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Courthouses, post offices, and public schools are just a few examples of public buildings financed by the state. Many of these buildings are from the 19th- and early 20th-centuries and preservationists are trying to save these buildings that embody a community and its history.
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Different types of neighborhoods developed according to industry and economics in the area throughout the state. Textile mill neighborhoods, found at Kannapolis and Concord, consisted of small duplexes and basic village features including church, post office, and store. Victorian towns, such as Winston-Salem's West End, were prevalent during the 19th-century, were based on land speculation, where an area was subdivided into lots.
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Entrepreneurs transformed the state's industry in the 19th-century. Charlotte's D.A. Tompkin's entrepreneurial endeavors included founding the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER and developing the cottonseed oil industry. Edward Dilworth Latta, also from Charlotte, founded the Charlotte Trouser Company, opened the E.D. Latta and Brothers clothing store, and was president of the Charlotte Consolidated Construction Company.
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The state's politics are historically rooted in the contest between two men, Nathaniel Macon and Archibald D. Murphey. These men served the state in the early 19th-century and represented what became a modern division in politics. Macon was the conservative or traditionalist who opposed change and Murphey became the liberal or modernist.
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Federal projects in the mountains created employment opportunities, places of research, and parks for the nation's citizens. The National Climatic Data Center opened in 1952 and preserved the nation's weather records. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park opened the Southern Appalachians to the nation and the United States Forest Service managed another 1,000,000 acres of natural resources in the region.
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Western forests were stripped in the 19th-century, but with investment of time and money George Vanderbilt helped to restore the region's natural resources. The region was first to hire an American forester, Gifford Pinchot, establish an American College of Forestry with Dr. Carl Alwin Schenck as head, and create a national forest in eastern America.
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Women served both the loyalists and the patriots during the American Revolution. Some of the famous women on the Loyalists side were native-Scotswoman Flora McDonald and Elizabeth Cornell Bayard. Margaret Sharpe, Betsy Dowdy, Mary Slocumb, and Elizabeth Maxwell Steele served the Patriots during the Revolution.
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The American Revolution divided the state's African American population because both Loyalists and Patriots promised freedom for slaves. At the time of revolution, African American totaled 25 percent of the state's overall population and of that only 5 percent were free. British enticed groups of slaves to revolt, yet some African Americans independently fought for the colonist; the most famous soldier was John Chavis.
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During World War I, North Carolinians, including women and children, supported the war effort stateside. Canning clubs were organized to preserve food. The Woodcraft Girls sold food pledge cards and the Campfire Girls volunteered to babysit the children of women who worked or volunteered in plants or at the Red Cross.
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Beginning on July 23, 1,200 men were sent to open Camp Greene in Charlotte. It took six weeks to construct and at its height 40,000 troops lived at the camp. The camp not only trained troops for combat but improved the economic situation of Charlotte.
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Thomas Day was a free African American before the Civil War largely because of his natural skills, especially those related to furniture building. Born in Virginia, 1801, he apprenticed under a skilled craftsman. He ran a successful shop, which prospered between 1840 and 1850, and was also commissioned by Governor David S. Reid and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
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In 1936, Dr. Milton Quigless, a young African American man, graduated from medical school and moved to Tarboro, a segregated town lacking a doctor for African American patients. He travelled around the county to treat patients until he was able to open the Quigless Clinic in 1947, an institution devoted to treating African Americans who were denied at 'white hospital'. The clinic operated until 1975 when Quigless was forced to close it due to building code violations.
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African American education, denied before the Civil War by the state's anti-literacy laws, actually began during the war when Vincent Coyler, a Union army chaplain, organized the first school for freed people on July 23, 1863. Various organizations were charged with establishing freedmen schools within the state and two men heading this initiative were Reverends Samuel S. Ashley and James Walker Hood.
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14.Women on a Mission: The WABPS by Belton, Tom Tar Heel Junior Historian Vol. 37 Issue 1, Fall 1997
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WABPS stood for the Woman's Association for the Betterment of Public Schoolhouses was a reform organization operating in the early 20th-century. Students from the State Normal and Industrial School for Women, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, founded the organization to improve existing and provide new educational environments. It was an-all woman run organization and men could join but only after paying dues and with the understanding that they were not allowed to vote or make decisions within the organization.
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In 1892, the Populist and Republican parties joined to oppose the firmly rooted Democratic Party. This merger forced many Democrats from office and, in the 1898 election, the white supremacy Democratic platform led to a violent mob in Wilmington.
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