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FORT JOHNSTON
Fort Johnston, which was not deemed officially complete until 1764, was designed to respond to threats from both Spanish and French forces along the coastline of North Carolina. The fort played an integral role in the Stamp Act crisis, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War. Today, all that remains of the fort are the officers’ quarters. JAMES CITY | NCPEDIA James City in Craven County evolved during the Civil War and Reconstruction years and represents attempts by African Americans to establish an independent community in North Carolina. In 1862 Union forces captured New Bern and other towns along the North Carolina coast. While Union troops occupied New Bern, former slaves-who had no place else to go-flooded into the town, whichWELSH SETTLERS
Welsh Settlers. The Welsh settlement of the Cape Fear region in the early eighteenth century extended 80 to 90 miles inland along the creeks flowing into the Cape Fear and the Northeast Cape Fear Rivers. These bodies of water included Rockfish, James's, Swift's, and Smith's Creeks, Black Mingo and Goshen Swamps, and the Black River nearFURNITURE INDUSTRY
Part 1: Overview. Furniture has been an important product of North Carolina artisans and manufacturers since the early colonial era. The massive success of the industry in the state led to North Carolina's acquiring the nickname " Furniture Capital of the World " during the 1980s, when the state produced approximately one-half of the furnitureBLACK FREEMASONRY
Black lodges often rented their property to black businessmen. During the late nineteenth century, black freemasonry in North Carolina continued to grow in size and extend the range of its social and benevolent activities. From 37 lodges and 1,000 members in 1880, the organization grew to 358 lodges and more than 10,000 members by 1910. NASA TRACKING STATION IN NORTH CAROLINA The NASA Tracking Station near Rosman, North Carolina opened to track satellites & manned space flights. It collected data for the Department of Defense from1982-1995. The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) is a public nonprofit foundationCHAMBERS, MAXWELL
1780–7 Feb. 1855. Maxwell Chambers, planter and manufacturer, was born in Salisbury, the son of Joseph and Mary Campbell Chambers. His father died in 1784, and Maxwell was placed by the court under the protection of kinsmen Maxwell Chambers the elder and William Nesbit. He received his education in Salisbury and while yet a young man wentto
CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) MEMORIAL Description: This marker commemorates the service of American military personnel in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II. It is composed of a rectangular granite slab, approximately four feet tall by three feet wide, with the red, white, and blue shoulder sleeve insignia of the China-Burma-India forces of the United States Army AirForces.
WILSON, THOMAS D. (BIG TOM) 1 Dec. 1825–1 Feb. 1908. Thomas D. (Big Tom) Wilson, legendary hunter and mountain guide, was born at the family home on the Toe River in Yancey County, a region at that time of almost unbroken wilderness in the lofty Black Mountains.As a young man Wilson acquired an intimate knowledge of the region and was soon widely sought after as a guide for hunting and exploring trips. CLARK'S REGIMENTAL HISTORIES "Clark's Regimental Histories" is the popular title for the five-volume Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865, edited by Walter Clark and published by the state in 1901.. In October 1894 the North Carolina Confederate Veterans Association in Raleigh resolved that a history of each regiment or other state organization that served withFORT JOHNSTON
Fort Johnston, which was not deemed officially complete until 1764, was designed to respond to threats from both Spanish and French forces along the coastline of North Carolina. The fort played an integral role in the Stamp Act crisis, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War. Today, all that remains of the fort are the officers’ quarters. JAMES CITY | NCPEDIA James City in Craven County evolved during the Civil War and Reconstruction years and represents attempts by African Americans to establish an independent community in North Carolina. In 1862 Union forces captured New Bern and other towns along the North Carolina coast. While Union troops occupied New Bern, former slaves-who had no place else to go-flooded into the town, whichWELSH SETTLERS
Welsh Settlers. The Welsh settlement of the Cape Fear region in the early eighteenth century extended 80 to 90 miles inland along the creeks flowing into the Cape Fear and the Northeast Cape Fear Rivers. These bodies of water included Rockfish, James's, Swift's, and Smith's Creeks, Black Mingo and Goshen Swamps, and the Black River nearFURNITURE INDUSTRY
Part 1: Overview. Furniture has been an important product of North Carolina artisans and manufacturers since the early colonial era. The massive success of the industry in the state led to North Carolina's acquiring the nickname " Furniture Capital of the World " during the 1980s, when the state produced approximately one-half of the furnitureBLACK FREEMASONRY
Black lodges often rented their property to black businessmen. During the late nineteenth century, black freemasonry in North Carolina continued to grow in size and extend the range of its social and benevolent activities. From 37 lodges and 1,000 members in 1880, the organization grew to 358 lodges and more than 10,000 members by 1910. NASA TRACKING STATION IN NORTH CAROLINA The NASA Tracking Station near Rosman, North Carolina opened to track satellites & manned space flights. It collected data for the Department of Defense from1982-1995. The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) is a public nonprofit foundationCHAMBERS, MAXWELL
1780–7 Feb. 1855. Maxwell Chambers, planter and manufacturer, was born in Salisbury, the son of Joseph and Mary Campbell Chambers. His father died in 1784, and Maxwell was placed by the court under the protection of kinsmen Maxwell Chambers the elder and William Nesbit. He received his education in Salisbury and while yet a young man wentto
CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) MEMORIAL Description: This marker commemorates the service of American military personnel in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II. It is composed of a rectangular granite slab, approximately four feet tall by three feet wide, with the red, white, and blue shoulder sleeve insignia of the China-Burma-India forces of the United States Army AirForces.
WILSON, THOMAS D. (BIG TOM) 1 Dec. 1825–1 Feb. 1908. Thomas D. (Big Tom) Wilson, legendary hunter and mountain guide, was born at the family home on the Toe River in Yancey County, a region at that time of almost unbroken wilderness in the lofty Black Mountains.As a young man Wilson acquired an intimate knowledge of the region and was soon widely sought after as a guide for hunting and exploring trips.NCPEDIA HOME PAGE
About NCpedia NCpedia is an online encyclopedia about North Carolina, U.S.A. As of March 1, 2017, NCpedia included 7,115 entries and 7,488images!Learn more
BLACK FREEMASONRY
Black lodges often rented their property to black businessmen. During the late nineteenth century, black freemasonry in North Carolina continued to grow in size and extend the range of its social and benevolent activities. From 37 lodges and 1,000 members in 1880, the organization grew to 358 lodges and more than 10,000 members by 1910.FURNITURE INDUSTRY
Part 1: Overview. Furniture has been an important product of North Carolina artisans and manufacturers since the early colonial era. The massive success of the industry in the state led to North Carolina's acquiring the nickname " Furniture Capital of the World " during the 1980s, when the state produced approximately one-half of the furnitureARGYLL COLONY
Argyll Colony was the first colony of Highland Scots to settle in the Upper Cape Fear. Settled in 1739, the colony was named for the shire in western Scotland from which its members came. They were the vanguard of what began as a trickle and grew into a flood of Highland immigrants to Bladen County (later divided into Cumberland, Moore, Robeson, Harnett, and Hoke Counties).KUDZU | NCPEDIA
Kudzu (Pueraria lobata), or "kuzu" as it is known in Japan, was introduced to the United States in 1876 as part of the Japanese pavilion at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.In Japan it is lauded for its many culinary, textile, and medicinal uses; and it gained popularity in the United States as an ornamental shade plant, well received for its fragrant flowers and adaptability.FORT SAN JUAN
The first was called Fort San Salvador. Some Spanish soldiers, unhappy with conditions there, mutinied, stole a ship, and returned to Cuba. Less than 40 soldiers remained at Santa Elena, short of food and arms, when Captain Juan Pardo arrived on July 18, 1566, with 250 men. Pardo and his soldiers built the second fort at Santa Elena, Fort San SLOOP POINT PLANTATION Sloop Point Plantation, located in eastern Pender County, was constructed around 1726, making it the oldest surviving house in North Carolina. John Baptista Ashe acquired a land grant including an estimated 1,000 acres, extending across what is today U.S. 17 to the Intracoastal Waterway. The name derived from an early shipyard and port that served as a center for sloops arriving in the regionSTATE V. NEGRO WILL
References: John S. Bassett, "The Case of the State v. Will," Trinity College Historical Papers 2 (1898). George Gordon Battle, "The State of North Carolina v. Negro Will, a Slave of James S. Battle: A Cause Célèbre of Antebellum Times," Virginia Law Review 12 (1924). Patrick S. Brady, "Slavery, Race, and the Criminal Law in Antebellum North Carolina: A Reconsideration of the Thomas RuffinNORCOM, JAMES, SR.
