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On the night of July 16, 1945, reporter Luther M. Gideon, Jr., was working in the newsroom of the Greensboro Daily News. Despite the recent surrender of Germany, bulletins were still being sent from the Associated Press, United Press, and International News Service concerning the war. Around 2 a.m., a bulletin came across the wires reporting that a major explosion had occurred at a military base in New Mexico. Gideon “killed†a section of page one and put a story about the bulletin on the front page. Over the next few weeks, nothing more regarding the explosion came across the wires. It wasn't until several months later, when President Truman announced that a “powerful bomb†had been dropped on Japan, that North Carolina readers realized the New Mexico explosion was an atom bomb test.
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A large pocosin, or raised swamp formed some 9000 years ago, is located in the Croatan National Forest. Pocosins are shrub-tree communities, with trees only about five feet in height.
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Born in 1805, William H. Thomas was a key figure in preserving lands for the Cherokee Indians of North Carolina. The main locus of the tribe was called the Qualla. Thomas worked for the state senate from 1848 until 1861, when he resigned to work for the Confederacy. In 1862, Colonel Thomas recruited over 2,800 men, 400 of them Cherokee, to be a part of his Thomas Legion, which he commanded throughout the war. Due to their skill in the woods, the Cherokees were especially good at tracking down Yankees, who were trying to hide. After the war ended, several Cherokee soldiers were captured by the Union and contracted smallpox. In the spring of 1866, after some of the captives returned home, the disease spread through the Cherokee community. Despite the efforts of a doctor Colonel Thomas brought in to treat the Indians, more than one hundred Indians died.
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In 1815, Governor William Miller appealed to the North Carolina General Assembly to commission a statue and two portraits of President George Washington, for the State House rotunda, House room, and Senate room, respectively. The assembly appropriated $10,000 for a statue of Washington by Antonio Canova of Rome, Italy. Thomas Sully was chosen as the painter and, in 1817, completed a full-length copy of Gilbert Stuart's famous portrait of Washington. This portrait was placed in the State House and suffered fire damage when the House burned in 1831, and the restoration of the portrait was not begun until 1980. Dr. Adele De Cruz of the North Carolina Museum of Art, together with three other conservators and four assistants, has fully restored the painting, which will return to the State Capitol after being on display for a time at the museum.
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Forty to fifty years ago, croquet games were played in historic Durant's Neck in Perquimans County. Most players were from the area and played Saturday and Sunday afternoons to crowded lawns of spectators. Expert audience members conferred with players, using an extensive vocabulary of croquet jargon was used. Young people could play for fun only during mornings and early afternoons, to allow for the adults' late afternoon contests.
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In 1754, Englishman Arthur Dobbs arrived in America to take over as governor of North Carolina in the midst of the French and Indian War. To protect the state, Dobbs had Fort Dobbs built near present-day Statesville and made Hugh Waddell commander of it. On the night of February 23, 1760, the Cherokee Indians orchestrated an attack on the fort, but the defenders fought fiercely and the Indians backed down. By 1766, Fort Dobbs lay in ruins. In 1970, the fort was recorded on the National Register of Historic Places and restoration of it began. Today, the fully restored fort sits on a thirty-three-acre plot of land complete with a visitors center and playground.
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The North Carolina Mining Museum in Little Switzerland preserves the old ways of mining feldspar. Work that was once done by men, women, and children in Mitchell and Yancey counties is now almost completely mechanized. Mitchell County remains the major U.S. source for feldspar.
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“The Bard of Ottary,†Shepherd M. Dugger, wrote several books about courting in Watauga County in colonial days. Although the author insisted his stories were true, there is no doubt they were embellished. In one story, for example, a girl chooses whom to marry based on how many rattlesnakes each suitor has killed; in another, a girl's mother tells her suitor to kiss her daughter and then to kiss the boils on her back. Dugger was portraying the backwoods humor of the period. In his book, WAR TRAILS OF THE BLUE RIDGE, Dugger describes courting as one of his greatest pleasures.
