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Lost Cove, four hundred acres of rocky but fertile land in the North Carolina mountains near the Tennessee border, was settled around 1861 by Morgan Bailey. It existed as a small community through the years and never totaled more than twenty families. The remote location did not prevent it from having a school, mail delivery, and services of a physician. Discontinued passenger train service and the lack of a suitable road into the community contributed to Lost Cove's demise in 1957.
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Over half a century ago polio killed or crippled thousands of adults and children. The disease had Americans living in fear every summer. In May 1944, the disease came to the Catawba River Valley. Almost one-third of the county's children were victims of the illness. Surrounding hospitals, including Charlotte Memorial, were full. County citizens responded by erecting and opening in just fifty-four hours a fully-functioning fifty-five bed hospital in Hickory. When these beds were filled, citizens expanded the structures. By September the hospital had 250 beds serving 400 patients. Through this heroic effort of citizens and medical staff, many victims of polio were saved.
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8664
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Western North Carolina has the greatest variety of minerals in the country. Beginning in the 1860s, mica and feldspar were the money minerals, and North Carolina mica was considered the best in the world. One of mica's characteristics is that it is so hard that it will not burn. Feldspar is even harder. It can be melted but will not become fluid. Mining these two substances in earlier times involved great risk to the men who dug them from the earth. Unlike coal miners, these men are hardly mentioned in the historical literature, mainly because they were not unionized and didn't keep personal records. Haines discusses the men who dug the minerals from pre-Civil War days through World War II.
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