29 Dec. 1778–9 Nov. 1850. See also: Jacobs, Harriet James Norcom, Sr., physician, was born in Chowan County, the son of John and Miriam Standin Norcom.He received his early education at schools in Chowan County—among them, the Edenton Academy, of which he later served for many years as a trustee. At seventeen he began to study medicine in Philadelphia, where he was both a private studentHENKEL, PAUL
15 Dec. 1754–20 Nov. 1825. Paul Henkel, Lutheran pastor, missionary, and organizer on the American frontier, was born on Dutchman's Creek in present Davie County, the oldest son of Jacob and Mary Barbara Dieter Henkel, who had just moved to the North Carolina frontier on the eve of the French and Indian War.When the Cherokees overran that section in 1760, Jacob Henkel, like so many of his CLARK'S REGIMENTAL HISTORIES "Clark's Regimental Histories" is the popular title for the five-volume Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865, edited by Walter Clark and published by the state in 1901.. In October 1894 the North Carolina Confederate Veterans Association in Raleigh resolved that a history of each regiment or other state organization that served withFORT JOHNSTON
Fort Johnston, which was not deemed officially complete until 1764, was designed to respond to threats from both Spanish and French forces along the coastline of North Carolina. The fort played an integral role in the Stamp Act crisis, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War. Today, all that remains of the fort are the officers’ quarters. JAMES CITY | NCPEDIA James City in Craven County evolved during the Civil War and Reconstruction years and represents attempts by African Americans to establish an independent community in North Carolina. In 1862 Union forces captured New Bern and other towns along the North Carolina coast. While Union troops occupied New Bern, former slaves-who had no place else to go-flooded into the town, whichWELSH SETTLERS
Welsh Settlers. The Welsh settlement of the Cape Fear region in the early eighteenth century extended 80 to 90 miles inland along the creeks flowing into the Cape Fear and the Northeast Cape Fear Rivers. These bodies of water included Rockfish, James's, Swift's, and Smith's Creeks, Black Mingo and Goshen Swamps, and the Black River nearFURNITURE INDUSTRY
Part 1: Overview. Furniture has been an important product of North Carolina artisans and manufacturers since the early colonial era. The massive success of the industry in the state led to North Carolina's acquiring the nickname " Furniture Capital of the World " during the 1980s, when the state produced approximately one-half of the furnitureBLACK FREEMASONRY
Black lodges often rented their property to black businessmen. During the late nineteenth century, black freemasonry in North Carolina continued to grow in size and extend the range of its social and benevolent activities. From 37 lodges and 1,000 members in 1880, the organization grew to 358 lodges and more than 10,000 members by 1910. NASA TRACKING STATION IN NORTH CAROLINA The NASA Tracking Station near Rosman, North Carolina opened to track satellites & manned space flights. It collected data for the Department of Defense from1982-1995. The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) is a public nonprofit foundationCHAMBERS, MAXWELL
1780–7 Feb. 1855. Maxwell Chambers, planter and manufacturer, was born in Salisbury, the son of Joseph and Mary Campbell Chambers. His father died in 1784, and Maxwell was placed by the court under the protection of kinsmen Maxwell Chambers the elder and William Nesbit. He received his education in Salisbury and while yet a young man wentto
CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) MEMORIAL Description: This marker commemorates the service of American military personnel in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II. It is composed of a rectangular granite slab, approximately four feet tall by three feet wide, with the red, white, and blue shoulder sleeve insignia of the China-Burma-India forces of the United States Army AirForces.
WILSON, THOMAS D. (BIG TOM) 1 Dec. 1825–1 Feb. 1908. Thomas D. (Big Tom) Wilson, legendary hunter and mountain guide, was born at the family home on the Toe River in Yancey County, a region at that time of almost unbroken wilderness in the lofty Black Mountains.As a young man Wilson acquired an intimate knowledge of the region and was soon widely sought after as a guide for hunting and exploring trips. CLARK'S REGIMENTAL HISTORIES "Clark's Regimental Histories" is the popular title for the five-volume Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865, edited by Walter Clark and published by the state in 1901.. In October 1894 the North Carolina Confederate Veterans Association in Raleigh resolved that a history of each regiment or other state organization that served withFORT JOHNSTON
Fort Johnston, which was not deemed officially complete until 1764, was designed to respond to threats from both Spanish and French forces along the coastline of North Carolina. The fort played an integral role in the Stamp Act crisis, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War. Today, all that remains of the fort are the officers’ quarters. JAMES CITY | NCPEDIA James City in Craven County evolved during the Civil War and Reconstruction years and represents attempts by African Americans to establish an independent community in North Carolina. In 1862 Union forces captured New Bern and other towns along the North Carolina coast. While Union troops occupied New Bern, former slaves-who had no place else to go-flooded into the town, whichWELSH SETTLERS
Welsh Settlers. The Welsh settlement of the Cape Fear region in the early eighteenth century extended 80 to 90 miles inland along the creeks flowing into the Cape Fear and the Northeast Cape Fear Rivers. These bodies of water included Rockfish, James's, Swift's, and Smith's Creeks, Black Mingo and Goshen Swamps, and the Black River nearFURNITURE INDUSTRY
Part 1: Overview. Furniture has been an important product of North Carolina artisans and manufacturers since the early colonial era. The massive success of the industry in the state led to North Carolina's acquiring the nickname " Furniture Capital of the World " during the 1980s, when the state produced approximately one-half of the furnitureBLACK FREEMASONRY
Black lodges often rented their property to black businessmen. During the late nineteenth century, black freemasonry in North Carolina continued to grow in size and extend the range of its social and benevolent activities. From 37 lodges and 1,000 members in 1880, the organization grew to 358 lodges and more than 10,000 members by 1910. NASA TRACKING STATION IN NORTH CAROLINA The NASA Tracking Station near Rosman, North Carolina opened to track satellites & manned space flights. It collected data for the Department of Defense from1982-1995. The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) is a public nonprofit foundationCHAMBERS, MAXWELL
1780–7 Feb. 1855. Maxwell Chambers, planter and manufacturer, was born in Salisbury, the son of Joseph and Mary Campbell Chambers. His father died in 1784, and Maxwell was placed by the court under the protection of kinsmen Maxwell Chambers the elder and William Nesbit. He received his education in Salisbury and while yet a young man wentto
CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) MEMORIAL Description: This marker commemorates the service of American military personnel in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II. It is composed of a rectangular granite slab, approximately four feet tall by three feet wide, with the red, white, and blue shoulder sleeve insignia of the China-Burma-India forces of the United States Army AirForces.
