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The Shannonhouse home in Pasquotank County is rumored to be cursed and given its history, this may be true. Thomas Shannonhouse built his home along the Albemarle Sound in 1816 and left it to his son, John. Ellanora, John's daughter, was given a pony by her father for her 16th birthday August 7, 1866. Six weeks later, Ellanora was thrown from the pony and sustained fatal injuries, dying in the home on September 20. Ellanora's death pained John dearly, and he cursed the home, wishing that anyone who inhabited it in the future know the pain he felt. Since then, at least one member of every family that has lived in the Shannonhouse home has died inside it. Many of these deaths have been mysterious, with un\r\nknown sounds coming from within the home and disappearing when an occupant died. Some occupants have seen a teenage girl, dressed in white, riding a horse by the house but later found out that no one was there. The last person to experience the home's curse died in 1969. Since then the empty house has fallen into ruin.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 52 Issue 7, Dec 1984, p13-14, il
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Some people do a lot to ensure their happiness after death. Ada Smith of Pink Hill kept having dreams that her dead husband was cold and wet in his grave, so she built a house over his grave. Upon her death, Ada, too, was buried under the home. Ben Freeze of Rowan County feared getting wet when he died. He built a mausoleum and then was buried not in a coffin, but on a mattress. Freeze believed that death would be much like sleep; therefore, he took measures to ensure a dry and comfortable sleep.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 52 Issue 9, Feb 1985, p11, il
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Castoria is a crossroads in Green County, fifteen miles southeast of the city of Wilson, between Walstonburg and Snow Hill. It is on Highway 91, but not on the state highway map. Some say the place might have been named for Fletcher's Castoria, the popular laxative. Others say that the name was borrowed from a nearby pre-Civil War plantation house. Yet another story about the name contends it comes from Carr's Store, which housed a post office.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 53 Issue 2, July 1985, p21, 31
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8073
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Moore County was once considered the “Dewberry Capital of the World.” Today that is no longer true. Moore Country residents experienced the height of dewberry cultivation during the 1920s. During that decade, $30,000 to $60,000 dollars a day in dewberries were sold during the peak season. By the 1970s the crop had disappeared from the Moore County hillsides. Competition from mechanized farming in the Pacific Northwest pushed out the North Carolina dewberry farmer.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 52 Issue 1, June 1984, p16, il
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7867
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Until 1971, when the state constitution was amended, the North Carolina General Assembly met six days a week. This tradition began because of the poor roads and transportation systems. It was too difficult for members to go back and forth between their homes and the capital. But because the State Constitution had mandated the length of these legislative sessions in 1868, even after transportation was improved the General Assembly continued to meet from Monday to Saturday. Secretary of State Thad Eure had participated in the Saturday sessions since 1925, and he made sure to be there for the last one on June 26, 1971.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 54 Issue 11, Apr 1987, p9-10, il, por
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8151
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George Washington became the first American to popularize mule breeding. Mules were vital to the late 19th- and early 20th-century southern farming community. While North Carolina was not known for mule breeding, it was known for mule trading. The town of Creedmore, North Carolina, became known as the largest mule trading center in the southeast. G.M. Chappell & Son was a Creedmore mule trading business. This firm processed the trading of over 2,500 mules a year during the 1920s and 1930s.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 52 Issue 3, Aug 1984, p3, por
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During the 1930s and early 1940s, Rusty Williams took his traveling tent show along the east coast. A native of Durham, Williams started each year in Florida and traveled north following the harvest season. His shows included his wife Dot and their two daughters. Usually playing to a packed audience, the Williams family mixed comedy with singing and dancing. Before television's popularity, towns waited all year for the traveling tent show. The Williams family closed the traveling tent show in the late 1940s and settled in Wilson. Rusty Williams became a sheriff deputy and later a court bailiff.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 52 Issue 5, Oct 1984, p2, il
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