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Jerry Bledsoe writes state interest columns for the GREENSBORO NEWS AND RECORD and the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER. Recently, he published CAROLINA CURIOSITIES. This book serves as a guide to almost all of North Carolina's festivals, tourist attractions, and curiosities. Included is information on such things as the Spivey Corner Hollering Contest, the Ayden Collard Festival, and Belhaven's flea marriage.
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North Carolina State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture began a cheese production program for western North Carolina in 1914. Farms in this region earned little income, and the program hoped to offer an opportunity for mountain farmers to earn more. Local men were trained by the program's agent in cheese factory operations. Factories were then built in Watauga County at Cove Creek and in Ashe County at Grassy Creek. Incomes did rise - farmers who participated in cooperative earned $1200 more in 1915 than they had the previous year. In 1916, cheese production created a $30,000 economic boost in these two counties.
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For an old-fashioned scare, visit the Old Southport Cemetery. The oldest gravesite is dated 1804, but people were buried here earlier than that. The site today is overgrown with moss-covered oak trees and weeds. The Brunswick Inn and its ghost, Antonio Casaletta, offer another scary outing. Antonio was an Italian musician who, when staying at the Brunswick Inn as a member of inn's orchestra, ventured to sea and never returned. Guests have supposedly heard Tony walking through the music parlor, looking for his harp, since his death in 1882.
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Montfort Stokes once gave up an opportunity to fill a vacant U.S. Senate seat in 1805, citing family obligations. Stokes was later elected to the senate seat in 1816, and he held that position till 1823. Stokes was a Virginia native but lived in Salisbury and Wilkes County. Stokes assisted in the settlement of the North Carolina – South Carolina and the North Carolina – Tennessee boundaries while serving as boundary commissioner. Stokes remained active in state politics as a member of the state senate, the state house of commons, and as North Carolina governor from 1830-1832. Stokes died in 1842 while serving President Andrew Jackson in the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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\"American Cameo\" pottery was a highly prized art pottery produced by Asheville native Walter B. Stephen at his Pisgah Forest Pottery. The cameo style of pottery uses raised paintings applied with a sharp brush and then glazed. Stephen's work was well known throughout the United States before his death in 1961. The art form is not being lost, as other pottery artists are producing cameo work. Marjorie Pittman and Judy Petrie produce \"Carolina Cameo\" in their Catawba County studios, while Rodney Leftwich produces cameo pottery at his Asheville workshop.
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James City got its name from Captain Horace James, a former Yankee army chaplain, who established a camp across the river from New Bern, where many freed slaves settled. When asked to leave by the owner of the land, James A. Bryan, they refused, claiming the area was under martial law when they settled there. Bryan and his descendants battled in the courts for ownership of the land and finally won their case in 1893. By order of Governor Elias Carr, state troops moved into New Bern, prepared to evict the residents. The governor averted an outright war by offering the 557 families living in James City a chance to sign a lease, under which they would pay the Bryan family for the land. The only casualty of the “James City War†was Lt. Col. David Bogart, who was thrown from his horse and killed during a parade for the troops.
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James Mooney of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology visited the Qualla Reservation of the Cherokees in 1877, gathered plants which the Indians used for food and medicine and did research on Cherokee myths. Most of what Money collected was donated to him by the Cherokee's leading shaman, an Indian named “Swimmer.†Swimmer also served in the Civil War, as a second sergeant of the Cherokee Company A, Sixty-Ninth North Carolina Confederate Infantry, Thomas Legion. With encouragement from Mooney, Swimmer compiled his knowledge of Cherokee culture and traditions into a 240-page book known as the Swimmer Manuscript, containing prayers, songs, and prescriptions to cure diseases.
