Rebuilding after the war, the rise of tobacco and textiles, and a first in flight.
At 18, a Massachusetts-raised teacher stayed in rural Guilford County after her school closed. She built Palmer Memorial Institute into a nationally known school.
Read the storyOn a freezing morning in 1903, two Ohio bicycle makers flew four times on the Outer Banks. Here is how they got there and how a lifesaver took the photo.
George Vanderbilt's Asheville château opened on Christmas Eve 1895. Its woodlands became a testing ground for American forestry and its first forestry school.
In November 1898, armed white men in Wilmington, North Carolina, burned a Black newspaper, killed residents and forced out the elected city government.
In 1898 a New Bern pharmacist renamed his fountain drink Pepsi-Cola. It grew into a national franchise business, then collapsed in bankruptcy 25 years later.
A Virginia inventor's machine, a North Carolina farm family and a gift for advertising created the American cigarette business, until the Supreme Court broke it up.
A New Bern pharmacist renamed his soda-fountain drink Pepsi-Cola in 1898 and built a national business. Then a bet on sugar brought it down in 1923.
