Notes on the History of Randolph County, NC Random Topics Researched and Written by L. McKay Whatley The Conjurer June 20, 2023 June 19, 1865, “Juneteenth,” was the day freedom finally came to the enslaved people of Texas, and is now celebrated as our second American independence day...
On Feb. 17, 1926,a devastating avalanche killed 36 peopleand injured 13 more in a small Utah mining town in Bingham County when more than a dozen cottages and a three-story boarding house were destroyed. "Because the canyon was so narrow, Bingham only had one street," wrote Catherine Arms...
In this satellite image handout from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Hurricane Bill churns 820 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina August 21, 2009 in the Atlantic Ocean. According to NOAA, Bill, the first hurrica Expand El Niñosare known to suppress tr...