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The territory roughly embraced in Moore, Lee and Chatham Counties, contains a larger variety of minerals than any other territory in the North Carolina. These minerals, while of a wide variety, do not exist in large quantities, nor are they generally of sufficient value to make their mining profitable; however, recent efforts have been made to exploit coal deposits along Deep River. In 1858 legislative aid was given to explore the fields and determine the best outlets for getting the coal to market. Various entities have tried water transport and railroad, but various accidents over time have prevented this coal field from being profitable.
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Colonel Alexander B. Andrews has served North Carolina not only as a solider during the American Civil War, but helped to build and maintain the railroads that were necessary for the State during the era of Reconstruction. He started his great building career as superintendent of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad and helped to rehabilitate this line as well as the Richmond and Danville and the Asheville-Spartanburg line.
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Worth Bagley was born in April 6, 1874 in his home city of Raleigh. He attended the Morson and Denson Academy in Raleigh before continued education at Annapolis. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Ensign Worth Bagley was assigned to torpedo boat WINSLOW. His career would be ended engaging the enemy at sea. He would be remembered as the first American to fall in this conflict.
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15153
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Native American tribes in North Carolina are divided into three regions; Eastern, Piedmont, and Mountains. Eastern tribes included Hatteras, Nottoways, Meherrins, Pasquotanks, Chowtanocs, Mahapunga, Pamlicos, and Tuscaroras. Catawba, Saponi, Keyauwee, and Ocaneechi tribes comprised the Piedmont area. Cherokee dominated the western part of the state.
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15197
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North Carolina women have been foremost in various arenas since the State's earliest history. Lawrence provides a detailed list of outstanding females, such as authors (Cornelia Phillips Spencer), poets (Pattie Williams Gee), educators (Eliza Poole and Elizabeth McRae), public servants (Dr. Jane McKimmon), lawyers (A. M. Fry), physicians (Delia Dixon-Carroll), newspaper women (Beatrice Cobb), politicians (T. Palmer Jerman, and the most famous of all, (according to Lawrence) Dolly Madison.
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Dr. Eugene C. Brooks has done extraordinary work on behalf of the progress of education in North Carolina. Not only was Brooks a teacher, principal, and superintendent, he also served as Secretary for the committee to arouse public conscience to the necessity for a worthwhile public school system, and became President of State College in 1923.
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From the coast, plains, and mountains, Lawrence details a list of North Carolina's most captivating wonders. These include the State Capitol in Raleigh, Chimney Rock near Lake Lure on the Broad River, Blowing Rock deep in the heart of the mountains, Biltmore House near Asheville, The State Sanatorium for its unobstructed views across the Pisgah Mountains, Lake Mattamuskeet in Hyde County, and Cape Hatteras.
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Dr. James Yadkin Joyner studied to be a lawyer but it did not take. He also sold insurance for a time. Joyner, best known for his educational work and work among farmers, \r\ncarried the banner for public education, state aid for public schools, longer school terms, and consolidation of rural schools during the Aycock administration. Additionally, under this administration, teachers' salaries were increased, school libraries established, and may far-reaching and comprehensive reforms adopted and put into operation. Joyner was also a pioneer in the field of cooperative marketing in terms of agriculture.
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Dr. Clarence Poe had a distinguished educational career and for the past 40 years has had a distinguished editorship of The Progressive Farmer, an influential journal. He is also on the board of trustees of Wake Forest College and chairman of the executive committee of State College.
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15223
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His Excellency Eugene J. McGuinness, second Bishop of Raleigh is the new leader of the Roman Catholic denomination in North Carolina. He has already proven himself as worthy of this high office; in the short time since his advent, numerous Catholic houses of worship have been erected in various parts of the State such as Whiteville, Carolina Beach, and Nag's Head.
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North Carolina claims to have been first at Bethel, furthest at Gettysburg, last at Appomattox. It cannot be questioned that Henry Wyatt of Edgecombe was first to fall at Bethel, or that the brigade of William R. Cox made the last charge at Appomattox, but what of the claim that North Carolina's troops were furthest at Gettysburg? North Carolina troops brought on that battle for on June 29, 1863, Heth's division reached Cashtown, from which points he sent forward the North Carolina brigade of Pettigrew to Gettysburg in search of supplies. Pettigrew found the town occupied by Federal cavalry, and its environs became the theater of the three days battle which ensued.
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John Huske Anderson, of Raleigh, next week will be elevated to the rank of the highest Masonic office in the United States, Grand Master. Anderson will thus have the highest office ever attained by a North Carolina Mason.
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General Bryan Grimes was born 1828 in Grimesland, Pitt County. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1848 and was a member of the Convention which adopted the Ordinance of Secession in 1861. He was promoted to Colonel in 1862 and had a great career. Although injured several times, the war could not kill him, but an assassin did.
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Take a dose of chemistry, mix in the Junior Order of Mechanics, add Meredith College, and you have Dr. Charles Brewer. Born in Wake Forest, Brewer took his Master's at Wake Forest in chemistry, worked at Johns Hopkins, and took his PhD from Cornell in 1900. He worked as a professor of chemistry at Wake Forest and later became president of Meredith College in 1915. Besides being a renowned chemist, he also was a State Councilor for the Junior Order or Mechanics and trustee of the Junior Orphan's Homes for 24 years.
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No list of pioneer manufacturers in North Carolina would be complete without including the name of Edwin M. Holt, founder of a great textile industry. With the water power of the Great Alamance Creek, Holt began his modest textile mill with help from Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin. From this small beginning sprang a textile empire which extended until it embraced hundreds of thousands of spindles and thousands of looms, giving employment to thousands in the Piedmont.
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