There are many well-known family names dating back 200 years or more, but there is one name that it seems to be generally agreed in the oldest in North Carolina - Blount.
A giant picnic table made of concrete reinforced with steel has been presented to Lovejoy Church by Frank Hurley, to mark the annual Lovejoy Reunion and week-long Camp Meeting.
A number of new works such as labyrinths, pleached alleys, and espaliered trees, will be added to the vocabulary of North Carolinians, as the Elizabethan Garden project undertaken by the Garden Club of North Carolina gets under way.
The first military court-martial held in America may have occurred in the area between Brittain Presbyterian Church and Sunshine, in Logan Store Township of Rutherford County.
The first English colonists in America met the Indians of Pasquotank. The Indians were of Algonquin stock, a vast body of scattered tribes occupying territory extending from the sandbanks of Carolina to the St. Lawrence River and westward to the Rocky Mountains.