Topics Covered in the Encyclopedia

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A

Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad Company
Aberdeen, Carolina, and Western Railroad
Abolitionism
A. C. Monk and Company
Act of Pardon and Oblivion
Adjutant General
Admiralty Courts
Adoption
Ad Valorem Taxation of Slaves
Advance
Advancement School
Advertising
Advisory Budget Commission
African American Dance Ensemble
African Americans
African Brigade
African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Agricultural Experiment Stations
Agricultural Organizations
Agricultural Society
Agriculture
Agriculture and Consumer Services, Department of
Air-Conditioning
Airmail Service
Airplane, First Flight of
Airports
Alamance, Battle of
Alamance Battleground
Alamance County
Alamance Mills
Albemarle, CSS
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal
Albemarle County
Albemarle Steam Navigation Company
Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission
Alexander County
Alexander Railroad Company
Alleghany County
Alligators
Almanacs
Aluminum Company of America
Amadas and Barlowe Expedition
American Association of University Women
American Dance Festival
American Indians
American Legion
American Missionary Association
American Party
American Revolution
American Revolution Bicentennial Observance
American Tobacco Company
America’s Four Hundredth Anniversary Observance
Amusement Parks
Andrew Jackson Birthplace
Andrew Johnson Birthplace
Andrews Geyser
Andy Griffith Show
Angels
Anglican Church
Animals
Anson County
Anti-Federalists
Anti-Saloon League
Appalachian Industrial School
Appalachian Regional Commission
Appalachian State University
Appalachian Trail
Apparel Industry
Appian Way
Apprenticeship
Aquaculture
Aquariums
Arator
Archaeology
Architecture
Archives and History, Office of
Area Health Education Centers
Argyll Colony
Armorial Bearings
Armories
Army Worm
Arrears
Artesian Wells
Artificial Reefs
Arts Festivals
Ashe County
Asheville
Asheville, Battle of
Asheville, USS
Asheville Armory
Asheville Citizen-Times
Asheville Female College
Asheville Normal and Collegiate Institute
Asheville School
Assemblies of God
Atlantic & Western Railway Company
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Atlantic Collegiate Institute
Attachment Clause
Atticus
Attorney General
Auditor, State
Audubon Society of North Carolina
Augusta Conference
Automobiles
Auto Racing
Averasboro, Battle of
Avery County
Aviation
Azalea Festival
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B

Babies Hospital
Backcountry
Balanced Budget Amendment
Bald Head
"Ballad of Tom Dooley"
Ballads
Ballast Stones
Bandy
Bank Holiday of 1933
Banking
Bank of America
Bank of Cape Fear
Baptist Children's Homes
Baptists
Barbecue
Barbers
Barber-Scotia College
Bare Boxing Incident
Bark
Barns
Barton College
Baseball
Basketball
Basket Making
Bassett Affair
Bastardy
Bath
Bathing
Battle of the Atlantic
Battle of the Bees
Battleships Bombed by Billy Mitchell
Batts House
Bayard v. Singleton
Beaches
Beards
Bear River Indians
Beat the Bounds
Beaufort, Battle of
Beaufort County
Beauty Shops
Beavers
Bechtler’s Mint
Beech Mountain/Land of Oz
Beer and Breweries
Belk
Belmont Abbey College
Benefit of Clergy
Bennett College
Bennett Place
Bentonville, Battle of
Bentonville Battlefield
Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Library
Bertie County
Bethabara
Bethel Regiment
Better Baby Contests
Bettis’s Bridge, Battle of
Big Ore Bank
Biltmore Forest School
Biltmore House
Biltmore Industries
Bingham School
Biotechnology
Birds
Bishop of Durham Clause
Bishop of London
Black and Tan Constitution
Black Codes
Black-Eyed Pea
Black Freemasonry
Black Mountain College
Black Panther Party
Black Second
Black Tongue
Bladen County
Blakeley Silver Service
Bland Expedition
Blandwood
Blank Patents
Blind Tiger
Blockade-Running
Bloc Voting
Blossom’s Ferry
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Bluegrass Music
Blue Laws
Blue Lodges
Blue Mold
Blue Ridge Parkway
Blues
Board of Trade
Board of War
Boll Weevil
Bonnie Blue Flag
Book Publishing
Boon’s Mill, Battle of
Borough Towns
Bostian Bridge Train Wreck
Boundaries, State
Bounties
Bourbons
Box Suppers
Boy Scouts of America
Boys Road Patrol
Bragg Committee
Branch Banking and Trust Company
Branchhead Boys
Breads
Brevard College
Brevard Music Center
Brick Making
British Cemetery
British Debts
Broadsides
Brookings Institution
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company
Brown Bagging
Brown Mountain Lights
Brown’s Marsh, Battle of
Broyhill Furniture
Bruce’s Cross Roads, Battle of
Brunswick County
Brunswick Town
Buck Dancing
Buffaloes
Building and Loan Associations
Bull Durham Tobacco
Buncombe
Buncombe County
Buncombe Turnpike
Burial Customs
Burke County
Burlington Industries
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Burwell School
Business Directories
Busing
Buttermilk
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C

