New Deal program set up cooperatives to bring power to farms. In N.C., first switch thrown on Apr. 17, 1937, one mi. N.
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U.S. House, 1934-1967. As chairman, Agriculture Committee, for 14 years, shaped postwar federal farm policy. Lived here.
Congressman, 1923-1952; jurist. Sponsored bills to create tobacco price supports and Kerr Lake. He lived 2 blocks east.
Agricultural reformer. He introduced American system of grape culture in 1830s at his Medoc Vineyard, once 2 mi. NW.
Governor, 1893-1897. First president of the North Carolina Farmers' Alliance. Bracebridge Hall, his home, 1 mi. N.
Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany lived, 1939-46, at agricultural colony founded in 1909 and revived by Alvin Johnson. Two mi. SW.
Established in 1934 as model farm community. Planned as a New Deal homesteading project of ten thousand acres.
Planter. Developed peanut into profitable crop by scientific methods at his Porters Neck Plantation 2 miles east.
Physician and orator. Secretary of State of N.C., 1897-1901. Farmers' Alliance and Populist leader. Grave 4 mi. W.
At Shackleford Banks, six miles southeast by boat, was located a whale fishery of the 18th and 19th centuries.