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Hey there! I’m Cassie Clark, a Carolina girl who grew up in two towns on opposite sides of North Carolina. My family has lived here for 8 generations, so my love for my home state is something I got honest. I’m passionate about sharing all the things that make North Carolina living so sweet – the history, the great outdoors, the culture, and the laidback lifestyle. That’s what Where the Dogwood Blooms is all about. It’s my love song to life in the Old North State; an ode to sunshine & hurricanes.

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There are 8 sanctuary islands in New Hanover and B There are 8 sanctuary islands in New Hanover and Brunswick Counties that provide nesting areas for shore birds. Thanks to those efforts, the area is home to 20% of NC’s Great Egret population. 🥰

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There are 8 sanctuary islands in New Hanover and B There are 8 sanctuary islands in New Hanover and Brunswick Counties that provide nesting areas for shore birds. Thanks to those efforts, the area is home to 20% of NC’s Great Egret population. 🥰

#greategret #birdstagram #ncaudubon #southeasternnc #shorebirds
Fontana Dam began operation on November 7, 1944. T Fontana Dam began operation on November 7, 1944. The hydroelectric dam operated by the  Tennessee Valley Authority created the 10,230 acre Fontana Lake and brought electricity to the Tennessee Valley portion of Western North Carolina. ✨

#fontanadam #lakefontana #tennesseevalley #wnc #nchistory
Looking for a place to take a quiet walk in the wo Looking for a place to take a quiet walk in the woods? Check out Ev-Henwood in Leland. This place has ponds, ancient bald cypress trees, and river otters frolicking in Town Creek. 😍

#evhenwoodnaturepreserve #brunswickcountync #hikelife #visitnc #takeawalk
Wild turkeys are plentiful in North Carolina but t Wild turkeys are plentiful in North Carolina but that wasn’t always the case. Population decline started when Europeans arrived and continued through the 1960s.

Thankfully, a restoration program implemented by the NC Wildlife Resources Commission was able to bring the bird back from the brink and restore it to areas where it had almost disappeared.

Today, there are more than 270,000 wild turkey roaming the Old North State. ✨

#wildturkey #ncwildlife #nativespecies #turkey #meleagrisgallopavo #nclove
This is my Aunt Pansy and Mamaw Cochran. ❤️ Th This is my Aunt Pansy and Mamaw Cochran. ❤️ The picture was taken sometime in the early-mid 1930s.

I knew my Aunt Pansy well. She stayed next door and lived to be 95. 👵🏻 Mamaw Cochran died 17 years before I was born. Mamaw talked about her a lot, though. ☺️

I heard tons of stories about her. One of my favorites was about a night that she sat up with the dead. 💀 Others were about how she kept bees and could cull a chicken with just one hand. 💪🏼

There are rumors that Mamaw Cochran was a granny woman. I don’t know if they’re true or not, but she did teach Mamaw to care for the sick. 😷 We used a lot of her remedies when I was growing up: wet tobacco for bee stings, honey for coughs, and warm sweet oil for ear aches.

She taught Mamaw to cook too. 😋 A lot of my favorite meals came from her: chicken and dumplings, cathead biscuits with homemade jam, and cornbread & milk.

I’m so grateful for all of those things. Thankful that I grew up on her stories. That I know where my home remedies and favorite recipes came from. 🙌🏼

Mamaw Cochran has been gone for 58 years… and thanks to Mamaw, her memory lives on. 🥰

#mamawcochran #ncheritage #legacy #ncculture #lifeinnc #appalachianroots #mountainfolk #familyhistory
Fort Anderson was built over the remains of Brunsw Fort Anderson was built over the remains of Brunswick Town to help protect the port of Wilmington during the Civil War.

On February 19, 1865 the Confederates evacuated Fort Anderson after learning the Union would soon attack. Union troops took the fort and pursued the rebels to Town Creek where a brief battle ensued. 💥

The victorious Union troops captured Wilmington on February 22. 💫

#battleofwilmington #fortandersonbrunswicktown #nchistory #civilwar #explorenc
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