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The local legend of the White Fawn began over a century ago in the Turkey Swamp area of Sampson County. In 1839 a baby girl, named Susan Theodosia Burr, was born to Thomas I. Faison and his wife. Little Theodosia's beauty was so angelic that people traveled from afar to see her, and a painter who did a portrait of her when she was one year old used the portrait to advertise his work. Six months later, Theodosia succumbed to a fever and died. On the night of her death, two house servants spotted a white fawn nearby and believed it was the girl's spirit. Other tales of the white fawn arose over the years. In one, a slave boy sleeping in the woods awoke to find the white fawn in the tree he was sleeping against. In another, the fawn appeared to an old miller just before his accidental death. Another tale told of the passengers and driver of a stagecoach who said they were late because the white fawn had frightened the horses.
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9993
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Fryar's Bridge once crossed over Six Runs, approximately six miles east of Clinton on the old Warsaw-Clinton Road. Numerous accounts of ghost sightings have been reported to take place at the site where the bridge once stood.
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10950
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Three miles north of Turkey in Sampson County stands what is possibly the largest and most historic pecan tree in North Carolina. Measuring 17 feet 2 inches in circumference, the tree was a gift from President James Madison to Thomas Kenan, a member of Congress from that district. The tree was planted between 1805 and 1811.
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