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The Chambers Mansion in Iredell County is being restored by the Harry Gattons; this article presents the progress of the 7-year restoration.
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12332
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Carl Goerch, editor, author, broadcaster, and founder and publisher of The State magazine in 1933, is remembered in this editorial. Goerch died in September 1974.
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Promised by Governor William Umstead, the bridge connecting Mann's harbor to Manteo has been completed. 2.8 miles long and comprised of concrete and steel, the Croatan Sound Bridge has a 24 foot roadway and a fixed span over the channel, with a forty foot vehicle clearance.
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In a year, 1,500 homes of the new housing development in Goldsboro were built to house the families of those serving at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. The Capehart housing development is so large is it considered a residential city.
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Champion Paper and Fiber Company's new, \"Number 20\" is the world's largest fine paper making machine. Housed in a building specifically constructed for \"Number 20\"Â, the machine stretches 420 feet in length and stands 27 feet, 6inches tall. Capable of outputting sheets of paper 20 feet wide at the rate of 2,000 feet per minute, \"Number 20\"Â, dries, forms, presses, sizes, and smoothes wet pulp into paper.
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Joseph Wallace King of Winston-Salem painted the first commissioned portrait of Richard Milhous Nixon after he became President of the United States. The portrait now hangs in the Law School at Duke University.
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Depending on which building is completed first, one in Florida or one in Durham, one will be declared the tallest precast, post-tensioned concrete building in the nation. The structure in Durham is the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Building.
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12749
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Two Raleigh firms, Wachovia Bank and Raleigh Savings, resolved to privately finance a mall-type construction as a \"Greenway\" occupying Exchange and Fayetteville Street. Expected to open to vacation traffic some time next summer is a new section of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Keeping pace with the demands of growing traffic, the State Highway Commission contracted highway, street, and secondary road projects totaling $58,933,780.
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\"The Freedom Road,\" a mural of three panels covering a space forty-two feet wide and six feet high, hangs in the Orange County Historical Museum in Hillsborough. The mural portrays three important events in the early history of Orange County. Kenneth W. Whitsett, a muralist of historical subjects who is without peer in North Carolina, painted it.
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Located in Lexington, Mid-State Glazed Ceramic Tile is the first manufacturer of its kind in the South. Initiated by Fred H. McIntyre and associates and fiscally aided by the North Carolina Business Development Corporation as well as the Lexington Industrial Corporation, Mid-State employs fifty workers and has the capacity to produce 6,000 square feet of tile daily.
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The first inkling of Spooner Creek's Harbor development occurred in 1959 from a brochure indicating the construction of a new harbor and resort. Although the final building stages of the project extend into the future, the harbor has already taken shape as one of the finest boat-oriented resorts on the Atlantic Coast.
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Wright discusses real estate development on Pine Knoll Shores in Carteret County. A feature of the development is a man-made canal, eighty feet wide and eight feet deep, that meanders over the 38 acre subdivision, giving homeowners quick access to Bogue Sound and the inland waterway.
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The new ports at Morehead City and Wilmington are facing problems acquiring and building shipping reputations. It is a challenge because they are left off major shipping lines because of their inability to compete with rates as well as the proximity of other well-established deep water ports.
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Celebrating the modern face of architecture in North Carolina, the N.C. Chapter of the American institute of Architects credited the following structures during their 6th Annual Honor Awards: the Sanford Brick and Tile Office Building in Colon, the American of Martinsville Furniture Display Center in High Point, the Milton Julian Residence in Chapel Hill, the Bank of Asheville Branch in Cander, the Ogden Elementary School in Wilmington, and the J. Gregory Poole Residence in Raleigh.
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12848
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The first commercially constructed fallout shelters in North Carolina are underway. Contained within the new First Federal Savings and Loan Building in Raleigh as well as in the People's Savings and Loan Building in Wilmington, the fallout shelters will be outfitted with emergency equipment and could potentially protect over 350 individuals should the need arise.
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