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10316
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Wake Forest College was founded in Wake County in 1834. Now the 122-year-old Baptist school is moving to a new campus in Winston Salem. The move and the new campus are described, as well as the reasons behind it.
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10317
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Growing Christmas trees is a new business developing in North Carolina. This article presents points to consider before going into the growing business.
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10318
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Founded in 1766, the Moravian village of Old Salem in Winston-Salem is becoming one of the country's foremost historical attractions. Each year over 30,000 visitors walk its streets and tour its historic buildings.
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10320
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In the 19th- and 20th-centuries a railroad linked Eastern Tennessee with Western North Carolina. The most famous engine on the line was called “Tweetsie†because of its distinctive whistle. The engine was returned to the state in 1956 and now is located in Watauga County. The engine has been completely reconditioned and now pulls cars that give tourists a feel of what early train travel was like.
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10321
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Furniture manufacturing began in High Point in the late 1880s. The annually held Southern Furniture Mart attracts over 20,000 visitors to see and buy products of Southern furniture factories.
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10325
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North Carolina's pulp and paper industry is operated by five companies: Champion Paper & Fibre Company (Canton); Halifax Paper Company (Roanoke Rapids); Meade Paper Company (Sylva); North Carolina Pulp Company (Plymouth), now recently merged with Weyerhaeuser Lumber Company; and Reigel Paper Company (Acme). The companies employ from 500 to over 3,000 people at the plants and use thousands of cords of wood each week.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 15 Issue 6, Nov 1957,
p52, 54-55, 110-111, il
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10327
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In 1906, Peter G. Thompson came to Haywood County to examine its potential for the pulp and paper industry. Today, Champion Paper and Fibre Company's Carolina Division is the county's largest industry and largest employer, with 2,900 employees and an annual payroll of over $18 million.
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10332
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Feldspar mining began in the state about 1917, near Spruce Pine in Mitchell County. Today North Carolina produces about 65 percent of the country's needs, or around 270,000 tons. Around three hundred workers mine the mineral or work in the six processing plants.
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10333
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Tungsten was reported in North Carolina around 1900, and in 1942, commercially valuable deposits were discovered. All tungsten in the state is mined in Vance County, and since 1951, the mine has been the largest producer of tungsten in the country.
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10362
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The article presents information on the prestressed concrete industry in North Carolina. Topics include defining what the product is, plant locations, uses, and the advantages of having a North Carolina-based industry.
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10368
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Westinghouse Meter Plant, located close to the state Capitol, is Raleigh's largest industry. It is also the world's largest plant devoted exclusively to the manufacture of electric meters.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 17 Issue 6, Nov 1959,
p52, 55-56. 58, 138, il
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10369
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For 146 years, J.P. Stevens & Co., Inc., has been one of the largest and most diversified manufacturers of textiles in the country. Thirteen of these plants are located in North Carolina. The article includes a brief description of each one.
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10370
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Cone Mills Corporation, with seventeen plants in twelve cities and towns in North and South Carolina, is one of the largest manufacturers of textile fabrics. The company employs a workforce of over 14,000 and annually uses around 400,000 five-hundred-pound bales of cotton.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 17 Issue 6, Nov 1959,
p46, 49-50, 79, il, por
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10375
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The National Municipal League and Look Magazine have designated Winston-Salem an All-America City. This is the third North Carolina municipality to receive the award. Asheville won in 1951, and Laurinburg won in 1956. Most cities win the award largely on the basis of one project, but Winston-Salem won for its work on eight projects.
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10376
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In 1771, Johann Matthew Miksch opened a tobacco shop in the Moravian village of Salem along with a log-cabin tobacco manufactory. Both buildings have now been restored and authentically furnished as part of the Old Salem Restoration project. To date, eight village buildings have been restored to their original appearance.
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