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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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Tourism in North Carolina is a $12 billion industry, with shopping, beaches, and historical places among the most favored activities by tourists. Heritage tourism, or visiting an area for cultural enrichment, continues to be a significant niche market. Among the new developments in the heritage area are a Civil War trails program, modeled after the one in Virginia, and a trail system of agricultural/cultural tourism sites.
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In 1997, the Horne Creek Living Historical Farm in Surry County created the Southern Heritage Apple Orchard to preserve the varieties of the fruit which are rapidly disappearing. Today 650 trees are growing to maturity. The orchard is the only state-supported one in the country dedicated to preserving the old varieties of apples.
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Thornton W. Mitchell, North Carolina state archivist from 1973 to 1981, died May 24, 2003. Mitchell was instrumental in the formation of organizations such as the North Carolina Genealogical Society in 1974; the recipient of many awards, including the Christopher Crittenden Award in 1981; and the author of books, including North Carolina Wills: A Testator Index, 1665-1990.
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The outbreak of World War II caught the United States short of cargo ships to send vital war supplies to the Allies, along with a means to protect them. Knapp discusses shipbuilding in the state during the war, particularly in Wilmington where 243 ships were constructed. He also discusses the blimp station in Weeksville in Pasquotank County, where the lighter-than-air aircraft that patrolled the Atlantic for submarines were based.
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Turner recounts the story of Thomas H. Davis, a native of Winston-Salem, and how he built Piedmont Airlines into one of the nation's largest airlines. In the late 1980s, Piedmont was acquired by USAir.
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Carolina Comments
(NoCar F 251 C38), Vol. 49 Issue 5, Sept 2001,
p104-112, il, bibl
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Hurricane strikes in North Carolina damage not only lives and private and commercial property; they also take a toll on our historic heritage. When Hurricane Isabel struck the eastern section of the state on September 18, 2003, many historic sites and museums were affected, including the town of Edenton, the Outer Banks History Center, Historic Halifax, and the State Highway Historical Marker Program.
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North Carolina refused to ratify the new Constitution in 1788, unless a list of rights for all citizens was added to it. To win over North Carolina and other states, James Madison sent twelve handwritten copies of the rights to the states; they were accepted. Today this list is known as the Bill of Rights. After the Civil War, the state's handwritten copy was stolen by a Union soldier who carried it to Ohio and later sold it to Charles A. Shotwell. The article follows the document's trail from the Shotwell sale in 1866, until it was recovered in Philadelphia by the FBI in 2003. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina ruled in January 2004 that the document belongs to the State as a public document; however, Judge Terrence W. Boyle ordered the U.S. marshal in Raleigh to hold the document until final resolution of any appeals.
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A replica of a periauger was built at the North Carolina Maritime Museum Watercraft Center in Beaufort in 2004. The construction took seven months and involved 30 volunteers working 8,400 hours. The log boat was the state's workboat during the 18th- and early 19th-centuries. The replica will be moored at the Newbold-White House near Hertford, where it will serve as an interpretive teaching tool. The article describes the boat's three-week journey to its home port in Hertford.
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On January 23, 1866, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a resolution asking Governor Jonathan Worth “to make a contract with some manufacturer of artificial limbs to supply the needs of the State at an early date.†The act was to provide artificial limbs for the State's maimed veterans of the Civil War. Wegner, who works in the Research Branch of the Office of Archives and History, discusses her research and how her planned article led to a book on the subject.
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The Civil War ended in North Carolina 140 years ago. A number of historical sites mark critical events of the war that occurred in the Coastal Plain and the Piedmont. Beginning in January 2005, a number of commemorative events were held at sites including Fort Fisher, Fort Anderson, Bentonville, and Bennett Place.\r\n\r\n
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The North Carolina Association of Educators recognized the efforts of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office and North Carolina's Rosenwald Schools Community Project to preserve the heritage of the schools. These schools for African American children were funded by matching grants provided by Chicago philanthropist Julius Rosenwald to African American communities that raised a certain amount of money. Between the late 1910s and 1932, there were 813 of the Rosenwald schools built in North Carolina, more than in any other state. Over 120 of the schools are still standing today.
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Goldsboro in Wayne County was a major rail center during the Civil War. Three major rail lines converged there -- the Wilmington and Weldon, the Atlantic and North Carolina, and the North Carolina Railroad. Joyner recounts the closing days of the Civil War when General Sherman's troops, 110,000 strong, occupied the area around Goldsboro before moving onto Raleigh and the occupation by Union troops after the end of hostilities.
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Grace Evelyn Haynes opened the Huckleberry Mountain Workshop Camp and Artists' Colony near Hendersonville in 1939. The nationally-known camp was modeled on the McDowell Colony in Peterboro, NH, the nation's oldest artists' colony. During the its twenty-year existence, the camp provided instruction to hundreds of American students and a number from several foreign countries in a variety of arts that included poetry, painting, music, drama, radio scriptwriting, weaving, pottery, and photography. Bishop recounts the activities at the camp. Today, many of the camp's buildings still stand, including the two-story assembly hall. Dr. Ida Simpson, Duke University sociology professor, and her son Frank are working with the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources to preserve the camp's architecture and history and to have it listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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In 1929, Greensboro native Mary Webb Nicholson became the first licensed female pilot in North Carolina. She learned to fly at Raven Rock Flying School in Portsmouth, Ohio. Nicholson flew with the British Air Transport Auxiliary during World War II and was killed in 1943, when the engine on her plane failed. Too low to the ground to parachute, she died trying to land the plane.
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Carolina Comments
(NoCar F 251 C38), Vol. 55 Issue 3, July 2007,
p109-115, il, por, f
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