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Tar Heel history on foot : great walks through 400 years of North Carolina's fascinating past / Lynn Setzer.

Setzer, Lynn, 1955- (author.).

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  • 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]

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.
Subject:
Historic sites > North Carolina > Guidebooks.
Parks > North Carolina > Guidebooks.
Walking > North Carolina > Guidebooks.
North Carolina > Guidebooks.
North Carolina > History, Local.
Genre:
Guidebooks.

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