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13668
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The Ariosto struck a reef on Christmas Eve, and solely because of fright, her crew needlessly was lost.
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Pisgah Forest officials plan to dig canals into the pocosins or lakes, in the Croatan National Forest. Intending to lower the water table by approximately 18 inches, top soil will be oxidized into plummer's soil. Soil oxidation will lead to vegetation growth in remaining waters, fostering fish populations.
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Encompassing 9 towns and 944 square miles, Robeson County is expanding in population as well as in agricultural production. The first eastern county to abolish alcohol, Robeson was the first rural county in America to have a health department.
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North Carolina is home to the highest mine in eastern North America. The Yancey Mica Mining Company owns a mine in the Black Mountains, located 5,000 feet in altitude. Discovered in 1874 by the Silver Brothers, this mine was once known as the Cattail Mine.
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13734
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What do Southerners do with this unique marsupial? They have come up with special ways to make this animal a delicious meal.
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13736
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It started when a North Carolinian started messing with an old battery - now BOB BROWN'S SCIENCE CIRCUS, a television program, is nationally known.
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13740
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North Carolina's furniture industry started modernizing in the depths of the Depression and has out-stripped the world.
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13744
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Mrs. Edith W. Way, of Moore County, handles the most beautiful merchandise in North Carolina; she owns and operates the largest orchid greenhouse between New York and Florida.
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13754
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Readers flooded The State with a variety of suggestions for naming Mrs. Way's hybrid orchid.
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13755
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Sharpe details the history, geography, and industries of Halifax County.
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13761
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Wrecks once were so common along the North Carolina coast that when the barge SAXON came ashore on the Banks north of Hatteras, it caused no great interest. The SAXON wreck, however, was an illustration of tragedies often found in the annals of the Coast Guard - many a mariner's life would have been saved had he only stuck with his vessel.
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Booming and halting for centuries, New Hanover County, one of North Carolina's oldest counties, sets its sights on a new era of commerce and industry.
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13775
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North Carolina has only one producer of Ilmenite, but it is the richest deposit in the nation.
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The first colonists to invade Montgomery County were not English or Scotch or even white people. They were Indians. Long before Raleigh's colonists sailed for America, a group from the south, probably Creeks, felt impelled to leave their homeland too.
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13800
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This article is about the unique nature of the Blue Ridge mountains.
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