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16198
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The earliest system of trails was developed by Native Americans connecting various settlements throughout the territory. Later, European settlers followed these same paths and developed a system of roads based on these and often enlarging them to permit wagons to pass. Traces of these are still visible, like The Carolina Trail between Crooked Creek in Stokes County and South Mayo River in Patrick County, Virginia.
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16199
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Spanish Captain Juan Pardo was responsible for constructing Fort San Juan in 1567. The fort was located near the native town of Joara near present day Morganton, Burke County. It was the first European settlement in the state but probably only stood for a year, though the record is unclear.
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16200
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The Great Dismal Swamp presented a refuge for 17th-century Europeans hoping to become independent. The first English explorer in the Albemarle area was Nathaniel Batts in 1660 and he settled in the region after purchasing land from the native population. Eventually this initial settlement developed into a community of male and female craftsmen function in cooperation with the native population and free of society's constraints.
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16207
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The 1752 hurricane hit Onslow County's barrier islands and destroyed the New River Inlet, crops, timber and livestock. Equally devastating was complete destruction of the courthouse and all public records. The General Assembly approved construction of a new courthouse further inland than Johnston at Wantland's Ferry, later known as Snead's Ferry.
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16208
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George Higgs, Tarboro musician, was born in the small town of Speed in 1930. He began playing guitar while a teenager and later learned to sing and play harmonica. He performed with small gospel groups, toured around the states until 1998 when he was invited to sing overseas. His discography consists of Tarboro Blues (2001) and Rainy Day (2006).
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16209
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The Cherokee repurchased Kituhwa Mound in 1997 because legend says it was the first village over 1,000 years ago. Today, visitors can visit and see the traditional warrior dance of the AniKituhwagi, people of Kituhwa.
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16210
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The state's farmers suffered greatly during the Great Depression because this group had already experienced difficulties in the decade before. Governors O. Max Gardner and J.C.B. Ehringhaus were charged with providing aid to this especially destitute demographic. Several New Deal programs targeted the plight of farmers like the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) the Resettlement Administration (RA).
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16211
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\"Living-at-Home\" was a Great Depression era program designed to teach the state's residents about food production and preservation. Governor O. Max Gardner introduced the plan on December 4, 1929.
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16212
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt developed the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as part of his New Deal plan to aid young men during the Great Depression. CCC camps were not predetermined to be segregated but poor race relations in the south made it necessary separate African American and white workers. In North Carolina between 1933 and 1942, eleven African American CCC camps functioned across the state and performed tasks building roads, clearing forests, and planting vegetation to lessen soil erosion.
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16213
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In the Great Depression era, school children experienced public education very differently depending on their race. African American students attended more one-room schools and received less funding than white counterparts. Native American students often were refused at public schools, sent off to missionary schools in which English was the only allowed language.
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16214
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The Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal agency, employed 125,000 of the state's men and women. These people of all races completed 3,984 jobs across the state between 1935 and 1940. A variety of projects were completed from construction of new facilities and records made of rural folk artists.
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16215
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By September 7, 1934, all Gaston County mills were closed due to strike. The strike began in Alabama when the United Textile Workers leaders called for strike in response to long hours and low wages. The strike prompted National Guards and police squads to restore order at places like Kannapolis where 1,200 Cannon mill workers were striking.
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16278
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African American baseball in the South during the days of segregation never reached the level of play and organization as that of the larger Northern cities. Still there was a large pool of talent in North Carolina as well as other states. Bayne discusses semi-pro teams and community teams during this period.
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16279
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The Carolina League was minor league and only lasted three years, but how it operated worried Major League Baseball. The league attracted top-notch ballplayers by providing stability and steady pay during the Great Depression. What worried the Big League owners was the greater freedom players had as opposed to their players, especially in the reserve clause, which bound a major leaguer to the team who held his contract forever. In other words, this treated the player as a piece of property.
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16280
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Although college basketball started in North Carolina in 1906, it had to compete with the big sport of football. This began to change in the 1940s with the arrival of two coaches who had never played basketball but who would leave their mark on the sport. They were John McLendon, coach of North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central University) and Everett Case, coach of North Carolina State University.
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