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3792
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Reidsville's Chinqua-Penn Plantation is Rockingham County's main tourist attraction. Built in the 1920s by Betsy and Thomas Jefferson Penn, the 27-room mansion is a blend of gardens, architecture, and works of art.
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Earl N. Phillips, Jr., chairman and CEO of GE Capital First Factors of High Point, is the new chairman of the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI) for 1999-2000. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1962 and later from Harvard Business School.
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Project Homestead has renovated or built 600 homes in Greensboro and another 150 in Reidsville, Goldsboro, and Kinston over the last ten years. Founded by Rev. Michael King, the project does more than just build homes for low-income families. It offers a Home Ownership Development Readiness class, which trains people to become homeowners.
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Pat Swisher and Al Wood founded Swisher Service Company three years ago. Ignoring snickers because their company focuses on cleaning bathrooms in commercial enterprises, such as restaurants, car dealerships, offices and factories, they have built their business in a $3.4 million concern. The company prides itself on providing high-quality service in the sanitizing of public restrooms.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 8 Issue 3, Mar 1988,
p30-34, 36, il
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3670
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For Civil War enthusiasts, the state's beaches offer a number of places to visit, including Roanoke Island, Fort Macon on Bogue Banks, and Fort Fisher at Carolina Beach.
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In 1881, French artist Paul Phillipoteaux painted the Battle of Gettysburg Cyclorama. It is the world's largest oil painting, measuring 376 feet long and 22 feet high. Wake Forest University now owns the painting and stores it in Clemmons, North Carolina. State Senator Ham Horton of Winston-Salem feels the painting would be a great tourist attraction and got $50,000 from the 1999 General Assembly to do a feasibility study on assembling the painting in suitable surroundings as a tourist attraction.
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Business booms in the Piedmont Triad, North Carolina's manufacturing hub. New area industries include plastics, biomedical, biotechnical, metal forming, and automotive component companies.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 18 Issue 4, April 1998,
p51-59, il
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For children desiring to sit in the driver's seat of a famous stock car or in the cockpit of a real airplane, the Greensboro Children's Museum is the place to go. The 45,000-square-foot museum, located downtown in a renovated car dealership, has attracted 40,000 visitors since its May 1999 opening. An outdoor exhibit/learning space is under construction, and long-range plans call for an Imax theater.
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Once dependent on the textile and tobacco industries, Rocking ham County looks to diversification to improve its economy. Among the largest employers are Miller Brewing Co. (beer), and Burlington Industries (home fashions). Abundant educational opportunities are available, and two fine hospitals serve the county.
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Joseph S. Koury builds on a grand scale in Greensboro - the state's largest convention hotel, largest private convention center, and one of the state's largest shopping centers. Now he is creating Grandover, a $1-billion, 1,500-acre mixed use development.
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North Carolina refused to ratify the new Constitution in 1788, unless a list of rights for all citizens was added to it. To win over North Carolina and other states, James Madison sent twelve handwritten copies of the rights to the states; they were accepted. Today this list is known as the Bill of Rights. After the Civil War, the state's handwritten copy was stolen by a Union soldier and carried to Ohio. Johnson follows the document's trail from there until it was recovered in Philadelphia by the FBI in 2003.
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Sheila Kay Adams grew up in Madison County in the small town of Sodom, a community famous for its ballad singers. She is a storyteller, writer, and seventh-generation singer. Her husband, Jim Taylor, builds dulcimers and arranges and produces music CDs of the old music. The couple spends about four months a year on the road performing the old songs and stories of the North Carolina mountains at storytelling festivals and concerts.
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Many individuals in North Carolina participate in recreating the Civil War period with historical accuracy in dress and battles. Members of Battery B are typical reenactors, but in one way are very different. The Wilmington-based unit's full name is Battery B, 2nd Regiment, United States Colored Troops (USCT). The crew is the only African-American artillery reenactment unit on the East Coast. Battery B attends over a dozen events a year, from parades to battles like Averaboro and Bentonville. The participants are drawn to reenacting through a love of history, camaraderie, family participation, and the spiritual aspect of being where family members fought or died.
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Dr. Julianne Still Thrift, president of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, is mother-away-from-home, motivator, and goal setter for 1,200 young women.
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The stretch of U.S. Highway 129 starting at Cheoah Dam near Robbinsville in Graham County and ending at Tabcat Bridge in Tennessee is called the Tail of the Dragon. In this particular eleven-mile stretch, over 300 curves, steep grades, and tight turns test the driving abilities of motorists, motorcyclists, and bicyclists. The speed limit is 30 mph, although it used to be 55 mph on the North Carolina side of the road. Johnson describes the road and its attraction to cyclists.
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