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24688
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The Linville Falls Trail is a new and rugged path into a scenic and fishing paradise that is managed by the National Park Service. The author discusses his experience on the trail.
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Celebrating their 75th anniversary, Wachovia Bank, the largest financial institution in the mid-south, first opened in Winston 1879. Beginning at a time when bank deposits totaled less than $10 million, Wachovia persisted through various changes in economy, becoming the largest bank between Washington, DC and Atlanta, GA.
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In 1854, W. N. Hackney of Wilson gave a wagon wheel a push and that wheel is still rolling along. Over the past century the Hackney wheel has rolled under wagons, buggies, and today, school buses and refrigerated trucks.
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13533
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Clarence Hamilton Poe, former president of The Progressive Farmer, has a zeal for a better commonwealth that has never flagged in fifty years.
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Fifty years ago, a new world was born at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, where the Wright brothers flew for 12 seconds in the first power-driven flight made by man in a heavier than air machine.
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The story of piracy in North Carolina dates back to 1586 when Francis Drake visited Raleigh's Roanoke Island Colony. North Carolina was the last great stronghold in the age of piracy, and there have been many that have practiced it on the shores of North Carolina.
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13410
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Stede Bonnet and Edward Thatch teamed up in the piracy business, but the gentlemen pirates soon ran out of luck.
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13413
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Blackbeard had many names, and there is a mystery about his origins but there is a consensus that he was a bully.
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13428
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By 1718 Governor Spotswood had become disturbed by the reports of Blackbeard's attempted fortification of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. The Governor hired two sloops to track him down and Lieutenant Robert Maynard brought Blackbeard to his end.
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North Carolina's pioneer insurance company, the Pilot Life Insurance Company, got its modest start in Greensboro, North Carolina, but has built on the fortunes of tobacco and textiles.
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13486
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In the concluding article on Pilot Insurance Company (previous in 12 December 1953, Vol. 21, No. 28, pp. 2-3, 16), Davis examines how Pilot survived the stock market crash to continue investing in the South.
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13488
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Davis recounts the numerous reasons why North Carolina is unique.
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13830
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In 1952, the Taylor Brothers Tobacco Company of Winston-Salem was sold to the American Snuff Company. This sale marks the end of small, independent tobacco manufacturers in the state.
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13872
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Some of the finest channel bass fishermen in the world reside in North Carolina. Davis describes some of these men such as Grady Sheets, Captain B. R. Balance, J.T. Justice, David Smitherman, John Campbell, and Robah Dean.
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13478
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Photojournalist Charles Brantley Aycock Brown has taken numerous photographs and written various articles pertaining to the Outer Banks. Known as North Carolina's number one reporter, Brown is renowned statewide for his efforts.
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