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High atop a hill just off the main thoroughfare of the little mountain city of Tryon, is located one of the most original and interesting enterprises - the Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood Carvers. It was after the World War and George W. Vanderbilt's death at Biltmore that the novel industry had its beginning. Miss Eleanor Vance and Miss Charlotte Yale, the originators and owners of the shops, were also originators of the handicraft work of the Biltmore Industries, where they worked for fourteen years. At this shop they not only make toys but teach handicraft, weaving, wood carving, and toy making.
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15483
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In the olden days in North Carolina, a real gentleman considered that there was only one way to settle a dispute and that was with a duel. Many famous duels have taken place in North Carolina, both before and since a drastic law against them was passed in 1803, but none have been more famous than the Spaight-Stanly, Carson-Vance, and Stanly-Henry duels.
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15509
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Mrs. Paul Webb, Sr. cared for the historic homestead in Shelby. The Old Southern Homestead was transformed into a museum of southern antiquities. Mrs. Webb Sr. collected art, artifacts, and folk crafts representative of the state's history. Along with these pieces, Mrs. Webb Sr. also renovated the interior of the homestead to reflect the historic character of a typical plantation 'big house.'
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15860
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Seay recounts some of the forgotten events that are revealed by the old files of some of the state's early railroad companies of one hundred years or more ago. The information shows quite a bit of contrast between railroading then and now.
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15927
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Dr. Joseph Halstead, better known as \"Dom Placid,\" is North Carolina's poet laureate, although he was born in Brooklyn, New York. He came to the state in 1921 as teacher of English and Greek at Belmont Abbey College. His writing is not limited only to poetry; he has written plays, book reviews for the Charlotte Observer, and has a radio show called \"Poetry Corner.\" The duties of a poet laureate are to extol the virtues of his state in poetic form and encourage the writing of poetry.
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15978
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Many people recognize the name of Sidney Lanier, the famous Georgia poet who was born in 1842. Fewer people know, however, that he died in 1881, at Lynn, near Tryon in Polk County, where he had moved seeking relief from the tuberculosis he had contracted while being held in a Federal prison during the Civil War.
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15373
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After July 1 1935, the state's criminals sentenced to death received lethal injection rather than the being sent to the electric chair. Henry Spivey was the last convict hanged near Abbottsburg on March 11, 1910. The day before, Walter Morrison was the first man to be electrocuted. Twenty-five years of electrocutions left 150 men dead, 120 were African-American. North Carolina's adoption of lethal injection in 1935 made it only the fourth state to switch.
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15374
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Colonel Samuel Davidson bravely explored western North Carolina and was a trailblazer for future settlers. Davidson with his wife, daughter, and servant settled at the base of Jones Mountain in July, 1784. He would be murdered by members of the Cherokee tribe and his wife, child, and servant fled fifteen miles back to the safety of Old Fort.
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15485
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Indigenous tobacco plants satisfied early settlers' appetites but in 1852 the first \"bright leaf\" tobacco was grown and started the state's tobacco boom. The popularity of J. L. Green's tobacco with Civil War soldiers created the world-famous \"Bull Durham\" brand. The Duke's became prolific tobacco farmers and the \"Duke's Mixture\" helped J. B. Duke form the American Tobacco Company. The tobacco industry was not limited to the 'Triangle' and places like Winston-Salem became cigarette manufacturing locales.
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15526
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The shortia, so far as known, grows nowhere else in the world except in certain area of the state's mountains. The flower was found by Andre Michaux, the famous French botanist, on a trip through the state's mountains in 1787. It remained unnamed until Dr. Asa Gray, the American botanist, discovered it on a trip to Paris in 1838 and named it in honor of Professor Short of Kentucky. It was rediscovered in the mountains in 1877.
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15751
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Seay describes the peach industry in the Sandhills. Twenty-five years ago land was hardly worth anything there, but growing peaches has changed all that. J. Van Lindley of Greensboro is credited with having planted the first commercial orchard there in 1892, but it has been only in the last decade that the industry has developed. Over two hundred varieties of peaches grow in the country. The Elberta, Georgia Belle, and the Hilly are the most widely-grown varieties in the Sandhills.
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11528
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Seay describes how Biltmore Industries grew from a small business to the largest hand weaving industry in the world.
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11606
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Seay discusses the Carolina Aluminum Company which is located at Badin in Stanly County.
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11622
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William Gaston is one of North Carolina's greatest citizens. Lawyer, legislator, congressman, and judge, he wrote the words for \"The Old North State\", which, since 1927, has been North Carolina's official state song.
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Calvary Episcopal Church, located at Fletcher, between Asheville and Hendersonville, commemorates the lives of noted artists, writers, musicians, and benefactors of the South through the erection of bronze markers on granite boulders. To date twenty-five markers have been erected, and like England's Westminster Abbey, the boulders are in rows, like the \"Poet's Corner\" and \"Statesmen's Corner.\"
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