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Sarah Micles (Michaels) of Burke County was famous for her pipes. Made of clay bowls, they were enjoyed by men, women, and Civil War soldiers in many states. Her descendants continued making pipes from her molds until the 1950s.
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A controversy between Elisha Mitchell and Thomas L. Clingman over who was first to identify, climb, and measure the tallest mountain in the state ended tragically when Mitchell fell to his death, while trying to prove his claim.
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Edward Teach, called Blackbeard the pirate, terrorized the state's coastal waters in the early 18th-century, creating a trail of legend and folklore before he was killed in 1718, near Ocracoke, fighting the king's navy.
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John Branch of Enfield, in Halifax County, was one of the state's most active political figures. He was governor of this state and Florida, secretary of the Navy under Andrew Jackson, and a member of the state legislature and both houses of Congress.
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George Denny of Washington, one of the pioneers of radio broadcasting in the 1930s and 1940s, created one of the country's first successful talk shows, \"America's Town Meeting of the Air.\"
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Women in the 19th century had limited opportunities for higher education. Onslow County's Giles sisters - Mary, Theresa, and Persis - were persistent in their quest for a college education, and in 1878 became the first women graduates of Trinity College.
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Emeline Pigott of Morehead City not only cared for wounded and ill Confederate soldiers during the Civil War, but also spied on Union troops and delivered war supplies for the Southern cause.
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While tobacco has long been the state's prime crop, sericulture, or the raising of silkworms for silk production, was a minor industry in the eastern counties for almost 200 years. The last plant, located in Greensboro, closed in the 1930s.
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Eustace and Mary Sloop passed over a big-city medical career, choosing instead to bring health care and hope to impoverished people in Avery County for 50 years. Mrs. Sloop told their story in her 1953 book MIRACLE IN THE HILLS.
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The marriage in 1865 of Eleanor Swain, daughter of a former governor and then UNC president David L. Swain, to Union General Smith D. Atkins, was highly controversial and divisive in the town of Chapel Hill.
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2878
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The first rebellious act against British rule in the state may have been carried out by nine patriots, known to history as the \"Black Boys of Cabarrus.\" They destroyed Governor William Tryon's munitions train on May 2, 1771, near Concord.
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Because of the difficulties of land travel, the steamboat Mountain Lily was a hoped for alternative route on the French Broad River in the early 1880s between Brevard and Asheville. The project failed after four years.
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2932
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In 1783, through legislative action and Governor Alexander Martin's proclamation, North Carolina became the first state to declare July Fourth a legal holiday honoring the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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At 1,800 feet, Whiteside Mountain in Jackson County is the highest sheer precipice in the East. When Augustus Baity fell over in 1911, the courage of Charles N. Wright and Will Dillard saved him. Both received Carnegie heroism medals.
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A look through William S. Powell's NORTH CAROLINA GAZETTEER reveals that the state is blessed with a collection of towns and places bearing unique and fascinating names.
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