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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Anthony Wayne, Pikeville, North Carolina, Elroy, North Carolina, Brogden, North Carolina, Fremont, North Carolina, Mar-Mac, North Carolina, Seven Springs, North Carolina, Walnut Creek, North Carolina, Eureka, North Carolina, U.S. Route 117, U.S. Route 70 in North Carolina, Interstate 795, Mount Olive, North Carolina, National Register of Historic Places listings in Wayne County, North Carolina, Cliffs of the Neuse State Park, The Goldsboro News-Argus, Collier Motors, Battle of White Hall, Goldsboro Union Station, Dudley, North Carolina, Rosewood, North Carolina, Battle of Goldsboro Bridge, Dred and Ellen Yelverton House, Goldsboro metropolitan area, Grantham, North Carolina, Odd Fellows Lodge, Neuse Correctional Institute, Dobbs County, North Carolina, Mount Olive Tribune, Eureka United Methodist Church, First Presbyterian Church, Fork Township, Wayne County, North Carolina, Wayne Memorial Hospital, Hopewell, Wayne County, North Carolina, Nahunta, North Carolina. Excerpt: Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 - December 15, 1796) was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the sobriquet of Mad Anthony. Wayne was one of five children born to Isaac Wayne and Elizabeth Eddings Wayne on the family farm in Easttown Township, near present-day Paoli, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was educated as a surveyor at his uncle's private academy in Philadelphia, as well as at the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania), where he was in the class of 1765, although he did not earn a degree. In 1766 he was sent by Benjamin Franklin and some associates to work for a year surveying land they owned in Nova Scotia and...
