Identifier: northcarolinaits00stew (find matches)
Title: North Carolina and its resources
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Stewart, M. I. (Moses I.) prt Stewart, J. C. (John C.) prt North Carolina. Board of Agriculture
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Publisher: Winston : M.I. & J.C. Stewart, public printers and binders
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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xperimentStation, and to Professor Gerald McCarthy, Botanist, and Mr. C. F.von Herrmann, Meteorologist, of the Experiment Station staff, andto the following for information on the subjects annexed to theirnames: Dr. Kemp P. Battle, University of North Carolina—History. D. A. Tompkins, Charlotte—Manufacturing. Dr. R. H. Ivcwis, Raleigh, Sec. State Board of Health—Health. Col. C. A. Cilley, Hickory—Mountain Resorts. Dr. G. H. Sadelson, Southern Pines—Piny-woods Resorts. Col. F. A. Olds, Raleigh—Seaside Resorts. W. W. Ashe, Raleigh—Forests. H. H. Brimley, Raleigh—Fauna and Game. Capt. C. B. Denson, Raleigh—Charities and Orphanages. Mr. Charles McNamee, Biltmore—The Biltmore Estate. Morganton Land and Improvement Company—several illustra-tions, and to the gentlemen in the several counties who so generouslycorrected the sketches of their counties. To all I beg to give assurance of hearty appreciation and the fullcredit for assistance rendered. T. K. Bruner, Secretary.
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HICKORYNUT GAP. HISTORICAL. ⭕ EARLY HISTORY. THE LANDING OF SIR VvALTER RALEIGHS COLONY. They were the first that ever burstInto that silent sea.—Coleridge. On the 4tli of July, 1584, two English ships hove in sight of thecoast of North Carolina, somewhere about Cape Fear. They werethe vessels of Sir Walter Raleigh, and were on a voj-age of discovery,to take possession of some portion of the new world in the name ofthe crown of England. The day on which they first beheld theshores of our country has since become the great political holiday ofthe age, and is now distinguished as the anniversary, not of theorigin, but of the downfall of the authority of England over theUnited States. The commanders of these two ships were PhilipAmadas and Arthur Barlowe; and the ceremony which the)^ performedupon the coast of North Carolina, and which I am now about tocelebrate, is perhaps one of the most memorable events in the historyof mankind. The fortunate results of the dominion of England ove

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