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The Common School Law, ratified by the General Assembly in 1839, allowed the state to create school districts, levy school taxes, and establish a school term of at least two and one-half months in each district. Before this law was created, there was much opposition to public education in North Carolina, also known as the “Rip Van Winkle†state. George Garrett became the first public school teacher in North Carolina when his private schoolhouse, located in Rockingham County, was converted into the first public school in North Carolina.
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David Stone served in the North Carolina House of Commons, State Supreme Court Judge, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, and as Governor of North Carolina from 1810 to 1812. Stone owned Hope Plantation, in Bertie County, and in 1799, he built Rest-Dale Plantation in Wake County. Stone, a successful politician and businessman, chartered the Neuse River Transportation Company that sought to open the Neuse River for water transportation between New Bern and Raleigh. As governor, Stone advocated the use of state funds for social improvements. His primary focus was the development of a public education system, based on the Lancastrian method that would made education available to all students regardless a family's ability to pay tuition.
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On February 9, 1848, Dr. Fabius Julius Haywood successfully used chloroform in an operation. He was the first doctor in the country to do so. In 1865, the Union Army seized his home and officers were quartered there. He successfully got his home back the following year.\r\n
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Following the defeat of the Regulators at the Battle of Alamance, a small group of North Carolinians settled in the Watauga Valley. In 1771, Raleigh native James Robertson led this group of dissenters who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the British Crown. In May of the following year, the settlers established the Watauga Government, which Theodore Roosevelt would later call “the first independent self-government with a written Constitution by native-born Americans.†In 1775, the Wataugans bought a large tract of land from Cherokee Indian chiefs. Today, that land is Alleghany, Ashe, and Watauga counties as well as a section of eastern Tennessee. Robertson settled Nashboro, Tennessee, now Nashville, in 1778, and President Andrew Jackson gave him the title of “Father of Tennessee.†The Wake County Historical Society located the Robertson Plantation, where James Robertson was living in 1771, and erected a historical marker there.
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On March 17, 1775, a group of nine North Carolina proprietors called the Transylvania Company participated in the largest private purchase of Indian land ever in North America. The Cherokee Indians sold some 22,000,000 acres of land to the men who immediately began colonizing it. After independence, Virginia governor Patrick Henry declared the deal null and void, and both Virginia and North Carolina each granted the men 200,000 acres.
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Jabez Whitaker built the first hospital in Jamestown in 1621. The 20-foot x 40-foot building was called the Sickhouse and records of it appear in “Records of the Virginia Company.†Whitaker was the great-great-great-grandfather of John Whitaker, a Wake County Judge elected in 1776.
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On two occasions part of North Carolina has established its own independent government. Watauga became the first independent self-governing colony in 1772 but was replaced by the District of Washington in 1776. The State of Franklin, part of present-day Tennessee and of the territory ceded by North Carolina to the federal government, was formed from part of the earlier District Washington.
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In the fall of 1925, New Bern High School's basketball team achieved an impressive accomplishment. They held Beaufort's basketball team, considered one of the best in eastern North Carolina, to zero points. New Bern's head coach, Vance Swift, learned of a new defense earlier that summer that incorporated a five-man zone defense. The defense was designed to limit inside shooting while also reducing fouls. It worked well as Beaufort failed to score any points in their game against New Bern. Swift's team finished the 1925-26 season with eight wins and four losses.
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