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11929
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Housing North Carolina Awards recognize affordable housing developments that can serve as models for other communities. Criteria include affordability, design, contribution to the community, and other features, such as services for residents. The winners are Barrington Village (Raleigh); Enka Hills, Enka; The Pointe at Taylor Estates and Robert R. Taylor Senior Homes (Wilmington); Families Together (Charlotte); and Fifth Street Shelter (Statesville).
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11930
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Housing North Carolina Awards recognize affordable housing developments that can serve as models for other communities. Criteria include affordability, design, contribution to the community, and other features, such as services for residents. The winners are Eddy Place (Mooresville), Prospect Terrace (Asheville), Park at Cline Village (Conover), Riveremere (Charlotte), Benjamin House (Elizabeth City), and The Ark (Elkin).
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11931
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Housing North Carolina Awards recognize affordable housing developments that can serve as models for other communities. Criteria include affordability, design, contribution to the community, and other features, such as services for residents. The winners are Partnership Village III (Greensboro), Eastway Village (Durham), Springfield Gardens (Charlotte) and Hawthorne House (Burnsville).
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11932
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When renowned artist Maud Gatewood died in 2004, she left a large part of her paintings and artwork and her American art collection to her hometown of Yanceyville.
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11952
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One of the most imposing results of industry is the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company; the largest Negro owned insurance organization in the world. Founder John Merrick, previously a successful barber and real estate man, received his first financial stake from James B. Duke. Other pioneering firms can be found in Durham, including the Mechanics & Farmers Bank.
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11964
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The state's one hundred counties are profiled using economic indicators, including population, civilian labor force, per-capita income, farm earnings, and retail sales. The state's fifty largest cities by population are also listed.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 30 Issue 2, Feb 2010,
p68-72, il
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11966
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Walden discusses how the Research Triangle Metropolitan Area will fare economically in 2010 and why he feels the area is \"on a path to grow faster than most metropolitan areas in the country.\"
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 30 Issue 2, Feb 2010,
p52-55, il
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11970
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Constructed between 1833 and 1840, North Carolina's Capitol building began showing its age by 1970. This article describes the restoration of this historic Raleigh building.
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11971
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Wilmington's traditions, history, and heritage is preserved in its historic district. Covering an area of thirty-five blocks, it is the largest in the country.
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11972
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When Middleton, McMillan, Architects began operations in Charlotte in 1966, there were three employees and a part-time secretary. Today, the firm employs twenty-two, well above the national average of five for architectural firms, and serves clients in the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida.
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11973
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Bobby Murray founded Bobby Murray Chevrolet, Inc., in Raleigh in 1965. We the People of North Carolina magazine features him in the Businessman in the News section.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 38 Issue 7, July 1980,
p13-14, 16, 95-96, por
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11976
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Markets for North Carolina's manufacturing and agricultural products are expanding beyond the regional and national markets to foreign ones, placing greater importance on the state's ports at Morehead City and Wilmington. The state ranks thirteenth in the nation as an exporter and in 1979 sent $3.5 billion worth of products overseas.
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11977
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North Carolina is one of twenty-eight states participating in Operation Lifesaver, a railroad safety program that seeks to educate drivers about the problem of car-train accidents. States utilizing the program have seen a reduction in this type of accident. North Carolina has over 4,000 miles of railroad tracks and over 5,500 crossings where the road and track intersect.
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11978
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Thomas Built Buses was founded in 1916 by Perley A. Thomas in High Point. Thomas was working for the Southern Car Company, and when that company went out of business, he started his own streetcar company. When streetcar use declined, he moved into the manufacture of buses.
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11979
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Daniel T. Roth, Director of the North Carolina Travel & Tourism Division, discusses what the industry needs to handle the influx of vacationers coming to North Carolina every year. In 1979, the industry generated an estimated $2.2 billion in dollar turnover.
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