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Northwest Ashe High School in Warrensville was the first public school in North Carolina to have its own indoor swimming pool. Students and teachers raised the $60,000 necessary to build the pool, and, with some help from the community, built the pool themselves. It opened in 1975, and, for a fee, can be used by the public at night.\r\n
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Dr. Lewis M. McCormick of Asheville's Health Department was known as The Fly Man. Born in 1863, he became Asheville's first City Bacteriologist in 1905, and was responsible for the passing of a fly control ordinance and for the reduction of fly-carried diseases. Over a five year period, Asheville's annual typhoid rate fell from eighty-nine cases to just two. McCormick died of a heart attack in 1922.
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The SNAP DRAGON was a two-topsail schooner used by privateer Otway Burns during the War of 1812. Captured in 1814, there is no American information as to what happened to the ship after its capture. British records show it was bought at auction and sailed to Jamaica in 1815. The final entry says she left Jamaica in 1816, and the trail of the schooner ends there.
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In the mid-twenties, Erskine Caldwell began writing book reviews for THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER. Caldwell's best-selling book, TOBACCO ROAD, was heavily influenced by his time spent in North Carolina. Although Caldwell now lives in Arizona and Montana, NC State University recently received a collection of his unpublished manuscripts which graduate students are now working with.
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Marguerite Weber was the only female hydroplane racer long before the E.R.A. Although it took her some time to prove herself to male racers, Weber won many trophies and was always invited to races. Weber raced under any conditions, including in an electrical storm and after half of her face was bandaged following injury.
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6.Molasses Making Goes Modern – Almost by Williams, Robert L. The State Vol. 48 Issue 4, Sept 1980
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The molasses mill in Cleveland County is one of the few places left in North Carolina where molasses is made. Fitzhugh McMurry's mill has been in operation for over a century. This year, McMurry planted fifteen acres of sugar cane and is expecting a yield of about six hundred gallons of molasses. McMurry begins making his molasses in mid-September, and has customers as far away as California come to purchase it.
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In 1825, the Literary Fund was adopted by congress, and led to the creation of a public school in every county in North Carolina by 1846. By 1865, however, the Literary Fund was depleted, and all of the schools were closed. In 1880, the Davis School, a military boarding school for boys, opened in La Grange. In 1889, after several students died from meningitis and the school was forced to close.
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Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Glendale Springs houses a fresco painted by Ben Long of Statesville. The fresco depicts the Last Supper. Fresco is a style of painting where the artist paints directly on the wet plaster, thus infusing the paint with the wall. Long, an apprentice of Italian artist Pietro Annigoni, was awarded the Leonardo Da Vinci prize in 1975 as the most promising artist in Europe.
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B. H. Griffin and his wife took ownership of the Sir Walter Hotel of Raleigh in 1928, and transformed it into a hub of political life. Many political figures and their wives moved into the Sir Walter's apartments. Wives of various officials formed an organization called the Sir Walter Cabinet that met in Mrs. Griffin's apartment at the Sir Walter. By the 1960s, increased membership forced the cabinet to meet at various places in and around Raleigh. The Sir Walter was also used for wedding receptions and parties, and housed the Sphinx Club, a gentleman's retreat.
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In autumn, fishing on the North Carolina coast is bountiful. However, when the fish are not biting, shellfish can be found in any coastal water area that is not polluted. Clams can be raked during low tide in creek beds, along the banks, and on old sandbars. Crabs can be baited using nets and fish heads. Oysters are found in clusters on the edges of marshes and along creeks at low tide. It is necessary, however, to check local laws which define sizes and quantities of shellfish that can be removed from these areas.
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Bluff Mountain was purchased by the North Carolina Nature Conservatory last year. Over thirty rare and endangered plants grow on the mountain. Many rare birds have been spotted on or around the mountain. The conservatory has erected a gate to discourage hikers and bicyclists from roaming the mountain and trampling the vegetation.
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Lieutenant Colonel Tazewell Lee Hargrove and six other officers of the 44th North Carolina Regiment were taken prisoner by the Yankees following their defense of the South Anna Bridge. Taken first to Fort Norfolk and then to Fort Delaware, these officers joined about 600 other Confederate prisoners of war. In 1863, these men were placed in a stockade outside Yankee forces on Morris Island, then under fire from the Confederates. Hargrove survived the war and was released after taking the Yankee oath of allegiance. He was elected North Carolina Attorney General in 1872, and had a successful law practice. Ravages inflicted on his body during his years as a prisoner led to his death in 1889 at the age of 59.
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The North Carolina Mining Museum opened at the McKinney Mine last month. The museum tells the story of mining in North Carolina, beginning with the Cherokee Indians and ending soon after the end of World War II. The museum manager, Charles Robert Buchanan, worked in the mine with his father. For a fee, visitors can dig for precious metals at the underground museum's dump areas.
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When night-wandering dogs threatened the lives of David P. Dellinger's chickens, he appealed to the General Assembly to make Dellview a town in 1925 so that the residents could legally shoot the trespassing dogs. Eighty-five-year-old Mrs. J. Henry Dellinger was named mayor of 52-acre Dellview at its founding, and has been the only mayor the town has ever had. The current eight residents, all family of the mayor, have no intention of expanding their little town, either in size or population.
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Tazewell Lee Hargrove, born April 6, 1830, was the Lieutenant Colonel of the 44th North Carolina Troops. Although war reports vary, it is believed that with a company of only eighty men, Hargrove defended the South Anna Bridge for four hours against a Yankee force of 1500. The bridge was ultimately captured by the Yankees. Hargrove is buried in Townsville.
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