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Jenny Lind Sang Under This Tree
By Patsy M. Boyette
Olde Kinston Gazette Archives
March 1999
Jenny Lind, North Carolina has only a sign, an abandoned country store and a couple of mobile
homes to mark its location.
According to local folklore, the little crossroad located three miles west of LaGrange in eastern North Carolina
was named after Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind
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Homemade Medicines Of The Confederacy
Olde Kinston Gazette Archives Staff Report
February 1998
As the North began to tighten its blockade of the Southern states in rebellion, the Confederate Army had to become more and more dependent on medicines that had been smuggled or home grown. When the human is deprived of something that is a necessity for survival, his
natural reaction is seek a substitute. That is the predicament in which the Confederacy found itself during the years of 1861 through 1865 when it came to much needed medical supplies for the sick and wounded.
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Kinston Woman Is Neuse River Steamboat Captain’s Granddaughter
Olde Kinston Gazette Archives
January 1998
Marjorie Wood of Six Churches Plaza in Kinston recently told the Olde Kinston
Gazette about an ironic twist of fate which claimed the life of her
grandfather in early June of 1879. Captain J.D. “Donald” Wood died at the early
age of 34 in a freak accident on the same day he was to retire as captain of the
Steamer Neuse.
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