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15217
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While President Roosevelt's change of date for Thanksgiving Day has proved upsetting to a number of states, North Carolinians should not be perturbed. The holiday has been observed on a number of different dates since 1758, and during at least one year the Tar Heels were given opportunity to observe two Thanksgiving days. In fact, not until 1849 did Governor Graham request that the General Assembly set a definite annual Thanksgiving Day.
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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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15252
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With movement on foot to celebrate in 1941 the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the Mississippi River by the Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto, speculation on the possibility that he passed through North Carolina is revived. Not only does the organization sponsoring the celebration, the Colonial Dames of America, plant that the anniversary be observed by the Mississippi Valley states, but also by the states that were crossed on the heroic march, which some say includes North Carolina.
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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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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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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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15302
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In western North Carolina an azalea garden is being created on Biltmore Estate near Asheville. It is a fitting memorial to Chauncey Delos Beadle, superintendent of the estate for fifty years and who executed the extensive landscaping pattern drafted by the architect, Frederick Law Olmstead.
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Churches during the Depression experienced financial hardship and to keep these institutions afloat the Lord's Acre Plan was developed. Reverend Dumont Clarke, of Asheville, oversaw the plan which promoted the sale of agricultural products to raise money for impoverished churches. The program focused on rural religious institutions in the western portion of the state and by 1937, two hundred plus congregations from nine denominations and ten counties participated.
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The Bingham Military Academy outside of Asheville graduated more than 5,000 graduates from its inception to closure in 1920. William Bingham began the school in the early 19th-century because he determined that students needed a thorough preparatory school before college. The school's history involved several moves before its final location in Asheville and headmaster duties passed through several generations of Bingham descendants.
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The Sondley Library opened on October 1, 1935 in Asheville's City Hall. Dr. Forest Alexander Sondley donated 40,000 volumes, over 100,000 pamphlets, plus miscellaneous items such as maps, photos, and artifacts. He also left the library with $65,000 dollars to purchase more resources. The collection drew students and scholars especially those documents pertaining to Confederate records.
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15321
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In 1936 a section of forest fourteen miles from Robbinsville was dedicated the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest. The Graham County stand of virgin timber was highly prized for its beauty and serenity. The dedication was sponsored by the Bozeman Bugler post of the veterans of Foreign Wars because of Kilmer's service in World War I where he died in France at the Battle of the Wood of Burned Bridge.
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15329
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Eliada Orphanage, located in Asheville, opened its doors in 1922. During the first fifteen years of operation, Eliada Orphanage housed thousands of homeless kids. Dr. Lucius B. Compton founded the orphanage as well as the Faith Cottage, a reform school for troubled girls.
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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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15341
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The Tennessee Valley Authority was responsible for constructing both the Hiwassee Dam and the town that would house construction workers. Hiwassee town was constructed on 250 foot elevation overlooking the dam site and was created to house and sustain thousands of workers that would be constructing the Hiwassee Dam on Hiwassee River in the late spring of 1938. The town included dormitories, permanent and temporary housing, cafeteria, a community building which will included school, church, post office, police and fire departments, library, auditorium, and pharmacy.
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15343
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Dr. I. H. Sims, of the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station at Asheville, reported increased efforts to protect and restore native species to Pisgah National Forest. Those species being most closely monitored and protected included bear, beaver, and elk.
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