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Mr. Claiborne was an associate editor of the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER and a two-year chairman of the North Carolina Humanities Center and offered some thoughts about a modern North Carolina through the lens of history. His insights focus on the state's transformation from a sparsely populated, rural, agrarian state to a more modernized, industrial, and highly populous one in 1985. He comments on the state's role as a leading southern sovereignty in education, finance, and industrialization.
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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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16851
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William Joseph Peele was a Raleigh lawyer and devoted citizen to the state. Peele was a native of Northampton County, born 1855, and attended Chapel Hill where he studied the classics. His greatest accomplishment was founding the Watauga Club in May 1884, an organization dedicated improving the state's educational system and economic standing.
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On September 19, 1985 the Elizabeth II began a trip to both Beaufort and New Bern. The replica ship, built and launched in 1983, made the voyage from its homeport of Manteo to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the Roanoke voyages of 1584-1587.
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16853
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The Historical Records Survey, part of the Works Progress Administration, hired unemployed clerks, stenographers, and teachers to catalog and protect public records in an effort to aid historians, archivists, and curators. The program ran for five years between 1935 and 1940 and operated out of Raleigh. One hundred and ten workers were given the task of focusing on information from the clerk of court and register of deeds from the state's 100 counties.
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Thomas Lanier Clingman (1812-1897) was a congressman and general before and during the Civil War who turned to the art of inventing following during his post-bellum career. Clingman became interested in electrical technology and began experimenting with a light bulb designs. Documentation of his invention can be found in patent records and a series of letters exchanged between Edison and Clingman between March and December of 1879. Obviously his zirconia lamp designs did not rival Edison's breakthroughs but he does rank with many other inventors of the era for advancing the area of electrical lighting.
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16855
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In 1961, the USS North Carolina was decommissioned and towed from New Jersey to Wilmington, North Carolina. It has remained docked at the mouth of the Cape Fear River since and nearly six million visitors have justified saving the World War II battleship from the scrapyard.
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16856
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Stereotypes of antebellum white society perpetuate the misrepresentation of a two-tier system; rich estate, slave-holders and destitute whites. Upon further review, there was a greater complexity amongst the white population and the earliest scholar to acknowledge this was Daniel Robinson Hundley in SOCIAL RELATIONS IN OUR SOUTHERN STATES(1860). A faction of these folk were landless whites, a group of people who filled a great range of necessary jobs like coopers, carpenters, shoemakers, fishermen, etc.
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16857
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Andy Griffith, born in Mount Airy, addressed the North Carolina Literary and historical Association in Raleigh on November 19, 1982 to mark the groups 82nd annual meeting. He spoke of his fondness for the state, reminiscing about his familial ties and focusing on childhood anecdotes.
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16858
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The State Capitol grounds in Raleigh boast a range of monuments and statutes from confederate guns to depictions of World War I soldiers. Some of these memorials were cast in bronze which is not impermeable to the elements. Corrosion attacked these statues and a restoration plan was devised in 1981 by the State Capitol Foundation which raised the funds from several individuals and organizations to perform the necessary conservation.
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16859
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In 1782 the Revolutionary government established a district court system which appointed a superior court in seven districts; Morgan, Edenton, Halifax, Wilmington, New Bern, Salisbury, and Hillsborough. These courts were responsible for judicial, political, military, and administrative matters. Dr. Phifer reviewed ten years of Morgan district court records and the raw data is presented here but analysis is missing because of his death.
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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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16861
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Thomas Harriet and John White were the earliest individuals to document the state's plethora of native flora but a series of other botanist followed to create a record of all varieties of plants. John Lawson, Mark Catesby, Arthur Dobbs, and Andre Michaux were all European visitors to the state who recorded details about plant species and sent specimens back to their native countries.
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14.Tax Incentives for Rehabilitation by Branan, C. Frank Carolina Comments Vol. 30 Issue 2, Mar 1982
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16862
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President Ronald Reagan signed The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 on August 13, 1981. The act grants a tax credit for expenses on restoring historic buildings thirty years or older. Experts at the time believed the tax incentive would encourage preservation and rehabilitation of historic neighborhoods.
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16863
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The state's antebellum politics was divided between the Whig and Democratic parties. Scholars have long held that both parties could be considered progressive; first the Whigs in 1836 followed by a shift to Democrats in 1848 when they adopted a more progressive outlook. Dr. Jeffrey offers a new analysis of the state's antebellum politics and when the state's citizens truly got the progressive leadership they desired.
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