On December 24, 1922, Ava Gardner was born in Grabtown, a small farming community near Smithfield in Johnston County. Gardner moved around North Carolina
On December 4, 1994, Charlotte Smith, then a member of the UNC Tar Heels women’s basketball team, became the second collegiate women’s player ever to dunk.
On October 25, 1774, women in Edenton resolved to stop buying English tea and cloth to protest taxation without representation. The event became known as t