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14387
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The article looks at the difficulties of tracing Native Americans' lost heritage and gives their history from the 17th-century to 1949, while highlighting a large population of 20,000 in Robeson County. The contemporary relations between Native American groups and other ethnographic populations in the state are explored.
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14418
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Bill Sharpe presents a look at the many interesting sites along the Intracoastal Waterway, presenting a guide for any maritime tourist of North Carolina.
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14428
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Geese are arriving daily at Lake Mattamuskeet, near New Holland, North Carolina, and just as soon as the law allows, which is on December 8th in this zone, the geese will be followed by gunners, whose migration south is just as inexorable as that of the geese.
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14442
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A half-million customers can't be wrong, and that is why Biltmore Industries for nearly 50 years has turned a lackadaisical eye toward all the modern machinery used in weaving wool into cloth.
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14469
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Johnny Moore is a celebrity, but nobody knows it. Moore is the forgotten man of aviation. He is the one surviving witness of the first power airplane flight, the last living man who actually lent a hand to the Wright brothers on December 17, 1903 when they put their flimsy craft into the wind and flew the astonishing space of 120 feet.
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14475
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Hiwassee State Park, containing 800 acres and a number of buildings, has been created through lease of part of the old TVA village by the NC Division of Forestry and Parks. It will be open to recreational seekers with moderately priced furnished cottages available.
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14493
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Whether the gigantic sand dunes of North Carolina, larges on the Eastern coast, will be forcibly dissuaded from their southward wanderings through a postwar planting project may depend upon whether the National Park Service considers them a desirable part of the natural wilderness, and also on conclusions reached from the damage done to man-made barrier dunes by the September 1944 hurricane.
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14505
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Hundreds of fishing ponds have been built in recent years, and the number of ponds will show an even greater increase in the future.
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14513
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Year-round fishing in TVA's western North Carolina lakes, permitted this year for the first time, has met with enthusiastic response from sportsmen and locals alike.
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14514
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Recent hurricanes brought to light for a brief period the remains of several vessels, buried in the sands for many years off the coast of North Carolina.
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14522
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Tony Seamon's seafood dinners at Morehead City have become nationally famous, and crowds flock to the Sanitary Fish Market every day of the year.
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14528
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A proposed new summer resort development in close proximity to Salter Path will probably have no effect on the so-called squatter settlement which has been there for many years.
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14553
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The history of the Dismal Swamp Canal dates back to 1763 when George Washington conceived its charter conceived and conducted the survey. Constructed by slaves in the early 19th-century through a desolate, swampy area, the canal was was a vital trading link, connecting eastern North Carolina and southern Virginia. Improvement by Army Engineers included dredging in 1946 to return the canal to a nine-foot depth.
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14557
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Mrs. John C. Campbell has given training to hundreds of mountain dwellers and an inspiration to turn out wood carving which have a ready sale.
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14575
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A new and novel turn is taken in the centuries-old fight of the Cherokees of North Carolina. A new bill is described as a modern bulwark against invasion of the Cherokee lands by \"white Indians,\" and calls for a correction of the final tribal roll of 1924 and would give the Council authority to determine eligibility for membership in the tribe.
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