Cabarrus Black Boys
Cabarrus County
Cabinet of Minerals
Calabash
Calcium Carbide
Caldwell County
Caldwell Institute
Caldwell School
Camden, Battle of
Camden County
Cameron Village
Campbell University
Camp Lejeune
Camp Meetings
Canals
Canebrakes
Cane Creek Connection
Cannon Award
Cannon Mills
Canoes
Cape Fear
Cape Fear and Deep River Navigation Company
Cape Fear Club
Cape Fear Indians
Cape Fear Museum
Cape Fear River
Cape Fear River Settlements
Cape Fear Valley Scottish Festival
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Cape Lookout National Seashore
Capital Punishment
Capitals, Colonial and State
Cardinal
Carnegie Libraries
Carolana
Carolina
Carolina Ballet
Carolina Bays
Carolina Central Railway
Carolina Charters (1663, 1665)
Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission
Carolina Christian College
Carolina College for Women
Carolina Comments
Carolina Female College
Carolina Hotel
Carolina Indian Voice
Carolina Israelite
Carolina Panther
Carolina Parakeet
Carolina Peacemaker
Carolina Political Union
Carolina Power & Light Company
Carolina Quarterly
Carolinas, Separation of
Carowinds
Carpetbaggers
Carson House
Cartagena Expedition
Carteret County
Cary Rebellion
Cassidey’s Shipyard
Castle McCulloch Gold Mill
Caswell County
Cataloochee Ranch and Ski Area
Cataloochee Trail
Catalpa Tree
Catawba College
Catawba County
Catawba Indians
Catawba River
Cathey’s Fort
Cat-Throwing Incident
Cattle Drives
Caucasian
Caves and Caverns
Cement
Cemeteries, National and State
Central Carolina Bank & Trust Company
Central Prison
Chain Gang
Chambers of Commerce
Champion Paper and Fibre Company
Chancery Court
Charles B. Aycock Birthplace
Charles Towne
Charlotte
Charlotte, Battle of
Charlotte Country Day School
Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum
Charlotte Navy Yard
Charlotte Observer
Charlotte Three
Chatham County
Chatham Manufacturing Company
Chautauqua
Cheerwine
Cherohala Skyway
Cherokee Botanical Garden
Cherokee Clay
Cherokee County
Cherokee Indians
Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station
Chicamacomico Life-saving Station
Child Labor
Children of the Confederacy
Chimney Rock
China Connection
Chinquapin
Chowan College
Chowan County
Chowan County Courthouse
Chowanoac Indians
Christ Episcopal Church
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Christian Church in the South
Christian Science
Christ School
Church Camps
Churches of Christ
Church Homecomings
Churchman
Church of England
Church of God in Christ
Circuit Riders
Circuses
Cisterns
City Beautiful Movement
City Planning
Civic Clubs
Civil Rights Movement
Civil War
Civil War Rosters
Claims Committees
The Clansman
Clapp’s Mill, Battle of
Claremont College
Clarendon Bridge Company
Clark’s Regimental Histories
Classical Music
Clay-Bank
Clay County
Clerk of Court
Cleveland County
Climate and Weather
Clinchfield Railroad
Clio’s Nursery
Clocks
Clogging
Clothing and Fashion
Coal
Coastal Area Management Act
Coastal Plain
Coast Guard, U.S.
Cobb’s Point, Battle of
Cockfighting
Coffee Pot (Old Salem)
Coharie Indians
Coker Arboretum
Cokesbury School
Coleman Manufacturing Company
Cole Manufacturing Company
Collards
College of Design
Colonial Agents
Colonial and State Records
Colonization Societies
Colored Farmers’ Alliance
Colson’s Supply Depot
Columbus County
Commission Merchants
Commission of Indian Affairs
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
Commission on the Future of North Carolina
Committee for Economic and Racial Justice
Committee of One Hundred
Committees of Correspondence
Committees of Observation
Committees of Safety
Common Law
Communism
Communist Workers Party
Community Colleges
Company Shops
Computers
Concessions and Agreement
Concordia College
Cone Mills Corporation
Confederate Congress, North Carolina Members
Confederate Imprints
Confederate Laboratory
Confederate Memorial Day
Confederate Monuments
Confederate Negro
Confederate Party
Confederate Pensions
Confederate Postal Service
Confederate Prison (Salisbury)
Confederate Soldiers’ Home
Confederate Women’s Home
Confiscation Acts
Congressional Districts
Congress of Racial Equality
Conjure
Connemara
Conscientious Objection
Conscription
Conservation Movement
Conservatism
Conservative Party
Constable
Constitution, State
Constitution, U.S., North Carolina Signers of
Contrabands
Controller, Office of
Convention of 1788
Convention of 1789
Convention of 1835
Convention of 1865
Convention of 1868
Convention of 1875
Convention of Westerners
Conversion Narratives
Convict Labor
Cooleemee Plantation
Coolmore
Cool Pool
Copyhold
Coree Indians
Corporation Commission
Cotton Balls
Cotton Mills
Cottonseed
Council Extraordinary
Council of Safety
Council of State
Counterfeiting
Counties
Country Clubs
Country Ham
Country Music
Country Stores
County Fairs
Courthouse Ring
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Courtship Customs
Covered Bridges
Cowan’s Ford, Battle of
Cowpens, Battle of
Cradle of Forestry
Cragmont Assembly
Cranberry Iron Mine
Craven County
Crazy Water Crystals
Credit Unions
"Creed of a Rioter"
Crime Control and Public Safety, Department of
Crime Rates
Crittenden Award
Croatan National Forest
CROATOAN
Croatoan Indians
Crofter Immigration
Crop Lien System
Crops
Crossnore School
Crowfield Academy
Crown
CSX Corporation
Culpeper’s Rebellion
Cultural Resources, Department of
Culture Week
Cumberland County
Cupola House
Curfew
Currency
Currituck County
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D

