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Benson is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The town was incorporated in 1887 and began as a farming community and mule-trading center. This part of town history is remembered each September as the town celebrates Benson Mule Days. Today, location at the junction of interstates 40 and 95 gives the town a solid economic base and makes it attractive to businesses seeking to relocate.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 70 Issue 4, Sept 2002, p18-20, 22-23, il Periodical Website
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Rowan County in the 1700s was a junction of two major roads: the Great Pennsylvania Wagon Road and the Warrior's Trading Path. Records of who passed through, who settled, then moved on, were stored in the courthouse at Salisbury. Through the single-handed efforts of Mary Elizabeth Gaskill McCubbins, who amassed over 150,000 pieces of genealogical information, the records were made more accessible to the public. Today the Rowan Public Library's genealogical section, with 4,000 microfilms, 20,000 books, and the McCubbins' Collection, is one of the nation's top genealogical research libraries.
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Burgaw, the county seat of Pender County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. Comer discusses the history of this town of 3,800 people and things to see and do there.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 70 Issue 12, May 2003, p18-20, 22-23, il Periodical Website
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Cameron, in Moore County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. Comer discusses the history of the town, which began as a railroad stop and between 1910 and 1920 was known as \"the dewberry capital of the world.\" Visitors to the town today, which is on the National Register of Historic Districts, will find historic homes, shops, and antique emporiums.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 70 Issue 8, Jan 2003, p18-20, 22-23, il Periodical Website
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From May to November king mackerel tournaments are big business along the state's coast. While events like Southport's U.S. Open King Mackerel Tournament and the Wrightsville Beach King Mackerel Tournament award large prizes, they also benefit local economies. Motels, restaurants, bait and tackle shops, and shops in general benefit. The Atlantic Beach Tournament brings $1.6 million into the local economy.
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James Taylor's fame as a singer/songwriter is worldwide. In North Carolina his roots stretch back to Scottish immigrants in 1790 New Bern. Comer profiles the career of this musician whose song \"Carolina on My Mind\" has become \"the unofficial anthem of the state.\"
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 70 Issue 2, July 2002, p40-44, il, por Periodical Website
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Denton in Davidson County is this month's OUR STATE magazine Tar Heel Town of the Month.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 71 Issue 4, Sept 2003, p18-20;22-23, il Periodical Website
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Fontana Village in Graham County is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. Comer discusses the history of the town, the building of the dam, and the town's popularity as a tourist destination.
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Grifton, in Pitt County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. Comer discusses the town's history, its surviving the flood in the wake of Hurricane Floyd, and its well-known Shad Festival.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 69 Issue 11, Apr 2002, p18-20, 22, il Periodical Website
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Holly Springs in Wake County had known success from its earliest days. By 1900, it had a reputation for education and commerce. By 1983, progress had passed it by, and the 700 citizens were faced with merging with another town or trying to revitalize theirs. They chose the latter; voted for bonds; and built the first sewer plant. That brought developers. In nine years the population rose to 7,000. The tax base went from $23 million to $500,000 million, and land prices tripled.
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Hudson is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. Located in Caldwell County in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the town will celebrate its centennial in less than three years. Comer discusses the history of the community and its current economic status.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 70 Issue 5, Oct 2002, p18-20, 22, il Periodical Website
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Comer examines the lives of the Trantham family of Haywood County and the Cockman family of Catawba County, two families who are carrying their music, stories, and traditions into the twenty-first century.
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Love Valley, located in Iredell County, is the \"Cowboy Capital of North Carolina.\" The town was the dream of Andy Barker, who started it in 1954. It requires that all buildings look one hundred years old and prohibits automobiles on the main street. The residents in this working Western town observe the Code of the West of loyalty and honesty.
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Manns Harbor is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The town was named for a German sea captain, Charles Mann. The Dare County town is known for its custom boatbuilding.
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Mebane, a town on the Alamance/Orange County line, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. For over one hundred years the now-closed White Furniture Company bolstered the town's economy. Today Mebane flourishes because of its location between the Triangle and the Triad.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 69 Issue 10, Mar 2002, p18-20, 22, 23, il Periodical Website
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