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North Carolina native, Billy Joe Patton, of Morgantown, is famous for promoting golf in America. Winning third place in the 1954 Master's Tournament, held in Atlanta, Georgia, Patton earned recognition as one of America's finest amateur golfers.
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There are two sports in which thousands of North Carolinians participate each fall - possum and raccoon hunting. Using packs of hunting dogs and various accoutrements, hunters try to outsmart raccoons with night hunting and climb perches to release possum from their trees.
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1389
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Over the years, cities and towns across the state have adopted slogans and nicknames to identify their communities and foster economic development.
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Fearing that the developing Virginia railroad companies might purloin trade and commerce in North Carolina, delegates, especially John Motley Morehead, became instrumental in forwarding the progress of the North Carolina Railroad Company during the 19th-century.
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W. O. Saunders, late editor and publisher of the Elizabeth City Independent, was, in his time, perhaps the most widely known North Carolinian in the world. He was a crusader and a nonconformist, and his antics gained him a certain amount of infamy and many enemies. Yet his was the first newspaper to issue a special edition (now a collector's item) on outdoor privies, and he put America in slacks, dreamed up The Lost Colony pageant, promoted the Wright Memorial Bridge, and conceived the monument to the Wright Brothers at Kill Devil Hills.
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This article discusses the Battle of King's Mountain and includes an old sketch of King's Mountain and the original marker. During a Revolutionary War battle fought on October 7, 1780, the outnumbered American forces defeated British troops on the border of North and South Carolina.
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Offering histories and statistics relative to the towns comprising Rowan County, Luther Holshouser discusses Salisbury, China Grove, Landis, Rockwell, Cleveland, Woodleaf, Barber, E. Spencer, Gold Hill and Faith.
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Two brothers, E.L. and W.B. Gooding, run North Carolina’s Largest Turkey farm with the help of just one other person. Their 16,500 turkey farm is run largely with automated machines and processes, and a doge that corrals the birds each day.
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The first long distance phone call in North Carolina was made on April 14, 1878 from Raleigh to Port City (now Wilmington). It was placed between two telegraph operators over existing telegraph lines and there were extra extensions on each end so that observers could listen. Twelve years later, John Schenk, Jr. brought the first telephone exchange to the Piedmont to serve his Cleveland County Cotton Mill at Lawndale.
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13699
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Gasoline was first brought to Kill Devil Hills in October, 1900. The author discusses the importance of this event and the lasting effects on the community.
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The author provides and inventory of things to do, places to go, and sights to see in the North Carolina in 1959.
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13707
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In an effort to compare traffic fatalities in North Carolina over time, the author has compared deaths to miles travelled from 1941-1951.
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14480
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If you take the adjectives impressive, breath-taking, stupendous, remarkable, astounding, and roll them up into one, you will have a fairly good idea of what the mass parachute jumps at Fort Bragg were like.
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12668
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Eight of Duplin's ten incorporated towns lie on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and U.S. 117, including Wallace, Teacheys, Rose Hill, Magnolia, Warsaw, Bowdens, Faison, and Calypso. Kenansville stands west of the geographical center, while Beulaville lives alone in the mid-eastern section. A history of these towns and a profile of their individual industries and communities are illustrated in this article.
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Staff members and correspondents of THE STATE magazine recommend ten unusual mountain travel opportunities in North Carolina.
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