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One of the nation's largest flag collections, which contains over 320 items dating from the American Revolution to the present, is housed in Raleigh in the North Carolina Museum of History. The oldest flag dates from 1781 and is thought to have been carried at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
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The Ruffin-Roulhac House, built in Hillsborough in the early 19th-century, now serves as the town hall. Mayor Fred Cates initiated the project to restore the structure in 1971. Professional architects advised against it because the building was unsound and almost overgrown with vegetation. However, local craftsmen restored the building in ten months. Dodd lists the individuals who owned the house over the years and describes some of its special features.
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Ray discusses the creation and history of the Uwharrie Mountains, which are the oldest mountains on the North American continent. Located in the Piedmont, the mountains' attractions include the Uwharrie National Forest, which covers 46,000 acres; Morrow Mountain State Park, Town Creek Indian Mound; and the Uwharrie Trail, a forty-five mile hiking route.
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Carteret County inventor Luther Paul was born in the coastal fishing hamlet of Davis Shore in 1869. Early in life he became interested in how machines work and maintained that interest throughout his life. His interest in aviation began in the early 1900s when he read of a New York Times' offer of a reward for the first manned, powered flight. Paul describes his grandfather's design and construction of an experimental helicopter.
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Sheila Ogle started in the media business in 1962 at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, where she was an assistant to the women's affairs director. She has created three successful businesses. In 1986, she started Media Research Planning and Placement (MRRP); in 2003, she co-founded Integrated Clinical Trial Services; and in 2000, she purchased and renovated Matthews House in Cary. She also boosts causes that range from women in business to a veteran's park in Cary. Ogle is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's executive profile.
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Johnston County was the state's fastest growing county in 2004 and the fiftieth fastest in the nation. The year was also an outstanding one for business with more than $170 million in new business locations or expansions and creation of over 1,200 new jobs. Formerly an agricultural and low-end manufacturing community, the county focus is now on pharmaceuticals, distribution, and tourism. The county benefits from convenience and accessibility to three major highways, U.S. 70, I-40, and I-95; close proximity to the Raleigh-Durham International Airport; and Wake County and its thriving economy.
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A trip to upstate New York by Johnston Memorial Hospital president Leland Farnell developed into an idea of how to solve the hospital's need for more space because of the growing county's needs. There he had seen physicians and medical services housed together in a mall like so many Gaps, Old Navys, and Disney Stores. Smithfield's 1907 Burlington Industries yarn mill was standing empty. The renovated mill is now the two-year-old Johnston County Medical Mall that has a health and fitness center, a café, conference facilities, an auditorium, a cutting-edge wound treatment center, a medical supply company, and space for physician practices. Further expansion of undeveloped areas is planned.
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The State Highway Commission, forerunner of the North Carolina Department of Transportation, began naming state roads and bridges in 1917. Over four hundred highways, bridges, ferries, and other structures have been given honorary names. The list grows by fifteen to twenty names a year. The state list does not include the thousands of secondary roads and city streets that city councils and boards of commissioners have the authority to name. Bishop discusses what the NCDOT requires to consider a naming request and provides examples of what has been named.
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Mary Clara Capel, administrative director of Capel, Inc., Troy, North Carolina, is devoted to the rug company started by her grandfather in 1917. Capel has worked from the mailroom to the showroom and knows the family business inside out. She joined the company in 1981 and worked in sales in Atlanta and San Francisco before returning to Troy in 1997. Capel, Inc., is the country's largest privately owned rug manufacturer and importer.
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Coyotes are secretive and very wary animals that are active at dawn and dusk. Although they live in the state's one hundred counties, coyote sightings have been rare, but that is changing. Both coyote and human populations are increasing in North Carolina. Webber discusses the negative image the animals have, especially among rural residents, farmers, ranchers, and hunters, and ways to improve relations between the two groups.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 69 Issue 12, Dec 2005,
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Truex, a history teacher who resides in Ohio, writes of the duck decoys he found on a trip to the Outer Banks. He discovered Outer Banks' decoys have a lack of refinement in design and are more crudely made than those of other areas. Materials used were mostly regional such as canvas over a wire frame, and discarded sections of power line poles, spars from wrecked ships, and fence posts.
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Brody is a well-known name in Greenville. For years the family operated Brody's, a successful chain of six department stores. The Brody Medical School at East Carolina University was named for them, for their lifelong support of the school. David Brody worked in the retail chain until its sale to Proffitts in 1998. He is now a successful real estate developer. His company, Brody Associates, is a partner in the La Promenade shopping center in Greenville and the Mayfaire mixed-used development in Wilmington.
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James Maynard, a 1965 graduate of East Carolina University, started with a single steakhouse in Fayetteville and built it into a $1 billion business. Maynard is the co-founder and chairman of the company that runs the Golden Corral restaurant chain. Golden Corral, with around 500 restaurants, ranks number one in the family-style buffet restaurant industry with a 40 percent share of the market.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 4 Issue 2, Winter 2006,
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Lynn Mull Lail, of Hickory, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. As a teenager, she worked in the family motel, learning information about business and tourism. She inherited the Mull Motel and the Hickory Furniture Mart from her parents, Pearlie and Maude Mull. At the time, the furniture mart was a wholesale business and was open only two days a year, during nearby High Point's Furniture Market. In 1985, she and her husband opened the Hickory Furniture Mart to the public year-round. The mart is now the area's biggest tourist attraction and one of the state's top visitor destinations, attracting over 500,000 people every year. The million-square-foot complex displays over 1,000 furniture lines and includes 100 factory outlets, stores and galleries, shipping service, visitor center, museum, cafe, coffeehouse, and motel.
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Grace Evelyn Haynes opened the Huckleberry Mountain Workshop Camp and Artists' Colony near Hendersonville in 1939. The nationally-known camp was modeled on the McDowell Colony in Peterboro, NH, the nation's oldest artists' colony. During the its twenty-year existence, the camp provided instruction to hundreds of American students and a number from several foreign countries in a variety of arts that included poetry, painting, music, drama, radio scriptwriting, weaving, pottery, and photography. Bishop recounts the activities at the camp. Today, many of the camp's buildings still stand, including the two-story assembly hall. Dr. Ida Simpson, Duke University sociology professor, and her son Frank are working with the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources to preserve the camp's architecture and history and to have it listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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