WILSON, THOMAS D. (BIG TOM) 1 Dec. 1825–1 Feb. 1908. Thomas D. (Big Tom) Wilson, legendary hunter and mountain guide, was born at the family home on the Toe River in Yancey County, a region at that time of almost unbroken wilderness in the lofty Black Mountains.As a young man Wilson acquired an intimate knowledge of the region and was soon widely sought after as a guide for hunting and exploring trips.NCPEDIA HOME PAGE
About NCpedia NCpedia is an online encyclopedia about North Carolina, U.S.A. As of March 1, 2017, NCpedia included 7,115 entries and 7,488images!Learn more
BLACK FREEMASONRY
Black lodges often rented their property to black businessmen. During the late nineteenth century, black freemasonry in North Carolina continued to grow in size and extend the range of its social and benevolent activities. From 37 lodges and 1,000 members in 1880, the organization grew to 358 lodges and more than 10,000 members by 1910.FURNITURE INDUSTRY
Part 1: Overview. Furniture has been an important product of North Carolina artisans and manufacturers since the early colonial era. The massive success of the industry in the state led to North Carolina's acquiring the nickname " Furniture Capital of the World " during the 1980s, when the state produced approximately one-half of the furnitureARGYLL COLONY
Argyll Colony was the first colony of Highland Scots to settle in the Upper Cape Fear. Settled in 1739, the colony was named for the shire in western Scotland from which its members came. They were the vanguard of what began as a trickle and grew into a flood of Highland immigrants to Bladen County (later divided into Cumberland, Moore, Robeson, Harnett, and Hoke Counties).KUDZU | NCPEDIA
Kudzu (Pueraria lobata), or "kuzu" as it is known in Japan, was introduced to the United States in 1876 as part of the Japanese pavilion at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.In Japan it is lauded for its many culinary, textile, and medicinal uses; and it gained popularity in the United States as an ornamental shade plant, well received for its fragrant flowers and adaptability.FORT SAN JUAN
The first was called Fort San Salvador. Some Spanish soldiers, unhappy with conditions there, mutinied, stole a ship, and returned to Cuba. Less than 40 soldiers remained at Santa Elena, short of food and arms, when Captain Juan Pardo arrived on July 18, 1566, with 250 men. Pardo and his soldiers built the second fort at Santa Elena, Fort San SLOOP POINT PLANTATION Sloop Point Plantation, located in eastern Pender County, was constructed around 1726, making it the oldest surviving house in North Carolina. John Baptista Ashe acquired a land grant including an estimated 1,000 acres, extending across what is today U.S. 17 to the Intracoastal Waterway. The name derived from an early shipyard and port that served as a center for sloops arriving in the regionSTATE V. NEGRO WILL
References: John S. Bassett, "The Case of the State v. Will," Trinity College Historical Papers 2 (1898). George Gordon Battle, "The State of North Carolina v. Negro Will, a Slave of James S. Battle: A Cause Célèbre of Antebellum Times," Virginia Law Review 12 (1924). Patrick S. Brady, "Slavery, Race, and the Criminal Law in Antebellum North Carolina: A Reconsideration of the Thomas RuffinNORCOM, JAMES, SR.
29 Dec. 1778–9 Nov. 1850. See also: Jacobs, Harriet James Norcom, Sr., physician, was born in Chowan County, the son of John and Miriam Standin Norcom.He received his early education at schools in Chowan County—among them, the Edenton Academy, of which he later served for many years as a trustee. At seventeen he began to study medicine in Philadelphia, where he was both a private studentHENKEL, PAUL
15 Dec. 1754–20 Nov. 1825. Paul Henkel, Lutheran pastor, missionary, and organizer on the American frontier, was born on Dutchman's Creek in present Davie County, the oldest son of Jacob and Mary Barbara Dieter Henkel, who had just moved to the North Carolina frontier on the eve of the French and Indian War.When the Cherokees overran that section in 1760, Jacob Henkel, like so many of his CLARK'S REGIMENTAL HISTORIES "Clark's Regimental Histories" is the popular title for the five-volume Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865, edited by Walter Clark and published by the state in 1901.. In October 1894 the North Carolina Confederate Veterans Association in Raleigh resolved that a history of each regiment or other state organization that served withWELSH SETTLERS
Welsh Settlers. The Welsh settlement of the Cape Fear region in the early eighteenth century extended 80 to 90 miles inland along the creeks flowing into the Cape Fear and the Northeast Cape Fear Rivers. These bodies of water included Rockfish, James's, Swift's, and Smith's Creeks, Black Mingo and Goshen Swamps, and the Black River nearBLACK FREEMASONRY
Black lodges often rented their property to black businessmen. During the late nineteenth century, black freemasonry in North Carolina continued to grow in size and extend the range of its social and benevolent activities. From 37 lodges and 1,000 members in 1880, the organization grew to 358 lodges and more than 10,000 members by 1910.KUDZU | NCPEDIA
Kudzu (Pueraria lobata), or "kuzu" as it is known in Japan, was introduced to the United States in 1876 as part of the Japanese pavilion at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.In Japan it is lauded for its many culinary, textile, and medicinal uses; and it gained popularity in the United States as an ornamental shade plant, well received for its fragrant flowers and adaptability. THE AUTOMOBILE: SOCIAL GAME CHANGER The automobile changed American society and the lives of women. During the first decades of the 20th century, the middle class was growing in the U.S. And more people could afford to buy a car. The car changed American society in many ways. People had more freedom and more freetime.
KEHUKEE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION The Kehukee Baptist Association was formed in the eighteenth century by Baptist churches in eastern North Carolina that had belonged to the Charleston Baptist Convention but decided, because of distance and divergent interests, to form their own association. The actual date of the formation is now accepted as 1769. These churches were initially considered Regular Baptist, but they graduallySIMMONS SEA-SKIFF
Simmons Sea-Skiff. by Gene Purcell, 2006. From 1950 through the 1960s, T. N. Simmons and his son built hundreds of small boats on the North Carolina coast that many regarded as the best sportfishing and recreational power boats available. Never manufactured on a large scale, the vessels were simply purchased shortly after Simmonsfinished them.
SAMARCAND MANOR
Samarcand Manor, officially the State Home and Industrial School for Girls, was a humane correctional institution for young women established near Eagle Springs by the North Carolina state legislature in 1918.The purpose of the school was to reclaim and train delinquent girls by providing a "homelike place where those who have fallen may find temporary shelter, and under a firm yet kindHENKEL, PAUL
15 Dec. 1754–20 Nov. 1825. Paul Henkel, Lutheran pastor, missionary, and organizer on the American frontier, was born on Dutchman's Creek in present Davie County, the oldest son of Jacob and Mary Barbara Dieter Henkel, who had just moved to the North Carolina frontier on the eve of the French and Indian War.When the Cherokees overran that section in 1760, Jacob Henkel, like so many of hisREYNOLDA HOUSE
Reynolda House. by Anna Withers Bair, 2006. In 1914 Richard J. Reynolds, founder and president of Reynolds Tobacco Company, and his wife, Katharine Smith Reynolds, hired Philadelphia architect Charles Barton Keen to draw up plans for an English-style village and manor house to be located on 1,067 acres that Reynolds purchased on theoutskirts
CLARK'S REGIMENTAL HISTORIES "Clark's Regimental Histories" is the popular title for the five-volume Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865, edited by Walter Clark and published by the state in 1901.. In October 1894 the North Carolina Confederate Veterans Association in Raleigh resolved that a history of each regiment or other state organization that served withWELSH SETTLERS
Welsh Settlers. The Welsh settlement of the Cape Fear region in the early eighteenth century extended 80 to 90 miles inland along the creeks flowing into the Cape Fear and the Northeast Cape Fear Rivers. These bodies of water included Rockfish, James's, Swift's, and Smith's Creeks, Black Mingo and Goshen Swamps, and the Black River nearBLACK FREEMASONRY
Black lodges often rented their property to black businessmen. During the late nineteenth century, black freemasonry in North Carolina continued to grow in size and extend the range of its social and benevolent activities. From 37 lodges and 1,000 members in 1880, the organization grew to 358 lodges and more than 10,000 members by 1910.KUDZU | NCPEDIA
Kudzu (Pueraria lobata), or "kuzu" as it is known in Japan, was introduced to the United States in 1876 as part of the Japanese pavilion at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.In Japan it is lauded for its many culinary, textile, and medicinal uses; and it gained popularity in the United States as an ornamental shade plant, well received for its fragrant flowers and adaptability. THE AUTOMOBILE: SOCIAL GAME CHANGER The automobile changed American society and the lives of women. During the first decades of the 20th century, the middle class was growing in the U.S. And more people could afford to buy a car. The car changed American society in many ways. People had more freedom and more freetime.