Daily Tar Heel
Dairy Industry
Dance
Dan River Steam Navigation Company
Dare County
Daughters of the American Revolution
Davenport College
Davidson College
Davidson County
Davie County
Davie Poplar
Davis School
"Dawn of a New Day"
"Death to the Klan" March
Debt, Imprisonment for
Declaration of Rights
Decoration Day
Decoys
Deep and Haw River Navigation Company
Deep Creek, Battle of
Deertongue
Delco Lights
Demesne Land
Democratic Party
Demography
Dentistry
Desertion, Civil War
De Soto Expedition
Destructives
Devil’s Horse’s Hoof Prints
Devil’s Tramping Ground
Dinner on the Grounds
Dinosaurs
Dirt Eaters
Disciples of Christ
Disfranchisement
Dismal Swamp Canal
Dissenters
Divorce
Dixiecrats
Dixie Dynamo
Dog Breeds
Dog Racing
Dogwood
Dogwood Festivals
Doodlebugs
Dope Wagons
Dorland-Bell School
Dorothea Dix Hospital
Dorton Arena
Dramatic Arts
Drawbridges
Dred
Drexel Furniture Company
Driver's Licenses
Drovers
Drugstores
Duck Hunting
Dueling
Duke Endowment
Duke Homestead
Duke Power Company
Duke University
Dulcimer
Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment
Duplin County
Durant Bible
Durham
Durham Academy
Durham & South Carolina Railroad
Durham County
Durham Herald-Sun
Durham Life Insurance Company
Dyes and Dyeing
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E

Eagles
Earle’s Ford, Battle of
Earthquakes
East Carolina University
East Coast Bible College
Easter Monday Holiday
Eastern Belt
Eastern Music Festival
East-West Rivalry
Ecce Homo
Economy
Edenton
Edenton Tea Party
Edgecombe County
Education, Adult
Education, Private
Education, Public
Education, Special
Education, State Board of
Education, Vocational
Efird’s Department Stores
Eighty-second Airborne Division
Election Law
Electric Power
Elephant Tokens
Elise Academy and High School
Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society
Elizabethan Gardens
Elizabethtown, Battle of
Elizabeth City State University
Elizabeth City, Battle of
Elizabeth College
Elizabeth II
Elon University
Emancipation
Emancipation Day
Employment Security Commission
Endangered Species
Endor Furnace
Enfield Riots
English Dialects
Eno Indians
Entails
Environmentalism
Environmental Protection Agency
Environment and Natural Resources, Department of
Episcopal Church
Episcopal School for Boys (Raleigh)
Episcopal School for Boys (Salisbury)
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Equal Rights League
Escheats
Esse Quam Videri
Estates Records
Estatoe Path
Etchoe, Battle of
Eugenics Board
Eureka College
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Evolution, Teaching of
Executive Organization Acts
Exodusters
"Experimental Railroad"
Exploration, European
Exports
Express Riders
Extension Service
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F

Factors
Factory Cord
Fairs
Fall Line
Family Dollar Stores
Farm Bureau Federation
Farmers’ Alliance
Farmers Union
Farm-Life Schools
Farm-to-Market Roads
Fassifern School
Fatback
Fayetteville
Fayetteville Academy
Fayetteville Arsenal and Armory
Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry Company
Fayetteville Observer
Fayetteville State University
Federalist Party
Federal Writers’ Project
Fee System
Fellowship of Southern Churchmen
Feminism
Fences
Ferries
Festival for the Eno
Fiction
Field Names
Fifteenth Amendment
Filmmaking
Fire Departments
"First at Bethel, Farthest to the Front at Gettysburg and Chickamauga, and Last at Appomattox"
First Citizens Bank & Trust Company
"First in Freedom"
First Union Bank Corporation
Fish
Fishing, Commercial
Fishing, Recreational
Fishing Camps
Fish Stews
Flag, State
Flogging
Flora MacDonald College
Flora MacDonald Homesite
Flying Squadrons
Folk Art
Folk Art Center
Folk Festivals
Folklore
Folkmoot USA
Folk Music
Folktales
Fontana Dam
"Fool Killer"
A Fool's Errand
Football
Footpaths
Foot Washing
Fords
Forests
Forest Society
Forsyth County
Fort Bragg
Fort Caswell
Fort Defiance
Fort Dobbs
Fort Fisher
Fort Fisher, Battle of
Fort Hamby
Fort Macon
Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
Fort San Juan de Xualla
Fortuna
Fossils
Foster’s Raid
Foundations Bible College
Four-H Clubs
Four-Minute Men
Fourteenth Amendment
Fox Grape
Fraktur
Frank Johnson’s Band
Franklin, State of
Franklin County
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center
Fraternities and Sororities
Free Bridge, Battle of
Freedmen’s Bureau
Freedmen’s Conventions
Freeholders
Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company
Freemasons
Free Produce
Free Soilers
Free Suffrage
Free Will Baptist
Free Will Baptist Children's Home
Freight Rates
French and Indian War
French Broad River
French Broad Steamboat Company
French Gratitude Train
Fries Manufacturing and Power Company
Fundamental Constitutions
Fundamentalism
Funerals
Fur and Skin Trade
Furniture
Fusion of Republicans and Populists
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G

