After years of research, Kent discovered that Thomas was captured at Cold Harbor and that the railroad accident occurred in Shohola, Pennsylvania. A total of sixty-seven confederate prisoners of war and Union guards were killed when two trains collided.
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7777
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There are strange laws on the books that seemed to have been created by North Carolina politicians looking for a good laugh. For example, it is illegal for men to flirt with girls that they do not know in Concord. In Marshville, intoxicated persons must be given castor oil. And in Pekin, young women are not permitted to drink coffee after 6:00 p.m. Strange laws like these remain because it takes many years to get a law on the books, and would take many more to get them off.
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One of the biggest upsets in a U.S. Senatorial campaign was in 1932 by Robert R. Reynolds over Cameron Morrison. Reynolds was against prohibition and for government regulation of liquor. Know as the “good roads governor†and a champion of public education, Morrison was so confident in the loyalty of his followers that he made virtually no campaign in the primary. But the people of North Carolina were critical of his abundant wealth through marriage, so Reynolds won by more than 100,000 votes, the largest margin in North Carolina history at that time.
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7823
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The cemetery at Beck's United Church of Christ in Davidson County was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, but many of the stones were deteriorating. The North Carolina Division of Archives and History stepped in to help restore the markers properly. The main problems of concern to the specialists were repairing broken stones, cleaning weathered stones, and protecting stones from lawn mowers.
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