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37164
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Tarboro’s Town Common, established in 1760, currently has a place in town life as part of a park. Its original purposes, designated by the Colonial legislature, including livestock grazing and military drills. Purposes today include the inspiration for a product made by the Tarboro Brewing Company and site for the Happening on the Common each May.
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37415
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A description of the Tryon Palace kitchen soon gave way to kitchens of the Colonial period. In its focus on the importance of that room in Colonial homes, it noted kitchens as places likely for making medicine and food. Noted places for storage of recipes for food and herbal remedies were cookbooks and servants’ books.
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The Palace (NoCar F 264 N5 P3), Vol. 12 Issue 1, Winter 2013/2014, p12-13
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40458
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As one of the original states, North Carolina can claim rightful ownership of an original copy of the Bill of Rights. Individuals such as former state governor, state archivist, and National Constitution Center CEO reveal the battle to get this copy from the Midwestern family who’d had it since the end of the Civil War.
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