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17105
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Henderson County will celebrate one hundred years of growth and development with colorful pageantry. Hicklin includes information on early settlers and outstanding churchmen.
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15473
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A handsome granite memorial on the campus of Mars Hill College, oldest institution of higher learning west of the Blue Ridge, marks the resting place of Joe, a slave, believed to have been the only human ever taken as payment for a college.
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17106
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There are sixty government hospitals around the country, each equipped for dealing with special ailments. The United States Veterans Hospital, located at Oteen near Asheville, admits only tubercular cases. Hicklin describes the activities the ex-servicemen use to keep themselves occupied while regaining their health.
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15262
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At the Cherokee Reservation in the state's western portion junior high school students collected artifacts from family and friends that reflect their Native American heritage. Teachers integrated Native American history into the standard curriculum of American history. Miss Louvica Wyman and John Kirk launched the program to create a collection of Cherokee wares to be opened to tourists visiting the Great Smoky Mountains and more importantly for Cherokee children's sense of identity.
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Names that brighten the pages of North Carolina history are to be found on the roll of law students who attended classes in a one-room, mud-daubed log cabin several miles up the headwaters of the north fork of Swannanoa River, northeast of Asheville. Such was the reputation of this school, conducted by Judge John Lancaster Bailey of Pasquotank County, that students were outstanding in their communities. Among those who gained places of public prominence from Judge Bailey's Law School were William Bailey, J. K. Connally, Washington Hardy, Thomas Johnson, and one woman student, Grace Hallyburton.
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15084
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Two monuments were erected in Graham County to honor Junaluska, Native American chief during the 18th century. He aided General Andrew Jackson's forces in the battle with Creek Indians and was credited with saving Jackson's life during the Battle of Horsehoe Bend. Neither of Junaluska's efforts solidified Jackson's allegiance and Jackson ordered a militia to remove the Cherokee from the mountains. The Mexican War slowed these efforts and Junaluska along with his Cherokee tribesmen remained in the Smoky Mountains.
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15224
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Celebration of the 159th anniversary of the Battle Kings Mountain on October 7th will hold special significance for the Carolinas and the nation at large. On this occasion the public will get their first opportunity to see the national park that has been developed around the battlefield.
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15261
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In the 1930s western portion of the state was still a dry region. Buncombe and other counties west of the Blue Ridge Mountains remained under Republican control and a big reason for continued prohibition. Women's Temperance Union banners were awarded to Yancey County for highest percentage of dry votes and Buncombe County for largest majority of dry votes in 1908.
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15340
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Prohibition extended unfairly to members of the Cherokee nation in the 1930s. Cultural biases and stereotypes about Native American inability to handle alcohol perpetuated strict prohibition enforcement on western North Carolina's Native American reservations. Under section 2139 of the Revised Statutes of the United States established in 1832, supplying Native Americans with liquor came with a two year prison sentence and $300 fine.
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15263
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Families in remote areas of the western mountains emerged in the 1930s as developments encroached on the mountainous area. Smaller schools for the remote communities in the area were consolidated into the Highlands' school system which was not favored by citizens of the area and they withdrew their children. Frances Morgan was an early pioneer to open an elementary school in 1933 in the small town of Broadway and reverse the trend of closing smaller schools that served smaller communities.
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17190
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In the Colonial Period and shortly afterwards lotteries were a way to raise money for academies, churches, bridges, canals, and other public works. Between 1797 and 1825 no less than $150,000 was raised in the state for school purposes. Although the current Legislature is hard pressed for sufficient funds for the schools, Hicklin doubts they will resort to this old-time approach.
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15116
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Lulu Belle and Skyland Scotty, also known as Mr. and Mrs. Scott Wiseman, are headline radio artists who hail from Western North Carolina. They have achieved considerable fame through the presentation of native mountain songs on the radio.
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15096
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In the early 1940s, four dams were planned for the state with a fifth waiting approval. The dams were expected to increase power in times of war and peace. Nantahala Power and Light Company were responsible for constructing the Glenville dam on Tuckasegee River in Jackson County and Nantahala dam in Macon County. The Tennessee Valley Authority constructed two dams on the Hiawassee River. The first was the Appalachia dam built below the existing Hiwassee dam and the second, Chatuge dam, four miles east of Hayesville in Clay County. Combined cost for the four structures cost about $100,000,000.
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15174
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With the development of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park the government was left with a dilemma of displacing people from their homesteads. Some residents left willingly but others less inclined to leave were granted a leasing option. Leases were short term but renewable and extended to the \"lifetime of persons now living within the park area.\"
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15352
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Kaolin is a fine grade white clay discovered in the Spruce Pine region part of the state's western portion. In 1767, Josiah Wedgewood of England, ordered a shipment of this clay from the region to fashion a set of china for King George III. Wedgewood came to the area to personally oversee the operation and secured 500 tons of dried clay at $600 per ton.
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