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Raleighite Hannah Casso, popularly known as \"Pretty Peggy,\" was responsible for naming the infant who became the 17th President of the U.S., Raleigh native Andrew Johnson.
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Bill Nye, a famous 19th century humorist, lived and wrote in Asheville for the last ten years of his life.
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Wilmington native Anna McNeill is the mother of James Abbott Whistler, and the subject of the portrait, \"Whistler's Mother.\"
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The hurricane of August 19, 1879, destroyed the Beaufort waterfront and razed the Atlantic Hotel.
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Daniel A. Tompkins is the South's pioneer machinery agent based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Robert Potter, Congressman from Granville County, was a leader in Texas' quest for independence from Mexico, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and the first secretary of the Navy of the Republic of Texas. The same Robert Potter attacked and maimed two persons, served a prison term, was expelled from the NC House of Commons, and eventually was assassinated in Texas.
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North Carolina native Lee Hall was a famous Texas lawman in the early 1900s and became the model for O. Henry's tales of the West.
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During the 1920s, baseball legend Babe Ruth often spent the off-season at Camp Bryan, a favorite hunting spot in Eastern North Carolina.
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Speculation centers on the possibility that British general Cornwallis might have surrendered in Chatham County (March 1781) except for the detection of colonial troops that caused the British to flee south to Fayetteville.
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Robert Rice Reynolds was a US Senator from Asheville who served from 1933 to 1945.
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Dare County was once widely known for its pure and potent batches of moonshine. This area was especially popular during the days of Prohibition.
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THE STATE offers a tribute to its founding fathers on the magazine's sixtieth birthday, with a brief history of the origin and evolution of the magazine included.
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Zebulon Vance, North Carolina politician, Confederate soldier, and southern patriot, was widely known for his sharp wit and sense of humor.
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Although outgunned and outmanned, North Carolina's formidable ironclad, the Albemarle, won four crucial engagements to help southern forces recapture Plymouth late in the Civil War.
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Enhanced by Raleigh's first centennial celebration, the North Carolina State Fair of 1892 was \"the social event of the year.\"
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