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The Halifax Resolves was important for empowering North Carolina's delegates to the Continental Congress to work together with other colonies for declaring independence from Great Britain. The Halifax Resolves were approved on April 12, 1776. They are regarded as the first official act toward independence by any of the colonies.
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Though a number of theories exist, no one knows how these horses ended up living on the Outer Banks. It isknown they have been in the are since the 1600s. This breed is noted as different from other horse breeds and is renowned for its "even temperament and gentle dispositions". The author of this article was a winner of the 2023 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine Article Contest, Elementary Division.
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Hemlock woolly adelgids (HWAs) are an invasive species first found in the eastern United States near Richmond, Virginia. They first arrived in North Carolina in 1995. They target some of the most important trees in the Great Smoky Mountains. A current line of defense has been the use of predator beetles from Japan , which only eat HWAs.
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The species was declared extinct in the wild in 1980. In September of 1987, the U.S. Wildlife Service release four airs of red wolves into the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge.
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The British invaded North Carolina in 1781, the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, occurring on March 15. What appeared initially as a pathway for British conquest went drastically downhill when heavy casualties and dwindling supplies forced a harsh march back to Wilmington despite their winning the battlefield at Guilford. Primary commanders in the conflict were General Nathanael Greene, representing the American forces and General Charles Cornwallis, representing the British.
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During the colonial period and into the Revolution, British agents were deployed among the native people to build trust and influence. Devastation after the Cherokee War of 1776, however, prompted many to stay out of the Revolutionary War conflict.
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44032
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After fighting to win independence from Great Britain with its centralized government and unpopular taxation, North Carolina was in fact very reluctant to participate in the Constitutional Convention but eventually did so, initially electing Richard Caswell, William R. Davie, Willie Jones, Alexander Martin and Richard Dobbs Speight as representatives.
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Harvesting of whales off North Carolina's coast was at its maximum in the mid-19th century and then declined. Protection from over-harvesting of whale populations was established in 1972 with the Marine Mammal Protection Act. In 2004, the death of a monitored whale known as 'Stumpy" by scientists enabled research leading to changes in speed limits for preventing whales from being killed by boats. the skeleton for the whale is now in the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.
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In the 1850s, the Egypt Coal Mine in Lee County was the main source for coal in North Carolina. North Carolina's first state geologist, Ebenezer Emmons examined the first fossils from Egypt Mine. Most exciting of the discoveries that followed was a tine jawbone named Dromatherium. Emmons believed it to be the oldest mammal.
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The Carolina Parakeet was the only parrot species, whose range was entirely north of the Mexican border. Despite the name, Florida and the lower Mississippi region were the true population centers for this bird. The species was declared extinct tin 1939.
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44549
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One of North Carolina's most famous social activists, Weil spent her life fighting for systemic change, from leading the North Carolina Equal Suffrage League in 1920 to advocating for labor reform and civil rights. In researching Weil further, the author of this article notes an unexpected find in her papers housed in the North Carolina State Archives--letter from her Jewish family living in Europe during the Holocaust.
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The article takes up the case of John Dalrymple, colonial era British army offices and commander of Fort Johnston in the 1750s and 1760s, imprisoned by Governor Arthur Dobbs in 1762 for desertion. Constructed in 1748, Fort Johnston was the first fort built in North Carolina. It was located near the mouth of Cape Fear River.
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Enslaved people were hired out by their owners to work to construct the old capitol building, completed in 1840. One document giving information concerning enslaved workers involved with the old state capitol. is "Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Superintend Rebuilding of the State Capitol, published in 1834.
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"An Interview with Alice Shahan, digital archivist at the State Archives of North Carolina." Making sure records in the digital repository remain unchanged in any way in the State Archives digital repository, Shahan notes there is a misconception that the preservation process is served once something becomes digital. In actuality, it's a long-term management issue that requires constant verification using software tools.
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The author, a Harkers Island native and teacher notes the work of her father, Wayne Davis, a 1987 founding member and first president of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild. What originally started out as a necessity for luring real ducks into a shooting range, aided in promoting the local economy as visitors began to be impressed with decoys as an art form.
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