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Few visitors to the Cape Lookout National Seashore realize that, without the interruption of World War I, the Cape would have become a great commercial harbor. Many, however, may notice the massive breakwater which impounds a vast harbor behind the hook of the Cape and wonder why it was ever built. It was part of a grand scheme by Senator Furnifold M. Simmons to make Cape Lookout a harbor of refuge from both storms and wars, a project that received approval and federal funding, pending an agreement with a railroad company that would ensure transport of supplies, such as coal for fueling vessels, and inland transport of goods that would be shipped into the port. After the war, the reorganized Norfolk Southern Railway refused to renew its promise to build a line to the natural harbor, the Army Engineers refused to resume work based on this decision, and there the matter rests, with only the partially completed great stone breakwater to prove that the National Seashore almost became a great port.
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When the end of the Civil War deprived Zeb Vance of the governorship of North Carolina and left him penniless, he turned to the lecture platform to earn the money he needed to support his family. Nearly all of the money was in the North and to it Vance looked for honorariums. Despite drawing barbs as the most notable ex-Confederate on the Northern lecture circuit, his innate gaiety, plus his mastery of words and the charisma of his personality, won him quick friends, and even Northerners lined up to guffaw at his low key tales from the North Carolina barnyard.
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10826
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Henry Bacon, the notable architect who designed the Lincoln Memorial, also had deep roots in North Carolina. Having spent eight years of his childhood in Wilmington, Bacon returned to the area often during his lifetime, designing a number of homes for residents of Wilmington as well as several buildings in Linville, which the late Hugh MacRae began developing as a summer resort in 1891. Bacon died on February 16, 1924 and was buried in Wilmington.
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The \"First Annual National Hollerin' Contest\" is to be held at Spivey's Corner, in Sampson County, on June 28, 1969. Back in the days before telephones, neighbors would \"holler\" to one another for communication. Ermon Godwin Jr., of Dunn, decided that it might be fun to have a contest for the National Hollerin' Title of 1969, and when news of the coming event spread, he knew he had hit the jackpot. However, this is not the first \"national\" contest to be held in North Carolina. In the 1930s, the Wilson Jaycees held the National Family Basketball Tournament. Wilson also had the National Tobacco Auctioneer contest and Dunn held the First Annual National Grandmothers' Beauty Contest.
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