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Nearly every boy who grew up in the rural South during the 1920s and 1930s had a slingshot. Homemade from rubber strips, wood prongs, and a leather patch, the slingshot provided hours of entertainment. Opportunities for practice could be found with squirrels, rabbits, snakes, and other varmints around the farm. Not everyone could consider himself an expert, but many boys took to the sport quite seriously.
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“Pictures compliment the written word,†says Jerry W. Cotton, archivist at the North Carolina Collection in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Started in 1928 by Mary L. Thornton, there were only 135 prints by the end of the first year. But by 1986, there were between 150,000 and 200,000 prints, including pictures of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Wright Brothers' flight, and the Union occupation of New Bern in the Civil War. There are also two special collections, Thomas Wolfe and Mrs. Bayard Wooten. These were created separately because they contained so many photographs. Archivist Jerry W. Cotton and curator Dr. H.G. Jones encourage people to donate their old photographs to the collection so they can be preserved and made available to the public.
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Two prominent families were brought together when Henry Flagler and Mary Kenan wed in 1901. Flagler was one of the founders of the Standard Oil Company and founder of the Florida East Coast Railway System. Kenan also came from a well-known family. Her brother, for example, was famous for discovering carbon gas for home lighting before the electric light was used, and he built the first electric light plant in Chapel Hill. Henry Flagler died in 1918 (sic) and left their $4 million mansion named “Whitehall,†in Palm Beach, Florida, to Mary. She established the Kenan Professorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her siblings inherited the estate after her death and began a long tradition of philanthropy in North Carolina, including major funding for the Kenan Stadium and Kenan Memorial Auditorium.
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At Shallotte Point, North Carolina, the Annual Poor Boy Shark Tournament is held for three days each year. It is the only shark fishing tournament held in North Carolina. In its fifth year, the tournament hosted 35 boats, and 118 fishermen who caught 87 sharks. Participants are warned of the dangerous that come with hunting shark, but they love the competition and of course, the food.
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In 1978, the Historic Jamestown Society was given the Mendenhall Plantation in Jamestown, North Carolina, as a donation from the owner, Mrs. W.G. Ragsdale. The plantation represented a part of the south that many people were not familiar with: the small farmer who did not depend on slave labor. James Mendenhall and his family were Pennsylvania Quakers who settled the area around 1762. They named the settlement between Salisbury and Virginia Jamestown after James. The plantation was built around 1811 by Richard Mendenhall, the son of the town's founder. The two-story, “hall and parlor†style structure had Flemish bond brick walls and arched openings. There is also a Pennsylvania-style barn on the grounds, which was once used to teach runaway slaves a trade. The Jamestown Society plans to open the site to visitors and furnish it with antiques from the period.
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Spain had a formal claim to what is now North Carolina up to 1670, but most history books fail to mention that Spaniards actually occupied portions of the land for extended periods of time. Several clues indicate that this is true. When Virginia explorers landed in the Albemarle region in 1653, they came across a Native American who insisted that the explorers meet a wealthy Spaniard who had been residing with the Tuscarora Indians for seven years. Three years prior to this encounter, Edward Bland was instructed to make inquiries about a white man living with the Tuscaroras. 17th-century maps of the region, such as W. J. Blaeu's and Mercator's maps, also indicated possible connections with Spain. Spaniards might have resided with the Tuscarora Indians to keep an eye on England's settlement in the region. It is possible that Spain might have even supplied trading and arms to the Tuscarora in the Tuscarora War of 1711-1713.
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On August 5, 1781, a battle between Revolutionary War Patriots and Tories took place at the home of Mrs. Phillip Alston in Moore County. Mrs. Alston surrendered to the Patriots to save the lives of her children. Known as the House In The Horseshoe because it is located in a C-like bend in Deep River, the Alston home changed ownership several times before the Moore County Historical Society acquired it in 1954. The state then took ownership, restored it, and furnished it with colonial period decorations. Each year, during the first weekend in August, a reenactment battle is held.
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In search of information about the grandfather that he never knew, G. Kent Strickland discovered a little-known Civil War story. Strickland was told that his grandfather Thomas Strickland died in a railroad accident in Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. After years of research, Kent discovered that Thomas was captured at Cold Harbor and that the railroad accident occurred in Shohola, Pennsylvania. A total of sixty-seven confederate prisoners of war and Union guards were killed when two trains collided.
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There are strange laws on the books that seemed to have been created by North Carolina politicians looking for a good laugh. For example, it is illegal for men to flirt with girls that they do not know in Concord. In Marshville, intoxicated persons must be given castor oil. And in Pekin, young women are not permitted to drink coffee after 6:00 p.m. Strange laws like these remain because it takes many years to get a law on the books, and would take many more to get them off.
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The Do Drop In was established in 1947 in Winterville, North Carolina, by Wilbur Hardee. A year later he opened another restaurant at Port Terminal, near Greenville, and in 1954, Hardee purchased a building in Greenville known as the Three Steers. At a McDonald's Fast Food restaurant in Greensboro, North Carolina, Hardee noticed that their hamburgers were grilled and thought charcoaled hamburgers would be better. To prepare hamburgers this way, he opened the original Wilbur Hardee Restaurant in Greenville in 1960. Hardee sold out to Jim Gardner the same year and by 1986 there were more than 1,500 Hardees in the southeast.
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Alice Person of Franklinton became interested in medicine when one of her daughters became ill with a type of tuberculosis. Doctors said that her daughter would not live, but Mrs. Person followed a stranger's directions for an herbal remedy, and three weeks later the child was cured. Mrs. Person heard a case of a similar illness, she sent a batch of the herbs, which were soon known as “Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy.â€
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One of the biggest upsets in a U.S. Senatorial campaign was in 1932 by Robert R. Reynolds over Cameron Morrison. Reynolds was against prohibition and for government regulation of liquor. Know as the “good roads governor†and a champion of public education, Morrison was so confident in the loyalty of his followers that he made virtually no campaign in the primary. But the people of North Carolina were critical of his abundant wealth through marriage, so Reynolds won by more than 100,000 votes, the largest margin in North Carolina history at that time.
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James McAllister and Williamson Fuller were both born in Fayetteville in the mid-19th-century. McAllister's wife was a slave owned by a distinguished Cumberland County family which included his friend Fuller. McAllister was so grateful for their friendship that he willed his property to Fuller. Fuller combined the five thousand dollars he received for selling the property and his own five thousand dollars worth of Bethlehem Steel Co. stock to create the “James McAllister Fund.†It is not a charity; monies are distributed annually as Christmas gifts to “recognize colored people who live in close community and harmony with both races.â€
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The cemetery at Beck's United Church of Christ in Davidson County was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, but many of the stones were deteriorating. The North Carolina Division of Archives and History stepped in to help restore the markers properly. The main problems of concern to the specialists were repairing broken stones, cleaning weathered stones, and protecting stones from lawn mowers.
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The majority of North Carolinian's delegates were Anti-Federalists who voted to reject the federal constitution in 1788. Out of 268 delegates in North Carolina William R. Davie, Alexander Martin, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson, and William Blount were elected by the General Assembly to serve as founding fathers. The following year opinion shifted and North Carolina became the twelfth state to ratify the constitution.
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