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The River Circle Tour gives travelers a feel for the Cape Fear River region around Wilmington: historic sites, including Fort Fisher and Brunswick Town; and such present-day features as the visitor's center at CP&L's Brunswick power plant.
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Pearson's Falls Glen in Polk County is a 308-acre botanical wonderland of over 200 species of trees and plants. The glen is named for Charles William Pearson, who discovered it early in the 1900s.
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Settled by mid-19th-century squatters, Salter Path is an unincorporated town in the middle of Carteret County's Bouge Banks. A court order in 1923 limited the town to 84 acres and property to descendants of residents only.
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Ginseng, first exported in 1794, was a profitable product of the state's western mountains. Still popular today, 10,000 pounds were exported in 1993 at $300 a pound.
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Beaufort, in Carteret County, boasts nine bed-and-breakfast inns that range from historic homes, like The Cedars, to waterside inns, such as the Beaufort Inn.
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Located in the southern Piedmont, the Uwharrie Lake Region covers parts of seven counties and contains the nation's oldest mountains. Largely overlooked by tourists, the region is now being promoted to attract them.
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Woody Durham, a familiar radio sports broadcaster across the Southeast, is celebrating twenty-five years of broadcasting University of North Carolina football and basketball games.
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Eustace and Mary Sloop passed over a big-city medical career, choosing instead to bring health care and hope to impoverished people in Avery County for 50 years. Mrs. Sloop told their story in her 1953 book MIRACLE IN THE HILLS.
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2836
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The state has twenty-two historic sites, including Town Creek Indian Mound in Montgomery County and Bennett Place in Durham, that interpret the past for visitors and relate it to present-day life.
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2837
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The state has many fine restaurants, but perhaps the most well-known one is the Sanitary Fish Market in Morehead City. Good food and service have kept customers returning for fifty-eight years.
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2838
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Furniture making is the major industry in Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, and Catawba Counties. The centerpiece is a 20-mile stretch of highway in Caldwell County that features forty furniture stores and 600 lines.
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Born in 1841, in Tyro, Davidson County, Henry Shoaf stood seven feet tall and weighed 400 pounds. His many feats of strength have raised his memory to a legendary level.
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The state is home to some of the finest botanical gardens in the nation, including those of Orton Plantation near Wilmington, the Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island, and the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University.
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Located in Hyde County on the shores of Pamlico Sound, Nebraska was a small center of trade in the 1800s. Now, with only thirteen families living nearby, it is comprised mostly of endless farm acres and a few empty buildings.
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Dr. John Shelton Reed, who has made a career studying what it means to be a Southerner, helped found and direct UNC's Center for the Study of the American South during 1993 and 1994.
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