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Kituwah, located in the Tuckaseegee River valley in western North Carolina, is a sacred place of great religious importance to Cherokee Indians. In the early 1820s, the Cherokees lost Kituwah to the United States government, but in 1996, they had the opportunity to reacquire the town. Today, the site celebrates traditional and current Cherokee culture as well as the town's history.
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22769
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In addition to statues and stone monuments, hand-made quilts can commemorate specific events and people, or serve as memorials to honor the dead. North Carolina women have made quilts throughout history to memorialize particular individuals or events, including the 1976 \"Historical Landmarks of Wake County\" quilt, which was created to celebrate the National Bicentennial.
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Commemorative monuments are often planned and designed to represent a particular time and place, however, North Carolina lighthouses and the Tar Baby vs. St. Sebastian sculpture unintentionally became monuments of immense importance. The lighthouses were built for practical use to help sailors navigate the difficult North Carolina coastline, but now they are icons of state tourism. Michael Richards' sculpture, Tar Baby vs. St. Sebastian commemorates the Tuskegee Airmen, but after Richards' death during the September 11, 2001 attacks, this sculpture memorializes Richards and those who also lost their lives on 9/11.
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23052
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Prior to the twentieth century, travel was difficult in North Carolina. With the invention of the automobile in the 1890s, the car began to replace other forms of transportation, which drastically changed the landscape and economy in North Carolina.
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23053
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This article describes historic methods of travel and highlights three important trails in North Carolina history, including The Great Wagon Road, the Trail of Tears, and The Underground Railroad.
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23054
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Trains connected North Carolina towns to the rest of the United States during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The NC Transportation Museum in Spencer celebrates this history by displaying train cars, locomotive engines, the town's old roundhouse, and other related artifacts.
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Showboats were a popular form of entertainment in river and coastal towns during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Since the Eastern North Carolina infrastructure developed more slowly than other parts of the country, showboating was popular into the 1940s. One boat in particular, the James Adams Floating Theatre, toured North Carolina ports, including Hertford, Plymouth, Edenton, Columbia, and Bath.
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23056
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The first recognized bookmobile originated in Washington County, Maryland in 1905, and since that time, bookmobiles have had a presence throughout the country and in North Carolina. Cities like Durham and Charlotte had bookmobiles, as well as rural counties like Avery, Mitchell, and Yancy.
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24753
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In the early twentieth century, life in North Carolina revolved around agriculture. Schools provided extracurricular activities for students who would spend their lives farming the land by creating corn clubs, tomato clubs, Future Farmers of America, and 4-H.
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24754
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School lunches are an important part of primary and secondary education in North Carolina and throughout the country. This article describes the history of school lunches in the United States at large and North Carolina specifically.
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In 1939, schoolteacher Stella Sharpe wrote the children’s book, Tobe, about African American rural life in North Carolina. Even though the pictures in the book are staged, the story line and depiction of African American life centers on the truth.
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25106
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In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, allowing the government to force many American Indians to leave their home lands. Some Cherokee tribes remained in North Carolina and became known as the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation. Today, they run schools in Cherokee, North Carolina and preserve their culture through the buildings, education, and community on campus.
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25107
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Citizens of the villages on the barrier islands of North Carolina have spoken a distinctive English dialect not found outside of the Outer Banks. Dr. Walt Wolfram, a professor at NC State and researcher of North Carolina dialects, describes the Outer Banks brogue and highlights the importance of documenting it for future generations.
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25108
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Linguist Paul Reed describes the history of North Carolina’s Appalachian dialect, saying that it is a combination of American Indian languages and the languages of other immigrant groups blended together. Geography has also contributed to the conservation of the dialect over the years.
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25109
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American Sign Language (ASL) has many dialects throughout the United States and in North Carolina. Some dialects in North Carolina have local signs that are different, while others are unique to certain ethnicities. This article specifically looks at the evolution of Black ASL in North Carolina.
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