Gaelic Language
Gambling
Gander Pulling
Gaps
Gardner-Webb University
Gaston County
Gastonia Strike
Gates County
Gatling Gun
Gays and Lesbians
Genealogy
General Assembly
General Court of North Carolina
General Education Board
Gentry
Geography
Geological Survey
Geology
German Settlers
Germanton Academy
Gettysburg, Battle of
Gettysburg Monument
Ghosts
Gibbs’s Rebellion
Gideon's Band
Gimghoul Castle
Ginseng
Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
Glass House
Glebes
Glencoe
Goals and Policies Board
God's Acre
Go-Forward Program
Gold Hill Mine
Gold Rush
Goldsboro Female College
Golf
"Goodliest Soile under the Cope of Heaven"
Good Roads Campaign
Gospel Music
Gouging
Gourd Patch Affair
Governor
Governor Morehead School
Governor Richard Caswell Memorial
Governor's Commission on Education beyond High School
Governor’s Council
Governor’s Mansion
Governor’s School of North Carolina
Graham County
Graham County Railroad Company
Grand Assembly of Albemarle
Grandfather Clause
Grandfather Mountain
Grand Model
Grange
Granite
Granville County
Granville Grant and District
Granville’s Devisee v. Allen
Granville Wilt
Grasses
Graveyard of the Atlantic
Great Awakening
Great Deed of Grant
Great Depression
Great Dismal Swamp
Great Falls Mills
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Trading Path
Great Wagon Road
Greene County
Greensboro
Greensboro College
Greensboro News and Record
Greensboro Sit-Ins
Green’s Path
Gristmills
Grits
Grocery Stores
Grove
Grove Park Inn
Guilford College
Guilford County
Guilford Courthouse, Battle of
Guilford Courthouse Flag
Gulf Stream
Gum Swamp, First and Second Battles of
Gunboats, Wooden
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H

Hackney Brothers Wagon Company
Halifax
Halifax County
Halifax Resolves. See Resolves, Prerevolutionary.
Haliwa Indians
Hamilton Report
Handicrafts
Hanes Brands
Hang Gliding
Hardee’s Restaurants
Harkers Island Boats
Harmony Hall
Harnett County
Harriet-Henderson Cotton Mills Strike
Hatteras Inlet, Battle of
Hatting
Hayes Plantation
Haywood County
Headache Powders
Headrights
Health and Human Services, Department of
Heath Patent
Heilig-Meyers
Helms-Hunt Senate Race
Hemp
Henderson County
Henry Clay Oak
Herbs
Heritage Bible College
Heroes of America
Hertford County
Highland Games
Highland Regiment, North Carolina
Highland Scots
High Point
High Point Female College
High Point University
Highway Commission
Highway Patrol
Highways
Hillbillies
Hillsborough Academy
Hill’s Ferry
Historical Collections
Historical Commission
Historical Markers
Historical Societies
Historic Preservation
Histories
History of the Dividing Line
Hog Farming
Hog Killing
Hogshead
Hoi Toiders
Hoke County
Hoke v. Henderson
Holiness Church
Hollerin’ Contest
Home Guard
Homeland Security
Honeybees
Hooker
Horne Creek Living Historical Farm
Horner School
Hornet’s Nest
Horse Racing
Horses
Hospitals
Hot Springs
House in the Horseshoe
Hue and Cry
Huguenots
Humor
Hunting
Huron, USS
Hurricanes
Hush Puppies
Hyde County
Hymnody
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I

IBM
Iceburg
Iced Tea
Ice Hockey
Immanuel College
Immigrant Colonies
Immigration
Impeachment
The Impending Crisis of the South
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Indentured Servants
Independence Building
Indian Museum of the Carolinas
Indian Trading Paths
Industrial Commission
Infectious Diseases
Information Technology
Inlets
Innes Academy
Inns and Taverns
Institute for Research in Social Science
Institute of Government
Instructions to Royal Governors
Insurance
Integral Society
Internal Improvements
International Home Furnishings Market
Inter-State Farmers’ Conference
Intracoastal Waterway
Inventions
Iredell County
Iron and Steel Industry
Ironclads
Islam
Isothermal Belt
"It’s a Damn Long Time between Drinks"
Ivey’s Stores
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J

Jackson County
Jack Tales
James City
James K. Polk Memorial
Jamestown Exposition of 1907
Jargon Society
Jazz
Jeanes Fund
Jefferson-Pilot Corporation
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jenkins’ Ear, War of
Jerusalem Oak
Jim Crow Laws
Joel Lane House
John Birch Society
John C. Campbell Folk School
John F. Blair, Publisher
John Kuners
John Locke Foundation
Johnson C. Smith University
Johnston County
Johnston’s Riot Act
John Wesley College
Jones County
Journalism Hall of Fame
Judaculla Rock
Judaism
Judiciary, Federal
Judiciary, State
Judson College
Jugtown
Junebugs
Junior Reserves
Justice, Department of. See Attorney General.
Justices of the Peace
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K

Kaolin
Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
Keeley Institute
Kehukee Baptist Association
Kellenberger Foundation
Keyauwee Indians
Kidney Stone Belt
Kilpatrick’s Shirt-tail Skedaddle
King’s Bounty
King's Daughters and Sons
King’s Mountain, Battle of
Kinston, Battle of
Kinston College
Kirk-Holden War
Kittrell College
Knights of the Golden Circle
Know-Nothing Party
Korean War
Körner’s Folly
Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation
Kudzu
Ku Klux Klan
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L

