Category: North Carolina
From Tobacco to…
This old tobacco farm has been in the Johnson family for about a century now. The tobacco is long gone, but what replaced it is…
A First White House Meeting
It was Ray’s first time in the Oval Office and he did not want to mess up his presentation. He thought all was going well…
An Ag Advisor in the White House
During the middle of the farm crisis in the 1980s, those in agriculture lobbied to have a full time staff member to advise the president…
When the White House Calls
Ray was expecting a call from a guy trying to sell him some firewood. When an unknown number popped up on his cell phone he…
The Amazing Invention with Little Attention
It was an event so important that it had to be captured on film…yet when it actually occurred, few would even mention it in the…
Preparing for Flight
It’s one of those locations that when you say the name of the place, there’s just one event that pops to mind. That’s the case…
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
It’s known as the lost colony of Roanoke…a settlement of English that vanished between 1587 and 1590 in what is today North Carolina. Over 400…
The Voyage That Didn’t Reach Its Destination
In 1587 three ships set sail from England bound for Chesapeake Bay. The voyage wouldn’t make that destination though…and the fate of those than landed…
Fort Raleigh
Over 300 years before the Wright Brothers would make there first flight at nearby Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Europeans landed here to begin the first…
A Department Store Owner
Earl Jones was a lawyer and state legislator who just happened to have an office across the street from a very important and historic site. …
