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Vast forests in North Carolina's Piedmont region and cheap labor helped to bring America's furniture industry to North Carolina from the Northwest. the state's furniture industry developed within a 150 mile radius of High Point. This distinction earned High Point its nickname as "Furniture Capitol of the World".
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37165
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With the same theme as another article found in this edition, Susan Stafford Kelly' “Diamond Guys," this article profiles fifteen businesses in North Carolina owned by the same families. Included were Raleigh’s York Properties, established 1910; Hickory’s Keever’s Key and Repair Service, founded 1920; Salisbury’s Beaver Brothers, established 1911; Windsor’s Bertie County Peanuts, founded 1915.
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24212
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The world's largest furniture marketplace happens twice a year in High Point. The furniture shows take place in High Point because that was once where the industry was centered. Now, the High Point market's future is in jeopardy and Las Vegas thinks it has the answer: building a new home for the market and leveraging its advantages in entertainment accommodations, restaurants, and glamour.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 26 Issue 6, June 2006,
p32-41, il
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14782
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North Carolina's Tomlinson Furniture, is a well-known furniture manufacturing enterprise that stands for a Quaker family that for five generations has lent its strength and integrity to the company's industrial and civic developments.
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