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15399
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Weir describes Pilot Mountain. Located in Surry County, it is 2,700 feet above sea level and 1,500 above the surrounding countryside. It stands isolated, the sole survivor of other mountains that have eroded away. Over the centuries it has served as a guide to both Native Americans and wilderness travelers, like Daniel Boone. Within the past five years it has become accessible to motorists through the completion of a road to its base.
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15507
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On the steep slopes of Chimney Rock under the shadow of the Sugar Loaf Dome is a little colony of mountaineers who are almost completely isolated. Only twenty miles from Asheville, Rutherford County, this little community of nine families know little of the area outside their two square mile plateau.
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13987
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One of the few remaining country doctors left in North Carolina, Dr. Jefferson Davis Bulla of Randolph County is still going strong at 89.
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15401
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Kilkenny was an isolated community in Tyrell County with a population of only about 100 citizens. Community members living on Alligator River could only access the greater part of the state by way of the river and in drier periods over a trail through the swamps. W. T. Dodge's father moved to Kilkenny in 1876 and all residents are descendants of the Dodge family.
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14999
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One of the grandest of all scenic spots in North Carolina, Grandfather Mountain, may soon be taken over as a state park.
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Founded in 1877 in Elkin, by the late Alexander Chatham and his brother-in-law Thomas L. Gwyn, Chatham Blanket Mills, now Chatham Manufacturing Company, is one of the oldest textile mills in North Carolina. The original plant had 284 looms and a capacity of 80,000 pairs of blankets per week. Chatham blankets are known world-wide today.
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14477
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The Japanese cherry blossoms in Washington and the roses of Picardy have long been famed in story and song, but none of these excels in beauty like the apple blossoms in the mountains of western North Carolina.
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Six year old Bobby Nell Cooper finds the hills of rural Wilkes County a distinct contrast to the bright lights of Beverly Hills and Hollywood, where she has captured the hearts of stage and move audiences since she was a tiny tot and appeared repeatedly on the radio.
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For 28 years, a large part of the population of Surry County has been greeted upon arriving in this world by Martha Dobson, a midwife who has traveled around the mountain county to deliver babies.
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15358
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Elkin native Ms. Willie Guyer operated the Elkin Roller Mill, the only woman in the state to be an mill operator. She began her work as a bookkeeper for the mill until her father purchased the plant and placed her in managerial control. She supplemented her business with sale of fertilizer in spring and coal during fall and winter.
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Jefferson T. Hayes at age 75 has the distinction of being the longest serving postmaster in the state and second longest in the nation. He has been postmaster of the office at Tomotla in Cherokee County since 1882, a total of fifty-six years, without regard to whatever political party was in power.
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15410
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Miss Inez Davis of Winston-Salem is among the first do be a part of the newest profession for young girls - the stewardess or hostess of modern transport planes. One of the requirements for the new position is that the applicant must be a graduate registered nurse, but once in the position, it affords an opportunity to not only travel but meet people, even celebrities.
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Postmaster Warren S. Alexander presides over the smallest post office in the country. Located at Grimshaws near the Jackson-Macon county line, the small building has a working space of six by five feet and serves ten families. However, business picks up during the hunting and summer seasons. Alexander has been distributing the mail since 1914.
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13921
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Stone Mountain is generally regarded as one of the scenic wonders of western North Carolina and rises more than 700 feet from a base which is five miles in circumference.
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Weir recounts the life of James Larkin Pearson, the Wilkes County poet. He has experienced wealth and poverty, fame and ridicule, but through it all has continued to write and create. Once unhonored and unsung in North Carolina, he is today esteemed at home and abroad.
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