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January 19

North Carolina Press Association Founded, 1873

December 31

The USS Monitor Sank

December 31

“The Fire is Spreading:” A Landmark Revival in Dunn

December 31

New Years and the Lowly Opossum

December 31

Selma Burke, Renowned for FDR Portrait on the Dime

December 30

Lunsford Richardson, Inventor of VapoRub and Junk Mail

December 30

Rail Line Linked Wilmington and Weldon

December 30

Judge John Kerr, Longtime Congressman

December 29

Andrew Johnson, Tailor’s Apprentice Path to White House

December 29

The Treaty of New Echota and the Trail of Tears

December 28

Apples to Oregon: The Journey of Henderson Luelling

December 28

John Lawson Began His Journey

December 28

Lindsay Warren, Congressman and Government Watchdog

December 27

Survey for a Moravian Settlement Began

December 27

Bath to Broadway: Edna Ferber and “Show Boat”

December 27

Henry Plummer Cheatham, Educator and Advocate for Equality

December 26

Confederate General, Postbellum Politician William R. Cox

December 26

Junior Johnson Pardoned by Ronald Reagan

December 26

Burnham Colburn of Asheville and His Dedication to Mineralogy

December 25

The Story of the Lawson Family

December 25

Alton Stewart of Coats, Victim of “Man’s Conquest of the Air”

December 25

Flying Ace George Preddy, Christmas Casualty

December 25

The State Library of North Carolina is Founded

December 24

Mary Van Landingham, Long Remembered for Humility Quip

December 24

R. A. Fessenden on the Outer Banks: The Beginnings of Radio

December 24

Ava Gardner Born

December 23

Inventor and Ax Man John Council of Bladen County

December 23

Sedaris’s Elf Tale Instant Hit for NPR

December 23

“Aunt Samantha” Bumgarner, Traditional Musician

December 23

Dorothea Dix Hospital Authorized

December 23

Bald Head Island Lighthouse Lit for the First Time

December 22

An Arrest Over Anti-Slavery Materials

December 22

Ruth Cannon, Preservationist

December 22

Six Western Counties Ceded

December 21

Illinois Soldiers Overrun Thomas’s Legion, 1864

December 21

Harper House in Hickory an Architectural Gem

December 21

Walter Hines Page of Cary, Editor and Ambassador to Great Britain

December 21

Fort Dobbs Gets an Inspection

December 20

New River to Camp Lejeune

December 20

Washington Duke Was Born

December 20

Fire at Buies Creek, 1900

December 20

Bewitched in Tennessee

December 19

A North Carolina Valley Forge Story

December 19

Depression-Era Gubernatorial Imperative: “Live at Home”

December 18

John Wright Stanly of New Bern, Debtor to Financier

December 18

“Cherokee Clay” and Wedgwood Pottery

December 17

John White, Vance’s Envoy to England

December 17

The Declaration of Rights: Milestone at Halifax, 1776

December 17

First Powered Flight

December 16

The Light at Cape Hatteras

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