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Eden is Rockingham County's largest city and was formed by merging three smaller communities--Leaksville, Spray, and Draper. This article describes how three communities and a residential district overcame their differences and merged onto one community with a common interest.
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10567
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The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' Albert Coates (public service), Jonathan Daniels (literature), Carl W. Gottschalk (science), Hiram Houston Merritt Jr. (science), and Benjamin F. Swalin (fine arts - music) received the award in 1967.
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10572
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The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' Sidney Alderman Blackmer (fine arts - actor), Edward E. David, Jr. (science), John Ehle, (literature), William Dallas Herring (public service), and Harold Hotelling (science) received the award in 1972.
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10573
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The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' Helen Smith Bevington (literature), Ellis Brevier Cowling (science), Burke Davis (literature), Sam J. Ervin (public service), and Kenneth Ness (fine arts) received the award for 1973.
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10578
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The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' Elizabeth Duncan Koontz (public service), Reginald Glennis Mitchiner (science), Reynolds Price (literature), Joseph Curtis Sloane (fine arts), and Jonathan Williams (fine arts) received the award in 1977.
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10583
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The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' Nancy Winborn Chase (public service), Floyd W. Denny, Jr. (science), Willie Snow Ethridge (literature), R. Philip Hanes, Jr. (fine arts) and Selma Hortense Burke (fine arts) received the award in 1982.
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10596
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The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' L. Richardson Preyer (public service), Emily Harris Preyer (public service), Kaye Gibbons (literature), Robert W. Gray (fine arts), Martin Rodbell (science), James V. Taylor (fine arts), and Marvin Saltzman (fine arts) received the award in 1998.
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10597
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The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' Frank Arthur Daniels Jr. (public service), Julia Jones Daniels (public service), Knut Schmidt-Nielsen (science), Robert G. Parr (science), Allan Gurganus (literature), Jill McCorkle (literature), Frank L. Horton (fine arts), Herb Jackson (fine arts), and General Henry H. Shelton (public service) received the award in 1999.
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George Washington Vanderbilt II, Richard M. Hunt, Frederick Law Olmstead, and Gifford Pinchot are the four men primarily responsible for the planning, building and landscaping of Biltmore Estate, located near Asheville. Vanderbilt provided the initial inspiration, and most importantly, the financing for the palatial estate in the mountains of North Carolina. To complete his vision, he hired the best architect, landscape gardener, and forester that could be found in the United States. Hunt had worked in France as inspector of expansion construction at the Louvre and the Tuileries in Paris as well as having designed the central part of the Museum of Modern Art and the base for the Statue of Liberty in New York. Olmstead was well known as a travel writer in addition to being regarded as the premier landscape engineer of his time for his work designing Central Park in New York City and the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Despite being much younger than Hunt or Olmstead, Pinchot was considered the best forester in the country and his work in the developing field of forestry at Biltmore led to future appointments in the Theodore Roosevelt administration as National Forest Commissioner and head of the new National Conservation Association.
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The historic Old Rectory building on the grounds of Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh has been deemed too valuable to tear down. Built of handmade brick and completed in 1814, the Old Rectory was Raleigh's oldest brick building and a structure whose architectural and historic significance was emphasized by its listing in the Historic American Buildings Survey. The building originally had a dual purpose, being home to both the State Bank and the bank's first president, Colonel William Polk.
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Millions of visitors have strolled through Fort Macon, located on Bogue Banks across from Beaufort and Morehead City. But few visitors know the details of the fort's fall to Union General Ambrose Burnside on Friday, April 25, 1862. This article contains an account of the battle given by an unnamed correspondent for the NEW YORK TIMES, an eye-witness to the attack, reprinted in its entirety as it appeared in the paper.
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The first gold discovered in the United States was not in California, but North Carolina. Samuel Martin, who was born in Connecticut, was returning from South America where he had worked in the mining industry. Stopping to get a shoe repaired in Burke County, he noticed that the mud chinking of his host's cabin was very much like the best gold-bearing gravel of South America. Word soon leaked that gold had been discovered on the banks of Brindle Creek, and for the next year, Burke County was the site of our country's first gold boom. It is estimated that $60,000,000 worth of gold at current values was mined in the Appalachian area between 1828 and 1848, much of it minted by Christian Bechtler in Rutherford County.
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A unique new history center opened this summer in Elizabeth City devoted solely to telling the history of the Albemarle region. This region, called \"The Cradle of North Carolina\" (first settled in 1583) is the 10-county area lying east of the Chowan River and bordering the Albemarle Sound. The idea for the museum was first conceived by the Pasquotank Historical Society in the late 1950s. The Museum of the Albemarle opened in May, 1967 and is located on U.S. 17 approximately two miles south of Elizabeth City.
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The Superior Stone Company automated its Arrowwood Quarry, which is located between Charlotte and Pineville. The quarry is now the most modern high capacity crushed stone plant in the country. Automation allows the company to mine, process, and load 8,000 tons of crushed stone a day. The article includes a description of the process and some of the benefits and advantages of automation.
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10964
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E. N. Richards is president of E. N. Richards and Associates, a business name under which dozens of corporations have constructed thousands of homes, apartments, shopping centers and other structures all over North Carolina and in parts of Virginia. Raleigh's North Hills Shopping Center was one of his projects.
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