N.C. Cooperative Extension Service Through the Years

See a timeline of important milestones from the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service over the past 100 years.

Rachel Stroop
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NC Extension Centennial 1907
Photo courtesy of N.C. State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

1907
North Carolina put on agricultural demonstrations years before the Smith-Lever Act. C.R. Hudson (pictured) was sent to the state to begin the efforts and appointed James A. Butler as the first county agent in Iredell County.

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