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13286
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Sharpe explores the Tusquitee Mountains by way of the Tusquitee Creek
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13287
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Sharpe examines the history, geography, economic conditions, industries, agriculture, and culture of Haywood County.
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13322
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Including Core Sound, Core Bank, Shackleford Bank, and Cape Lookout, this article discusses the water and history of this region of North Carolina's southern Outer Banks.
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13325
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This New Year's Eve, around 20 Gaston County residents will spend between 16 and 18 hours travelling from door to door, serenading friends and family with a salute of musket fire. Loaded with black powder for a guaranteed loud and smoky salutation, the New Year Shooters are carrying out a German Tradition numbering some 200 years in practice.
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13335
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Settled by the Scotch-Irish during the mid-18th-century and located in the southern piedmont region of the state, Gaston County is best known for industry. Gaston ranks 6th in the state for population, with 110,836 people in 358 square miles of land.
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13337
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The idea that North Carolina had the majority of the slave trade during pre-antebellum days is disputed by a Massachusetts reader who claims that the absence of a deep sea port and fleet negated extensive slave trading within state lines.
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13360
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Settled in 1750 and comprised of two mountain ranges averaging 1,200 feet, Burke County also has numerous lakes and a rich history as well as industry and agriculture.
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13375
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Millions of people have visited the pioneer attraction of Chimney Rock. Until the Morse family got to work and dramatized the Chimney, this particular boulder was almost lost in the setting. A no other place in the state do the mountains rise so suddenly from the Piedmont, and the gorge magically opens a forbidding getaway.
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13377
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Tom Ellis of Cedar Grove, Orange County, is the book-keeping wizard of small-town America. Ellis invented an economical book-keeping system for small businesses: \"$1 a week system,\" all contained in a book that sells for $6.
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13386
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In Watauga County, Rich Mountain - 15 miles long and without a break - bears down directly from the north. About half way of its length, the ridge beings to bend toward the southeast, and then it terminates in a prominence known as Howard's Knob. At the other end is Tater Hill, a 5,194 foot mountain.
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13389
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Sharpe details the geography, history, development, industry, and society of Orange County.
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13393
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One of the fascinating opportunities in North Carolina is the profession of \"chiefing\" practiced in and around Cherokee. This is the business of putting on feathers and standing in front of some souvenir shops. Some thirty chiefs work at Cherokee tourist places.
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13404
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Richmond comes closer to any other county to having all four of North Carolina's regional characteristics, and it is one of the state's most diversified counties physically and economically. Sharpe explores Richmond County's history, geography, industry, and people.
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13409
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North Carolina may not be economically self-sufficient, but it grows its own population, with 86 percent of the population being North Carolinian born and raised.
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13418
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Sharpe explores Wayne County's history, geography, development, industries, and communities.
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