North Carolina-South Carolina
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NORTH CAROLINA / Colonized, 1585-87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote readiness for independence, Apr. 12, 1776 b/w SOUTH CAROLINA / Formed in 1712 from part of Carolina, which was chartered in 1663, it was first settled by the English in 1670. One of the 13 original states.
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Leonidas L. Polk 1837-1892
Polkton, NC
President of National Farmers' Alliance, 1889- 1892; began Progressive Farmer, 1886; a founder of NCSU and Meredith College.
Samuel Spencer
Jurist & Antifederalist leader.
Thomas Samuel Ashe
Wadesboro, NC
Associate Justice, State Supreme Court, 1878-1887; Member of Congress, 1873-1877; Member of Confederate Congress; legislator.
Boggan-Hammond House
Wadesboro, NC
Eighteenth-century house built by Patrick Boggan, Revolutionary soldier & a founder of Wadesboro.
Hugh Hammond Bennett 1881-1960
Wadesboro, NC
"Father of soil conservation.