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Cabarrus County boasts some interesting features and stories, such as \"The Black Boys,\" a band of Cabarrus County men that prevented the shipment of ammunitions to the British government during the Revolutionary War. Cabarrus County is also the location of the first gold mine in the United States and the first organ in a private home in North Carolina.
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Names that brighten the pages of North Carolina history are to be found on the roll of law students who attended classes in a one-room, mud-daubed log cabin several miles up the headwaters of the north fork of Swannanoa River, northeast of Asheville. Such was the reputation of this school, conducted by Judge John Lancaster Bailey of Pasquotank County, that students were outstanding in their communities. Among those who gained places of public prominence from Judge Bailey's Law School were William Bailey, J. K. Connally, Washington Hardy, Thomas Johnson, and one woman student, Grace Hallyburton.
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15075
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An immeasurable amount of service has been rendered to children of poor vision through the only sight-saving class in North Carolina, located in the Central School, Greensboro. For the fourth year it is giving help to children with poor eyesight throughout the city.
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18153
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Lawrence gives an appraisal of the newly elected Governor, Joseph Melville Broughton.
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