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- Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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The remains of David L. Swain and his daughter Annie are taken from Chapel Hill to Raleigh for reburial
An undertaker, K. P. Waitt, carried the coffins of the former governor and university president and his daughter Annie from their graves in Chapel Hill to Raleigh, where they were buried side by side in the old city cemetery with only family and a few friends present.
People: David L. Swain
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A flood carries away the road bridge over the Eno at Hillsborough
After a storm of thunder, lightning, rain and high wind on the night of Monday, March 1, 1875, the Eno rose higher than it had in many years and by Tuesday morning had swept away the town bridge at Hillsborough, and the river rose to within a few feet of the railroad bridge. The same flood took bridges across Caswell County. The new bridge over the Eno at McCown's mill, finished the year before and thought to be above the reach of any water, was also carried off, and in May the county commissioners ordered both rebuilt.
Subject: Eno River road bridge, Hillsborough
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