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November 16

Blue Ridge Parkway Project Approved

November 16

Stamp Master’s Hand Forced, 1765

November 15

Peter Stuart Ney Confesses to be Napoleon’s Closest Aide

November 15

Movie Silent About Fate of Colonists

November 15

Charlotte Heist Foiled, 1933

November 15

Fear Runs Rampant in Henderson, 1958-1959

November 14

Senator and Jurist A.S. Merrimon

November 14

Andy Griffith’s “What It Was, Was Football” Recorded

November 14

Mystery of the Dare Stones

November 13

Gambling Comes to Cherokee

November 13

Jane McKimmon Was Born

November 13

Eastern North Carolina Artist Francis Speight

November 12

Four Claims about North Carolinians and the Civil War

November 12

P. T. Barnum Begins to Organize Circus

November 12

State’s Confederate Vets Defend Their Honor, 1904

November 11

Remembering Veterans

November 11

Long-Delayed Dedication of NCSU Belltower, 1949

November 11

Jesse Helms and “Viewpoint”

November 10

Wilmington Race Riots

November 10

Just Happy to Be Here: Donna Fargo

November 10

Drexel and the Furniture Maker That Took Its Name

November 10

James Murray and the Argyll Colony

November 9

Aviator Louise Thaden and the Ninety-Nines

November 9

Floyd McKissick and Soul City

November 9

Medical Pioneer S. S. Satchwell

November 9

Alexander H. Stephens Visited the Wilmington Arms Factory

November 8

Medal of Honor Recipient Lawrence Joel

November 8

Military-Political Leader Richard Caswell

November 8

Photographer Ignatius Brock of Asheville

November 7

Water Impoundment Began at Fontana Dam

November 7

William B. Umstead, North Carolina Governor for 22 Months

November 7

Ponder Brothers, Madison Powerbrokers

November 7

Billy Graham Born in Charlotte

November 6

Honor for State’s Cherished Capitol Building

November 6

Rector Adam Empie of St. James Episcopal Church in Wilmington

November 6

Dobbs Tabs Waddell as Indian Negotiator, 1755

November 6

A Civil War Surrender Six Months After Appomattox

November 5

Congressional Rivals Shoot It Out

November 5

Governor and UNC Founder William Davie Died

November 5

Tuberculosis Vaccine Perfected in Asheville, 1912

November 5

Two Troopers Murdered, 1957

November 4

Richard Gatling Patented the Gatling Gun

November 4

John Branch, Governor of North Carolina and Florida

November 4

Hornets Establish NBA in Charlotte, 1988

November 4

Charles Frazier and the Crafting of Cold Mountain

November 3

Palmer Graduate Cast as Lionel Jefferson

November 3

Thad Eure, N.C. Secretary of State for Over a Half-Century

November 3

Klan-Nazi Shooting Left Five Dead in Greensboro

November 3

Mount Mitchell Declared Highest Peak in Eastern U.S.

November 2

LaGrange Country Boy to Harlem Gangster

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