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- North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1906 : October, v.6 : no.2]
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- Date
- October 1906
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- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1906 : October, v.6 : no.2]
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COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY RELICS IN
THE HALL OF HISTORY.
BY COT.. FRED A. OLDS.
The development of literary activity in North Carolina
during the past live years has been accompanied by the ripen¬
ing of a taste for historical research and for the collection of
matter bearing upon the history of North Carolina — not only
documents, but the more tangible and personal things which
have gone to form the history of the State, and which, more
than aught else, put the people of this day and generation
in touch with those of the olden time. Tims it has come
about that, the “Hall of History” has taken its place very
firmly as a feature of historical development — one of those
outward and visible signs which indicate a great movement,
and which is full of hope and promise of yet greater things
to come. When the agricultural building was enlarged it
was decided, at the request of this writer, to build a noble
room especially for the proper display of those objects which
bear directly upon the history of the State, and on the 15th
of December, 1902, the work of installation began, the writer
having been engaged since 18S5 in collecting, always hoping
that such a place for historical objects would be sooner or
later provided. North Carolina is yet rich in such objects,
notably of the Colonial and Revolutionary period; but until
this collection began, a little over three years ago, nothing
had been done, except in what may be termed very justly a
local way, to gather together such objects. By such failure the
State has suffered enormous loss, due to the burning of court¬
houses, public buildings, and, most of all, private homes, in
some of which there were extensive groups of objects, the
loss of which is irreparable. But at last the gathering to-
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