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15160
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Asplaugh refers to the historic home of Reverend John Alspaugh who founded Methodism in Forsyth County. He purchased a 230 acre plantation from neighboring Moravians in 1837 and finished his home in 1839. In 1942 the home still stood along the banks of Muddy Creek on the outskirts of Winston-Salem. Reverend Alspaugh was responsible for establishing several churches in the Winston-Salem area including the notable Centenary Church.
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17357
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The Motor Vehicle Bureau of the State started recording automobile related fatalities in 1927. Between the years 1927 and 1934, 5,417 deaths were reported and these statistics prompted a new Driver's License Law which incorporates age limits for licenses and establish provision to prohibit intoxication while driving.
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14517
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Ashwood, the home of the Bartrams, stands unnoticed by many people on their way to Wilmington, and yet its story and the story of the people who built it are interesting ones.
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A group of Benedictine monks from St. Vincent's Abbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, moved to Belmont in 1876. On October 18, 1886, they began building St. Mary's College and in 1892, construction started on the cathedral. In was dedicated two years later by Cardinal Gibbons and by order of Pope Pius X, became the first Cathedral Abbey in America. It stands as an example of Gothic architecture built of brick with granite trim.
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Belvidere Manor is one of the most spacious estates in western North Carolina. It was built by Colonel W.W. Erwin in 1802, and many notable sociable functions have taken place there.
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17103
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This historic old building in Stokes County, built by Ambrose Blackburne and located on the highway between Walnut Cove and Danbury, has had an interesting history since it was built in the days before the Revolutionary War.
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14408
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Thanks to the foresight of the early settlers, there are still many beautiful boxwood gardens to be found in various sections such as Panther Creek near Winston-Salem, Belmont near Linwood, Buck Creek near Marion, and Connemara between Hendersonville and Asheville.
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Thomas J. Pearsall was superintendent at Braswell Plantation, a historic farm-tenantary plantation. The house dated to 1790 but the rest of the property (22,000 acres) sprawled between Halifax, Nash, and Edgecombe Counties. As a business, the plantation operated off of a landlord-tenant scheme. Pearsall required each family, 150 total in 1943, maintain a cow, sow, garden, and sweet potato patch. In return, church, school and community meeting spaces were provided.
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Colonel John Carson built Buck Creek Mansion on an estate of 80,000 acres in McDowell County in 1770. The Carson family was among the pioneers of that part of the state.
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14893
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Buck Creek mansion belonged to and was built by Colonel John Carson in 1770. Located in McDowell County three miles west of Marion, the mansion served as private residence for Carson and his heirs and later as an inn. The colonial estate exhibits Jacobean features of early American architecture including pedimented gables and large end chimneys.
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15185
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In 1938, Buckland was considered to be the oldest home standing in the state. Believed to have been built as early as 1650, the home stood in Gates County. By the early 20th-century, the home's shell stood but much of the interior was removed and sent to a northern museum.
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15351
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In Catawba County near Newton the colonial church of the Palatinates still stood in 1938. The Palatinates moved to the western part of the state beginning in 1740 and built their meeting house in 1763. The group was represented by Lutherans and German Reformed which coexisted peacefully.
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14410
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Standing forlorn and lonely, Cricket Lodge is the place where John Henry Boner was born; the greatest poet produced by the settlement of all Wachovia.
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Many people associate the name Daniel Boone with Kentucky; however, the Boone family came from Pennsylvania to North Carolina in 1750. Tucker recounts the years this intrepid and far-traveling explorer spent in the state.
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14353
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Eleanor Swain was the daughter of the president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she created a state-wide sensation when she married a Yankee general at the close of the Civil War.
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