Labor, North Carolina Department of
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings
Labor Unions
Lafayette’s Visit
Lake Lure Rest and Rehabilitation Center
Lakes
Lance, Inc.
Land Grant Colleges
Land Grants
Land of Eden
Land of the Sky
The Land We Love
Last Signal Message (Civil War)
Latimer v. Poteat
Latinos
Laurel Creek Massacre
Laurinburg & Southern Railroad
Laurinburg Normal and Industrial Institute
Law Schools
League of Women Voters
Lederer Expedition
Lee County
Lees-McRae College
Legends
Lenoir County
Lenoir-Rhyne College
Leonard Medical School
Levine Museum of the New South
Liberty Hall
Liberty Ships
Library, State
Lifesaving Service, U.S.
Lighthouses
Lightships
Lightwood
Lily-White Politics
Lincoln County
Lindley’s Mill, Battle of
Linen
Linn Cove Viaduct
Linville Caverns
Linville Gorge
Literacy
Literary and Historical Association
Literary Awards
Literary Fund
Literary Journals
Literary Lantern
Littleton College
Live-at-Home Program
Livestock
Livingstone College
Llewelyn Conspiracy
Local Government Commission
Logging
Longleaf Pine
Long Street Presbyterian Church
Loray Mill Strike
Lord’s Acre Plan
Lords Proprietors
Lost Cause
Lost Colony
Lost Colony Symphonic Drama
Lost Provinces
Lotteries
Louisburg College
Louisburg Female Academy
Louisburg Male Academy
Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum
Louis Orr Etchings
Love Feasts
Lovejoy Academy
Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
Lowe’s Grove Credit Union
Lowry Band
Loyalists
Lumbee Indians
Lumber Room
Lutheran Church
Lutheran Schools of Mount Pleasant
Lynching
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M

Mace
Maco Light
Macon County
Macon’s Bill Number Two
Madison County
Madstones
Malcolm X Liberation University
Mangum Terrace
Manors
"Manteo to Murphy"
Manual Labor Schools
Manufactured Homes
Manufacturing
Manumission Societies
Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society
Maple Syrup
Maps
Market Houses
Marl Beds
Maroons
Marriage
Marshals, U.S.
Mars Hill College
Martin Academy
Martin County
Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
Massachusetts Circular Letter
Matilda Berkely; or, Family Anecdotes
Mattamuskeet Apples
Mattamuskeet Indians
McDowell County
McIntyre’s Farm, Battle of
McLean Trucking Company
Mealtimes
Mechanics and Farmers Bank
Mecklenburg County
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
Mecklenburg Resolves
Medical Board
Medical Care
Medical Schools
Medical Society
Medicine Shows
Meherrin Indians
Melungeons
Menhaden Chanteymen
Mennonites
Mental Illness
Mental Retardation Centers
Mercantilism
Meredith College
MerleFest
Messuage
Methodist Church
Methodist College
Methodist Home for Children
Mexican War
Midwives
Migrant Workers
Military Installations, Civil War
Military Ocean Terminal at Sunny Point
Militias, Colonial
Milk Sickness
Millstones
Mill Villages
Mining
Mint Museum of Art
"Miracle of Hickory"
Mirlo Rescue
Missionary District of Asheville
Mississippi Navigation Crisis
Miss North Carolina Scholarship Pageant
Mitchell County
Modern Greece
Monitor, USS
Monroe’s Crossroads, Battle of
Montagnards
Mont Amoena Seminary
Montgomery County
Montreat
Montreat College
Mooning
Moonshine
Moore County
Moore General Hospital
Moore’s Creek Bridge, Battle of
Moore’s Roster
Moravian Music
Moravians
Morehead Foundation
Mormon Church
Morris Field
Mosquito Fleet
Mothball Fleet
Mother Vineyard
Motto, State
Mountain Dance and Folk Festival
Mountain Heritage Center
Mountains
Mount Mitchell
Mount Mitchell Railroad
Mount Olive College
Mourner's Bench
Mourning Rings
Mule Day
Mules
"Mummy Letters"
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
Museum of the Albemarle
Museum of the Cape Fear
Museum of the Cherokee Indian
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N

