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Statesville is in central Iredell County, in the western part of the Piedmont region of North Carolina.. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Statesville has a total area of 24.4 square miles (63.1 km 2), of which 24.2 square miles (62.8 km 2) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km 2), or 0.48%, are water. [12]
The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary.
Charles James Russell Nesbit was born (c. 1920) in Statesville, North Carolina, [2] where he began tumbling as a child after seeing acrobats in a traveling circus. [a] In the 1930s, he moved to Washington, D.C., graduating from Cardozo High School. [1] He excelled at swimming and running as well as gymnastics.
Johnson was born on March 19, 1930, in Statesville, North Carolina, and grew up in Washington, D.C., raised by his mother and grandmother. [1] During his childhood, he was active in an acrobatics group at his local YMCA.
Scouting came to the United States a short time later. There were already boy organizations in the US under the leadership of Daniel Carter Beard (Sons of Daniel Boone), Ernest Thompson Seton (Woodcraft Indians) and the YMCA. Chicago publisher William D. Boyce learned about Scouting during a visit to London in 1909.
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Statesville Township is a non-functioning administrative division of Iredell County, North Carolina, United States. By the requirements of the North Carolina Constitution of 1868, the counties were divided into townships , which included Statesville township as one of sixteen townships in Iredell county.