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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, (search)
1; spreads through Tennessee and North Carolina......1802 Bank of Cape Fear, with branches incorporated, the mother bank at Wilmington......1804 Gold discovered on Meadow Creek, in Carbarrus county, during the year 1801 or 1802. The first considerable amount sent to the United States mint was $11,000 during the year ......1814 State geological and mineralogical survey conducted by Prof. Denison Olmstead, of the University of North Carolina......1817 Reception to Lafayette at Murfreesboro......Feb. 26, 1825 Fund for public schools established by law......1825 State board of internal improvements established......1825 First toll-gate on the Buncombe turnpike from the Saluda Gap via Asheville to the Tennessee line, erected......October, 1827 John Branch, of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy......March 9, 1829 State-house, containing the statue of Washington by Canova, destroyed by fire......June 21, 1831 Railroad from Cape Fear to Weldon, 162 miles in l
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wheeler, John Hill 1806-1882 (search)
Wheeler, John Hill 1806-1882 Historian; born in Murfreesboro, N. C., Aug. 6, 1806; graduated at Columbian University in 1826 and at the Law School of the North Carolina University in 1828. In 1831, under a treaty with France, he was appointed secretary of the commission to settle claims of Americans for losses occasioned by the treaties of Berlin and Milan. He was treasurer of North Carolina in 1841, and minister to Nicaragua in 1854-57. His publications include History of North Carolina; Reminiscences and memoirs of North Carolina, etc. He died in Washington, D. C., Dec. 7, 1882.