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In 1874, a white Massachusetts family landed at Hatteras and brought with them a young black boy named Thomas Vince, who was to be their servant and handyman. Nelson Paul Angell, his wife, Inez, their son, Lewis, together with Tom, lived in and manned the Hatteras lighthouse until Nelson died in 1887. Inez and the two boys then moved to the Angells' fifteen-acre retirement estate. Inez died in 1912, and, as sole beneficiary, Tom inherited the estate. Tom became the town's first tax-paying black resident and would remain so until his death. Tom made ice cream and played the parlor piano, which made his home a social center for the town. He was the chief cook for the Gooseville Gun Club, and, after he developed cancer, it was the club who paid all his medical expenses, property taxes, and funeral expenses. Tom died in 1937.
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The Denton International Airport Annual Fly-In and Threshers' Reunion has been held in Davidson County on the Fourth of July for the last twelve years. Last year, over 500 antique engines were shown at the airport; the nearby moonshine still is operational but sampling is not allowed; and old-fashioned hoop cheese is made and sold to visitors. The newest attraction is the Handy Dandy Railroad, log railway terminal dating back to 1860. This year, over 20,000 visitors are expected at the fly-in.
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North Carolina has been one of the nation's leaders in the production of homemade pottery for more than two centuries. In Catawba Valley, only one pottery craftsman remains. Burlon B. Craig of Henry opens his kiln only three or four times a year, and collectors come from all over the country to buy his pieces. Five-gallon jugs that now sell for $20 once sold for only $.50. Craig still digs his own clay and refuses to use commercial glazes on his pottery. An entire chapter of the POTTERS OF THE CATAWBA VALLEY, published in 1980 by the Ceramic Circle of Charlotte, is devoted to Craig.
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A recent addition to the state parks system, the Hemlock Bluffs in Wake County attract a large number of visitors. Discovered in 1971, the area is approximately three acres in size and is the only place south and east of the Appalachians where native hemlocks grow. The temperature in the bluff area is about ten degrees lower than surrounding areas, a perfect temperature for hemlocks to grow. A partial listing of 113 wildflowers growing in and around the bluffs was compiled by Rodney Flint.
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Maymont, a huge house in Cramerton, was built by Stuart Cramer in 1917. The house has thirty-eight rooms, gigantic fireplaces, and a pool so deep that it once served as a reserve water supply for the town. A mill and industrial community grew up around the house, and Cramer, who bought many local mills, became the textile leader of the area. Senator George Tinkham of Massachusetts spent many months at Maymont, and area residents claim he predicted the war with Japan before it occurred. Although the house was bought by Burlington Industries in 1940 and began to sink into disrepair, Ray Andrews and his wife currently rent the house and are slowly restoring it.
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The Davis School of LaGrange, a military boarding school, closed in 1890 due to an outbreak of meningitis and the subsequent deaths of several students. Luckily, Winston town leaders were able to raise enough money to bring the Davis School to Winston. The school reopened in Winston with 200 cadets in the fall of 1890. The first year commencement exercises included a speech from future U.S. Senator F. M. Simmons. By 1894, the student body included students from Brazil, Cuba, and thirty-five different states. Despite the school's growing success, the Panic of 1893 led to an economic depression, and left parents unable to pay tuition. The school closed before the second half of the term began in 1897.
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Frances Bullard recalls her 1920s schools days in the North Carolina mountains. She began her education in a one-room-one-teacher school that was taught by a teacher from the Normal School in Asheville. As a student, Bullard received her first vaccination. Excitedly, she and her classmates traveled to Busbee School for diphtheria vaccinations. The student's excitement waned when they saw the first needle. Bullard also learned about brushing her teeth using a toothbrush and a new product called Colgate toothpaste. Students were also taught how to make mayonnaise and light-bread sandwiches. Bullard's school grew, and she eventually attended a high school that had a separate teacher for each subject. While eager to learn new things as a child, Bullard is now returning to the mountains and the old-time mountain ways.
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