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37016
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One woodsman proves that some tools are still standard, despite the ubiquity of digital based technology. His promotion of horse power is extended to teaching students from Appalachian State how to use this tool. Tasks mentioned by the author where horse power is useful included cleaning debris from a graveyard or clearing a mountainside for a bird habitat.
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34441
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Biddleville Cemetery is a 145-year-old burial plot in Charlotte where black veterans of both world wars and the Spanish-American War rest. Until recently, the cemetery had not been listed as an official cemetery or tied to any one specific church. Local resident Nolie Steele helped to recognize and protect Biddleville Cemetery as an official historic Mecklenburg County landmark, and continues to research the veterans who are buried there so that their graves can be marked.
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24540
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The North Carolina Historical Marker E-5 is located near the Franklin-Warren County line and marks the grave site of Robert E. Lee’s oldest daughter. Annie Carter Lee died of typhoid fever while at Jones Springs Hotel.
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35615
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While traveling in Transylvania, Romania, the author took note of the various epitaphs and pictures that were present on tombstones.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 3, Sept 1973,
p83-88, il
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2022
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Since the 1700s, the Southern folk cemetery has been a means of family identification and bonding over generations, but with increased family mobility in the 20th-century the traditions of the folk cemetery are being abandoned.
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North Carolina Historic Preservation Office Newsletter
(NoCar Oversize F 255 N48x), Vol. Issue , Fall 1994,
p2-7, bibl
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22468
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The Spratt burying-ground in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina is one of the oldest burying places in the state. Many of the inscriptions on tombstones found in the graveyard pre-date the American Revolution.
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The North Carolina Booklet
(NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 15 Issue 3, January 1916,
p152-157
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35819
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To many, Rolesville could have been a “blink and you miss it” kind of small town. What made the town near Raleigh hard to pass by was being near the “Unique Grave.” What made the grave unique was its location: inside of a rock. What also made it unique: the story about the tomb created for a man not wanting his earthly remains in the earth.
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34976
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After the Fontana Dam was built in the 1944, seventeen miles of the Fontana Valley area was flooded. Family cemeteries that were above the flood waters have since been restored by the National Park Service under the direction of former resident Helen Cable Vance. Every Sunday between April and October, a group of people go to one of the twenty-seven family cemeteries for its Decoration Day.
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