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JIM THORPE 1886-1953

Indian athlete, star of the 1912 Olympics, made his professional baseball debut with Rocky Mount Railroaders, 1909. Ball park was 300 yds. W.

E-59Edgecombe County

Where it stands. Church Street at Falls Road in Rocky Mount

Native nationsRoads, rivers and rails
I love my State, because her people have been good and kind to me, and because her sky is above my home, as it will be above my grave.
William Woods HoldenInaugural speech as Governor of North Carolina, delivered to a "vast audience" in Capitol Square, Raleigh (July 4, 1868). Memoirs of W. W. Holden (Durham, NC: The Seeman Printery, 1911) ch. 4, pp. 101–2, 105Died in Raleigh, 49 mi from here. Carolina Quotes record

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