On February 26, 1870, Graham town commissioner Wyatt Outlaw, an African American, was lynched by a band of Ku Klux Klansmen.
On February 25, 1870, Hiram Revels was seated in the United States Senate.
On February 25, 1820, Rep. Felix Walker delivered a rambling speech in Congress that would go little remembered but for the abuse he took that day.
On February 24, 1868, Andrew Johnson became the first president to be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. Johnson, the 17th president, was born in Raleigh in 1808.
On February 23, 1983, Buckminster Fuller was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, for his contributions as a geometrician, educator and architect-designer.
On February 23, 1911, Avery County became the last of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
On February 22, 1759, Governor George Burrington, first royal governor of North Carolina, was murdered in London.
On February 22, 1856, the new “Insane Hospital of North Carolina”—renamed Dorothea Dix Hospital a century later—admitted its first patient, suffering from “suicidal mania.” Previously, families
