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In 1766 or 1767, David Caldwell established what became known as the Log College in present day Greensboro. Many of the men who attended the school transferred to Princeton and UNC-Chapel Hill, which is why it gained the nickname “grandfather of U.N.C.†The school closed in 1822, two years after Caldwell retired at the age of ninety-five. By 1976, the North Carolina Society for Preservation of Antiquities was able to save a twenty-acre site, which included the Log College. The site was also developed into the Bicentennial Garden, which includes paths and historic markers.
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North Carolina has a rich film history. Productions have ranged from local documentaries of the depression era to modern day blockbusters like King Kong. Film makers, such as William Lord (Walter Warner), became nationally recognized for their work with major motion pictures. H. Lee Waters became famous for his “Movies of Local People,†in North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee. North Carolina movies were creating a tradition of success long before Earl Owensby created his EO Studios in 1973.
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Individuals from Randolph County suggested that something be done to remember Trinity College before it was moved to Durham to become Duke University. Citizens suggested that a gazebo be constructed on the site of the former Trinity School using materials from the demolished building. In 1982 a committee was formed to raise $20,000 for the project. The non-ringing bell from Duke Chapel was displayed in the gazebo.
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For the Norfolk and Southern Railroad to cross the Albemarle Sound in the 1880s, it was more efficient to float the entire train instead of unloading the freight onto the barge. In 1910, a five and a half mile bridge was built, making it the longest in the world. This allowed trains to cross the Albemarle in eighteen minutes rather than two and a half hours. By 1986, the seventy-six year old bridge was reaching its limits. Because it cost $19 million to strengthen the supports, the state considered floating the train across the water as it did in the past.
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Traveling back to days of Daniel Boone can be arranged by visiting the Calloway Cemetery on Highway 163, in Ashe County. Here, Boone left a stone marked ‘T.C' on the grave of his friend Thomas Calloway, who died in 1800. Boone had given the stone to Calloway several years before his death. Other cemetery markers date back to the 1700s on what used to be the Calloway plantation.
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Lorenzo Dow was born in Connecticut in 1777 and preached Methodist doctrines in North Carolina, traveling forty to fifty miles per day through the countryside, giving sermons and his own medicinal concoctions to the sick. Dow died in 1834 at the age of 56 and was buried in a cemetery in the District of Columbia.
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Randolph County was known as \"The Covered Bridge County,\" because it was home to over sixty covered bridges in the early 1900s. This amount was significantly more than other counties. By the 1980s, Randolph had two out of the four covered bridges left in the state. A new covered bridge was constructed over an artificial pond in Randolph County c.1986, but not in the traditional sense. The new bridge housed the first Covered Bridge Eatery and Pizza Parlor in North Carolina.
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By the spring of 1862, Eastern North Carolina was already feeling the effects of the Civil War. Coastal fortifications at Washington, Plymouth, and New Bern were under federal occupation. Confederate forces still maintained control of the entire area west of Greenville, Kinston, Goldsboro, and Wilmington. The area between the U.S. and Confederate occupied areas suffered greatly. In November 1862, Major General John G. Foster, U.S.A., received orders to attack Confederate regiments in Martin County. Considered to be just as devastating as Sherman's march through Georgia, Foster's Raid covered about ninety-four miles in Martin County. Over two million dollars worth of property damage was done and nothing of military value was accomplished.
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Long before the days of million dollar contracts, press agents, and television coverage, baseball was played for fun at East Monbo Park. The park was located in Iredell County between Statesville and Mooresville near a cotton mill in the early part of the 20th-century. Workers were permitted to watch the games, which were played at five o'clock in the afternoon during the week and one o'clock on Saturdays as long as someone stayed behind to keep an eye on the machines. By 1986, the park was completely under Lake Norman, but the memory of the terrific baseball played there will live on.
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W.O. Saunders, newspaper publisher and editor of the Elizabeth City THE INDEPENDENT, was a leading advocate for identifying North Carolina as the birthplace of English civilization in America and of aviation in the world. Saunders predicted that the Outer Banks would be a tourist destination if bridges were built over the inlets. He also wrote the play “The Lost Colony,†which would be performed for years to come on Roanoke Island. During his lifetime, Saunders was never recognized for these visions. Walking the streets of Elizabeth City and New York in pajamas to protest the practice of wearing three piece suits in the summer, however, did not go unnoticed.
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A 6,000 square foot museum to preserve the memory of tobacco farm life was established in Kenly. The museum houses collections which range from quilts to farm equipment. Admission is free.
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Freedom Hill Wesleyan Church was built in 1848 near Snow Camp, when it was part of Chatham County. Freedom Hill was the first Wesleyan Methodist Church in the South. The people of Snow Camp harassed the church with musket fire because of its anti-slavery doctrine. Twelve bullet scars from are still on the doors of the church. The Wesleyan's remained steadfast in their beliefs. The church was moved to the Wesleyan Camp Grounds in Colfax, in western Guilford County in 1976.
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Just south of Hendersonville, North Carolina, is the former residence of Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sandburg. The house sits on a 240-acre farm on the side of a mountain in the Blue Ridge foothills. Built in 1838, the house has a high porch and is constructed of white clapboard. Sandburg's wife, Paula, raised goats as a hobby. The farm is the only National Historic Site of its kind. Visitors can take twenty-minute tours of the house with the accompaniment of the National Park Service guide. Here, they can see how the famous writer created such master pieces as the biography of Abraham Lincoln and his “Complete Poems†on a typewriter which sat on an orange crate.
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During the Great Depression, North Carolina families found an inexpensive form of entertainment in the radio. Every weekday afternoon the program “It's Briarhopper Time†aired, which featured country and gospel songs and novelty numbers. The program lasted through World War II and popular singers and movies stars made appearances, including Claude Casey and Whitney and Hogan. “It's Briarhopper Time†was still playing when the article was written in 1986, and was more popular than ever. The original members of the program, who were in their seventies, made appearances all over the United States and Europe. Their unique style of country music endured the cultural changes of a century.
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Giovanni Da Verrazano arrived in North Carolina sixty-four years before Sir Walter Raleigh, yet many historians fail to mention him at all. He was born into a wealthy family in Italy around 1480. He moved to France to become a privateer and later was credited with capturing $1.5 million from a Spanish ship on its way to Charles V. In 1524 he embarked on a voyage to find a short cut to the Far East. He hit land in the Cape Fear region of what is today Bogue Banks, Carteret County. Verrazano stayed on board while crew members disembarked for water. One crew member gave small gifts to the natives. He was the first European they ever encountered. Verrazano made several other stops along the shores, including the New York Bay, before returning home without finding a passage around North America.
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