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Old London School was the more recognized name for the Walnut Cove Colored School. It operated between 1910 until 1918 before a new facility was built in 1923. Yet another facility would replace the 1923 five room schoolhouse in 1952 and was called the London High School.
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In 1915, Miss Charlotte Yale and Miss Eleanor Vance opened the Tryon Toy Shop at Tryon. It operated successfully until the Depression and then a fire which wiped out their equipment and patterns. The business was later taken over by Moss Guilbert in 1949 and later by Chuck Hearon in 1977.
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When Europeans encountered Cherokee tribes the men were surprised by the important role women played within Cherokee society. Their society was based on a matrilineal kinship, unlike European family dynamics, and Cherokee women also participated in family, economic, and government decision making.
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16132
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Women performed a range of tasks on late 19th- and early 20th-century farms throughout rural North Carolina. Women cared for livestock, grew gardens, and completed household chores.
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Charlotte Hawkins Brown was integral to reforming African American education within the state. She began her teaching career in 1901 after the American Missionary Association offered her a position. A year later she raised funds to open the Palmer Institute, a preparatory school in Sedalia.
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During World War I, women fulfilled many different roles as nurses in combat or taking industrial jobs at home. Suzanne Hoskins was one of fourteen nurses sent to Europe from Guilford County. She arrived in Paris in 1917 and was assigned to the American Red Cross Children's Bureau.
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Gertrude Weil was president of the Goldsboro chapter of the Equal Suffrage League. After ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment she remained a political and civic figure aiding the impoverished during the Great Depression and paying expenses for Jews fleeing Nazi-occupied France.
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Oakwood Cemetery in Wake County is a historic example of an early southern \"garden park\" design; the idea was to utilize cemetery space as park area as well. The cemetery is also noted for having a section dedicated to Confederate soldiers, which were reburied in the lot following the Civil War. The cemetery also contains important examples of carvings and symbols which can denote the deceased age or occupation.
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16137
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The state's Algonquian population stretched along the tidewater zone and especially along the Neuse River. The tribe was an agricultural based society and lived a sedentary life with a complex social structure. English colonization decimated the Algonquian population and what remains are historic accounts and archaeological data.
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The riddle in this article refers to the Lost Colony, a mystery historians and experts have been unable to find a conclusive answer. Seven hypotheses are presented in this article in an attempt to explain what happened to those early English settlers who disappeared.
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State workers suffered immensely during the Great Depression whether agricultural or industrial laborers. President Roosevelt's New Deal aided the state's cotton and tobacco farmers by introducing the Agricultural Adjustment Acts. New Deal programs created opportunities through construction of new schools, hospitals, airports, found jobs for women in canneries and sewing shops, and put young men to work maintaining state parks.
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16140
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The Blue Ridge Parkway began as a Public Relief Project during the Great Depression. The objective was to supply jobs for destitute North Carolinians and to link Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountain National Parks. Once approved by President Roosevelt, debates erupted over the proposed route the parkway would take.
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16141
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President Roosevelt's New Deal offered the state's artists and sculptors unprecedented opportunities. Under the Federal Art Program, artists and craftsmen were commissioned to create pieces for public buildings, advertisements, theatrical productions, and a wide range of other projects. One predominant artist, James McLean, emerged from the program and examples of his murals could be seen in Greensboro's Grimsley High School and Concord's Charles Cannon Memorial Library.
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16143
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Jane Hicks Gentry was born in Watauga County in the middle of the Civil War, December 18, 1863. She sang in the Keenersville Christian Church where she earned a reputation as keeper of traditional folk ballads, songs, and stories.
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By early 20th-century, there were approximately 100,000 mill workers and many turned to music as entertainment and distraction from hard mill work. Musical groups would form either as bands within a specific mill or traveling bands would join and visit different towns throughout rural areas. Some of the more well-known bands were Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers, \"Girls Mandolin Club, and Pilot Mills Cotton Band.
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