Nags Head Woods Ecological Preserve
Nancy Jones House
Nantahala National Forest
Nantahala Power and Light Company
NASCAR
Nash County
Nash-Hooper House
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Congressional Club
National Guard
National Humanities Center
National Negro Business League
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of North
Carolina
Nativism
Natural Gardens of North Carolina
Natural Gas
Natural History of North-Carolina
Natural Walls
Nature Conservancy
Nature’s Sample Case
Naval Section Bases
Naval Stores
Navigation Acts (1651, 1660)
Navigation Companies
Negro Head Road
Neuse, CSS
Neuse, CSS, State Historic Site and Governor Richard Caswell Museum
Neuse River
Neuse River Navigation Company
New Bern, Battle of
New Bern, Confederate Expeditions against
New Bern Academy
New Bern Benevolent Society
Newbold-White House
New Deal Agencies
New Garden, Battle of
New Hanover County
New Lights
New River
New River, Battle of
New River Navigation Company
Newspapers
A New Voyage to Carolina
Ney Myth
Nickels for Know-How
Nissen Wagon Works
Nobility
Nonimportation Agreement (1768)
Norfolk Southern Railroad
Northampton County
North Carolina, CSS
North Carolina, USS
North Carolina Academy of Science
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
North Carolina Arts Council
North Carolina Association of Colleges and Universities
North Carolina Association of Educators
North Carolina Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
North Carolina Awards
North Carolina Bankers Association
North Carolina Baptist Historical Collection
North Carolina Bar Association
North Carolina Booklet
North Carolina Botanical Garden
North Carolina Catawba Company
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina Christian Advocate
North Carolina Classical, English, and Mathematical School
North Carolina Collection
North Carolina College
North Carolina Conference for Social Service
North Carolina Cotton Growers Association
North Carolina Council of Churches
North Carolina Crop Improvement Association
North Carolina Day
North Carolina Debutante Ball
North Carolina Equal Suffrage Association
North Carolina Exposition of 1884
North Carolina Farmer
North Carolina Farmers’ Association
North Carolina Film Board
North Carolina Folklore Society
North Carolina Fund
North-Carolina Gazette
North Carolina Genealogical Society
North Carolina High School Athletic Association
North Carolina Historical Review
North Carolina Humanities Council
North Carolina Industrial Association
North Carolina Magazine; or, Universal Intelligencer
North Carolina Manual
North Carolina Maritime Museum
North Carolina Military Academy
North Carolina Military Institute
North-Carolina Museum
North Carolina Museum of Art
North Carolina Museum of History
North Carolina Museum of Life and Science
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
North Carolina National Bank
North Carolina Press Association
North Carolina Railroad
North Carolina Reader
North Carolina Rural Electrification Authority
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
North Carolina School of the Arts
North Carolina Society of New York
North Carolina Sorosis
North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
North Carolina State Bar
North Carolina State University
North Carolina Symphony
North Carolina Tax Relief Association
North Carolina Teachers Association
North Carolina Transportation Museum
North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster
North Carolina Wesleyan College
North Carolina Writers Conference
North Carolina Writers’ Network
North Carolina Zoological Park
North Caroliniana Society
Northern Lights
Nuclear Energy
Nucor Corporation
Nullification Crisis
"Numbers of Carlton"
Nutbush Address
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O

Oak Ridge Military Academy
Oakwood Cemetery
Occaneechi Indians
Oconaluftee Indian Village
Odd Fellows Home and School
Odd Fellows Lodge
Ogden v. Witherspoon (Blackledge)
O. Henry Festival
Oil
Okra
Old Christmas
Old East
Old Field Schools
Old Hickory Division
Old North State
Old Quawk’s Day
Old Salem
Old-Time String Band Music
One-Party Politics
Onslow County
Opera. See Classical Music.
Opera Houses
Opossums
Opposition Party
Orange County
Orchestras
Ore Knob Copper Mine
Organs
Orphans
Orthodox Church
Ould Virginia
Our Living and Our Dead
Our State
Outdoor Dramas
Outer Banks
Outlawry
Outlyers
Outsider Art
Outward Bound School
Overmountain Men
Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail
Overseas Replacement Depot
Overseers
Oxford College
Oyster War
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P

Pacifism
Painting
Palatine Court
Palmer-Marsh House
Palmer Memorial Institute
Pamlico County
Pamlico Indians
Panics, Economic
Paper Mills
Pardo Expeditions
Parent-Teacher Associations
Parole
Pasquotank County
Pasquotank Indians
Patent Medicines
Paternalism
Peace College
Peace Movement (Civil War)
Pearls
Pearsall Plan
Peddlers
Peerage
Pender County
Penderlea Homesteads
Penland School of Crafts
Penmanship
Pennsylvania Farmer
Pentecostal Holiness Church
People’s Ticket
Pepsi-Cola
Periauger
Perquimans County
Persian Gulf War
Personal Names
Person County
Pfeiffer University
Photography
Pianos
Picket, USS
Piedmont. See Geography.
Piedmont Airlines
Piedmont Urban Crescent
Piedmont Wagon Company
Pig Pickin’. See Barbecue.
Pilot Mountain
Pine Bark Beetles
Pine Needle Art
Pine Trees
Pirates
Pisgah National Forest
Pitt Academy
Pitt County
Plank Roads. See Roads.
Plantation Duty Act of 1673
Plantation Names
Playwrights
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plott Hound
Plymouth, Battle of
Pocosins
Poet Laureate
Poetry
Political Parties
Polk County
Poll Tax
Pollution
Pontiac’s Conspiracy
Poole Bills
Pope Air Force Base
Populist Party
Portis Gold Mine
Ports and Harbors
Postal Service
Post Roads
Potecasi Creek, Battle of
Pottery
Poultry
Poverty
Powell Bill
Precincts
Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Junior College for Men
Preservation North Carolina
Presidents, U.S.
Primogeniture
Princeville
Printing
Prisoner of War Camps
Prisons
Privateers
Privies
Proclamation of 1763
Profanity
Progress Energy Carolinas
Progressive Farmer
Progressivism
Prohibition
Prostitution
Protestant Episcopal Church Publishing Association
Provincial Congresses
Pseudonyms
Psychiatric Hospitals
Public Health
Public Instruction, Department of
Public Libraries
Pupil Assignment Act
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Q

Quakers
Qualla Boundary. See Cherokee Indians.
Quallatown, Battle of
Queen Anne’s Revenge
Queen Anne’s War
Queen’s College
Queens University of Charlotte
Quids
Quilts
Quitrents
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R

