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12542
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James W. Cannon is an initial member of the NORTH CAROLINA magazine Business Hall of Fame. He is the founder of the Cannon Manufacturing Company (later Cannon Mills) in Kannapolis. In 1898, one of his plants began production of what was to become the world-famous Cannon towels.
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12544
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Francis H. Fries is an initial member of the North Carolina magazine Business Hall of Fame. He was an early leader in North Carolina's textile and railroading industries but is remembered best as the guiding genius of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, North Carolina's first statewide bank.
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12546
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People who remember Luther Hodges as Governor of North Carolina and later as Secretary of Commerce in the Kennedy Administration, often forget that he had a long career in business. In 1920, he began a thirty-year career with Marshall Fields Mills (now Fieldcrest Mills), immediately after his graduation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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12548
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J. Spencer Love came to North Carolina seeking a job in 1919. Four years later he owned the Gastonia Mill and began a textile empire. He later sold the mill, but kept the machinery, moving it to Burlington where it became Burlington Mills. Now Burlington Industries, it is the world's largest textile manufacturing corporation.
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12607
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Richard J. Reynolds is an initial member of the NORTH CAROLINA magazine Business Hall of Fame. He was the founder of the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company. Among its famous products were Prince Albert pipe tobacco and perhaps the most famous cigarette of all time - Camel.
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12608
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Louis V. Sutton is an initial member of the NORTH CAROLINA magazine Business Hall of Fame. He spent a lifetime working in electric utilities and as president of Carolina Power and Light Company (CP&L) was recognized nationally by fellow power company presidents.
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29296
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On March 15, 1781, the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina was lost by Americans to the British. Despite the British victory, the battle ultimately weakened the British Army and led to General Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown.
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Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 9 Issue 3, Mar 1981, p34-36, il, por, map
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21249
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This article examines the colonization and exploration of the New World including present day North Carolina by British colonists and explorers during the first half of the 17th century. While colonization efforts were hindered by civil war in England, interest in Carolina increased after 1649.
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21063
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An examination of historical and modern records on animals, birds, and other forms of moving life that are native to North Carolina and whose presence predates European exploration.
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11579
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Reginald A. Fessenden, a Canadian-born revolutionary in the field of radio, developed a system that made wireless communications possible. Conducting experiments in the Albemarle Sound region from locations in Manteo and Hatteras, Fessenden spent a significant portion of his life in North Carolina.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 32 Issue 2, June 1964, p15-17, por
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12587
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Documented by French explorers as early as 1564, as well as by Thomas Harriot, and John Lawson, Yaupon, a shrub of the Holly family that naturally grows between Virginia and Florida, was used, in the past, by Native Americans and eventually, Europeans, for a variety of purposes. Producing small red berries that can either be medicinal or decorative, Yaupon, has therapeutic qualities which reportedly, restores lost appetites, strengthens the stomach, offers agility and courage to those preparing for battle, and also serves as an emetic. In addition, Yaupon contains a high caffeine content and was used and traded as tea or a tea additive during the Colonial Period.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 30 Issue 1, June 1962, p11, 56, il
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20568
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Subscription books are loosely defined as a market selling publications to individual buyers. The author looks at the long history of such publications before focusing more specifically on North Carolinians subscribing between 1733 and 1850 at the height of popularity for press subscriptions. Included are comprehensives lists both for books purchased by the state's citizens and those citizen's whom were subscribers.
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12673
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On the September day of 1862 when Zebulon Vance first took the office of governor, North Carolinians would have been hard pressed to admit that they already had a governor. In fact, there were three governors that day, including Henry T. Clark who held the office until Vance took over. North Carolina's \"surplus\" governor, Edward Stanly, was appointed by President Lincoln to be military governor of that part of North Carolina in Federal control.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 29 Issue 6, Aug 1961, p13, por
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12695
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The first shocks of an earthquake shook Bald Mountain in North Carolina on February 10, 1874. For weeks following, area residents were convinced that Bald Mountain was in fact a volcano, spurring a plethora of newspaper accounts, and eventually bringing forth an engineer from South Carolina to investigate. Relieving the fears of local residents, the engineer stated positively the event was an earthquake, and the \"Old Baldy,\" would do little more than rumble and was not a volcano.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 29 Issue 10, Oct 1961, p15-18, il
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