Former city hall reporter Ariella Monti takes a look at the history of water in Raleigh.
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Mordecai: Raleigh’s Founding Neighborhood with a Funny Name
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How did one family help found the City of Oaks and just how do you pronounce their last name?
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A Monument to Love: State Fair Waterfall Tells a Long-Time Love Story of Jim and Helen Graham
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As people from across the state head to the State Fair, the Record remembers a romance that started there more than 70 years ago.
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Farewell, Friday
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William Friday, who built the University of North Carolina system into the world-class public higher education juggernaut that it is today, died in his sleep at his home in Chapel Hill on Friday.
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Sir Walter Raleigh: The Oak City’s Namesake and Inspiration
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In this edition of The Historical Record, we examine the story of Sir Walter Raleigh, for whom our city is named.
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Re-Introducing the Historical Record
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The Record is bringing back a column on Raleigh’s history, so it may learn from its past as it grows toward the future. Today, an introduction.
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1883 Election and Ouster of Black Aldermen
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The story of a reconstruction-era election, and the Democrats’ reconstruction of the results.
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Saint Mary’s
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The history of St. Mary’s, once in the wilds of central North Carolina, through the Civil War and its annexation to the capital city.
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The Olivia Raney library, Raleigh’s first
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The story of Raleigh’s first library.
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Nazareth: Orphans, Ghosts and a Saint
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The Nazareth Orphanage once occupied 600 acres in Raleigh.
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The Civil War Comes to Raleigh, Part 2
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In the second installment of this two-part series, a historian describes how Raleigh residents witnessed the end of the Civil War.
