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The Greensboro Patriots joined the Carolina Association as charter members in 1908 and began a run of 10 straight seasons in pro ball. The league was reorganized as the North Carolina Association for 1913 and renamed itself the North Carolina State League in 1916. The league played one more season and then disbanded after 1917.
Saluda Grade was the steepest standard-gauge mainline railway grade in the United States. [1] Owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway as part of its W Line, Saluda Grade in Polk County, North Carolina, gained 606 feet (185 m) in elevation in fewer than three miles (4.8 km) between Melrose and Saluda, North Carolina.
Carolina Friends School is an independent, co-educational Quaker school located in Durham, North Carolina. It enrolls students from age 3 and pre-kindergarten through grade 12 . The school was founded in 1962 by members of the Durham Friends Meeting and Chapel Hill Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends as one of the first racially ...
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC) is an autonomous association of Baptist churches in the state of North Carolina. [1] It is one of the state conventions associated with the Southern Baptist Convention. [2] Headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, the convention is made up of 80 Baptist associations as of 2025. [3]
The Southern Governors' Association (SGA), formerly the Southern Governors Conference, [1] was a United States association of governors founded in 1934 and dissolved in 2016. It was the oldest and historically the largest of the regional governors associations.
North Carolina in 1908 voted by statewide referendum to ban alcohol, and statewide Prohibition went into effect in 1909 — more than a decade before the United States entered nationwide ...
Southern Evangelical Seminary is a Christian college and seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. History The ...
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) is a Baptist theological institute in Wake Forest, North Carolina. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. [4] It was created in 1950 to meet a need in the SBC's East Coast region. [5]