Many battles, many names, one N.C. State
By Kate Pattison • Mar 10th, 2009 • Category: The Historical Record, The LatestA university by any other name…
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Dorothea Lynde Dix
By Kate Pattison • Mar 3rd, 2009 • Category: The Historical Record, The LatestIt took a tenacious political reformer to get North Carolina its first mental hospital.
Cherry Bounce, recipe for a capital city
By Kate Pattison • Feb 23rd, 2009 • Category: The Historical Record, The LatestThe history of Isaac Hunter’s Tavern, plus an old Raleigh recipe.
Raleigh’s Confederate Cemetery
By Kate Pattison • Feb 15th, 2009 • Category: The Historical Record, The LatestA brief history of the Oakwood Cemetery.
A Regulator at Joel Lane’s
By Kate Pattison • Feb 10th, 2009 • Category: The Historical RecordNorth Carolina’s prelude to the Revolutionary War.
The Hemp Gatherers
By Kate Pattison • Feb 1st, 2009 • Category: The Historical RecordThe Tuscarora, which means “Hemp Gatherers,” used the area around Raleigh as a hunting ground before European explorers North Carolina.
Temple of Love
By Kate Pattison • Jan 26th, 2009 • Category: The Historical RecordCentral Prison, formerly known as the “Temple of Love.”
Raleigh’s 1840 election riot
By Kate Pattison • Jan 18th, 2009 • Category: The Historical RecordRioting on the once and future Grog Alley, also known as Hargett Street.
Raleigh’s first black politician
By Kate Pattison • Jan 11th, 2009 • Category: The Historical RecordLooking back at Raleigh’s first African-American politician as America prepares to inaugurate its first African-American President.
Andrew Johnson’s father, a hero in his own right
By Kate Pattison • Jan 4th, 2009 • Category: The Historical RecordAndrew Johnson’s father: bartender, janitor and church sexton. Died this week in 1812.
