Tar Heel history on foot : great walks through 400 years of North Carolina's fascinating past / Lynn Setzer.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781469608891
- ISBN: 1469608898
- ISBN: 9781469608907
- ISBN: 1469608901
- Physical Description: xv, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
- Copyright: ©2013
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-348) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- I. Discovering, settling, and forming a state -- Fort Raleigh and the freedmen's colony -- Edenton: colonial capital -- New Bern: royal capital -- Hillsborough: colonial town of the piedmont -- Halifax: with resolve -- Building infrastructure: Holden Mill Trail -- Guilford Courthouse: where a defeat became a victory -- Raleigh: the debate ended here -- Murphy: the trail of tears -- Cataloochee: ghost of a remote mountain community -- Mountain discoverers: the magnificent wanderers -- II. Living our lives -- Colonial industry of the sandhills: naval stores -- Wilmington: a grand port city -- The Roanoke Canal Trail: North Carolina's first business corridor -- Warrenton: antebellum town -- Fayetteville: vibrant queen of the coastal plain -- Winston-Salem: religious freedom and industry side by side -- Salisbury: piedmont emblem -- Walk the walk of the surfmen -- Cooleemee: mill hill -- Durham: the bull city -- Wilson: tobacco town -- Pinehurst and Asheville: favorite playgrounds -- Separate, not equal, but loved anyway: Jones Lake State Park -- Fontana Dam: lumber, power, and personal quests -- Charlotte: bank town and beyond -- Research Triangle Park: cradle of new ideas -- Our favorite export: NASCAR and the Occoneechee Speedway -- III. Important firsts -- America's first state university to hold classes: The University of North Carolina -- Gold!!!!! Reed Gold Mine -- Mt. Mitchell: North Carolina's first state park -- A new profession for America: forestry along the Shut-In Trail -- Kitty Hawk: where men soared -- The call for civil rights: the Greensboro four.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | 975.6 SET (Text) | 37810435222491 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
