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8076
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Buckland Plantation played an important role in Gates County's early history. Dating from the early 1700s, Buckland Plantation grew to over 3,000 acres and had over 100 slaves working its fields. Following a succession of several owners, Buckland Plantation shrank in size. Today, the Buckland home is in disrepair. Plans are under way to begin restoration
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 52 Issue 1, June 1984, p23, por
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15912
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Awarding the Mayflower Cup marked an important annual honor of best publication by a state resident. Beginning in 1931, awards were announced at annual meetings of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association and initially were awarded to either best fiction or non-fiction before creation of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for fiction (1952).
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5200
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The Saluda Grade in Polk County, rising an average of 4.7 feet for every 100 feet in length, is the steepest standard-gauge mainline railroad grade in the country. The three-mile grade which opened in 1878, crests in Saluda. The line was built in some of North Carolina's most rugged mountains.
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28630
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This bibliography includes selected theses and dissertations by recently graduated students from 11 North Carolina Universities. The selections are cover a wide area of topics and are related to North Carolina and its history, culture, environment or politics, in some way.
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30759
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In 1935, the NC General Assembly authorized the NC Highway Historical Marker Program, modeled after a similar program in Virginia. The state’s first marker was dedicated in 1936 in Granville County for the home site of John Penn, one of NC’s three signers of the Declaration of Independence. In its fiftieth year, the program boasts nearly 1,250 markers around the state.
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16237
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Unemployed writers during the Great Depression found work through the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal program to provide financial assistants to out of work professionals. The premier publication which emerged from this program was the state guidebook. Each state published a guidebook which consisted of a general opening statement followed by a collection of significant cultural and historical landmarks.
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