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Genealogical Treasures on Counting Heads Republished

June 18, 2008 – 4:08 pm

In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, every head mattered.  During this the proprietary period, land was awarded based on the number of free people a settler brought into the colony.  The Historical Publications Section of the N.C. Office of Archives and History has republished “North Carolina Headrights:  A List of Names, 1663-1744,” compiled [...]

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Give Dad Father’s Day Adventures on the Tracks and on the Trails

June 12, 2008 – 4:37 pm

SPENCER – This year get dad in motion for Father’s Day.  The perfect gift is to make dad “Engineer for an Hour” at the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer.  The “Tracks of an Engineer” program is ideal for dads and rail fans everywhere.  Let dad control the throttle of a full-sized diesel locomotive.
 
A 45-minute training [...]

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