KEHUKEE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION The Kehukee Baptist Association was formed in the eighteenth century by Baptist churches in eastern North Carolina that had belonged to the Charleston Baptist Convention but decided, because of distance and divergent interests, to form their own association. The actual date of the formation is now accepted as 1769. These churches were initially considered Regular Baptist, but they graduallySIMMONS SEA-SKIFF
Simmons Sea-Skiff. by Gene Purcell, 2006. From 1950 through the 1960s, T. N. Simmons and his son built hundreds of small boats on the North Carolina coast that many regarded as the best sportfishing and recreational power boats available. Never manufactured on a large scale, the vessels were simply purchased shortly after Simmonsfinished them.
SAMARCAND MANOR
Samarcand Manor, officially the State Home and Industrial School for Girls, was a humane correctional institution for young women established near Eagle Springs by the North Carolina state legislature in 1918.The purpose of the school was to reclaim and train delinquent girls by providing a "homelike place where those who have fallen may find temporary shelter, and under a firm yet kindHENKEL, PAUL
15 Dec. 1754–20 Nov. 1825. Paul Henkel, Lutheran pastor, missionary, and organizer on the American frontier, was born on Dutchman's Creek in present Davie County, the oldest son of Jacob and Mary Barbara Dieter Henkel, who had just moved to the North Carolina frontier on the eve of the French and Indian War.When the Cherokees overran that section in 1760, Jacob Henkel, like so many of hisREYNOLDA HOUSE
Reynolda House. by Anna Withers Bair, 2006. In 1914 Richard J. Reynolds, founder and president of Reynolds Tobacco Company, and his wife, Katharine Smith Reynolds, hired Philadelphia architect Charles Barton Keen to draw up plans for an English-style village and manor house to be located on 1,067 acres that Reynolds purchased on theoutskirts
NCPEDIA HOME PAGE
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WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF 1812 Cavalry (soldiers on horseback) weapons. A special regiment of soldiers raised on a needed basis were the Light Dragoons. These dragoons consisted of a small group of soldiers on horseback. During the War of 1812, pistols and sabers were only issued to dragoons. The prominent pistol issued was the Model 1805 Flintlock Pistol.FURNITURE INDUSTRY
Part 1: Overview. Furniture has been an important product of North Carolina artisans and manufacturers since the early colonial era. The massive success of the industry in the state led to North Carolina's acquiring the nickname " Furniture Capital of the World " during the 1980s, when the state produced approximately one-half of the furnitureSAMARCAND MANOR
Samarcand Manor, officially the State Home and Industrial School for Girls, was a humane correctional institution for young women established near Eagle Springs by the North Carolina state legislature in 1918.The purpose of the school was to reclaim and train delinquent girls by providing a "homelike place where those who have fallen may find temporary shelter, and under a firm yet kindARGYLL COLONY
Argyll Colony was the first colony of Highland Scots to settle in the Upper Cape Fear. Settled in 1739, the colony was named for the shire in western Scotland from which its members came. They were the vanguard of what began as a trickle and grew into a flood of Highland immigrants to Bladen County (later divided into Cumberland, Moore, Robeson, Harnett, and Hoke Counties). SLOOP POINT PLANTATION Sloop Point Plantation, located in eastern Pender County, was constructed around 1726, making it the oldest surviving house in North Carolina. John Baptista Ashe acquired a land grant including an estimated 1,000 acres, extending across what is today U.S. 17 to the Intracoastal Waterway. The name derived from an early shipyard and port that served as a center for sloops arriving in the region WHITE FURNITURE COMPANY The White Furniture Company was organized in Mebane in 1881 by brothers William E. and David A. White, sons of Mebane cofounder Stephen A. White. The factory was incorporated as the White-Rickel Furniture Company on 9 May 1896. There were three principal incorporators, including A. J. Rickel from Manchester, Ohio, who movedto the area looking
SHALLOW FORD
Shallow Ford, a rock-bottomed crossing point on the Yadkin River, was the site of several important events in North Carolina history.The ford was used by settlers and traders in the region from about 1750 until about 1920, when highways and bridges rerouted traffic. The course of the Yadkin River at this point forms the boundary between present-day Forsyth County and, to its west, Yadkin County. MCLEAN TRUCKING COMPANY By the mid-1960s, the McLean Trucking Company had become the fifth-largest trucking company in America, with a fleet of 5,000 trucks and trailers and 65 terminals scattered throughout 20 states. The Winston-Salem terminal was considered the largest in the world when it was constructed in 1954. McLean (who died in 2001 at age 87)sold his
MAULE, WILLIAM
1690–1726. William Maule, planter, politician, and military leader, belonged to a noted Scots family, though little is known of his youth. After being captured twice by the French in the War of Spanish Succession, he arrived about 1709 in Virginia, where countryman Thomas Pollock was in self-imposed exile due to the ascendancy of his political adversaries in North Carolina led by Thomas Cary. CLARK'S REGIMENTAL HISTORIES "Clark's Regimental Histories" is the popular title for the five-volume Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865, edited by Walter Clark and published by the state in 1901.. In October 1894 the North Carolina Confederate Veterans Association in Raleigh resolved that a history of each regiment or other state organization that served withWELSH SETTLERS
Welsh Settlers. The Welsh settlement of the Cape Fear region in the early eighteenth century extended 80 to 90 miles inland along the creeks flowing into the Cape Fear and the Northeast Cape Fear Rivers. These bodies of water included Rockfish, James's, Swift's, and Smith's Creeks, Black Mingo and Goshen Swamps, and the Black River nearBLACK FREEMASONRY
Black lodges often rented their property to black businessmen. During the late nineteenth century, black freemasonry in North Carolina continued to grow in size and extend the range of its social and benevolent activities. From 37 lodges and 1,000 members in 1880, the organization grew to 358 lodges and more than 10,000 members by 1910.KUDZU | NCPEDIA
Kudzu (Pueraria lobata), or "kuzu" as it is known in Japan, was introduced to the United States in 1876 as part of the Japanese pavilion at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.In Japan it is lauded for its many culinary, textile, and medicinal uses; and it gained popularity in the United States as an ornamental shade plant, well received for its fragrant flowers and adaptability. THE AUTOMOBILE: SOCIAL GAME CHANGER The automobile changed American society and the lives of women. During the first decades of the 20th century, the middle class was growing in the U.S. And more people could afford to buy a car. The car changed American society in many ways. People had more freedom and more freetime.
KEHUKEE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION The Kehukee Baptist Association was formed in the eighteenth century by Baptist churches in eastern North Carolina that had belonged to the Charleston Baptist Convention but decided, because of distance and divergent interests, to form their own association. The actual date of the formation is now accepted as 1769. These churches were initially considered Regular Baptist, but they graduallySIMMONS SEA-SKIFF
Simmons Sea-Skiff. by Gene Purcell, 2006. From 1950 through the 1960s, T. N. Simmons and his son built hundreds of small boats on the North Carolina coast that many regarded as the best sportfishing and recreational power boats available. Never manufactured on a large scale, the vessels were simply purchased shortly after Simmonsfinished them.
