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Aberdeen in Moore County is Our State magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The town was founded in the 1700s by Scottish Highlanders. Today the town is located in an area known as a first-grade golf destination. Besides golf, Aberdeen offers lakeside recreation, historic churches, a downtown historic district, and a view of ante-bellum-era farm life through the 1825 Malcolm Blue Farm, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A variety of artists, scientists, and political figures have settled in Aberdeen over the years.
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Apex was one of the first towns to develop around Raleigh. The town incorporated in 1873. Because it was the highest point on the Chatham Railroad between Richmond and Jacksonville, Florida, it took the name of Apex. The town prospered until 1911, when a fire destroyed most of the business district. Restoration brought most of the sixty commercial buildings and homes in the fire-damaged section back to life and they now attract many visitors with unique shops and restaurants. Not only history but also natural surroundings are emphasized, and the city boasts nine parks linked by greenways. The town has grown from 5,000 residents in 1990 to 30,000 today, with the numbers expected to double in the next decade.
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The Sonker Festival, held in Mt. Airy, raises money for the historic Surry County Edwards-Franklin House. Sonker is an Appalachian term meaning deep-dish fruit or sweet potato pie. Mitchell discusses the derivation of the word “sonker,†festival activities, and the history of the Edwards-Franklin House.
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On a cold April morning in 1993, Paul Lessard and Jack Kavanaugh saved Ella Mae Bowman from drowning. Bowman was trapped in her car which was sinking in a lake. Both men received the Carnegie Hero Medal. Lessard, of High Point, came out of the experience with a greater understanding of just how precious life is and resolved to make a difference with his. Using the stipend that came with the medal, he established the Lighthouse Project, a foundation that works with the Guilford County school system's Character Education Program to bring nationally known role models to speak to students about values. Now in its eleventh year, the project has touched the lives of more than 450,000 students.
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King, located in both Stokes and Forsyth Counties twenty miles north of Winston-Salem, is OUR STATE magazine's Tar Heel Town of the Month. Mitchell recounts the history of the town, which began with a simple log cabin in 1826. She also lists things to see while visiting there, including the King Drug Company, Dari-O, Gentry's Hardware, and Central Park. For today's 6,500 residents, the town provides the best of two worlds--a small, quiet place to live with a rural atmosphere together with access to big-city amenities.
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Sunburst, a sawmill town in Haywood County, was founded in 1908, to supply wood to the paper mill in nearby Canton. The town had a brief, but interesting, history. Peter G. Thomson, an Ohio paper manufacturer, built the town and mill. Forestry expert Carl A. Schenck moved the Biltmore School of Forestry there for a few years. A Tennessee company, prominent for its work in building the Panama Canal, constructed a twenty-mile railroad line between Canton and Sunburst. The Episcopal Church built a mission school there. In 1931, the wood supply ran out, and the Sunburst mill was shut down and dismantled. The workforce moved to the Canton mill. In 1932, a dam was built across the West Fork of the Pigeon River, submerging the remnants of the town under eighty-seven-acre Lake Logan.
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Reidsville, in Rockingham County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The town's history dates back to the early 1800s, and the tobacco and textile industries were once cornerstones of its economy. Mitchell discusses individuals connected with the town and things to see and do on a visit there.
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Stokes County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. Visitors to the area discover a place with history, shops, restaurants, and remarkable geography. The county is home to Hanging Rock State Park, the Dan River, long-standing tobacco barns and farmhouses, and families with roots going back generations. People living in the southern sections are minutes from Winston-Salem; those in the northern parts have bobcats and coyotes in their backyards. The country's only deposits of itacolumite, or flexible sandstone, are found there. Stokes County has the only mountain range in the nation that begins and ends within the county's borders.
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