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The Cherokee Boys Club motto is \"Jobs, Training, and Recreation for Cherokee, N.C. Indian Youth.\" The club is made up of present and former students from Cherokee High School and it currently has approximately 350 members, 70 of which are full-time employees. Government contracts for services such as school bus operation and maintenance, school lunchroom management, and garbage collection provide the club with most of its revenue.
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Before the days of screw-pile lighthouses on Pamlico Sound, the dangerous reefs of Royal Shoal were marked by light vessels. By an act of Congress, light vessels were stationed at several points around the shoals from March 3, 1826 until 1862, when rebels sank them all to barricade the Neuse River against Union forces. After the war, Congress enacted new legislation to provide for several screw-pile lighthouses, the first being lit April 30, 1867. Charles Keeler and his brother (unnamed), both former Union soldiers who had been stationed at New Bern, returned to North Carolina after the war, married the McCotter sisters from Pamlico County and were appointed as keepers of two screw-pile lighthouses, five miles apart at opposite ends of Royal Shoal. Kelly Robinson, born October 24, 1891, was adopted by Charles and Annie Keeler, grew up living in the lighthouse, and may be the only living North Carolinian to do so.
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The National Park Service has finalized its plans for the forthcoming extension of the Blue Ridge Parkway into Georgia and will be seeking public comments at a meeting in Canton, GA on November 17, 1970. Maps of the approximate route, including the locations for visitor centers and campgrounds, will be available at the conference and officials will be on hand to answer questions. Progress to date consists of an aerial survey of the route, financed by Georgia and North Carolina in 1969, and the determination of precise right-of-way lines for a portion of the approximately 100 mile route.
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The Asheville Federal Building, once known as the Grove Arcade Building, is home to the Environmental Data Service, a division of the Environmental Science Services Administration, or ESSA, which is itself a division of the United States Department of Commerce. The Environmental Data Service, or EDS, provides answers to environmental questions submitted by individuals or groups. The EDS also issues publications dealing with climatology in an effort to reduce their work load by anticipating some of the questions that may be asked throughout the year. A staff of approximately 600 people uses several computers, data punch cards, microfilm and magnetic tape, and millions of sheets of typed, printed, and handwritten information to answer submitted questions. The sheets of handwritten information alone are filed on ten miles of shelving.
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The Chattahooga River, which runs through western portion of our state, is apt to become much more familiar to North Carolinians through its projected inclusion by Congress in a system of National Wild and Scenic Rivers. The system will be modeled on the current network of national parks and national historic monuments with which many North Carolinians are familiar. Governors of the four states through which the river runs have given their public support for the river's inclusion, as have representatives from many outdoorsmen's organizations.
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10726
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Western North Carolinians, listening to the fury of public argument over the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, hear distinct echoes of a similar, equally heated controversy that swirled up from the recesses of mountainous Madison County in 1863. In Madison County's Shelton Laurel 13 civilians, kneeling alongside Shelton Laurel creek, were shot by a Confederate firing squad commanded by Lt. Col. James A. Keith for suspicion of burglary and pillaging a Confederate depot at Marshall, the county seat.
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10737
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Siler profiles Peter Hanlon, who is the supervisor of North Carolina's four national forests - Croatan, Uwharrie, Pisgah, and Nantahala. He has held forestry positions in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. His domain in North Carolina stretches 450 miles east to west and includes over one million acres.
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10748
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Gladys Tillett, of Charlotte, has been one of the pioneers in the fight for women's rights since her first suffragist parade as a student at Woman's College in Greensboro. After graduation, she enrolled at UNC-Chapel Hill and became one of its first co-ed graduates in 1917. She was one of the originators of the League of Women Voters in North Carolina, founding the first county league in 1922, and becoming state president of the organization in 1933. She has served as the Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, was the keynote speaker for the women at the 1944 Democratic National Convention, and was appointed as the first woman to serve on the North Carolina State Election Board by Governor Luther Hodges. President Kennedy appointed her a member of the United States delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations, and as a representative on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
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10761
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The birthplace of Andrew Jackson has been claimed by both Carolinas. In 1957, South Carolina created the Andrew Jackson Historic Park that honors his birthplace, though North Carolina also claimed Jackson, since his mother birthed him when she went to a funeral inside the state. The historical argument is based on differing primary sources that have him born at Waxhaw, South Carolina or Twelve Miles Creek, North Carolina.
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10778
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The Pigeon River Road, running between Cove Creek, North Carolina and the Tennessee border, took ten years to complete and was one of the most difficult road-building projects ever undertaken by the state. Builders carved almost the entire twenty-one miles out of the mountainsides.
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The home of the 11th United States President James K. Polk was located in Mecklenburg County. Though home is gone, a brick pyramid remains, honoring the birthplace. North Carolina bought the land and restored the memorial, creating the Polk Memorial Park in 1966.
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The former president Andrew Jackson's birthplace has been restored. The cottage was once home to Jackson's parents, employees of Peter Casso's Inn in Raleigh. The inn was torn down in 1937, but the cottage was saved and sent on a tour of the state before resting at Pullen Park in the 1950s. The home has been preserved at State College Campus in Raleigh during the 1960s and much of the original furniture remains.
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10806
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Among North Carolina's 100 counties and 650 cities and towns, there is one \"dependent sovereignty\" with a Principal Chief. The sovereignty is the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, proprietors of a 56,000-acre Western North Carolina wooded realm. The Principal Chief is Walter Jackson, born a Cherokee in 1924 and promoted by his fellow tribesmen in 1967 to the highest distinction an Indian can attain. Siler discusses the state's most unusual form of government and how it functions.
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The Appalachian, mountain, or plucked dulcimer--the adjectives are interchangeable--is not the same instrument as one called by that name in the Bible (Daniel 3:5). Nor is it the trapezoidal harp-like forerunner of the piano, as described in Webster's Dictionary. The mountain dulcimer is an entirely homogenous and unique handmade creation, distinct from any other stringed instrument. The mountain dulcimer, with two to eight strings, most commonly three, large tuning pegs and a fretted fingerboard, has a borrowed name but is a decidedly original instrument that was very likely spontaneously developed in the Appalachian Mountain region.
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In the last twenty years, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has transformed itself from a campus of a few hundred square feet with one classroom labeled \"Lost and Found\" and only 276 students, to a burgeoning center of higher education encompassing 900 acres and nine spacious buildings serving more than 2,000 students. As one of a dozen extension centers set up by the University of North Carolina for the returning veterans of WWII, UNC-Charlotte served GIs who would have had no other chance to attend college. Under the direction of Dr. Bonnie Cone, the school was made a part of the Charlotte school system in 1949 due to the veteran's program abandonment by the federal government, and by 1958 it had become part of the North Carolina Community College system.
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