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North Carolina's swamps, meadows, and woodlands are home to a large number of native plants, such as bee-balm and devil's walking stick, that stand out because of their colors, shapes, and leaf structures.
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2085
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For North Carolinians seeking a new look for their yards, ornamental grasses could be the answer. Grasses like Pine Pampas, Red Switch, and Japanese Blood not only are colorful but also are resistant to insects and disease and tolerant of summer heat.
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The North Carolina Zoological Park continues to expand its simulated regions of the world. The Rocky Coast habitat was added in 1994, and the established North American region has acquired new animals.
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Brownfields are underused or abandoned commercial or industrial sites at which on-site contaminants adversely affect potential profitability. Fayetteville and High Point are working with the EPA to see how to revitalize such rundown sections.
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Founded in 1882, Dillsboro in Jackson County owes its early economic success to the train, which brought industry and commerce. When floods and the automobile ended this boom in the 1930s, the town evolved into a craftsmen's haven. Today the town boasts sixty businesses, including craft galleries and inns.
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When Clyde Cooper opened Cooper's Barbecue on East Davis Street in Raleigh in 1938, he proclaimed it \"a good place to eat.\" Sixty-four years later that's still true. Jackson takes the reader inside the restaurant which still maintains the look and feel of an old-time barbecue joint in the shadow of modern, downtown Raleigh buildings.
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The extreme edge of the Eastern hemlock's southern range is the Appalachians. However, over 200 of these trees thrive in the Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve in Cary. Jackson describes how this tree that should have disappeared from the Piedmont 10,000 years ago survived.
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The High Hampton Inn is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains just south of Cashiers in Jackson County. Jackson discusses the history of this inn which has been a special retreat for people for over eighty years.
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Virginia Dare was the first English child born in the New World. Visitors to the Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo have seen the statue depicting her as an adult, but few know the remarkable journey it took to get there. Jackson chronicles how the statue was sculpted in Italy in the 1850s by Maria Lander of Massachusetts; went down in a shipwreck off the Spanish coast; survived a fire in a New York studio; alarmed North Carolinians when the semi-nude figure appeared in front of the Capitol building; and finally came to the vicinity of Dare's birth.
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North Carolina has a number of well-known bed and breakfast inns. Three lodging establishments in the mountains are known not only for the amenities offered but also as places where previous occupants continue to linger on after death. The inns are the White Gate Inn and Cottage (Asheville); Lodge on Lake Lure (Lake Lure); and the Inn on Main Street (Weaverville).
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 5, Oct 2004,
p170-172, 174, 176-177, il
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6933
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Three structures - the Bingham School, a 1793 boarding school; the 1924 Wilmington Chapter of the Salvation Army building; and the 1777 Traphill Gristmill in Wilkes County - were rescued from ruin and transformed into bed and breakfast accommodations. The buildings are now known as the Inn at Bingham School (Chapel Hill); the Front Street Inn (Wilmington); and the Old Traphill Mill Inn (Traphill).
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Julian Abele is considered the first major African American architect in the country. During his forty-four-year career he designed 650 buildings, among them the stately mansion of James B. Duke in New York City in 1912. So impressed was Duke that when it came time to pick the architect to design Duke University, he chose Abele. Jackson discusses Abele's life and his creations at the Duke campus.
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On Raleigh's Capitol Square stand over a dozen monuments that salute the courage of North Carolina men and women in wartime. The first of the fourteen statues was set in place in 1857, and the last in 1990. The statues include Women of the Confederacy, North Carolina Veterans' Monument, Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, Henry Lawson Wyatt, and Worth Bagley.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 10, Mar 2005,
p124-126, 128, 130, 132, il
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7134
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The North Carolina Botanical Garden at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill celebrates the great diversity of the state's plant life. Starting with the Mercer Reeves Hubbard Herb Garden, which is located near the main entrance, Jackson takes the reader on a tour of the garden's plant collections.
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Jackson describes three bed and breakfast inns that are known not only for their comfort and hospitality but also for their gardens and landscaping. They are the Big Mill Bed and Breakfast (Williamston); Fuquay Mineral Springs Inn and Garden (Fuquay-Varina); and the Van Landingham Estate Inn (Charlotte).
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