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40628
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Aberdeen doesn’t play second fiddle, reputation wise, to neighboring golfing meccas like Pinehurst, thanks to factors such as companies with historic ties in the region, businesses catering to local military, and events reflecting its Scottish settler past.
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Aberdeen--Description and travel; Pinehurst--Description and travel; Historic buildings--Aberdeen Coca Cola Bottling Company; Military bases; Golfing; Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad Company; Scots--North Carolina--Immigration; Golfing resorts--Moore County ; Union Station Railroad Museum (Aberdeen); Railroad museums--North Carolina; National Register of Historic Places--North Carolina
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In 2015, the town opened the Purple Martin Greenway Trail. Of historical importance, the Bechtler Mint opened in Rutherfordton in the 1830s and produced the first $1 gold coin made in America.
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Writer Bryan Mims proclaims "Kinston has soul and funk."39-year-old mayor Don Hardy points out over at the North Carolina Global TransPark, Aircraft Solutions USA is building a $100 million plant. West Pharmaceutical Services is launching a $19 million expansion. Businesses Chef & the Farmer and Mother Earth Brewery have been principal actors in downtown Kinston's rebirth.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 41 Issue 4, April 2021,
p102-104
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"Dare county's sandy beaches, charming locales and flighty history attract those looking for coastal digs." Kill Devil Hills has a year-round population of 7,000 residents but experiences a surge of more than 40,000 during the summer months.
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"Elizabeth Gardner grew up facinated by the hexagonal flakes that fell outside her Raleighhome. Today, as a Triangle area meteorologist, she helps her community brace for The Big One. Gardner is employed with WRAL-TV in Raleigh.
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Incorporated in 1899, Belhaven began as a fishing community and continued with commercial fishing operations up through the 1980s. Despite losing Pungo Hospital in 2014, the town is currently rebounding with new residents attracted by its coastal charm.
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"An NC Cooperative Extension agent in Ashe County and several optimistic farmers are helping bring back a crop that was once thought to be extinct." Pole beans were the biggest crop in Ashe County during the 1960s. A recent effort by the owners of Cardinal Tree Farms has been to bring back in to production Ferry-Morse 191 pole beans.
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During the winter of 1917-1918 in Eastern North Carolina, the waters from the Great Dismal Swamp to the Outer Banks froze over, in some places a foot thick. Boats, people and animals were trapped in the paralyzing cold and all they could do was wait and hope for the thaw.
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Statesville, the county seat of Iredell County, is Our State Magazine's featured Tar Heel Town of the Month. Among the places to visit are Carolina Bar-B-Q, First Flight Bicycles, Mitchell Community College, and the Statesville Historical Collection.
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Nancie McDermott is a North Carolina cookbook author who wrote the book on Southern cakes and pies--appropriately titled Carolina Pies and the other one Carolina Cakes. She was born in Burlington, grew up in High Point, and acquired her love of cooking on her grandmother's farm outside Chapel Hill, and later graduated from The University. To date she has written eleven books.
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Mims and son Silas take a father-son trip to explore the Outer Banks beach town of Duck. The town has a year-round population of just under 400, but in the summer time it swells to over 20,000. Among the things to see and do there are the Blue Point Restaurant, Duck Donuts, Gray's Department Store, and the Sanderling Resort.
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Mims highlights moments in the life of North Carolina's most famous movie actress, Ava Gardner.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 10, Mar 2014,
p116-120, 122, 124-126, il, por
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A grand estate known as the Whalehead Club stands along Currituck Sound in the shadow of Corolla Lighthouse. The article describes the history of this notable home from its inception to its current use. Built by railroad tycoon, Edward Collings Knight Jr. and his second wife Marie-Louise Josephine LeBel, who was wealthy in her own right, it reportedly cost $383,000, about $4.3 million in today's money. The house was completed in 1925. The extravagant home, located in a remote area, has ties with local fishing and fowl hunting industries.
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Lying within Mitchell, Yancey, and Avery counties is an area known as Spruce Pine Mining District, \"a 25-mile-long swath of mineral-rich land\" containing emeralds, rubies, sapphires, garnet, kaolin, quartz, mica, and feldspar. Mining in this Appalachian land dates back over 2,000 years to the time when Native Americans were tunneling up to one feet to get mica. Mims recounts the history of mining operations there.
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Pepsi Cola is a North Carolina classic. Concocted by druggist Caleb Bradham in 1893 in New Bern, the soft drink has become one of America's enduring symbols. Mims recounts its history.
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