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12860
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Sales promotion manager at Dillard's Paper Company as well as Christmas card maker and professional cartographer, Karl Smith has been making maps since the 1930s, the most famous of which is known as the North Carolina Historical Map.
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12865
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Mecklenburg and Charlotte will consolidate their county and city school systems, making it the largest public school unit in the state.
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12901
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Incorporated in 1869 and named for Lafayette's home near Paris; La Grange, North Carolina is a railroad-born town sustained via farming and tobacco production.
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Visited by John Lawson during his travels throughout North Carolina in the 1730s, Keyauwee Town, a palisaded Native American village, was re-discovered by Douglas Rights of Winston-Salem in the 1920s.
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13178
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Old Wilkesboro, the first town and county seat, was settled in 1788, with scattered activity, but great men of North Carolina's history have graced the streets of this quiet town. Across the river, North Wilkesboro has demonstrated a boom in city-building and growing industry.
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Eighty years before Boston's celebrated tea party, Brunswick's resistance to Britain took play in open daylight, was led by the most prominent men of the community, with arms in their hands, who defied His Majesty's governor, his navy, and his tax collectors. Today, Old Brunswick is a ghost town on the banks of the Cape Fear River.
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13056
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Tweetsie was the nickname given the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railway, which ran between Boone and Johnson City until 1940. The Tweetsie negotiated 66 miles of track carrying almost anything from chestnuts to iron ore. In 1946 the rail was taken up for scrap during the war, but some of her legacy remains as Gene Autry added the last engine to his collection and at least two box cars serve as refreshment stands and diners.
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13090
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Washington, North Carolina had been struggling with dwindling industry and the development of nearby towns such as Kinston, which challenged Washington's commerce. Upon hiring Bill Patterson as Chamber of Commerce Secretary, a survey of suitable industries and special advertising were put in place to entice businesses to move to Washington. Kinston shirt manufacturers, Samsons Inc., relocated to Washington and eventually, upon trying to improve water, sewage, and other facilities, the National Spinning Company signed an agreement with Washington as well.
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13130
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Banks are making it more convenient for patrons to visit. Banking is becoming modern and competitive. Branches and tellers are springing up all over larger cities, some with air-conditioning, attractive furnishings, and drive-up windows. New services are also available such as automatic savings and college tuition savings plans.
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13336
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Gaston County, formed in 1846, was named for William Gaston (1778-1844), a member of Congress and a judge on the North Carolina Supreme Court. Pleasants provides brief historical summaries on the towns comprising Gaston County: Bessemer City, Belmont, Mount Holly, Cherryville, Dallas, Stanley, Cramerton, East Gastonia, Lowell, McAdenville, High Shoals, Lucia, Crowder, Dellview, and Ranlo.
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24668
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The author introduces various cities and towns in Gaston County, detailing their industries and the development in each.
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13166
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With an estimated 2,800 individuals comprising North Carolina's Cherokee Indian Nation, the indigenous peoples of the state were at one time considered the most progressive tribe in America.
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Caldwell County is named for Dr. Joseph Caldwell, who was a math professor (1796) and later president (1806) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Pleasants lists towns in the county, including Lenoir, Granite Falls, Rhodhiss, Hudson, and Globe, and gives information on how they were named and how they grew.
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13511
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Peace has not always rested on Winston-Salem and Forsyth. Political, social, and economic fights have left scars on sensitive memories, if not on history.
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13526
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The Triassic belt is quite a slice of old times. In Lee County it runs on or near the surface until about two miles south of Sanford, then dips beneath a layer of volcanic slate. Over the years, mining this belt has been important to Lee's industry.
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