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Horne Creek Living Historical Farm is a working demonstration of everyday farm life in North Carolina’s northwestern Piedmont a century ago, where visitors try cutting grass with a scythe or learn how to make lye soap.

first appeared: 6/30/2002

Judaculla Rock in Jackson County is a soapstone boulder covered with American Indian pictographs. According to Cherokee lore, these drawings marked the landing impression made by a giant when he leapt from his mountaintop home to the valley below.

first appeared: 6/23/2002

The 1942 Rose Bowl game nearly didn’t happen, since a Japanese attack on California was feared. For the only time in history, the game was moved to a different location. On Jan. 1, Duke University lost to Oregon State on their home field in Durham.

first appeared: 6/16/2002

The Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station in Dare County was established in 1874 as one of several stations whose crews patrolled for ships in distress along the North Carolina coast.

first appeared: 6/9/2002

Built in 1756, Fort Dobbs was the only militia fort on the North Carolina frontier during the French and Indian War. It was located in present-day Statesville (pop. 23,320).

first appeared: 6/2/2002

Formed in 1828, Macon County was named after Nathaniel Macon, a prominent North Carolinian who served in the U.S. Congress as both speaker of the House and president pro-tem of the Senate.

first appeared: 5/26/2002

The oldest bridge in North Carolina, built in 1891 near Waynesville (pop. 9,232), is still in use, spanning the Pigeon River.

first appeared: 5/19/2002

The Blowing Rock in Blowing Rock (pop. 1,418) is a cliff rising 4,000 feet above sea level. It earned its name because the rocky walls form an air chute through which wind sweeps with such force that it’s been known to return light objects thrown into the void.

first appeared: 5/12/2002

The Union Tavern in Milton (pop. 132) was once the home and shop of Thomas Day, a highly regarded furniture maker born a free black in 1801. He bought the building, currently in restoration, in 1848.

first appeared: 5/5/2002

The first English explorers to North Carolina were Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, who landed at Roanoke Island in 1584.

first appeared: 4/28/2002

When the Outer Banks were under British attack in 1775, teenager Betsy Dowdy rode her pony 50 miles to warn Gen. William Skinner, and the Currituck Militia was dispatched to the Battle of Great Bridge.

first appeared: 4/21/2002

Transylvania County is known as “Land of the Waterfalls.” It features Sliding Rock, a 150-foot natural waterslide gushing 11,000 gallons of 50- to 60-degree water every minute.

first appeared: 4/14/2002

To ease tensions among political and religious groups, the northern part of Carolina was made into a separate British colony in 1712. Edward Hyde, for whom Hyde County is named, was made the first governor of North Carolina.

first appeared: 4/7/2002

Investors Absolom Warlick and Michael Schenck built the state’s first cotton mill near Lincolnton (pop. 9,965) in 1813.

first appeared: 3/31/2002

Established in 1668, Perquimans County was named by its earliest inhabitants, the Yeopim Indians.

first appeared: 3/24/2002

Whiteside Mountain near Highlands (pop. 909) has the tallest sheer vertical cliffs in the eastern United States, at 400 feet to 750 feet.

first appeared: 3/17/2002

The National Hollerin’ Contest, held annually in Spivey’s Corner (pop. 49), celebrates the early custom of loudly calling across the fields to neighbors.

first appeared: 3/10/2002

Linville Caverns near Marion (pop. 4,943) are the only public access caverns in the Carolinas.

first appeared: 3/3/2002

Nathaniel Batts is the first known permanent English settler in North Carolina, having built a two-room home in what is now Bertie County in 1654.

first appeared: 2/24/2002

The Chowan County Courthouse in Edenton (pop. 5,394), constructed in 1767, is the oldest courthouse in continuous use in North Carolina.

first appeared: 2/17/2002

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