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McDowell County lies at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Western Carolina. There are only two important towns there--Marion, the county seat, and Old Fort, one of the historic spots of the area. Most of the industry is located in Marion with two large furniture factories, three huge textile plants, and eight hosiery mills. Although the town's population is only 2,888, industries can draw from 10,000 people within a two mile radius of the town. The county has thousands of acres of farmland producing crops like corn, hay, oats, and Irish and sweet potatoes. Dairying and hog and chicken production also contribute to the farm income.
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35985
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From as far back as the early 1800s, the Woody family has been renowned for chair making not only in North Carolina but around the world. Both Jimmy Woody of Mitchell County and a cousin Max Woody of McDowell County continue an 18th Century tradition and purely American form of chair construction that uses neither nails, screws nor glue in the manufacturing process, but rather the joining of high moisture wood onto kiln-dried wood of the same species. The wetter wood shrinks making the chair almost indestructible. Brothers Arval and Walter Woody once made a chair for President John F. Kennedy, now in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
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