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The Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site in Johnston County has acquired 3.5 acres of the battlefield. The acreage contains trenches forming part of the main Union line during the battle.
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3034
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Bentonville Battleground was designated a National Historic Landmark on June 19, 1996, by Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt. The Civil War battle was the largest ever fought in the state.
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15694
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March 20-21, 2010 marked the 145th anniversary of the Bentonville Battle. Civil War enthusiasts reenacted the \"Fight for Morris Farm\" and the \"Last Grand Charge of the Army of Tennessee and Morgan's Stand.\" Bentonville is the state's largest Civil War battlefield and the location of one of the last large-scale engagements of the war.
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15923
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The first discovery of gold in the state was found on John Reed's farm in 1799. Twenty miles east of Charlotte, the Reed Gold Mine State Historic Site was scene for the bicentennial celebrations of the Southeast's largest gold-producing state.
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21100
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This article describes the relocation of the Confederate ironclad CSS Neuse from its present home to its permanent one in the nearly completed CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center in Kinston.
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17751
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Activity was high when the remains of the CSS Neuse Made its historic move in June. The Civil War ironclad was moved to a new fully-enclosed and climate controlled, with exhibits to tell stories of the vessel and of eastern North Carolina during the Civil War.
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30805
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Due to limited appropriations, the Capital Building restoration project will only include the restoration of the roof and exteriors. The governor's and secretary of state's offices have temporarily been moved to the NC Administration Building.
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2784
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The 2nd Battalion, North Carolina Infantry's flag, captured by the 27th Massachusetts Regiment during the battle of Roanoke Island on February 8, 1862, was returned by Massachusetts on November 29, 1988.
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16843
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Seventeen aldermen and one mayor were responsible for Raleigh's government in 1880. These men dealt with the problems of a growing city because Raleigh's population had doubled during the post-Civil War Reconstruction years. The men were elected from Raleigh's different wards and addressed problems of sanitation, organizing police and firemen, and improving city streets.
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Catherine J. Morris has been named state archivist. She has been acting Archives and Records administrator since 1999. Morris began her career with the North Carolina Division of Archives and History in 1972. She graduated from Wake Forest University magna cum laude in 1971.
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16850
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Travelers and colonists in the late-16th-, early-17th-century voyaging to America faced many obstacles. The article describes the colonists and the seamen from this era and the details of the ships that sailed across the Atlantic, as well as details of their everyday lives while sailing.
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5240
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In 1902, Charlotte Hawkins Brown returned to North Carolina. She founded the Palmer Memorial Institute, a unique private school for Afro-Americans in Guilford County. It was her life's work for the next fifty years as she developed the school into one of the nation's premier boarding schools for African-Americans. Now a state historic site, it is marking its one hundredth year with a number of events.
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16860
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MIC is an acronym for the Mecklenburg Investment Company, an organization established in May 1921. A group of prominent black citizens in Charlotte formed MIC to rent space to other professional black professionals. These men were known at the time as the \"New Negro\" because of their middle-class, educated, and urban standing in the post-Civil War South.
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The Chowan County Courthouse is the oldest public building in North Carolina. Built in 1767, it is also one of the country's best-preserved colonial courthouses. Recently the National Park Service awarded a grant of $208,000 to the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources to assist in restoration.
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17749
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A Confederate cannon seized by the 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during the Battle of New Bern on March 14, 1862 has returned to North Carolina for the 150th anniversary of the Battle.
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