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Historian gives 'cook’s tour' of Moore County history at senior center
Summary
Dr. Matt Fina delivered a public lecture at the Moore County Senior Enrichment Center surveying local history from earliest inhabitants through 1941, highlighting Native settlement, Revolutionary- and Civil War-era events, economic development, Pinehurst’s founding and preservation efforts including the Kenneth Black Cemetery restoration.
Dr. Matt Fina, president of the Rufus Behringer Civil War Roundtable and a retired pediatric cardiologist, presented a two-part public lecture at the Moore County Senior Enrichment Center on local history, saying the program was “a cook’s tour of Moore County” that would run from prehistory through 1941.
Fina told the nearly full house that archaeological and genetic evidence places the first human arrivals in North America tens of thousands of years ago and that later Woodland-period peoples left pottery and village traces across the region. He traced colonial settlement patterns, the Great Wagon Road migration into the Piedmont, and the creation of Moore County from Cumberland County on July 4, 1784, noting it was named for Captain Alfred Moore, a Revolutionary War figure who later served on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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