Fort Raleigh National Historic Site invites you to step back in time.
Local History
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In 1986, Dr.David Moore started exploring what first dreamt would be “America’s Pompei.
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As the 20th century dawned, Black North Carolinians were struggling to find a way to participate in the financial world.
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After seeing great success in Greensboro, local businessmen Alex Holmes and Glenn Williams had an idea to serve Wake County …
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Before the Bojangles Coliseum existed, there was the Charlotte Coliseum in its stead.
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The North Carolina Poet Laureate is meant to advocate for the power of poetry and show how the written word …
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Born in Guilford County, North Carolina, Dolley Madison became one of the most loved of the early First Ladies of …
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On Aug.21, 1965, Rev.Martin Luther King Jr.
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In 1879, Thomas Edison tasked geologist William Earl Hidden with finding platinum in North Carolina to help extend the life …
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In the 1930s, a local distributor of Shell Oil created a new way for its brand to stand out as …
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Known as the first child born in the New World, Virginia Dare may not have disappeared with her Roanoke kinsmen …
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Born in 1926, Andy Griffith, hails from the tiny mountain town of Mount Airy, North Carolina, which pays tribute to …
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L.D.Peeler began his career investing in Kentucky-based Mint-Bottle Soda Company.
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Edward Teach, better known as the pirate Blackbeard, terrorized the Atlantic in the early 18th century.
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A barren circle 40 feet in diameter lies in the pine woods of Chatham County, just south of Silver City.
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Fishing in a creek in 1799, 12-year-old Conrad Reed found a 17-pound gold nugget on his family’s farm in Cabarrus …
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Brown Mountain Lights are a spectacle of mysterious lights that have been spotted moving through valleys in Pisgah National Forest …
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One day in 1960, Wilber Hardee visited the state’s first McDonald’s in 1960, sat in his parked car most of …
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Michel Ney was a French military commander and the right-hand man of Napoleon, who dubbed him “the bravest of the …
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On Feb. 1, 1960, four Black North Carolina A&T freshmen sat at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro and ordered coffee.
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December marks 65 years for McAdenville as “Christmas Town USA,” with over 375 trees and most homes decorated in red, …
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In the 1920s, a woman in a pink gown fell from the indoor balcony outside room 545 of Grove Park …
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Reynolda Gardens – a 125-acre botanical masterpiece adjacent to Wake Forest University – is complete with working greenhouses, woodland trails …
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Declared a National Natural Landmark in 1974, the dunes were dangerously close to urban development until a local resident planted …
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By the mid-1920s, Piggly Wiggly was the nation’s third largest grocery chain, with stores in Asheville, Charlotte, Raleigh and Wilmington.
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Just across from downtown Wilmington on the Cape Fear River, you’ll find the USS North Carolina.
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North Carolina’s first town and port, Bath, was hardly a place to take children.
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In the late 1880s, charmed by Asheville’s beauty, railroad scion George Washington Vanderbilt II decided to build a “little mountain …
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“My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money …
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