A common local story is that after the closing of the Tyson Buggy Company, Henry Ford was interested in buying the old plant and converting it into a car assembly line.

This story is often repeated despite a lack of evidence, and it runs contrary to the life of Ford, who was born and raised in Detroit and started his businesses there.

City leaders purportedly told the State that Carthage was on too steep of a hill for locomotives to climb and that access to the university would be limited if built there.

This often-repeated story does not account for the fact that locomotives were not invented until two decades after the university had been built in Chapel Hill.

He was the last American pilot of the squadron to die under French colors before America entered the war in April 1917.

Both the plane and his body were found by the French, and he was buried at the site of his death at the edge of the village of Jussy, and was later reinterred at the Lafayette Escadrille memorial near Paris upon his father's wishes.

McConnell was commemorated with a plaque by the French Government and a statue by Gutzon Borglum at the University of Virginia, as well as an obelisk on the court square of his home town of Carthage, North Carolina.

On March 29, 2009, a man named Robert Stewart shot and killed eight people and wounded two others at the Pinelake Health and Rehab Center of Carthage.