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In 2010, the town of Cooleemee, N.C. started the Great Bullhole Duck Race and Festival to help fund upkeep of RiverPark at Cooleemee Falls on the South Yadkin River.
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43050
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"When a Wilkes County farmer opened his namesake hardware store a century ago in North Wilkesboro, no one could have predicted that Lowe's would go from selling snuff and horse collars to becoming one of the largest home improvement chains in the world." In 2003, Lowe's relocated its corporate headquarters to Mooresville.
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UNC's North Carolina Collection is believed to be the largest of its kind in the United States devoted to a single state. The collection was stated in 1844 and gained traction in 1917, when its first professional curator was hired.
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43148
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Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick jumped from a hot-air balloon in the 1908 North Carolina State Fair.
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43175
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A photograph concerning a hunting trip at Camp Bryan in Craven County in the 1930s is discussed. Carl Goerch recalled his meeting Babe Ruth.
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43493
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Related is a brief note on the Isaac Taylor House on Craven Street in New Bern. The occupants, the Taylor sisters refused to move while the house was commandeered by the Union army during the Civil War.
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43674
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Kenansville native, Ruth Faison Shaw invented the art of finger painting.
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44015
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"Thanks to a mug-obsessed man in Caldwell County, a cabin in the woods gives an entirely new meaning to "happiness in a cup." Collettesville's House of Mugs got its start in the summer of 2000, when Avery Sisk purchased a collection of 750 coffee mugs for $15 at a flea market.
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"Some hobbies take up a corner of the garage. In Hertford County, an eclectic collection of Americana fills an entire high school." Brady Jefcoat collected nearly anything that struck his fancy. His collection of 17,000 plus items is on display at the Brady C. Jefcoat Museum of Americana in Murfreesboro. Jefcoat, who died in 2013, began the bulk of his collecting in the early 1970s.
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44183
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"A Farm boy grew up listening for the clang of a bell. Today in Harnett County, his large, loud, and heavy collection rings on." Johnston County's Robert Coats began collecting large bells in the 1950s. 30 of his prized artifacts are housed in in a 32 foot monstrosity on his former homeplace. a small museum sits nearby, housing an odds and ends grouping of "old-timey" things collected by Coats and his wife.
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New Bern native and innovative photographer Bayard Wooten was the first woman in the North Carolina National Guard. For 16 years she photographed solders at Camp Glenn.
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44493
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"During the first half of the 20th century, North Carolina's textile mills found respite in dope wagons -- mobile carts stocked with relief." Essentially, dope wagons were mobile refreshment stands that were brought directly to the worker.
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From Barbie dolls and G.I. Joes to the east coast's largest Shirley Temple collection, The Spencer Doll and Toy Museum is presented in memory of Amy Morris, a native of Rowan County, North Carolina, whose nearly 300 doll collection inspired the museum.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 7, December 2014,
p156-158, 160, 162-164, por
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