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Beaufort's North Carolina Maritime Museum has two new branches: Roanoke Island/Manteo and Southport. The additions will help serve larger numbers of residents and tourists, make more resources available, and expand educational programs. The new museums will focus on boats and boatbuilders on Roanoke Island and the maritime heritage of northeastern and southeastern sections of the state.
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4636
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On March 18-19, 2000, thirty-seven hundred Civil War reenactors portraying Confederate and Union soldiers commemorated the Battle of Bentonville in Johnston County. Bentonville is the state's largest Civil War battle reenactment and is staged only once every five years.
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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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David J. Olson has been named deputy director of the North Carolina Division of Archives and History. Prior to his appointment, Olson was the state's archivist and records administrator since 1981. Before coming to North Carolina, he held archival positions at the University of Wisconsin, DePauw University, and the Michigan Department of State, History Division.
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The North Carolina Commemorative Coin Committee met in Raleigh on June 20, 2000, to chose the design for the North Carolina quarter. The United States Mint is issuing quarters to honor all fifty states. Two designs of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and one of the Wright Brothers' first flight were considered. The Wright Brothers design was selected. The U.S. Mint will issue the coin in March 2001, pending final approval. State quarters will be issued through 2007.
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The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, located in western Carolina, established a tribal historic preservation office in December 1999. They are the twenty-first federally recognized tribe to do so. James Bird of the Eastern Band was appointed tribal historic preservation officer.
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4775
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The devastating floods produced by Hurricane Floyd severely damaged county records in the Edgecombe County Courthouse. Simpson summarizes the efforts made to salvage these records and their results.
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On November 27, 2000, William S. Powell received the North Carolina Award, the state's highest civilian honor. Only 176 of the state's citizens have been so honored since the award's inception in 1964. Powell is emeritus professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a distinguished scholar of the state's history.
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Lisbeth C. Evans of Winston-Salem was appointed secretary of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources by Governor Michael F. Easley. Evans has served in various capacities in business, arts, and educational organizations, including serving as chairman of Winston-Salem Arts Council and on the boards of the Penland School of Arts, Reynolda House, the North Carolina Hospital, and others.
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From the slave period until 1898, African Americans in Eastern North Carolina observed a Christmastime custom called Jonkonnu. The practice originated in Jamaica and spread to North Carolina, which was the only state where it was observed. Jonkonnu is a unique blend of West African and English customs. In 2000, the Christmas tradition was revived during New Bern's annual Holiday Candlelight Tours.
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John Edward Tyler II died December 5, 2000, [not December 9, as written in article] in Roxobel. Tyler, along with his wife, was among the founding members of Windsor's Historic Hope Foundation. Tyler was recognized for his many years of service to historic preservation by the North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Antiquities with its Cannon Cup Award in 1967 and by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association in 1973 with its highest honor, the Thomas Crittenden Memorial Award.
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Reedy recounts her experiences working as an intern in the summer of 2000 with the Underwater Archaeology Unit of the Division of Archives and History. Reedy assisted in identifying, cleaning, and cataloging artifacts from what is believed to be Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge.
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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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5467
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Snow L. and B. W. C. Roberts of Durham have donated over eleven hundred works of fiction to the North Carolina Collection, Joyner Library, East Carolina University. What makes this collection unique is that all the books are set partially or wholly in North Carolina. The volumes date from 1830 to the present and contain a number of rare works.
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Dr. H.G. Jones received the 2002 North Carolina Award, the state's highest civilian honor for \"distinguished service and achievement.\" Among his many accomplishments are service as state archivist, 1956 to 1968; director Division of Archives and History, 1968 to 1974; and curator of the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina Collection at Chapel Hill. Jones has published over one hundred works on North Carolina history.
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