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House in the Horseshoe
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During the American Revolution, irregular warfare was being waged in the backcountry of North Carolina by groups of citizen-soldiers: the whigs--or revolutionists, and the tories--who were still loyal to the king of England.
In the summer and spring, bright flowers surround the white plantation house whose name comes from its location on a horseshoe bend in the Deep River. The house (ca. 1770) was owned by Philip Alston, whose band of whigs was attacked by tories led by David Fanning. Later, four-term governor Benjamin Williams lived in the house, which now contains antiques of the colonial and Revolutionary War eras.
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