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44248
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This article talks in-depth about some of the damage that occurred after Hurricane Floyd in eastern North Carolina and the help that people, including President Bill Clinton, offered to others and their pets to recover from it.
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44255
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In this article, local historian Monika Fleming reviews business activity in Tarboro in 1974 from the pages of the "Daily Southerner". Some of the businesses operating at that time include Adler's, Parkhill Mall, Belk Tyler, Long Manufacturing, W.S. Clark and Sons and Barnhill Contractors.
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44272
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The author updates on persons doing recent genealogical research related to Edgecombe County. Noted are Nigel Wells from Ozark Alabama researching his "Wills" family patriarchs and visiting Strawberry Hill, the home of Anna Whitaker Wills. Likewise was Charles Dozier, who visited the historic Wilkinson-Dozier home near Conetoe..
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44302
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This article reviews some significant past winter storm events in the town of Tarboro. Earliest notation is the winter of 1848. The winters of 1856 and 1857 were particularly active. In January 1857, it was reported that the Tar River had frozen over. With some successive snow falls , the thermometer eventually reached 5 below zero. Most notorious was the 1927 blizzard that stopped all forms of traffic, including, railroad trains from the Norfolk area.
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44394
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Noted is a student project in 2009, in which stones were cleaned in Tarboro's Old Town Cemetery, located in the block of St. James, St. Patrick, St. David and Pitt Streets. Uncovered on the stones were inscriptions revealing clues to Tarboro natives. The oldest marked graves date to the 1820s.
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13482
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In 1968, the small farmhouse once owned by Silas and Rebecca Everett in Edgecombe County was moved from Conetoe to Tarboro. It is part of a complex of historic buildings highlighting life in the antebellum period. Fleming describes the small, three-room home and how the residents lived there.
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Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 50 Issue 1, Fall 2010, p24-27, il