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for We the People of North Carolina Vol. 1 Issue 6, Oct 1943
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Road building held a low priority in North Carolina until the beginning of the 20th-century. The article presents a brief history of the development of the state's road system up to 1943. At that date the highway system covered 60,000 miles of public roads, with about 12,000 miles being hard-surfaced.
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In this continuing series of articles about North Carolinians who have contributed to the growth and development of the state, Gilbert discusses Charles F. Tomlinson. For four-generations the Tomlinson family contributed to industrial and civic development in High Point. In 1904, Charles Tomlinson joined the family furniture business, Tomlinson of High Point, one of the great industries of the state.
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In this continuing series of articles about women who have played dramatic and interesting roles in the history of North Carolina, Rogers discusses Cornelia Phillips Spencer. She was a skilled artist who drew sketches of Chapel Hill and wrote everything from poems to hymns and sketches of men, and women and events. She is known to North Carolinians for her efforts to close the University of North Carolina when it was being disgraced by the carpet-bag regime, and then working to get it reopened a few years later under a new regime.
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