November 4: Happy Birthday! Captain William Robert Burke
Captain William Robert Burke was born on this day in 1897, in Ashe County, to John Thomas and Mollie Ellen Phillips Burke. He attended school, then he began farming. He left farming to work...
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November 4,1925: Calvin H. Wiley School is Dedicated
The local newspaper advertised on November 1, 1923, that bids would be taken for the new grade school to be built in Hanes Park. The plans were already drawn and contractors had 30 days...