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  2. Clarence Lightner - Wikipedia

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    Clarence Everett Lightner (August 15, 1921 – July 8, 2002) was an American politician and mortician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina from 1973 to 1975. He was the first popularly elected Mayor of Raleigh since 1947, and the first African American elected mayor of a mostly-white, major Southern ...

  3. Calvin E. Lightner - Wikipedia

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    Calvin E. Lightner. Calvin Esau Lightner (March 31, 1878 – May 21, 1960) was an American architect, building contractor, and mortician. He was born in South Carolina and moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, to study architectural design at Shaw University. After graduation he took industrial courses at Hampton Institute and studied embalming in ...

  4. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company - Wikipedia

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    The company came to be known as the world's largest African American business in only its first few years and is claimed by its home city of Durham as an important landmark. In the late 1800s and throughout the 1900s, Durham was known as "The Black Wall Street of America." for the progress that African Americans were making within the town.

  5. Josephus Daniels House - Wikipedia

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    The Josephus Daniels House, also known as Wakestone, and later the Masonic Temple of Raleigh, was a historic mansion at 1520 Caswell Street in Raleigh, North Carolina. Built in 1920, it was the home until his death in 1948 of Josephus Daniels, influential Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson, as well as a controversial editor of ...

  6. List of the oldest buildings in North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    1760. House. Entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, this gambrel-roofed home of a merchant was built about 1760. It was named for George Owens and is the oldest structure of the Historic Halifax State Historic Site. [13] Joel Lane House. Raleigh. ca. 1760–1770. House.

  7. Wilmington, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Wilmington is a port city in and the county seat of New Hanover County in coastal southeastern North Carolina, United States.With a population of 115,451 in the 2020 census, it is the eighth-most populous city in the state.

  8. Hayti, Durham, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Hayti (pronounced "HAY-tie"), also called Hayti District, is the historic African-American community that is now part of the city of Durham, North Carolina. [1] It was founded as an independent black community shortly after the American Civil War on the southern edge of Durham by freedmen coming to work in tobacco warehouses and related jobs in ...

  9. Robbins, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    910, 472. FIPS code. 37-57000 [4] GNIS feature ID. 2404630 [3] Website. www .townofrobbins .com. Robbins is a city in Moore County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,097 at the 2010 census.

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