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31437
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The top 50 Restaurants in Charlotte ranked, with write-ups by the Charlotte Magazine staff.
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16812
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The Atlantis Lodge, an institution among North Carolina's seaside motels, is a three-story motel located at Mile Post 5 in Pine Knoll Shores. A. C. and Dot Hall currently operate it, and it was started in 1963 by Dot's mother, Ruth Bray. Their daughter, Donna Hall Nally is the general manager and the third-generation in her family to look after the property. The Atlantis is unique because instead of ripping up the natural environment during construction the structure was built to blend into the maritime forest.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 1, June 2012,
p130-132, 134-136, 138, 140, il, por
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38290
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Concord’s First Presbyterian Church has a garden contained items not normally associated with such as place: tombstones. Because of this, Memorial Garden had more to offer to visitors than fragrant flora. It offered insights into the town’s history and stories of the town’s honored dead, with tombstone dates spanning between 1804-1999.
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North Carolina ranks fifth in peanut production, producing 435 million pounds in 2012 with a value of $150 million. Luther Powell and his brother-in-law, Jonathan Stokes, started a farm-supply business in in Windsor in Bertie County in 1919. Peanuts was one of the crops they purchased. Although they shared peanuts at the store and in meetings, it was not until 1992 that they began marketing their well-known product, Bertie County Peanuts.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 4, Apr 2014,
p44-49, il, por
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38174
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The town’s prosperity rests to an extent on an industry part of its foundation since the late 1800s: furniture. Attesting its enduring importance is furniture companies such as Hickory Furniture Mart and individuals such as Alex Shuford III, whose great grandfather founded Century Furniture. Filling the occupational gap left by furniture companies outsourced include industries such as transportation, which have helped to recuperate the economy. From this, city leaders are hopeful that younger generations such Millennials will continue to live and work in Hickory.
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38276
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What makes a farm work, according to the author, is the relationship between farmers and tractors. Another relationship discussed by Hughes reflects the tractor’s enduring importance in North Carolina. An illustration for this relationship is the anecdote about a farmer, his tractor, and child he trusted to operate it. Illustrations of the tractor’s importance in North Carolina is many counties having multiple tractor dealerships, her comparison between tractor and car dealerships, and assertion tractor dealerships are often community centers and places of business.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 5, Oct 2012,
p174-176, 178-184, 186-188, 190, 192
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31473
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The small town of Southern Pines is an anomaly in its economically struggling region of the piedmont. Surrounded by counties that rank in the bottom 25 percent on the states income per capita, Thanks to its amenities and service industry, Moore County sits within the top 25 percent in NC for income.
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28592
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The town of Asheboro in Randolph County is profiled. The North Carolina Zoo, farming, textiles, the local culture, and the town’s welcoming atmosphere are all described.
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The River Arts District along the French Broad River has become the center of creativity and artistic opportunity in Asheville. Over two hundred artists perfect their craft in former warehouses and offer tourists and locals an artsy district in the growing small town.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 20 Issue 3, March 2015,
p72-76, il, por, map
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15012
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Jeff Miller and his wife Missy operate Luella's Bar-B-Que located in Asheville. The restaurant opened in 2007, and Luella's top seller continues to be the pork barbecue sandwich with slaw and a side of macaroni and cheese.
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The bison has come back from the brink of extinction and is now a source of healthy eating is restaurants and home kitchens. Hughes visits Carolina Bison Co., owned by Frank King in Buncombe County, to examine the farm's operations.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 3, Mar 2014,
p62-67, il
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31478
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Some of our favorite foods come from old techniques to make cheaper meats better.
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38150
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The cold gold began to appear as means to keep produce chilled in the earlier part of the nineteenth century. Families purchasing ice from wagons and local icehouses made it a common way of life by the late nineteenth century. Wm. E. Worth and Company, the first artificial ice factory, paving the way of predominance for artificial ice production. Today, Harris and Rose Ice Company provides ice for much of Southeastern North Carolina, assuring the continuation of a long tradition started in Wilmington.
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Concord, North Carolina is Charlotte's largest neighboring town and home to the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Shopping, good food, NASCAR, and other activities are all available in the city, but residents maintain a unique feel in the downtown.
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Conrad Hill Feed & Seed has been operating in Lexington, North Carolina since Gene Smith and Billy Bowers opened the mill in 1962. Conrad Hill is one of the few remaining mills in the area grinding feed for cattle, hogs and chicken.
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