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13522
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Another state highway already is planned down the banks of coastal North Carolina - one that will be a boon to vacationists and will open a considerable tract of land for development. This road - yet in blueprint stage - will start just north of Kitty Hawk; then it will go south, paralleling the highway which now follows the beach front, except that this new one will be a mile or two westward and will skirt the sound shore.
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13525
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Historians says Lee County is a young county - the 98th of North Carolina's 100. But geologists say that out of the depths of the earth rise exhibits from nature's antique shop: the great sandstone and shale belt of Triassic formation.
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13534
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Gastonia has preserved the last streetcar operating in North Carolina.
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13543
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Vance County wears the cloak of the Piedmont, but at heart it is of the coastal plans.
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13551
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There is only one Big Bald of the Bald Mountain Range and it is a mountain of legend and mystery.
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13553
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A fascinating way to spend a North Carolina mountain vacation is to follow the Appalachian Handcraft trail.
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13565
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The biggest log house ever built in the Smoky Mountains was 2 stories high, 90 feet long, and contained the first real bathrooms ever installed in the county. Constructed on Hooper's Bald, the house was completed in 1910 and contained an eight foot tall wire fence surrounding the property.
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13589
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Many people have been puzzled by the unusual formation of the North Carolina coast, and Sharpe explains how such a strange thing came about.
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13623
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The threat of a price ceiling, which might have greatly impaired one of North Carolina's most picturesque and important enterprises, tobacco, has been removed for the moment.
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13637
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From now until about the 25th of October, the \"leaf season\" will be at its height in North Carolina's great hardwood forests.
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13642
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The wreck of the steamship Metropolis is a catastrophe that shook America and led to the establishment of an all-year beach patrol by the Coast Guard.
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13648
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Sorghum is a multi-million dollar crop in North Carolina.
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13651
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Assured by history, confident of her future, Pasquotank is a small but thriving principality.
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13657
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In the Wright's own words - from letters and diaries the story of the conquest of the air is told in MIRACLE AT KITTY HAWK, edited by Fred C. Kelly, authorized Wright biographer.
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13660
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Controversy and piety marked the beginning of Cabarrus County; it is not one of the state's industrial giants.
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