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Bentonville Battlefield
Bentonville Battlefieldby William S. Powell, 2006See also: Battle of BentonvilleBentonville Battlefield, a North Carolina State Historic Site located in southern Johnston County, consists of 150 of...
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Bennett Place
Bennett Placeby William S. Powell, 2006Bennett Place in western Durham was the locale of negotiations that led to the largest troop surrender of the Civil War. The farmhouse of James and Nancy Bennitt...
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Beech Mountain/Land of Oz
Beech Mountain/Land of Ozby Elizabeth Scheld Glynn, 2006Beech Mountain in Avery County is the eastern United States' highest town, at 5,606 feet above sea level. Local residents share the mountain...
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Batts House
Batts Houseby Thomas C. Parramore, 2006Fur trader Nathaniell Batts, reputedly North Carolina's first permanent white settler, apparently worked for George Yeardley of Lynnhaven River, Va. (modern-day...
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Bald Head
Bald Headby David Stick, 2006See also: Old Baldy LighthouseBald Head is the southernmost part of a complex of sandy islands and marshland at the mouth of the Cape Fear River known as Smith Island....
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Backcountry
Backcountryby Lindley S. Butler, 2006Backcountry was the term used during the early settlement and colonial periods for the vast interior of North Carolina, located away from the coastline and...
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Asheville Armory
Asheville Armoryby Gordon B. McKinney, 2006Three Asheville businessmen-Robert Pulliam, Ephraim Clayton, and George Whitson-established the Asheville Armory in 1862. By November of that year, they were...
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Armories
Armoriesby William S. Powell, 2006 Additional research provided by Tom Belton and Beverly Tetterton.See also: Asheville Armory.References to armories, where matériel for common defense is stored and...
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Appalachian Trail
Appalachian Trailby Wiley J. Williams, 2006See also: Great Smoky Mountains National Park.The Appalachian Trail, a marked, rustic footpath built by volunteers between 1922 and 1937, runs more than...
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Andrew Johnson Birthplace
Andrew Johnson Birthplaceby Jerry L. Cross, 2006The birthplace of Andrew Johnson, seventeenth president of the United States, is believed to be a small, one-story house with a loft structure now...
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Andrew Jackson Birthplace
Andrew Jackson Birthplaceby Jeffrey Allen Howard, 2006Although the actual birthplace of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, is still disputed, some North Carolina historians...
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Amusement Parks
Amusement Parksby Norman D. Anderson, 2006See also: Tweetsie Railroad;Amusement parks began to appear in North Carolina in the late 1800s and grew in popularity during the first half of the twentieth...
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Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canalby Michael Hill, 2006The Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, a man-made waterway connecting Albemarle Sound with the Chesapeake Bay, was proposed initially by William Byrd II...
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Alamance Mills
Alamance Millsby Brent D. Glass, 2006 Additional research provided by Eileen McGrath.The original Alamance Cotton Mill was founded by Edwin M. Holt and William A. Carrigan on Big Alamance Creek near...
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Alamance Battleground
Alamance Battlegroundby Bryan Dalton, 2006See also: Alamance, Battle ofOn 16 May 1771 the North Carolina militia, under the command of royal governor William Tryon, defeated backcountry farmers known...
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