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Oxford was once home of the oldest orphanage in the state. The Mary Potter Academy, a boarding school for black children was founded there in 1889.
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42760
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Buffalo Creek Vacations in Haywood County offers guests the opportunity to watch bison roam from former train cabooses now converted into vacation rentals.
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42761
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At the turn of the 20th century North Carolina was an attractive destination for many of the nation's elite hunting enthusiasts. The Piedmont area was especially prized for hunting of wild quail. Numerous hunting clubs and lodges were established, beginning in 1894 with the Thomasville Shooting Club.
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42762
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48 year old Richard D. Wilson, Jr., an artist best know for his realistic pastels, grew up in the Edgecombe County community of Conetoe. He left a teaching post at Pitt Community College in 2014 to pursue work full time as an artist.
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Princeville, the oldest town chartered by Blacks in America has suffered much in the way of flooding, particularly in the past 20 years with Hurricanes Floyd and Mathew. A group of students with North Carolina State University's School of Architecture and Design have come up with a way to assist the town in keeping a museum with the use of a steel mobile structure designed for self-guided tours.
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