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11894
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Durwood Barbour of Raleigh collects postcards that feature long-forgotten scenes from around the state. He spent twenty-five searching through large and small towns to build his collection which numbers 8,000 cards. In 2006, he donated his collection, which is valued at $200,000, to the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Initiated by the Avery County Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the County Redevelopment Board, the construction of a new golf course, ski resort, and the mass planting of Frazier firs is set to increase local business. Intending to promote the region as a center for new summer residences, Avery residents are already reaping the benefits of new exchanges in the form of blueberry patches, Christmas tree cultivation, beef production, and a thriving newspaper.
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Established in 1779, Rutherford County is a sparsely populated region settled by pioneers from Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and France. The arrival of the railroad in 1887 presented inhabitants with a means of transporting agricultural products, resulting in a boom in cotton and tobacco production. Containing an average growing season lasting approximately 202 days, farmers were successful in generating product but were without a means to process their wares. By 1916, six cotton mills were operating in this small county and were valued at over 2.5 million dollars. Lumbering also increased during this time and saw mills were harvesting some 19 million feet annually.
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11906
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A small Piedmont region settled in 1750 and formally established in 1836, Davie County began as a distillery province. Establishing itself as one of the top dairy producers in the state, yielding revenues of nearly $3,000,000 annually, Davie County is slowly changing into an industrialized community. With farmers taking on second jobs and more land holders dividing up their plots, Davie residents are becoming more versatile earners and increasing advancement across the 285 square miles encompassing the district.
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11909
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Traditionally an agricultural region, dominated by tobacco production, Stokes County is transforming into a modern constituency. Established in 1789, Stokes County encompasses 458 square miles or 283,120 acres. Containing its very own mountain range as well as two rivers that traverse the landscape, Stokes County is a popular tourist attraction in warmer months, offering a resort centered on Hanging Rock. Outside of tourism, revenue flows into Stokes County from brick manufacturing, rich mineral deposits, agriculture, livestock, lumber, and honey.
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A county whose land is largely considered to be classified as forests, up to 70 percent, Caswell was, at one time, an industrial region that profited from slave labor through tobacco and cotton production. Although much of the region's wealth was broken up during emancipation, Caswell County is famous for the Slade tobacco curing method, the Kirk-Holden War, and for whiskey distilleries. Caswell County in the 20th century consists of colleges, medical centers, research centers, golf courses, factories, and shopping centers.
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The one time Secretary of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce and initiator of the Carolina Motor Club, Coleman W. Roberts is responsible for the start of North Carolina's state travel industry. A business worth over $300,000,000 annually, Roberts pushed for the following directives: a certificate of title law, opposition to city vehicle taxes, better highway markings, school safety patrols, driver's education in the school systems, a state highway patrol, highway beautification, a new travel council, a gasoline tax diversion, a state responsibility system, and the point system.
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Occupying 373 square miles, Wilson County is populated by the descendants of English and Irish immigrants who settled the area around 1740. Situated at the periphery of Eastern North Carolina's richest agricultural and manufacturing belt, Wilson County, established in 1855, is financially stimulated by a variety of crop and livestock operations as well as by textile and apparel manufacturers. Heavily reliant on the tobacco industry, Wilson was, at one time, the worldwide primacy, drawing in over $125 million dollars annually.
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11947
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The story of the Cherokees, their past, their curious present, and their uncertain future is illustrated by author Bill Sharpe. Sharpe recounts their early history and their expansion into the south, the wars with the Carolina colonists, the 1924 plans to disband the tribes, the vanishing Cherokee communities, and trade with tourists.
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First settled in 1784, Buncombe County became more accessible to outsiders with the opening of US Highway 70. Sustained via tourism, agriculture, and industry, Buncombe residents enjoy the Blue Ridge Mountains, the city of Asheville, as well as the world-famous Biltmore Estate.
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An agricultural county settled prior to 1707 and officially established in 1760, Hertford County, encompasses three rivers and over 130,000 acres of forests. Prior to the Civil War, the region was sustained primarily via the plantation system. Expansion into maritime and modern industries came in the late-19th-century in the form of port trade, fishing, hosiery mills, ice plants, and lumber.
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Settled during the turn of the 18th century by Ulster Scots as well as German and English Quakers, residents of Randolph County have sustained via industry, grain production and the raising of livestock for more than two hundred years.
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Ranging in altitude from 80 to 350 feet, Johnston County is a rural area settled by Ulster Scots and the English, in 1746. Comprising ten towns, Johnston County residents have survived through subsistence farming and the production of naval stores, tobacco, and lumbering.
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Encompassing 320 square miles and boasting a 158-day growing season enabled by 54.42 inches (on average) of rainfall, Watauga County is located in the western part of the state and is home to famous Blowing Rock.
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Formed in 1839 from lands obtained from local Native Americans via the Treaty of New Echota, Cherokee County is the southwestern most province in North Carolina. Encompassing 454 square miles, Cherokee is home to several ceremonial mounds, the most famous of which is Peachtree. The only county in North Carolina to ever operate off Central Standard Time, Cherokee County is better known for mining industries and the site of Ft. Baker.
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