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13981
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The Vance home in Buncombe County was built more than a century and a half ago by the grandfather of Governor Zebulon B. Vance.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 18 Issue 39, Feb 1951, p8, 20, f
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14860
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German merchant marine sailors were held prisoner in the only North Carolina POW camp during World War I. The camp was established at Hot Springs located 40 miles north of Asheville and housed prisoners taken while in various American harbors. Initially housed in tents, the prisoners built more stable dwellings after being supplied with tools and lumber. Eighteen prisoners died after an outbreak of typhoid and were buried in Asheville's Riverside cemetery where a monument, erected by the American Legion in 1932, now stands to honor those at the camp who passed.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 11 Issue 15, Sept 1943, p21
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15339
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Aunt Sarah Grudger was arguably the oldest living American in 1937. The Asheville resident claimed she was born September 15, 1816. No official records existed to prove her date of birth because she was an ex-slave and very little was documented about slave births and deaths. Corroborating evidence included her memory of the 1833 meteor shower and other aged relatives who remember Aunt Sarah as an old woman when they were kids.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 5 Issue 29, Dec 1937, p3, il
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15348
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The Swain House, a log cabin about 5 miles north and east of Asheville, became the birthplace of two governors. George Swain built the home in the late 18th-century after leaving the constitutional convention in Louisville. Two cousins born in the home, David Lowrie Swain and Joseph Lane, became governors of North Carolina and Oregon respectively.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 5 Issue 39, Feb 1938, p9, 24, il
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17075
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The Vance House in Buncombe County was built over 150 years ago by Governor Zebulon Baird Vance's grandfather, Colonel David Vance. It was one of the first houses built in that section and it is still standing. Three generations of the Vance family made their home there.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 5 Issue 34, Jan 1938, p8, 16, il
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17210
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Richmond Hill was home to Richmond Mumford Pearson, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1858-1878. It was there that he held a unique law school, teaching more than 1,000 students in a twenty-year period. The building still stands today but is in a bad state of repair and is slowly falling into ruin.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 6 Issue 45, Apr 1939, p2, 22, il
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19099
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Hendricks compiles some interesting facts and figures in connection with the wars North Carolina's men and women have participated in, including the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 11 Issue 7, July 1943, p1-2, 24
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19131
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Starting with Joseph Hewes during the Revolutionary War, North Carolina provided five more men who were Secretaries of the Navy. They were John Branch, George E. Badger, William A. Graham, James C. Dobbin, and Josephus Daniels.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 11 Issue 12, Aug 1943, p5, 24-25, por
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