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Category: NC History
On October 1st, 1864, Rose O’Neal Greenhow drowned near the Cape Fear River while trying to break the Union blockade of North Carolina’s coast. What…
“I transferred to my local bus and instructed the driver to let me off at the country road that wound three miles through the piney…
Anyone who has attended American grade school knows that Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a single-room log cabin…
North Carolina is home to many tongue-twisting and unique placenames. From Lizard Lick to Chocowinity, and to the grammatically vexing Conetoe (which somehow, despite the…
In the early days of America, stagecoaches were the only viable way to travel from town to town. Basic infrastructure was essentially non-existent. Roads were…
On August 23, 1784, in what was then the North Carolina counties of Washington, Sullivan, Spencer, and Greene, a group of frontiersmen declared themselves free…
One complication faced by historians researching the history of indigenous Eastern North Carolina peoples is the difficulty in untangling the various tribal and place-names found…
By the middle of the 19th century, North Carolina was producing well over 30 million pounds of commercial tobacco thanks to the unique soil of…
Though no longer a powerhouse component of the North Carolina economy, the impact of tobacco on our state is undeniable. From its roots in Native…