Read Harry McKown’s most recent “This Month in North Carolina History,” which covers the brief operation of America’s first forestry school.

Four UNC alums recently recreated Hinton James’s famous walk to Chapel Hill in 1795. See the following news story and video for more details: UNC grads walk from beach to campus to honor first student.

A few weeks ago I added a blog entry about Wonderland, North Carolina. Well, there are Wonderlands popping up all over the place now. The cover of In Cloudland, Mayview Park, Blowing Rock, North Carolina (a promotional item for W. L. Alexander’s Mayview Park development, near Blowing Rock) recently caught my attention.
When I flipped through the pamphlet, I noticed that there were several images of “Wonderland Trail,” one of which I’ve included below (notice the cut-and-fill method of road construction).

The pamphlet is full of wonderful mountain scenes, information on the Mayview Park resort and development, details on local attractions, and recommended travel routes.

Read about North Carolina and the 19th Amendment at “This Month in North Carolina History — North Carolina and the Women’s Suffrage Amendment.”

OK, it’s time for another edition of “Where The Heel?”. Does anyone recognize this building?

As always, leave your guess as a comment. We’ll let you know if you’re right!

Has anyone in the great wide world of North Carolina Miscellany Land ever heard of Wonderland, North Carolina? I stumbled upon an image of it (see below) the other day while flipping through Views of Potter Farms Development : Showing Various Stages in the Evolution of Potter Farms, which is a wonderful pamphlet that we have in our vault collection.

From the description below the image and other clues in the pamphlet, Wonderland seems to have been in the Beaufort County region along a line of the Norfolk Southern Railroad. Did the town disappear like the Cheshire-Cat?

Our next installment of “Where The Heel?” features another imposing brick structure, see below.

Can anyone tell me where this is? If you have a guess, leave it in the comments for this post. We’ll let you know if you are correct! We still don’t have any prizes to award the winners, but you can brag to your friends about being the winner.

We all know that North Carolina proudly claims “First in Flight” on its license plates (much to Ohio’s chagrin). North Carolina also claims other firsts, such as the first state university, the first miniature golf course, and Babe Ruth’s first professional home run. Well, North Carolina will have another first to add to its long list at 12 p.m. on September 8, 2008. At that time and on that date, the Wilmington area will become the first television market in the country to switch to an all-digital signal. The Federal Communications Commission chose Wilmington as a test market for the upcoming nationwide switch on February 17, 2009. Read more about it at the FCC’s “The Digital TV Transition.”

Read about the western North Carolina floods of 1916 in this month’s “This Month in North Carolina History.”

It’s been too long since our last edition of “Where The Heel?,” so I picked (what I believe to be) a tough one.

Can you identify this building? Can you tell me where in North Carolina it is? (By the way, it is still standing.) If you have a guess, leave it in the comments for this post. We’ll let you know if you are correct!