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Tillery residents' fear over contamination of their drinking water by swine operations has resulted in the Halifax County town being selected as one of eight test sites for the Groundwater Guardian Program.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 291, Jan/Feb 1995,
p1-3, il
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25370
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Under a federal Learn and Serve program in Tillery, NC, ECU medical students do more than just volunteer. The students become involved in the community and learn just as much as they teach.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 1 Issue 4, Spring 2003,
p12-20, por
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34370
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In the 1930s and ‘40s, black farmers settled in rural Halifax County to farm under a program that originated as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The Tillery Farms Resettlement project aimed to compose a percentage of blacks in the farming population, improve their economic prospects and make them self-sufficient, and stabilize the larger agricultural economy that collapsed during the Depression. More than two-hundred black families have owned farms in Tillery, and generations remain on the land they worked.
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