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Thomas Dixon was the well-known author of “The Birth of a Nation.†But his brothers and sisters were also noteworthy North Carolinians. His brothers, Frank and Amzie, were ministers and lecturers. His sister Delia was the first woman to practice medicine in North Carolina. And his sister May was a lecturer and author of the controversial “Strange Death of President Harding,†as well as a contributor to newspapers and magazines.
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When Pelham Humphries left the Appalachians in 1829, his family was content to forget about him. In 1835, he was killed in Texas by his friend William Inglish and suspicion arose that Inglish, through forgery, transferred Humphries's land into his own name. Inglish sold part of the land in the 1860s. But after oil was discovered in 1901, the ownership of the oil rich land was debated for years and several law suits were filed. By the 1980s the status of the land was still not determined.
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Lithium, the lightest of all solids, is an alkali metal found on every continent. But the most economic form of lithium, spodumene, is found in the greatest abundance in North Carolina from Lincolnton to Bessemer City. Lithium is used to make everyday items such as wash machines, refrigerators, eyeglass lenses, automobile headlights, and air conditioning systems, to name a few. It is also used in medicine as a tranquilizer. Lithium might be used as a super fuel someday, but in the 1980s the systems to harness its energy were slow to develop.
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Eli Olive was known for throwing silver coins for the children to pick up as he rode his horse through Johnston County. He was also known for his pranks. Olive died in 1911, but when Taylor Jolliff decided to open a bed and breakfast establishment in the late 1980s in Johnston County, he chose to name it after Eli Olive because of his love for laughter.
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Jim Goble of Salisbury makes working train models from household items like jar lids and clothespins. He built his first replica in 1928, after becoming interested in the trains delivering mail to the Spencer Shops Roundhouse. Goble never worked on the railroad, yet his models are surprisingly accurate.
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Sugar Loaf is a sixty-foot-high sand dune in Carolina Beach State Park. Prior to the mid1600s, it was an area inhabited by Indians. The Europeans tried to colonize the area, but their attempts lasted only two years because of Indian hostility. The European explorer William Hilton mapped the region and named the dune Sugar Loaf because it resembled a mass of sugar. In 1725, the “Battle of Sugar Loaf†finally secured the area for the Europeans. Sugar Loaf also saw action in the Civil War because of its proximity to Fort Fisher.
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Until 1971, when the state constitution was amended, the North Carolina General Assembly met six days a week. This tradition began because of the poor roads and transportation systems. It was too difficult for members to go back and forth between their homes and the capital. But because the State Constitution had mandated the length of these legislative sessions in 1868, even after transportation was improved the General Assembly continued to meet from Monday to Saturday. Secretary of State Thad Eure had participated in the Saturday sessions since 1925, and he made sure to be there for the last one on June 26, 1971.
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Stephan Williams, of Duplin County, followed the news of the construction of the Washington Monument from home. And he was able to travel to Washington, D.C. to see the tip of the pyramidon placed on the top. Years later, Williams was working in Washington, D.C. when he was given the three-hundred-pound ox-cart, five-hundred-pound hubs, and an axel which were used in the construction of the monument. In 1983, his daughter, Serence Williams Smith, donated these items to the Cowan Museum in Kenansville.
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A group of children called Junkies lived in the two-block section of Seventh Eighth streets in Statesville in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Every Friday, the Junkies assembled at the junkyard on Seventh Street and the gully on Eighth Street to gather scraps of metal from old automobiles. Even if the Junkies received only a dime for all of their hard work, they were pleased because it was enough to get them into the Crescent Movie House, which featured western films.
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“Unto These Hills†is a popular historical pageant performed in Cherokee, North Carolina. Begun in 1950, the pageant is one of fourteen outdoor dramas in the state. California places a distant second with eight outdoor dramas. “Unto These Hills†attracted an audience of 107,000 in its first year and 151,000 by 1953. The production is so popular because it sheds light on an area of American history that is often forgotten: the forced removal of Indian tribes in the east.
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Sugar Hill, a suburb of Fallston, is known for its annual Easter egg fight. Participants bring anywhere from 6 dozen hard-boiled eggs to 125 dozen, sometimes more. A fight commences when one person taps his or her egg against another person's egg. When one end of an egg is cracked, it is turned over, and another attack begins. A winner is declared when both ends of a competitor's egg are cracked. The winner keeps the loser's egg and both of them move on to the next fight.
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Joe Hartley claimed to have walked more miles than anyone history. In his ninety-five-year life-span, Hartley calculated his mileage to be more than 200,000. Hartley founded \"Singing On The Mountain\" at Grandfather Mountain and wrote WALKING FOR HEALTH AND TRAVELING TO ETERNITY. He was a public speaker, a farmer, a market gardener, a sheep and cattle drover, an ice cutter, a nursery caretaker, a fish and game protector, a fire warden, and a trail and fire lane builder.
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In the 1940s, farmers in Lexington, North Carolina formed a co-op by buying one dollar shares of stock. They started in the feed and grain business, then moved on to auctioning beef cattle. Gradually different animals were added to the auction such as poultry, sheep, hogs, and opossum. Farm equipment is also sold at auction. On Tuesday mornings at nine o'clock there is a flea market which was started by the wives of farmers. The grounds of the Davidson's Farmers Livestock Market is located on old Highway 64.
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The North Carolina Association of Educators had its start in Morehead City in June 1887. Teachers stayed for two weeks at the convention, which was to provide rest and relaxation from the schoolroom. At least 1700 attended the convention the first year, of which 900 stayed at the Atlantic Hotel. Afternoons were filled with boat rides and swimming, while the evenings featured lectures from noteworthy North Carolinians, such as the governor, the president of UNC, the superintendent of public instruction, and various university professors.
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Jewelry stores are not the only places you should look for emeralds and sapphires. Your might try your luck in the mountains of western North Carolina. You can dig on your own only two minutes from the Blue Ridge Parkway on the side of Highway 226, or stop by Ledford's Rock and Mr. Ledford will give you two buckets of dirt from across the road for ten dollars. Shake your buckets into a screened box, which allows the dirt to fall through, leaving the rocks. The box is then dipped into ice water to clean the rocks. It is a lot of hard work, but persistence pays off - literally.
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