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In 1929, Frank Herbst and his son Julius were building motorboats in a small plant beside the Cape Fear River in Wilmington. Herbst built inboard powered skiffs and outboard powered hydroplanes, but wondered about combining the advantages of the two...\" the steady run of an outboard with the easy start of an inboard. Unable to find parts, Herbst used automobile and hand machined pieces to build the first successful inboard/outboard engine and drive train, patented on September 2, 1930.
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The retirement home of Prof. Charles Halleck Wing, a unique two-story, six room house with no inside stairway, has been moved to Gouge's Creek from its original location in the Ledger Community of Mitchell County. Prof. Wing, a native of Brighton, MA, served as a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is credited with establishing bookmobile services for libraries. Prof. Wing also established a free school and the Good Will Free Library containing some 12,000 volumes, a considerable amount of books for a small rural community like Ledger in the 1880s.
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