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Samarcand Manor, officially the State Home and Industrial School for Girls, was a humane correctional institution for young women established near Eagle Springs by the North Carolina state legislature in 1918.The purpose of the school was to reclaim and train delinquent girls by providing a "homelike place where those who have fallen may find temporary shelter, and under a firm yet kindHENKEL, PAUL
15 Dec. 1754–20 Nov. 1825. Paul Henkel, Lutheran pastor, missionary, and organizer on the American frontier, was born on Dutchman's Creek in present Davie County, the oldest son of Jacob and Mary Barbara Dieter Henkel, who had just moved to the North Carolina frontier on the eve of the French and Indian War.When the Cherokees overran that section in 1760, Jacob Henkel, like so many of hisREYNOLDA HOUSE
Reynolda House. by Anna Withers Bair, 2006. In 1914 Richard J. Reynolds, founder and president of Reynolds Tobacco Company, and his wife, Katharine Smith Reynolds, hired Philadelphia architect Charles Barton Keen to draw up plans for an English-style village and manor house to be located on 1,067 acres that Reynolds purchased on theoutskirts
CLARK'S REGIMENTAL HISTORIES "Clark's Regimental Histories" is the popular title for the five-volume Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865, edited by Walter Clark and published by the state in 1901.. In October 1894 the North Carolina Confederate Veterans Association in Raleigh resolved that a history of each regiment or other state organization that served withWELSH SETTLERS
Welsh Settlers. The Welsh settlement of the Cape Fear region in the early eighteenth century extended 80 to 90 miles inland along the creeks flowing into the Cape Fear and the Northeast Cape Fear Rivers. These bodies of water included Rockfish, James's, Swift's, and Smith's Creeks, Black Mingo and Goshen Swamps, and the Black River nearBLACK FREEMASONRY
Black lodges often rented their property to black businessmen. During the late nineteenth century, black freemasonry in North Carolina continued to grow in size and extend the range of its social and benevolent activities. From 37 lodges and 1,000 members in 1880, the organization grew to 358 lodges and more than 10,000 members by 1910.KUDZU | NCPEDIA
Kudzu (Pueraria lobata), or "kuzu" as it is known in Japan, was introduced to the United States in 1876 as part of the Japanese pavilion at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.In Japan it is lauded for its many culinary, textile, and medicinal uses; and it gained popularity in the United States as an ornamental shade plant, well received for its fragrant flowers and adaptability. THE AUTOMOBILE: SOCIAL GAME CHANGER The automobile changed American society and the lives of women. During the first decades of the 20th century, the middle class was growing in the U.S. And more people could afford to buy a car. The car changed American society in many ways. People had more freedom and more freetime.
KEHUKEE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION The Kehukee Baptist Association was formed in the eighteenth century by Baptist churches in eastern North Carolina that had belonged to the Charleston Baptist Convention but decided, because of distance and divergent interests, to form their own association. The actual date of the formation is now accepted as 1769. These churches were initially considered Regular Baptist, but they graduallySIMMONS SEA-SKIFF
Simmons Sea-Skiff. by Gene Purcell, 2006. From 1950 through the 1960s, T. N. Simmons and his son built hundreds of small boats on the North Carolina coast that many regarded as the best sportfishing and recreational power boats available. Never manufactured on a large scale, the vessels were simply purchased shortly after Simmonsfinished them.
SAMARCAND MANOR
Samarcand Manor, officially the State Home and Industrial School for Girls, was a humane correctional institution for young women established near Eagle Springs by the North Carolina state legislature in 1918.The purpose of the school was to reclaim and train delinquent girls by providing a "homelike place where those who have fallen may find temporary shelter, and under a firm yet kindHENKEL, PAUL
15 Dec. 1754–20 Nov. 1825. Paul Henkel, Lutheran pastor, missionary, and organizer on the American frontier, was born on Dutchman's Creek in present Davie County, the oldest son of Jacob and Mary Barbara Dieter Henkel, who had just moved to the North Carolina frontier on the eve of the French and Indian War.When the Cherokees overran that section in 1760, Jacob Henkel, like so many of hisREYNOLDA HOUSE
Reynolda House. by Anna Withers Bair, 2006. In 1914 Richard J. Reynolds, founder and president of Reynolds Tobacco Company, and his wife, Katharine Smith Reynolds, hired Philadelphia architect Charles Barton Keen to draw up plans for an English-style village and manor house to be located on 1,067 acres that Reynolds purchased on theoutskirts
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WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF 1812 Cavalry (soldiers on horseback) weapons. A special regiment of soldiers raised on a needed basis were the Light Dragoons. These dragoons consisted of a small group of soldiers on horseback. During the War of 1812, pistols and sabers were only issued to dragoons. The prominent pistol issued was the Model 1805 Flintlock Pistol.FURNITURE INDUSTRY
Part 1: Overview. Furniture has been an important product of North Carolina artisans and manufacturers since the early colonial era. The massive success of the industry in the state led to North Carolina's acquiring the nickname " Furniture Capital of the World " during the 1980s, when the state produced approximately one-half of the furnitureSAMARCAND MANOR
Samarcand Manor, officially the State Home and Industrial School for Girls, was a humane correctional institution for young women established near Eagle Springs by the North Carolina state legislature in 1918.The purpose of the school was to reclaim and train delinquent girls by providing a "homelike place where those who have fallen may find temporary shelter, and under a firm yet kindARGYLL COLONY
Argyll Colony was the first colony of Highland Scots to settle in the Upper Cape Fear. Settled in 1739, the colony was named for the shire in western Scotland from which its members came. They were the vanguard of what began as a trickle and grew into a flood of Highland immigrants to Bladen County (later divided into Cumberland, Moore, Robeson, Harnett, and Hoke Counties). SLOOP POINT PLANTATION Sloop Point Plantation, located in eastern Pender County, was constructed around 1726, making it the oldest surviving house in North Carolina. John Baptista Ashe acquired a land grant including an estimated 1,000 acres, extending across what is today U.S. 17 to the Intracoastal Waterway. The name derived from an early shipyard and port that served as a center for sloops arriving in the region WHITE FURNITURE COMPANY The White Furniture Company was organized in Mebane in 1881 by brothers William E. and David A. White, sons of Mebane cofounder Stephen A. White. The factory was incorporated as the White-Rickel Furniture Company on 9 May 1896. There were three principal incorporators, including A. J. Rickel from Manchester, Ohio, who movedto the area looking
SHALLOW FORD
Shallow Ford, a rock-bottomed crossing point on the Yadkin River, was the site of several important events in North Carolina history.The ford was used by settlers and traders in the region from about 1750 until about 1920, when highways and bridges rerouted traffic. The course of the Yadkin River at this point forms the boundary between present-day Forsyth County and, to its west, Yadkin County. MCLEAN TRUCKING COMPANY By the mid-1960s, the McLean Trucking Company had become the fifth-largest trucking company in America, with a fleet of 5,000 trucks and trailers and 65 terminals scattered throughout 20 states. The Winston-Salem terminal was considered the largest in the world when it was constructed in 1954. McLean (who died in 2001 at age 87)sold his
MAULE, WILLIAM
1690–1726. William Maule, planter, politician, and military leader, belonged to a noted Scots family, though little is known of his youth. After being captured twice by the French in the War of Spanish Succession, he arrived about 1709 in Virginia, where countryman Thomas Pollock was in self-imposed exile due to the ascendancy of his political adversaries in North Carolina led by Thomas Cary.NCPEDIA HOME PAGE
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NORTH CAROLINA GAZETTEER Some place names included in The North Carolina Gazetteer contain terms that are considered offensive. " The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF 1812BLACK FREEMASONRY
