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7842
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In 1970, Bob Page went with some friends to a flea market to help them find missing pieces to their china set. t was here that Page had the idea to start Replacements, Ltd., selling discontinued china and crystal. The first file cabinet in his new endeavor was a recipe box with three-by-five note cards; by 1981 he had quit his job and officially started the business in a small house in Greensboro. In 1986, Page was named North Carolina Small Business Person of the Year. By then, he had over fifty-five employees, a half a million pieces of china, and fifteen thousand different patterns.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 54 Issue 9, Feb 1987, p26-27, il
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7851
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Hugh Williamson was a physician, a minister, a businessman, and a scientist. In 1735, Williamson was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He witnessed the Boston Tea Party, which led him into politics and into serving as a North Carolina delegate to the Philadelphia convention in 1787. He was a pragmatic man; even though he opposed slavery, he realized that the Southern States could not be members of the Union if the slave trade were ended. Williams even worked with Benjamin Franklin on electrical experiments. He died in New York City in 1819.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 54 Issue 9, Feb 1987, p7-8, por
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In the early 19th century, Cary, NC, was a railroad stop between Raleigh and Durham. Cary's first business was a hotel, known as an ordinary. In 1868, Allison Francis (Frank) Page decided to build the town's second ordinary and in 1971, Robert Strother bought the historic structure and leased it to the Historic Preservation Society of North Carolina.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 54 Issue 9, Feb 1987, p10-12, il, por
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7853
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A monument on Cartoogechaye Creek, Macon County, marks the resting place of a Cherokee couple who founded an Indian village among the white community in the early 19th-century. Chief Chuttasotee and his wife, Cunstagih, befriended their white neighbors, who called them Jim and Sally Woodpecker, and started the Indian settlement of Sand Town. The monument to the couple is the only evidence that remains of the Sand Town Indians.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 54 Issue 9, Feb 1987, p16-17, il
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7859
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Thomas Alva Edison once lived in the small town of Iron Station, between Lincolnton and Stanley, North Carolina. While Charlotte Frances Reinhardt Puckett's father was visiting Charlotte, became such close friends with Edison that Mr. Reinhardt invited him to live with his family. Edison was consumed with ideas about preserving sound, light, and finding alternate sources of fuel for automobiles. When Edison move back to New Jersey, he sent the family a “talking machine,” despite Mrs. Reinhart's implications that he was talking foolishness for such a thing to be accomplished.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 54 Issue 9, Feb 1987, p15,27, il
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