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In 1942, the Coast Guard Cutter ICARUS (WPC-110) sank the German submarine the Unterseeboot 352 off the coast of North Carolina, twenty-six miles south of Morehead City. At 218 feet long, 871 tons, and 115 feet down on the sandy ocean floor, the U-352 is another relic of the Graveyard of the Atlantic. In 1975, a diver discovered an armed torpedo, 88 mm shells, and the remains of ten Nazi sailors still inside the submarine.
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The ambitious Archibald Yell was born in 1797 and grew up in a cabin in the wilderness near Waxhaw, North Carolina. He worked on his parents' small farm until he was sixteen, joined Andrew Jackson's army in Tennessee, and later studied law. Jackson awarded Yell with a judgeship in Arkansas and later Yell became the governor of that state. His restless nature led him to run for and win a seat in Congress in 1845, but the promise of adventure begged him to join the Volunteer Cavalry in the Mexican War. He died two years later, leaving behind five children.
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Rock Landing, once a riverside commercial center, mushroomed from the wooded hills along the Roanoke River in Halifax County, flourished for three decades, and then died. The town grew out of a land boom created by a grant in 1812 to construct a canal that would carry river traffic around the rapids of the Roanoke River. Cadwallader Jones began selling lots of land adjacent to Buzzard Rock, proposing the name “Rock Landing†for the town. The town flourished until the 1850s, when the eroding banks of the canal and constant flooding led to its demise in the mid-1870s. Now, the town is mostly submerged under water, leaving only a remnant of the main road leading from Roanoke Landing to Halifax.
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While North Carolina was the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution, its representatives were the twelfth delegation to arrive in New York, the first national capital. Stewart provides a short biography of North Carolina's first seven congressional members: senators Benjamin Hawkins and Samuel Johnston and representatives John Baptista Ashe, Timothy Bloodworth, John Sevier, John Steele, and Hugh Williamson. As members of the First Congress, these men participated in the passage of the Bill or Rights, the creation of the United States War Department, the United States Treasury, State Department, and Post Office Department.
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Some people do a lot to ensure their happiness after death. Ada Smith of Pink Hill kept having dreams that her dead husband was cold and wet in his grave, so she built a house over his grave. Upon her death, Ada, too, was buried under the home. Ben Freeze of Rowan County feared getting wet when he died. He built a mausoleum and then was buried not in a coffin, but on a mattress. Freeze believed that death would be much like sleep; therefore, he took measures to ensure a dry and comfortable sleep.
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North Carolina is now home to the United States tug of war champions. The Tarheel Tuggers, from Salisbury, were the 1984 national champions in the 720K class. The Tarheel Tuggers represented the United States at the World Championships, held in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Tug of war consists of teams of eight attempting to pull the rope thirteen feet in their direction. International competition consists of round robin tournaments where teams face each other in a best of three pulls. Points are awarded to the team winning two pulls. If a team wins two pulls in a row, they get are awarded three points, whereas if they win two out of three, they are awarded only two points. Tug of war has its origins in ancient cultures. Today the sport is gaining popularity not just among men but among women too.
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Zeno Ponder led the way in transforming Madison into a Democratic County. Prior to Ponder's influence, Madison County, as much of western North Carolina, heavily supported the Republican Party. Ponder, who grew up in a Republican household, began to change his political ideals while at N.C. State University and later working with the Manhattan Project during World War II. He became chairman of Madison County's board of elections in 1954. His role in transforming the county to vote Democratic has often been criticized, but Ponder denies ever using illegal means in garnering votes. While he served on the board of elections, Ponder was threatened, bombed, and hauled into court countless times. He has remained in Madison County, although his political role has diminished as Macon County is now strongly Democratic.
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The city of Charlotte is placing historical markers along Trade and Tryon streets. Plans currently include placing sixteen markers in Charlotte. The historical markers cite events in Charlotte's history, such as when President George Washington stayed at the Cook's Inn on May 28, 1791, or important landmarks, such as the site of Charlotte's first city hall. The Trade and Tryon section of Charlotte is the site of a new pedestrian mall built to encourage downtown business and tourism.
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