Black lodges often rented their property to black businessmen. During the late nineteenth century, black freemasonry in North Carolina continued to grow in size and extend the range of its social and benevolent activities. From 37 lodges and 1,000 members in 1880, the organization grew to 358 lodges and more than 10,000 members by 1910. KEHUKEE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION The Kehukee Baptist Association was formed in the eighteenth century by Baptist churches in eastern North Carolina that had belonged to the Charleston Baptist Convention but decided, because of distance and divergent interests, to form their own association. The actual date of the formation is now accepted as 1769. These churches were initially considered Regular Baptist, but they gradually NCPEDIA | NCPEDIASEE MORE ON NCPEDIA.ORGFORT SAN JUAN
The first was called Fort San Salvador. Some Spanish soldiers, unhappy with conditions there, mutinied, stole a ship, and returned to Cuba. Less than 40 soldiers remained at Santa Elena, short of food and arms, when Captain Juan Pardo arrived on July 18, 1566, with 250 men. Pardo and his soldiers built the second fort at Santa Elena, Fort SanDE SOTO EXPEDITION
De Soto Expedition. by David G. Moore, 2006. Hernando De Soto traveled through the region that would become the southeastern United States from 1539 to 1543 with an army of more than 600 men in an attempt to discover riches comparable to those found in Mexico and Peru. Highly ambitious, De Soto had been granted the right to oversee the conquestHENKEL, PAUL
15 Dec. 1754–20 Nov. 1825. Paul Henkel, Lutheran pastor, missionary, and organizer on the American frontier, was born on Dutchman's Creek in present Davie County, the oldest son of Jacob and Mary Barbara Dieter Henkel, who had just moved to the North Carolina frontier on the eve of the French and Indian War.When the Cherokees overran that section in 1760, Jacob Henkel, like so many of his THE DEATH OF ZELDA FITZGERALD The Death of Zelda Fitzgerald. by Harry McKown. UNC - North Carolina Collection, March 2007. "This Month in North Carolina History" series. Reprinted with permission. Late on the night of March 10, 1948, a fire started in a kitchen of the main building of Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Spreading rapidly through a dumbwaiterNCPEDIA HOME PAGE
About NCpedia NCpedia is an online encyclopedia about North Carolina, U.S.A. As of March 1, 2017, NCpedia included 7,115 entries and 7,488images!Learn more
NORTH CAROLINA GAZETTEER Some place names included in The North Carolina Gazetteer contain terms that are considered offensive. " The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF 1812BLACK FREEMASONRY
Black lodges often rented their property to black businessmen. During the late nineteenth century, black freemasonry in North Carolina continued to grow in size and extend the range of its social and benevolent activities. From 37 lodges and 1,000 members in 1880, the organization grew to 358 lodges and more than 10,000 members by 1910. KEHUKEE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION The Kehukee Baptist Association was formed in the eighteenth century by Baptist churches in eastern North Carolina that had belonged to the Charleston Baptist Convention but decided, because of distance and divergent interests, to form their own association. The actual date of the formation is now accepted as 1769. These churches were initially considered Regular Baptist, but they gradually NCPEDIA | NCPEDIASEE MORE ON NCPEDIA.ORGFORT SAN JUAN
The first was called Fort San Salvador. Some Spanish soldiers, unhappy with conditions there, mutinied, stole a ship, and returned to Cuba. Less than 40 soldiers remained at Santa Elena, short of food and arms, when Captain Juan Pardo arrived on July 18, 1566, with 250 men. Pardo and his soldiers built the second fort at Santa Elena, Fort SanDE SOTO EXPEDITION
De Soto Expedition. by David G. Moore, 2006. Hernando De Soto traveled through the region that would become the southeastern United States from 1539 to 1543 with an army of more than 600 men in an attempt to discover riches comparable to those found in Mexico and Peru. Highly ambitious, De Soto had been granted the right to oversee the conquestHENKEL, PAUL
15 Dec. 1754–20 Nov. 1825. Paul Henkel, Lutheran pastor, missionary, and organizer on the American frontier, was born on Dutchman's Creek in present Davie County, the oldest son of Jacob and Mary Barbara Dieter Henkel, who had just moved to the North Carolina frontier on the eve of the French and Indian War.When the Cherokees overran that section in 1760, Jacob Henkel, like so many of his THE DEATH OF ZELDA FITZGERALD The Death of Zelda Fitzgerald. by Harry McKown. UNC - North Carolina Collection, March 2007. "This Month in North Carolina History" series. Reprinted with permission. Late on the night of March 10, 1948, a fire started in a kitchen of the main building of Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Spreading rapidly through a dumbwaiterLIVE OAKS | NCPEDIA
Live Oaks Guercus Virginiana by Amy Kemp, 2017; Kelly Agan, 2018. Government and Heritage Library The Live Oak, or Guercus Virginiana, is a hardy tree growing in coastal plains from Southwest Virginia to Texas.Unlike most trees which grow primarily vertically, the Live Oak only reaches highs of 50 to 60 feet, and utilizes its nutrients to grow branches outwards, up to 120 feet in width.NCPEDIA | NCPEDIA
The Kongo cosmogram is the foundation of Kongo society. The circle made by the sun's movement is the first geometric picture given to human beings. We move the same way the sun moves: we wake up, are active, die, then come back. The horizon line is the kalunga line between the physical and spiritual world.FIRST WOMEN MARINES
Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and History, 2007. Camp Lejeune prides itself as the home of the Montford Point Marines, the Corps’ first black enlistees, and the first large unit of female Marines, known as the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve.The first female Marines, 305 in number, enlisted in 1918, when the Navy Secretary allowed women to enroll for clerical duty (they wereKUDZU | NCPEDIA
Kudzu (Pueraria lobata), or "kuzu" as it is known in Japan, was introduced to the United States in 1876 as part of the Japanese pavilion at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.In Japan it is lauded for its many culinary, textile, and medicinal uses; and it gained popularity in the United States as an ornamental shade plant, well received for its fragrant flowers and adaptability. DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE! Destroy this mad brute! "DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE" is the caption of this World War I propaganda poster for enlistment in the U.S. Army. A dribbling, ape-like German wielding a club bearing the word "kultur" and wearing a pickelhaube helmet with the word "militarism" is walking onto the shore of America while holding a half-naked woman in his grasp (possibly meant to depict Liberty).SAMARCAND MANOR
Samarcand Manor, officially the State Home and Industrial School for Girls, was a humane correctional institution for young women established near Eagle Springs by the North Carolina state legislature in 1918.The purpose of the school was to reclaim and train delinquent girls by providing a "homelike place where those who have fallen may find temporary shelter, and under a firm yet kindGREAT TRADING PATH
by R. P. Stephen Davis Jr., 2006. The Great Trading Path, or the Occaneechi Path, was one of many Indian trails in use when the English first explored the North Carolina backcountry during the late seventeenth century. Before recorded history, the trail likely existed as a series of minor, shorter footpaths that linked the many smallvillages
SLOOP POINT PLANTATION Sloop Point Plantation, located in eastern Pender County, was constructed around 1726, making it the oldest surviving house in North Carolina. John Baptista Ashe acquired a land grant including an estimated 1,000 acres, extending across what is today U.S. 17 to the Intracoastal Waterway. The name derived from an early shipyard and port that served as a center for sloops arriving in the region LIBERTY POINT RESOLVES DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Subject notes: The Liberty Point Resolves, an early declaration of independence from England, was signed by 50 residents of Cumberland County, known as the Cumberland Association, in 1775. These men met at a tavern in Cross Creek to sign the document, vowing to "Go forth and be ready to sacrifice our lives and fortunes to secure the colony's DONNER, TAMSEN EUSTIS Donner, a native of Rowan County, N.C., was a wealthy and respected man, twice widowed with young children still in the home. They were married on 24 May 1839, and in the following years Tamsen Donner bore three daughters, Frances (4 July 1840), Georgia (3 Dec. 1841), and Eliza (8 Mar. 1843). Tamsen Donner was an intelligent woman,proficient
