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Through her prominent position in Washington, DC society, Mrs. Rose O'Neal Greenhow was able to gather information of value to the South during the Civil War. Imprisoned by the North, then later deported to Richmond, she went to Europe in 1862 to try to win support for the Southern cause. On her return in 1864, her ship ran aground off Wilmington, and she drowned attempting to reach shore.
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Raleigh native Andrew Johnson was the first president to be impeached. He angered many in congress by trying to carry out Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction policies. Though charges were brought against him in 1868, he was not convicted. In 1875, he became to first and only president to return to congress when the Tennessee legislature elected him by one vote.
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The greyhound racetracks at Morehead City and Moyock once were the only dog tracks between Boston and Florida, shortly after the end of World War II. Between 1948 and 1953, over $35 million was wagered. However, churches and some leaders in those communities opposed dog track betting. Also there was fear that gambling syndicates were involved. In 1954, the N.C. State Supreme Court ruled the dog tracks illegal and overturned a 1939 law that allowed gambling at the tracks and the tracks themselves.
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North Carolina's Paul Revere was Col. Alexander Mebane. Captured by Tory Colonel David Fanning, Mebane escaped the night of September 12, 1781, and rode through Orange and Alamance Counties to warn the patriots of the Tories' approach. On September 13, Tories and patriots fought at Lindley's Mill, with neither side achieving victory. After the war Mebane's activities included serving in the U.S. Congress, as a member of the Constitutional Convention, and as an original trustee of the University of North Carolina.
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In 1920, Lillian Exum Clement of Buncombe County was elected to the North Carolina General Assembly, becoming the South's first woman legislator. What was even more remarkable was that she was elected by men, who were the only legal voters in 1920. Sixteen of the seventeen bills she introduced became law. She was also Buncombe County's first female lawyer and the first to have a practice without male partners.
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In 1879, Dr. Thomas West Harris helped found the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's medical department. He received no salary, but practiced in the town for income. During his tenure, a woman's body disappeared from a local graveyard. Some thought students dug it up for anatomy class. The incident led to the passage of a law in 1885 by the General Assembly that made grave robbing a felony. Also in 1885, Harris resigned from the university, claiming that his practice had grown too large.
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Duncan K. McRae of Fayetteville was a successful, although sometimes unlucky, individual. He was a scholar, lawyer, diplomat, and a courageous battle commander during the Civil War, serving as Colonel of the 5th N.C. Regiment. However, he was never successful in his bids for political office. He bought a lottery ticket, which he sold because he needed money. The ticket later paid off at $100,000. Receiving a $5,000 legal fee, he invested the money in cotton and went broke.
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Abram van Wyck Budd received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and could have had a good life as a big city doctor. Yet he chose to come to Egypt in Chatham County in 1855 as a coal company surgeon. He later served in the Confederate Army, returning after the war to Egypt, where for the next sixteen years he traveled the backwoods, treating those too poor to help themselves. He later moved to Lockville on the Cape Fear River, where he died.
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Revolutionary War soldier, frontiersman, U.S. Congressman, and skilled orator, Felix Walker claims fame not for the foregoing positions but for the meaning he gave to a word in Webster's Dictionary. During the Missouri Compromise debate in the Sixteenth Congress, Walker felt compelled to give a speech and talk for Buncombe County. Soon afterwards \"buncombe\" came to mean speech-making to please constituents, or just plain bunk.
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One of the most enterprising individual's in the state's history was Ocracoke native Stanley Wahab. Leaving the island to get a higher education and to make his fortune, Wahab returned in the 1930s to bring Ocracoke out of its isolation. Among the numerous things he did were building Wahab Village, the light plant, and ice house; building modern hotels, motels, and cottages; financing the Ocracoke- Hatteras ferry and bus line; and establishing a flying service between Manteo and Ocracoke.
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When Lady Susana Carolina Matilda, a sister of England's Queen Charlotte, visited New Bern and Wilmington, she was wined and dined. She was, however, Sarah Wilson, a former royal maid, who stole jewels and clothing from the royal household. Condemned to death, she was deported to Maryland at the last moment. There she escaped and began her assumed identity. In Charleston, South Carolina, she was arrested - the how and what happened later is history's mystery.
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Running the Union blockade of Wilmington during the Civil War was a risk. On September 26, 1864, Marie DeRosset and daughter Gabrielle set sail aboard the Lynx, seeking to reach Marie's malaria-stricken husband in Nassau. Union ships attacked the LYNX, severely damaging the vessel. Mother and daughter barely escaped. Gabrielle DeRosset lived the rest of her life in Wilmington, becoming known as a musician and historian. She died in 1936.
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In March 1541 Giovanni da Verrazano, a Florentine in the employ of Francis I of France, became the first white man to visit North Carolina. He wrote of his travels up the coast from North Carolina to New York, but France was too occupied at the time with European concerns to consider attempts at colonization. It would be almost sixty years before Verrazano's writings would be published in Richard Hakylut's Diver's Voyages (1582).
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The names of Dr. William Sharpe, Gertrude Hurst, and John Hurst are bound to Hammocks Beach State Park's history. Sharpe bought the land in 1914, and Hurst, an Afro-American outdoorsman, managed it for over forty years. Sharpe planned to will the Hursts the property, but they knew they lacked funds to develop it. At their suggestion, Sharpe gave it to the North Carolina Teachers Association, an African American teachers' organization. In 1961, association gave it to the state for a park.
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Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus accomplished many things during the Great Depression, including the state takeover of public schools. His means of transportation was another story. During the hard times he made do with a 4-year-old Lincoln with a 190,000 miles on its speedometer. He achieved national fame, however, when his car broke down on the way to Fayetteville to make a speech, and he had to hitchhike 25 miles to arrive on time. He was known all over the country as America's number-one thumbing governor.
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