Racket Stores
Radio Broadcasting
Radio Free Dixie
Raft Swamp, Engagement at
Railroad Commission
Railroads
Raleigh
Raleigh, CSS
Raleigh Academy
Raleigh-Durham Army Air Field
Raleigh News and Observer
Ramps
Ramsgate Road
Ramsour’s Mill, Battle of
Randolph County
Rangers
Ravenscroft School
Ravenscroft School for Boys
Rawls’s Mill, Battle of
Real Estate
Receiver General
Reconstruction
Recording Industry
Red Cross
Redeemer Democrats
Red Shirts
Red Strings
Reed Gold Mine
Reformed Church
Refugees (World War II)
Regionalism
Register of Deeds
Regulator Movement
Religion
Rent Rolls
Republican Party
Research Triangle Park
Reserve Troops
Resolves, Prerevolutionary
Resorts
Revenue Cutter Service
Revision of 1751
Revivals
Reynolda House
Rhine Research Center
Rice Diet
Richmond County
Richmond Hill Law School
Rights as Englishmen
Right-to-Work Law
Ring Tournaments
Rip Van Winkle State
River Navigation
Rivers
Riverside Cemetery
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Roads
"Road to Nowhere"
Road Wagons
Roanoke Canal
Roanoke-Chowan Group
Roanoke Institution
Roanoke Island, Battle of
Roanoke Island Festival Park
Roanoke River
Roanoke Voyages
Robeson County
Rocketry Experiments
Rockfish, Battle of
Rockingham County
Rock Music
Rocky Mount Mills
Rogue’s Harbor
Roman Catholic Church
Root Doctors
Ropewalks
Rosedale
Rosenwald Fund
Rose’s Stores
Round Knob Hotel Affair
Round Towns
Rowan County
Royal Cake Company
Royal Knights of King David
Royal North Carolina Regiment
Rule of Three
Rural Electrification
Rutherford College
Rutherford County
Rutherford’s Campaign
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S

Sacred Heart College
Sailing
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Saint Augustine’s College
St. John's Church
Saint Mary’s School
St. Peter AME Zion Church
St. Philip's Church
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Salem
Salem Academy and Salem College
Salem Tavern
Salisbury Academy
Salisbury Arsenal
Salisbury Post
Salmon Creek
Salt Licks
Saluda Grade
Salvation Army
Samarcand Manor
Sampson County
Sand Dunes
Sandhills
Sandy Creek Baptist Association
Saponi Indians
Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Saura Indians
Sauthier Maps
Savings and Loan Associations
Sawtooth Center for Visual Art
Scalawag
Scales Trial
Schenck-Warlick Mill
School Commission
School Consolidation
Scotch Bonnet
Scotch Fair
Scotch Merchants
Scotland County
Scottish Settlers
Sculpture
Scuppernong Grape
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Sea-Gift
Seal, State
Seaman’s Friend Society
Seasoning Period
Secession Movement
Secotan
Secretary of State
Secret Ballot
Sectionalism
Segregation
Semiconductors
Settlement Patterns
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
Shad Boats
Shad Festival
Shag Dancing
Shakori Indians
Shallow Ford
Shape-Note Singing
Shape-Shifting
Sharecropping
Sharpies
Shaw University
Shelby Dynasty
Shell Castle
Shellfish
Shell Mounds
Shelton Laurel Massacre
Shenandoah, CSS
Sheriff
Sherman’s March
Shipbuilding
Shipwrecks
Shivaree
Shoffner Act
Shooting in the New Year
Short Ballot
Shorthand
Signories
Silk
Silver, Frankie, Murder Case
Silver Fusion
Silversmithing
Simkins v. Cone
Simmons Sea-Skiff
Singing
Sir Walter Hotel
Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction
Sissipahaw Indians
Skiing
Slate Belt
Slater Fund
Slave Clandestine Economy
Slave Codes
Slave Names
Slave Narratives
Slave Patrols
Slave Rebellions
Slavery
Slaves’ Midsummer Holiday
Sloop Point Plantation
Smithfield Herald
Smith-Graham Senate Race
Smith Richardson Foundation
Smokehouses
Snake Handling
Snap Dragon
Snipe Hunting
Soccer
Socialist Party of North Carolina
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
Society of the Cincinnati
Soil Conservation
Somerset Plantation
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Sons of Liberty
Sons of the Revolution in the State of North Carolina
Sororities
Soul City
South Atlantic Quarterly
South Dakota v. North Carolina
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Southern Folklife Collection
Southern Highland Craft Guild
Southern Historical Collection
Southern National Bank
Southern Part of Heaven
Southern Power Company
Southern Railway System
Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union
South Lowell Academ
South Mills, Battle of
South Pacolet River, Battle of
Southwest Creek, Battle of
Spanish Invasions
Spanish Moss
Spanish-American War
Speaker Ban Law
Speaker of the Assembly
Spirit of the Age
Spray Water Power and Land Company
Square Dancing
Stagecoaches
Stagville
Stamp Act
Stanly County
Stars and Bars
State Art Society
State Bank of North Carolina
State Bureau of Investigation
State Capitol
State Fair
State Historic Sites Program
State Legislative Building
State Parks
State Planning Board
State Rights
Statesville Record and Landmark
State v. John Mann
State v. Manuel
State v. Negro Will
State v. Worth
Stay Law
Steamboats
Step Dancing
Stickball
Stokes County
Stoneman’s Raid
Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School
Streetcars
Stretch-Out
Strolling Players
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Submarine Attacks
Substitutes (Civil War)
Subtreasury Plan
Suedliche Post
Sugar Act
Sugar Creek, War of
Suicide
Summer School
Sunday Schools
Sundials
Sunset Law
Superstitions
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Surfing
Surplus, Federal (1836)
Surry County
Surveyors
Swain County
Swamps
Swannanoa Gap Tunnel
Swann’s Revisal
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
Swan’s Quarter, Battle of
Sweet Milk
Swiss and Palatine Settlers
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T

