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14629
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3,000,000 is the amount of fish handled each season by Edenton Bay Packing Company. Some of them are sold fresh, others corned or smoked.
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Mrs. J. E. Smith of Windsor has in her possession an iron safe made by one of President Roosevelt's ancestors. It is believed to be one of the first safes manufactured in the United States, and may be the only one still in existence.
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Airplanes became the solution to open new territory for avid duck hunters. During the early 20th century, hunting for fowl was popular and traditional sport along the Outer Banks. So predominate was the sport that by the 1940s fowl populations were already dwindling, pushing hunters to more remote areas accessible only by plane. It was during this period the government began to regulate the number of birds bagged in a given season to protect the diminishing populations of ducks and geese that landed on the eastern shore of North Carolina.
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14635
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Sandhills country refers to an area in Moore County then known as a resort area, Pinehurst and Southern Pines being the premiere destinations. Though those two towns were prevalent tourist locales, the rest of Moore County experienced a surge of economic, industrial, and public development in 1946.
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This article details the industrial and agricultural changes happening in Alexander County in the western part of the Piedmont section of North Carolina. Milling of yarn and paper are big industry for Alexander County, but the principle crop is apples.
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14638
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Asheville is a long way from the fighting fronts, but it plays an important part in directing engagements in all parts of the world as the headquarters of the Army Air Forces Weather Wing.
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This article details the industrial and agricultural changes for Davie County in the western part of the Piedmont area of North Carolina. Livestock feed, tobacco, and grasses are prominent crops for Davie County, as well as the industries of dairying, war goods, and furniture manufacture.
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Jane Barnell was born in Wilmington sometime during the 1870s. Shortly after birth she began growing the facial hair which would make her famous. Her first taste of circus life came when she was a child and her spiteful mother sold her to a circus. Barnell would fall sick and leave the circus to return to Mecklenburg County where she attempted to be a nurse and farm her grandmother's farm. In 1893 she was convinced to return to circus/carnival life and continued to tour the world until 1941 or 1942.
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Jim Camp was a successful African American farmer in Cleveland County. Though he started life as the son of a poor farmer, through hard work and determination he would attain one of the largest farms in Cleveland County. In 1947, he owned a 785-acre farm that produced cotton and grain and a sawmill that processed the 300 acres of wood. His energy went beyond farming to teaching, and he opened a school, as well as his home, to help educate underprivileged African American children.
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Hanging Rock State Park is a virtual mountain paradise that covers a total of between six and seven thousand acres and centers around two beautiful mountain peaks, Hanging Rock and Moore's Know, 40 miles north of Winston-Salem near Danbury in Stokes County.
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14662
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Lexington was the county seat for Davidson and in 1947 home to 15,000 residents. It was settled in the mid-18th-century but not chartered until 1827. Much progress had been made since and in 1947 the future was bright for Lexington. Textile mills and furniture manufacturers, as well as agriculture were major economic booms for Lexington in 1947. Also of interest was the newly completed hospital in that same year.
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14670
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There have been many interesting lawsuits in North Carolina but none surpasses the case of State vs. William Hall and John Dockery which was a murder trial in courts in 1892-94.
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14681
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His business associates tried to dissuade Aubrey R. Hoover from trying to make full-fashioned hosiery in the south, but Mr. Hoover went ahead, and thus was started a great industry in North Carolina.
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14707
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The yard of the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company at Wilmington is one the busiest places in the State. A splendid record of service has also been maintained since the start of the enterprise.
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14720
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The Statesville Flour Mills Company was started in 1900 with a capacity of 60 barrels of flour a day. Today, it has a capacity of 1,200 barrels, and 400 tons of mixed feed.
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