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Settled around 1750, the residents of Mecklenburg County have enjoyed a lucrative and varied history. Sustained through a variety of agricultural and eventually, commercial ventures, residents of Mecklenburg initially relied heavily upon cotton. Joining in the American dream of finding gold, Mecklenburgers first discovered the rare mineral in 1799. Dubbed by Cornwallis as the \"hornet's nest of stubborn revolutionaries,\" Mecklenburgers experienced the War of Sugar Creek, instigated a military campaign against a group of South Carolinian Tories, known as Scoffelites, and wrote their own Declaration of Independence. Mecklenburgers additionally participated in the Civil War, furnishing some 2,700 men to the cause, or one sixth of the county population.
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Referencing Davidson, Queens, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, and John C. Smith University, Mecklenburg County is home to five colleges and universities. This article provides brief histories and details pertaining to each.
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North and South Carolina's largest and 35th in the nation, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg consolidated school system employs 6,300 people. 2,700 of the employees serve as instructional staff in at least 99 schools attended by 63,000 students. Generously financed, school construction continues as does the creation of special programs.
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In an attempt to figure out the cause of the formation of the at least 1,200 pocosins, or bays, spreading over an area of some 25,000 miles, through North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, scientists have formulated 29 hypotheses to explain the phenomenon. Discovered through the use of aerial photography, the pocosins or bays appear as large, dark, regular-shaped elliptical ovals. All but seven of the pocosins have since dried up or were filled in. White, Black, Salters, Suggs, and Singletary Lakes are examples of the remaining mysteries.
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Between 1913 and the early 1930s, three locks and dams were constructed in the Cape Fear River. Located at King's Bluff, Elizabethtown, and south of Fayetteville, the locks modernized the river, which increased navigability as well as commerce.
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Born in Wilmington in 1804, Anna McNeill Whistler, portrayed in the famous painting, \"Whistler's Mother\", painted by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, lived in Bladen County prior to moving to Chiswick, England. The main feature of the now priceless painting hanging in the Louvre, Paris, Whistler was a descendent of the McNeill's of Skye, who immigrated to America after the defeat of the Young Pretender.
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Including short histories of the small towns that comprise Bladen County, this article includes details concerning Elizabethtown, Dublin, Tar Heel, Bladenboro, White Oak, and Carrier's Creek-Kelly.
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Approximately five miles east of Mt. Gilead stands a modest museum containing artifacts from a Native American settlement, believed to be inhabited prior to or during the fifteenth century. The settlement, containing hearth remains, earthen mounds and burial plots, probably served some 1,500 to 2,000 residents.
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Concerning the five towns in Montgomery County, this article offers brief histories of Candor, Biscoe, Star, Troy, and Mount Gilead.
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The question of which member of the family was the last to survive in a shipwreck which took the lives of all five, led to longest and one of the most remarkable legal contests in Florida's history. The steamboat HOME, sunk by a storm off Hatteras on 09 October 1837, claimed the lives of most of her passengers and crew, including Hardy Bryan Croom, his wife, and three children. The litigation stemmed over control of the Croom estate, argued on behalf of Henrietta Smith, maternal grandmother, and Elizabeth Armistead, paternal grandmother.
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Appointed governor on 21 November 1676, by the Lords Proprietors in London, Thomas Eastchurch never held office. Instead of returning to Virginia from England, Eastchurch rendezvoused to St. Nevis in the Caribbean, and sent Thomas Miller in his place. Eventually, Eastchurch decided to return to the colony of Virginia and reclaim his title. In the process of doing so, Eastchurch fell ill and died.
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Enhanced by the construction of a canal in 1787, the area surrounding Somerset, North Carolina became a lucrative location for plantations. Armed with the ability to move their wares, farmers were able to use the new canal to flood rice fields, float lumber, and move barreled produce. Interrupted by abolition, the plantations disbanded. Tenant farmers moved into the area, lasting through the early 19th-century at which point the Federal Government sold the property at auction.
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Deemed an official port of delivery by the General Assembly in 1790, Plymouth, North Carolina served as the location for three battles during the Civil War. Postwar expansion served the city well, welcoming railways, paper mills, plywood plants, and a liquid aluminum plant.
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Focusing on some of the smaller towns in Washington County, this article mentions Roper, Mackeys, Creswell, and Spruill's Point. Roper is the focus of the piece, a small town named for the John L. Roper Company, established in 1890 as one of the largest lumber concerns in the South. The William Lumber Company of Mackeys is also mentioned as well as a few other industrial ventures within the aforementioned towns.
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Several thousand acres are being cleared and drained in Hyde, Washington, Tyrell, and Beaufort Counties, for a new agricultural empire in North Carolina. The American Land Company, Lake Phelps Farms, Inc., the Three L Company, the MacArthurs of Chicago, the W.R. Grace Interests, and the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, include some of the investors and land owners involved in the project.
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