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Frederick Augustus Olds: Creator of the State Museum

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Fred A. Olds (1847-1935) son of Lewis Poindexter Olds and Pauline E. Evans, began his career as a newspaper man in Raleigh, NC and was a colonel in the State Guard. He created the State Hall of History in 1914. The State Hall of History collection later became the North Carolina Division of Archives and History. Olds died July 2, 1935, at Dorthea Dix Hospital.