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After the Civil War, John T. Patrick, North Carolina State Commissioner for Immigration, was ordered to seek ways to bring settlers into the state to help bolster the nearly non-existent economy wrecked by the war. He chose to build a town in the Moore County Sandhills. Huttenhauser describes the project, which, because of the obstacles the location presented, was called at the time Patrick's Folly. The was named Southern Pines.
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8906
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Between 1916 and 1926, the Pinehurst community experienced a boom period. Not all booms were economic. Some came from the end of Annie Oakley's gun when she gave marksmanship demonstrations. Oakley also taught women the art of shooting. Her demonstrations often included shooting holes in pennies that were thrown into the air, shooting off the ashes from her husband's cigarettes, and shooting six glass balls thrown into the air before any could hit the ground. Oakley usually completed her performance while never looking directly at the targets.
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In the fall of 1900, Sarah and Retyre Couch and their two friends traveled by schooner wagon from the Sandhills to Greensboro. Because the roads between towns were not fully recovered after the war, the women often preferred walking to riding. The groups final exploration was of the Guilford Courthouse battleground. Sixteen days after they set out, the four returned home to Southern Pines.
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James Boyd of the coal firm Boyd, Stickney and Company, accumulated over 1,500 acres of land in his lifetime. He named his land Weymouth Woods and built a home for his family there. Boyd died suddenly in 1910 and the estate passed onto his grandson who took down the original home and built a new one in 1922.
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9269
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Pinehurst was founded in 1895 by Yankee James Tufts. For Christmas one year, Tufts hosted a dinner for everyone who worked at the Holly Inn in Pinehurst. In 1897, the hotel guests gave a party for Tufts and his work force. \r\n
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Built in 1895, the Piney Woods Inn of Southern Pines burned to the ground in thirty minutes. The fire, which took place in 1910, began in the boiler room where a spark from the furnaces had landed on a piece of kindling. Because the inn was made of fat Carolina pine, it burned quickly and firemen were unable to save anything. \r\n
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11641
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When Southern Pines was first settled, walking was the only form of transportation. Wagons and bicycles came next, and a number of livery stables encouraged Northern settlers to bring their horses with them. Ox-mobiles and trolleys followed. Croquet tournaments became a popular pastime, as did bowling. The Northern health-seekers brought a lot of their region with them and left a lot behind when they returned home.
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11647
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In this concluding part of a two-part article on how health-seeking Northerners came to Southern Pines in the Sand Hills region, Huttenhauer discusses the introduction of golf and baseball to the area.
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