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NORTH CAROLINA GAZETTEER Some place names included in The North Carolina Gazetteer contain terms that are considered offensive. " The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF 1812BLACK FREEMASONRY
Black lodges often rented their property to black businessmen. During the late nineteenth century, black freemasonry in North Carolina continued to grow in size and extend the range of its social and benevolent activities. From 37 lodges and 1,000 members in 1880, the organization grew to 358 lodges and more than 10,000 members by 1910. KEHUKEE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION The Kehukee Baptist Association was formed in the eighteenth century by Baptist churches in eastern North Carolina that had belonged to the Charleston Baptist Convention but decided, because of distance and divergent interests, to form their own association. The actual date of the formation is now accepted as 1769. These churches were initially considered Regular Baptist, but they gradually NCPEDIA | NCPEDIASEE MORE ON NCPEDIA.ORGFORT SAN JUAN
The first was called Fort San Salvador. Some Spanish soldiers, unhappy with conditions there, mutinied, stole a ship, and returned to Cuba. Less than 40 soldiers remained at Santa Elena, short of food and arms, when Captain Juan Pardo arrived on July 18, 1566, with 250 men. Pardo and his soldiers built the second fort at Santa Elena, Fort SanDE SOTO EXPEDITION
De Soto Expedition. by David G. Moore, 2006. Hernando De Soto traveled through the region that would become the southeastern United States from 1539 to 1543 with an army of more than 600 men in an attempt to discover riches comparable to those found in Mexico and Peru. Highly ambitious, De Soto had been granted the right to oversee the conquestHENKEL, PAUL
15 Dec. 1754–20 Nov. 1825. Paul Henkel, Lutheran pastor, missionary, and organizer on the American frontier, was born on Dutchman's Creek in present Davie County, the oldest son of Jacob and Mary Barbara Dieter Henkel, who had just moved to the North Carolina frontier on the eve of the French and Indian War.When the Cherokees overran that section in 1760, Jacob Henkel, like so many of his THE DEATH OF ZELDA FITZGERALD The Death of Zelda Fitzgerald. by Harry McKown. UNC - North Carolina Collection, March 2007. "This Month in North Carolina History" series. Reprinted with permission. Late on the night of March 10, 1948, a fire started in a kitchen of the main building of Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Spreading rapidly through a dumbwaiterNCPEDIA HOME PAGE
About NCpedia NCpedia is an online encyclopedia about North Carolina, U.S.A. As of March 1, 2017, NCpedia included 7,115 entries and 7,488images!Learn more
NORTH CAROLINA GAZETTEER Some place names included in The North Carolina Gazetteer contain terms that are considered offensive. " The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF 1812BLACK FREEMASONRY
Black lodges often rented their property to black businessmen. During the late nineteenth century, black freemasonry in North Carolina continued to grow in size and extend the range of its social and benevolent activities. From 37 lodges and 1,000 members in 1880, the organization grew to 358 lodges and more than 10,000 members by 1910. KEHUKEE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION The Kehukee Baptist Association was formed in the eighteenth century by Baptist churches in eastern North Carolina that had belonged to the Charleston Baptist Convention but decided, because of distance and divergent interests, to form their own association. The actual date of the formation is now accepted as 1769. These churches were initially considered Regular Baptist, but they gradually NCPEDIA | NCPEDIASEE MORE ON NCPEDIA.ORGFORT SAN JUAN
The first was called Fort San Salvador. Some Spanish soldiers, unhappy with conditions there, mutinied, stole a ship, and returned to Cuba. Less than 40 soldiers remained at Santa Elena, short of food and arms, when Captain Juan Pardo arrived on July 18, 1566, with 250 men. Pardo and his soldiers built the second fort at Santa Elena, Fort SanDE SOTO EXPEDITION
De Soto Expedition. by David G. Moore, 2006. Hernando De Soto traveled through the region that would become the southeastern United States from 1539 to 1543 with an army of more than 600 men in an attempt to discover riches comparable to those found in Mexico and Peru. Highly ambitious, De Soto had been granted the right to oversee the conquestHENKEL, PAUL
15 Dec. 1754–20 Nov. 1825. Paul Henkel, Lutheran pastor, missionary, and organizer on the American frontier, was born on Dutchman's Creek in present Davie County, the oldest son of Jacob and Mary Barbara Dieter Henkel, who had just moved to the North Carolina frontier on the eve of the French and Indian War.When the Cherokees overran that section in 1760, Jacob Henkel, like so many of his THE DEATH OF ZELDA FITZGERALD The Death of Zelda Fitzgerald. by Harry McKown. UNC - North Carolina Collection, March 2007. "This Month in North Carolina History" series. Reprinted with permission. Late on the night of March 10, 1948, a fire started in a kitchen of the main building of Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Spreading rapidly through a dumbwaiterLIVE OAKS | NCPEDIA
Live Oaks Guercus Virginiana by Amy Kemp, 2017; Kelly Agan, 2018. Government and Heritage Library The Live Oak, or Guercus Virginiana, is a hardy tree growing in coastal plains from Southwest Virginia to Texas.Unlike most trees which grow primarily vertically, the Live Oak only reaches highs of 50 to 60 feet, and utilizes its nutrients to grow branches outwards, up to 120 feet in width.NCPEDIA | NCPEDIA
The Kongo cosmogram is the foundation of Kongo society. The circle made by the sun's movement is the first geometric picture given to human beings. We move the same way the sun moves: we wake up, are active, die, then come back. The horizon line is the kalunga line between the physical and spiritual world.FIRST WOMEN MARINES
Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and History, 2007. Camp Lejeune prides itself as the home of the Montford Point Marines, the Corps’ first black enlistees, and the first large unit of female Marines, known as the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve.The first female Marines, 305 in number, enlisted in 1918, when the Navy Secretary allowed women to enroll for clerical duty (they wereKUDZU | NCPEDIA
Kudzu (Pueraria lobata), or "kuzu" as it is known in Japan, was introduced to the United States in 1876 as part of the Japanese pavilion at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.In Japan it is lauded for its many culinary, textile, and medicinal uses; and it gained popularity in the United States as an ornamental shade plant, well received for its fragrant flowers and adaptability. DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE! Destroy this mad brute! "DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE" is the caption of this World War I propaganda poster for enlistment in the U.S. Army. A dribbling, ape-like German wielding a club bearing the word "kultur" and wearing a pickelhaube helmet with the word "militarism" is walking onto the shore of America while holding a half-naked woman in his grasp (possibly meant to depict Liberty).SAMARCAND MANOR
Samarcand Manor, officially the State Home and Industrial School for Girls, was a humane correctional institution for young women established near Eagle Springs by the North Carolina state legislature in 1918.The purpose of the school was to reclaim and train delinquent girls by providing a "homelike place where those who have fallen may find temporary shelter, and under a firm yet kindGREAT TRADING PATH
by R. P. Stephen Davis Jr., 2006. The Great Trading Path, or the Occaneechi Path, was one of many Indian trails in use when the English first explored the North Carolina backcountry during the late seventeenth century. Before recorded history, the trail likely existed as a series of minor, shorter footpaths that linked the many smallvillages
SLOOP POINT PLANTATION Sloop Point Plantation, located in eastern Pender County, was constructed around 1726, making it the oldest surviving house in North Carolina. John Baptista Ashe acquired a land grant including an estimated 1,000 acres, extending across what is today U.S. 17 to the Intracoastal Waterway. The name derived from an early shipyard and port that served as a center for sloops arriving in the region LIBERTY POINT RESOLVES DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Subject notes: The Liberty Point Resolves, an early declaration of independence from England, was signed by 50 residents of Cumberland County, known as the Cumberland Association, in 1775. These men met at a tavern in Cross Creek to sign the document, vowing to "Go forth and be ready to sacrifice our lives and fortunes to secure the colony's DONNER, TAMSEN EUSTIS Donner, a native of Rowan County, N.C., was a wealthy and respected man, twice widowed with young children still in the home. They were married on 24 May 1839, and in the following years Tamsen Donner bore three daughters, Frances (4 July 1840), Georgia (3 Dec. 1841), and Eliza (8 Mar. 1843). Tamsen Donner was an intelligent woman,proficient
