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Elkin native Ms. Willie Guyer operated the Elkin Roller Mill, the only woman in the state to be an mill operator. She began her work as a bookkeeper for the mill until her father purchased the plant and placed her in managerial control. She supplemented her business with sale of fertilizer in spring and coal during fall and winter.
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15376
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Folks living in the mountains of western North Carolina were portrayed in a romantic light of simpler people living a simpler life. Classic stereotypes were of tall, bearded men hunting, fishing, and making moonshine while their barefoot wives tended to house and home. In this piece, a different perspective is given about those living in the mountains of western North Carolina and that in fact the population was educated, living in homes and not just cabins, and had a greater grasp of the world beyond the mountains.
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15386
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Simon Dixon moved from Pennsylvania to Alamance County and constructed a mill on Cane Creek. The 1751 still operated in the 1930s and was reportedly the state's oldest operational mill. Folk tales about buried treasure near the mill brought thrill seekers and prospectors in search of silver and gold.
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Weir describes Pilot Mountain. Located in Surry County, it is 2,700 feet above sea level and 1,500 above the surrounding countryside. It stands isolated, the sole survivor of other mountains that have eroded away. Over the centuries it has served as a guide to both Native Americans and wilderness travelers, like Daniel Boone. Within the past five years it has become accessible to motorists through the completion of a road to its base.
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Kilkenny was an isolated community in Tyrell County with a population of only about 100 citizens. Community members living on Alligator River could only access the greater part of the state by way of the river and in drier periods over a trail through the swamps. W. T. Dodge's father moved to Kilkenny in 1876 and all residents are descendants of the Dodge family.
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Miss Inez Davis of Winston-Salem is among the first do be a part of the newest profession for young girls - the stewardess or hostess of modern transport planes. One of the requirements for the new position is that the applicant must be a graduate registered nurse, but once in the position, it affords an opportunity to not only travel but meet people, even celebrities.
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Brothers-in-law Michael Schenck and Absalom Warlick, living in Lincolnton in 1813, had a new idea. They believed cotton could be manufactured as well as raised in the south and that it did not have to be shipped to England or New England to be manufactured. They build a long plant with only 72 spindles, the first cotton mill south of the Potomac. There are around 1,300 southern textile plants today - with about half of those in North Carolina.
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15437
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Marion, located in McDowell County, is featured in THE STATE magazine's community profile.
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15440
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Postmaster Warren S. Alexander presides over the smallest post office in the country. Located at Grimshaws near the Jackson-Macon county line, the small building has a working space of six by five feet and serves ten families. However, business picks up during the hunting and summer seasons. Alexander has been distributing the mail since 1914.
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15455
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Although 17 of North Carolina's 100 counties now provide beds for tuberculosis patients in county sanatoria and county homes, the problem of providing adequate care for the thousands of tuberculosis sufferers who cannot be accommodated at state-supported institutions, and who are unable because of expense, to enter the private sanatoria in the state.
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15507
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On the steep slopes of Chimney Rock under the shadow of the Sugar Loaf Dome is a little colony of mountaineers who are almost completely isolated. Only twenty miles from Asheville, Rutherford County, this little community of nine families know little of the area outside their two square mile plateau.
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15514
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Gardner, head of the Department of Agriculture at State College, relates interesting information about the Scuppernong grape. While no one seems to know how they got there, it appears the grape was first planted in Tyrrell County. The grape takes its name from the Scuppernong River because of the numerous plantings along its shores.
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Cleveland County, along with the cities of Shelby and Kings Mountain, is featured in THE STATE magazine's community/city profile. The county is a top agricultural producer and has the largest agricultural fair in the South. Shelby and Kings Mountain feature large scale diversified manufacturing which contributes to the dominant position of the county among the state's other industrial counties.
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15752
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The new technology in road building in the state in the 1850s was the plank road. When one was built from Fayetteville to Winston, a distance of over one hundred miles, the people of that time considered it a great engineering feat. Robins's article includes a contract with specifications for the construction of a seven-mile stretch of this road in Randolph County, between Asheboro and High Point. The contract was signed on January 3, 1852.
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15813
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Rowe states that while the state is known for tobacco production, cigarette making, and a large number of textile and furniture mills, there is another side of North Carolina that isn't as well-known. That is the cultural side and the work done by North Carolinians in art, literature, and dramatics. Rowe gives a summary of some of these accomplishments.
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