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12510
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Robert G. Cunningham, Jr. is Vice President, Human Resources and Public Affairs for Ecusta Corporation located at Pisgah Forest. The plant was built in 1938 specifically to make cigarette papers. We the People of North Carolina magazine features Cunningham in its Businessman In the News section.
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12511
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James G. Exum, Jr., a former Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, won election as Chief Justice of the Court in November 1986, and was sworn in to the position in December of the same year.
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12512
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For over a century agriculture has been the dominant force in Rocky Mount's economy. Now the city is in transition, moving from that economy to a nonagricultural one in order to keep the city viable and growing.
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12513
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Started in 1986, the Carolinas Glass Recycling Program seeks to reduce the number of jars and bottles going into landfills each year. The program has the support of five glass manufacturing firms in the Carolinas that are investing $1 million in promotions, services and marketing support for recycling companies and organizations. The companies have also increased the amount of money they pay for recycled glass.
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The North Carolina Citizens Association presented its annual Citation for Distinguished Public Service to Harlan E. Boyles, who is the Treasurer for North Carolina and its chief investment officer.
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Unveiled on 3 July 1929, and dedicated by Salisbury native, Walter Murphy, the memorial honoring the men from North Carolina who fought and died during the Civil War was erected at Gettysburg.
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First planted in 1741-1742 by Eliza Lucas, indigo, a plant known for its blue colored dye, represented the second largest money returning crop in the colonial Carolinas. Shipped to England with cotton and rice, indigo quickly became a valuable commercial commodity, exceeding one million pounds annually in value.
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From World War II through 1955, Laurinburg Maxton Air Base, in Scotland County, sat unused and deserted. Located on 5,700 acres between Shoe hill Creek and the Lumber River, Airpine has been released by the government to a joint commission from the two neighboring towns. Airpine is the only park in America where class A manufacturing concerns operate side-by-side with a 900-acre pasture and feed lot for the commercial fattening of beef cattle. The Airport Commission has made elaborate and detailed plans for the development of this immense facility as one hundred zoned industrial sites are currently available.
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Perquimans County is a region that has sustained inhabitants as well as history since the mid-17th-century. Boasting a historic bridge that has been in operation since 1758, Perquimans county also contains a library with genealogy holdings utilized by researchers from across the nation. Temporarily sustained by a small commercial fishing based centered around shad, herring, and perch, other industries in Perquimans County includes J.C. Blanchard & Co., the largest and oldest department store in the region. Notables from this locality include, Col. John Harvey, Major William Henry Bagley, Worth Bagley, Clinton White Toms, General John Elliott Wood, and Mrs. Sarah DeCrow, the first female Postmaster in America.
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One of the oldest, most troubled, and cyclical businesses in the world, textiles, has taken on a more cheerful tone. Attributed to better management directing improvements in products, methods of production, inventory control, and merchandising, the textile business has markedly increased in sales and profits.
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A onetime free and independent nation situated twenty miles off the mainland, Ocracoke Island was incorporated into North Carolina in 1770 as a taxable portion of Carteret County. Famous for ponies, pirates, and shipwrecks, Ocracoke remains a popular attraction for locals and tourists alike.
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We the People of North Carolina features High Point in this month's municipal profile.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 45 Issue 12, Dec 1987,
p16, 18, 20-22, 24, il
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12651
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Recreational inventory for travel and tourism of North Carolina coastal and mountain counties. Information is presented by sections, and alphabetically by counties. Maps aid the reader with quick location of the county referred to in the text. In addition to interesting activities for pleasure seekers, the guide offers information on lodging and restaurants.
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Graham is the only county in North Carolina without a single Negro citizen, and has only ever cited the existence of one Negro family who left the county in 1902. Court records indicate the presence of Negroes working in Graham, with only two court cases involving civil action. Aside from a lack of Negro residents, Graham County is known for the highest dam in the east, the Fontana Dam, at 480 feet in height.
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Living on scattered tracts of the Cherokee Band, 247 Indians took refuge in the Smoky Mountains after white chief and benefactor, Colonel W. H. Thomas, bought property for the Cherokees. The land purchase was not contiguous; other tracts are located in the Qualla boundary in Swain and Jackson Counties, as well as tribal lands in Cherokee and Graham Counties. In Graham, the Snowbird Indians have lived on these tribal lands for centuries, the most noted of them a chief named Junaluska.
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