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37-63680 [3] GNIS feature ID. 2407378 [2] Website. www .townofsparta .org. Sparta is a town in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the town was 1,834. [4] It is the county seat of Alleghany County. [5]
The Thomas Wolfe House, also known as the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, is a state historic site, historic house and museum located at 52 North Market Street in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. The American author Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) lived in the home during his boyhood. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971 for its ...
Thomas C. Dula (June 23‚ 1844 – May 1, 1868) [1] [2] was a former Confederate soldier who was convicted of murdering Laura Foster. National publicity from newspapers such as The New York Times turned Dula's story into a folk legend. Although Laura was murdered in Wilkes County, North Carolina, Dula was tried, convicted, and hanged in ...
Harry Agganis. Aristotle George " Harry " Agganis (April 20, 1929 – June 27, 1955), nicknamed " The Golden Greek ", [1] was an American college football player and professional baseball player. After passing up a potential professional football career, he played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman from 1954 to 1955 for the Boston Red ...
The Georgia-born, Detroit-raised baritone was celebrated as a devoted family man and loyal friend during a two-hour funeral Saturday at his longtime home church, St. Stephen A.M.E. on Detroit’s ...
Sparta [1] was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon ( Λακεδαίμων, Lakedaímōn ), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in the Eurotas valley of Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. [2] Around 650 BC, it rose to ...
William Holland Thomas. William Holland Thomas (February 5, 1805 – May 10, 1893) was an American merchant, lawyer, politician and soldier. He was the son of Temperance Thomas ( née Colvard) and Richard Thomas, who died before he was born. He was raised by his mother on Raccoon Creek outside present-day Waynesville, North Carolina.
Thomas F. Frist Jr. was born on August 12, 1938, to Thomas F. Frist Sr., a prominent internal medicine specialist in Nashville, [1] and Dorothy Cate. Frist has four siblings: physician and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist; [6] Dr. Robert A. Frist; Dorothy F. Boensch; and Mary F. Barfield. Frist grew up in Belle Meade, a western ...