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NORTH CAROLINA GAZETTEER Some place names included in The North Carolina Gazetteer contain terms that are considered offensive. " The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF 1812BLACK FREEMASONRY
Black lodges often rented their property to black businessmen. During the late nineteenth century, black freemasonry in North Carolina continued to grow in size and extend the range of its social and benevolent activities. From 37 lodges and 1,000 members in 1880, the organization grew to 358 lodges and more than 10,000 members by 1910.FORT SAN JUAN
The first was called Fort San Salvador. Some Spanish soldiers, unhappy with conditions there, mutinied, stole a ship, and returned to Cuba. Less than 40 soldiers remained at Santa Elena, short of food and arms, when Captain Juan Pardo arrived on July 18, 1566, with 250 men. Pardo and his soldiers built the second fort at Santa Elena, Fort San KEHUKEE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION The Kehukee Baptist Association was formed in the eighteenth century by Baptist churches in eastern North Carolina that had belonged to the Charleston Baptist Convention but decided, because of distance and divergent interests, to form their own association. The actual date of the formation is now accepted as 1769. These churches were initially considered Regular Baptist, but they graduallyDE SOTO EXPEDITION
De Soto Expedition. by David G. Moore, 2006. Hernando De Soto traveled through the region that would become the southeastern United States from 1539 to 1543 with an army of more than 600 men in an attempt to discover riches comparable to those found in Mexico and Peru. Highly ambitious, De Soto had been granted the right to oversee the conquest THE DEATH OF ZELDA FITZGERALD The Death of Zelda Fitzgerald. by Harry McKown. UNC - North Carolina Collection, March 2007. "This Month in North Carolina History" series. Reprinted with permission. Late on the night of March 10, 1948, a fire started in a kitchen of the main building of Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Spreading rapidly through a dumbwaiterHENKEL, PAUL
15 Dec. 1754–20 Nov. 1825. Paul Henkel, Lutheran pastor, missionary, and organizer on the American frontier, was born on Dutchman's Creek in present Davie County, the oldest son of Jacob and Mary Barbara Dieter Henkel, who had just moved to the North Carolina frontier on the eve of the French and Indian War.When the Cherokees overran that section in 1760, Jacob Henkel, like so many of hisREYNOLDA HOUSE
Reynolda House. by Anna Withers Bair, 2006. In 1914 Richard J. Reynolds, founder and president of Reynolds Tobacco Company, and his wife, Katharine Smith Reynolds, hired Philadelphia architect Charles Barton Keen to draw up plans for an English-style village and manor house to be located on 1,067 acres that Reynolds purchased on theoutskirts
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Hernando De Soto traveled through the region that would become the southeastern United States from 1539 to 1543 with an army of more than 600 men in an attempt to discover riches comparable to those found in Mexico and Peru. Highly ambitious, De Soto had been granted the right to oversee the conquest of La Florida (the name given to peninsular Florida and the land between the Gulf and Atlantic THE DEATH OF ZELDA FITZGERALD Add a comment. PLEASE NOTE: NCpedia provides the comments feature as a way for viewers to engage with the resources. Comments are not published until reviewed by NCpedia editors at the State Library of NC, and the editors reserve the right to not publish any comment submitted that is considered inappropriate for this resource.NCpedia will not publish personal contact information in commentsREYNOLDA HOUSE
In 1914 Richard J. Reynolds, founder and president of Reynolds Tobacco Company, and his wife, Katharine Smith Reynolds, hired Philadelphia architect Charles Barton Keen to draw up plans for an English-style village and manor house to be located on 1,067 acres that Reynolds purchased on the outskirts of Winston-Salem.Reynolds planned the village to be self-sustaining for the needs of hisHENKEL, PAUL
15 Dec. 1754–20 Nov. 1825. Paul Henkel, Lutheran pastor, missionary, and organizer on the American frontier, was born on Dutchman's Creek in present Davie County, the oldest son of Jacob and Mary Barbara Dieter Henkel, who had just moved to the North Carolina frontier on the eve of the French and Indian War.When the Cherokees overran that section in 1760, Jacob Henkel, like so many of hisLIVE OAKS | NCPEDIA
Live Oaks Guercus Virginiana by Amy Kemp, 2017; Kelly Agan, 2018. Government and Heritage Library The Live Oak, or Guercus Virginiana, is a hardy tree growing in coastal plains from Southwest Virginia to Texas.Unlike most trees which grow primarily vertically, the Live Oak only reaches highs of 50 to 60 feet, and utilizes its nutrients to grow branches outwards, up to 120 feet in width.FIRST WOMEN MARINES
Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and History, 2007. Camp Lejeune prides itself as the home of the Montford Point Marines, the Corps’ first black enlistees, and the first large unit of female Marines, known as the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve.The first female Marines, 305 in number, enlisted in 1918, when the Navy Secretary allowed women to enroll for clerical duty (they wereNCPEDIA | NCPEDIA
The Kongo cosmogram is the foundation of Kongo society. The circle made by the sun's movement is the first geometric picture given to human beings. We move the same way the sun moves: we wake up, are active, die, then come back. The horizon line is the kalunga line between the physical and spiritual world. DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE! Destroy this mad brute! "DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE" is the caption of this World War I propaganda poster for enlistment in the U.S. Army. A dribbling, ape-like German wielding a club bearing the word "kultur" and wearing a pickelhaube helmet with the word "militarism" is walking onto the shore of America while holding a half-naked woman in his grasp (possibly meant to depict Liberty).KUDZU | NCPEDIA
Kudzu (Pueraria lobata), or "kuzu" as it is known in Japan, was introduced to the United States in 1876 as part of the Japanese pavilion at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.In Japan it is lauded for its many culinary, textile, and medicinal uses; and it gained popularity in the United States as an ornamental shade plant, well received for its fragrant flowers and adaptability.SAMARCAND MANOR
Samarcand Manor, officially the State Home and Industrial School for Girls, was a humane correctional institution for young women established near Eagle Springs by the North Carolina state legislature in 1918.The purpose of the school was to reclaim and train delinquent girls by providing a "homelike place where those who have fallen may find temporary shelter, and under a firm yet kindGREAT TRADING PATH
by R. P. Stephen Davis Jr., 2006. The Great Trading Path, or the Occaneechi Path, was one of many Indian trails in use when the English first explored the North Carolina backcountry during the late seventeenth century. Before recorded history, the trail likely existed as a series of minor, shorter footpaths that linked the many smallvillages
SLOOP POINT PLANTATION Sloop Point Plantation, located in eastern Pender County, was constructed around 1726, making it the oldest surviving house in North Carolina. John Baptista Ashe acquired a land grant including an estimated 1,000 acres, extending across what is today U.S. 17 to the Intracoastal Waterway. The name derived from an early shipyard and port that served as a center for sloops arriving in the region LIBERTY POINT RESOLVES DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Subject notes: The Liberty Point Resolves, an early declaration of independence from England, was signed by 50 residents of Cumberland County, known as the Cumberland Association, in 1775. These men met at a tavern in Cross Creek to sign the document, vowing to "Go forth and be ready to sacrifice our lives and fortunes to secure the colony's DONNER, TAMSEN EUSTIS Donner, a native of Rowan County, N.C., was a wealthy and respected man, twice widowed with young children still in the home. They were married on 24 May 1839, and in the following years Tamsen Donner bore three daughters, Frances (4 July 1840), Georgia (3 Dec. 1841), and Eliza (8 Mar. 1843). Tamsen Donner was an intelligent woman,proficient
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