Tarboro Daily Southerner
Tar Heel
Tar River Navigation Company
Task System
Taxes, State
Taxpayers’ League
Teacherage
Telegraph
Telephones
Television Stations
Temperance Movement
Temple of Israel
Tennessee, Formation of
Tennis
Terrapins
Terrorism
Test Oath
Textbook Commission
Textiles
Thalian Association
Theaters
Thirteenth Amendment
Thomas Built Buses, Inc.
Thomas’s Legion
Thomasville Female College
Thomas Wolfe Memorial
Thompson Children’s Home
Threshing
Thyatira Church and Community
Tick War
Time Zones
Tobacco
Tobacco Auctions
Tobacco Belts
Tomato Clubs
Tombstones
Tornadoes
Torpedo Junction
Torrence’s Tavern
Tory
Tory Hole
Tory Oak
Tory War
Town Creek Indian Mound
Town Documentaries
Town Milk
Towns and Cities
Track and Field
Trading Ford
Trail of Tears
Transportation, North Carolina Department of
Transylvania Company
Transylvania County
Travel and Tourism
Travelers’ Rooms
Travels of William Bartram
Treasurer
Trees
Trenton, Battle of
Trinity College
Troublesome Creek Ironworks
Trucks and Trucking
Tryon Palace
Tryon’s Line
Turlington Act
Turnpikes
Tuscarora Indians
Tweetsie Railroad
Tyrrell County
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U

Ugly Club
Umstead Act
Underground Railroad
Underwater Archaeology.
Underwriter, USS
Union Churches
Union County
Unionists
Union League
Union Square
Union Volunteer Regiments
Unitarian Universalist Church
United Church of Christ
United Confederate Veterans
United Daughters of the Confederacy
United Holy Church of America
United States v. American Tobacco
University Magazine
University of North Carolina at Asheville
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
University of North Carolina Press
University of North Carolina System
University v. Foy
Unto These Hills
Utilities, Regulation of
Uwharrie National Forest
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V

Vacation Bible School
"Vale of Humility between Two Mountains of Conceit"
Vance County
Venus Flytrap
Verrazano Expedition
Vestry
Veterans’ Groups
Veto
Vice Presidents, U.S.
Vick Chemical Company
Vietnam War
Viewpoint
Vine Hill Academy
Violence, Group
Virginia
Virginia Electric & Power Company
Visual Arts
Vital Statistics
Volcanoes
Voluntary Associations
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W

Waccamaw Indians
Wachovia
Wachovia Corporation
Wahab’s Plantation, Battle of
Wake County
Wake Forest University
Waldensians
Walker’s Appeal
Wallpaper
Walton War
Wampus
War of 1812
Warren County
Warren Junto
Warrenton Female Academy
Warren Wilson College
Washington, N.C., Attack on
Washington, N.C., Siege of
Washington, Statues of
Washington County
Washington Monument
Washington’s Southern Tour
Wasp
Watauga Club
Watauga County
Watauga Settlement
Water Conservation
Waterfalls
Waterfowl
Waterwheels
Wayne County
W. Duke, Sons and Company
Weapemeoc Indians
Weaver College
Weaving
Weights and Measures
Welfare
Well Sweep
Welsh Settlers
Wesleyan Church
Wesleyan Female College
Western Carolina University
Western Carolinian
Western College of North Carolina
Western North Carolina Railroad
Wetlands
Wet Year
Wetzell’s Mill, Battle of
Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve
Whaling
Whammy
Whig Party
Whimmy-Diddle
Whiskey
Whistler’s Mother
White Citizens’ Councils
White Doe, Legend of
White Furniture Company
Whitehall, Battle of
White Patriots of North Carolina
White Trash
White-Water Rafting
Wildcat Division
Wildflowers
Wild Horses
Wildlife
Wilkes County
William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust
Wilmington
Wilmington, CSS
Wilmington & Weldon Railroad
Wilmington, Brunswick, and Southern Railroad
Wilmington Campaign of 1781
Wilmington Race Riot
Wilmington Sea Coast Railroad
Wilmington Star
Wilmington Ten
Wilson Collegiate Institute
Wilson County
Windmills
Windsurfing
Wine and Wine Making
Wingate University
Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem Bible College
Winston-Salem Journal
Winston-Salem State University
Winton, Burning of
Wireless Experiments
Witchcraft
Womanless Weddings
Women
Women’s Association for the Betterment of Public Schoolhouses
Women Suffrage
Woodcarving
Woodmen of the World
Woolly Worm
Work Songs
World’s Columbian Exposition
World War I
World War II
Wreath from the Woods of Carolina
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Wyse Fork, Battle of
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X

X-Ray Experiments
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Y

Yadkin College
Yadkin County
Yadkin-Pee Dee River
Yadkin River Navigation Company
Yamassee War
Yancey County
Yaupon
Year without a Summer
Yellow-Dog Democrat
Yeomen
YMCA and YWCA
Young Men’s Institute
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Z

Zebulon B. Vance, USS
Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace
Zion-Parnassus Academy
Zoning
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
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