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Traveling back to days of Daniel Boone can be arranged by visiting the Calloway Cemetery on Highway 163, in Ashe County. Here, Boone left a stone marked ‘T.C' on the grave of his friend Thomas Calloway, who died in 1800. Boone had given the stone to Calloway several years before his death. Other cemetery markers date back to the 1700s on what used to be the Calloway plantation.
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Virgil Smith is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. He has thirty-five years in the newspaper business, beginning with a paper route and a job as a mailroom employee. Today he is both president and publisher of the 136-year-old ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, the largest daily newspaper in Western North Carolina.
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Rusine Mitchell-Sinclair is the senior state executive for IBM's operations in the Research Triangle Park--the largest IBM site in the world--and the company's other locations across the state. She also serves as vice-president of strategy and implementation of the company's Global IT Delivery division, which helps IBM's clients run their technology systems and data centers in this country and around the world. Mitchell-Sinclair is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile.
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On September 15 and 16, 1933, a severe hurricane struck Carteret County with destructive winds and heavy rains. Beveridge recounts the effects of the storm, providing an eyewitness account of the storm's fury.
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Flora Watkins, wife of Squire J. C. Watkins, grew up in Cashiers, North Carolina, accustomed to aristocracy. Her husband built her a house in Dillsboro and died soon thereafter. The squire left his widow a large mortgage payment that she could not afford, so the sheriff came to sell the house at auction. Flora stayed up all night with her oldest son and wrote 150 letters to members of the Masonic Lodge. Soon enough money had been raised to convince the bank to let her keep the house. Then she opened the house to boarders at eight dollars a month for both room and board. The house remained in the family until 1983, when it was sold to become the Squire Watkins Inn, Bed, and Breakfast.
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James H. Ammons, Chancellor of North Carolina Central University in Durham, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. He has been the University's leader for the past five years.
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Felton Capel, the founder of Century Associates of North Carolina, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. He is an award-winning executive, an honored civic leader, and a former town councilman in Southern Pines. He received the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's University Award and has been inducted into the North Carolina Business Hall of Fame.
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Scott Custer, CEO of RBC Centura, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. In his twenty-seven-year banking career, he has worked for only two companies--Wachovia and RBC Centura. RBC is based in Toronto, Canada, and acquired Rocky Mount-based Centura in 2001. Custer discusses his work and RBC Centura's plan to move the company's headquarters to Raleigh. The bank is the largest U.S. subsidiary of the largest Canadian bank.
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Seeking an education, Nido Qubein emigrated to North Carolina from Jordan in 1966. He graduated from High Point University and received a master's degree in business from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 1973, he started his first business: writing and publishing leadership materials for schools and camps in thirty countries. By 1977, he was giving 200 motivational talks a year. This grew into Creative Services, the international consulting firm he owns today. He is chairman of Business Life in Greensboro; Great Harvest Bread Co., a 218-store national chain; McNeill Lehman, a public relations firm; and Southern National Bank Corp. In 2004, he was named president of High Point University. Since then he has raised almost $70 million for the private university and changed the school's culture with unorthodox methods, such as hiring a “Director of WOW†and arranging valet service for students.
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Since its dedication in July 1963, over 300,000 people from all fifty states and thirty-four foreign countries have visited the Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia. Over 5,000 natural history specimens are on exhibit, including mounted birds, animals, fish, and reptiles. Larger animals, rarely seen except in large metropolitan museums, include the buffalo, American elk, caribou, and Rocky Mountain goat. The movement for the museum was started in Gastonia in 1958, when Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Schiele offered their collections valued at over $100,000. Mr. Schiele is the former curator and artist-taxidermist of the Philadelphia museums and former ranger-naturalist of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 31 Issue 2, Feb 1967,
p13-15, il
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Farming was hard work in North Carolina during the 1800s, with all the work done by hand, aided by mules for extra power. During the latter part of the century, many people, including John Blue of Laurinburg, were inventing machines to make farm work easier. Among Blue's inventions were a cotton planter made of iron and a machine to spread fertilizer. Blue and his father went into the farm implement business together. This small business grew into a large plant where implements were made and a foundry where iron was melted and cast into the parts the company needed. The John Blue Company was sold in 1967 and now produces large sprayers for agriculture under the name of CDS-John Blue Company.
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Micropolitan areas are communities too urban to be called rural and too rural to be called urban. For the second year in a row, Site Selection magazine ranked North Carolina second in the nation for the economic success of its micropolitans. Only four percent of the country's counties even make the list. North Carolina placed sixteen counties on the list. The magazine ranks Statesville-Mooresville the nation's top micropolitan for the second straight year.
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Along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Alleghany County, a cabin sits below the Doughton Park lookout. This cabin was the home of the Caudill family at the beginning of the 20th-century. Martin Caudill settled in the Wildcat Rock area after the Civil War, and with his wife raised 22 children.
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Before the automobile, wagons were the prime mode of local transportation. Wagons built in eastern North Carolina differed from those built in western North Carolina in the width of their track. Owing to the rough terrain, western buggies had a width of only fifty-four inches; those in the east had a width of sixty inches. Buggies that went on roads outside of their region experienced rough rides. This was rarely a problem, however, as few North Carolinians took their buggies far away from home. The automobile changed things. The first mass-produced cars, such as the Ford Model-T, came with a sixty-inch tread option, but by 1916, all cars were manufactured with a fifty-four-inch tread. This caused a lot of damage to roads in eastern North Carolina until the paving campaigns of the 1920s and 1940s.
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Sampson County and its industries are open to the world because of their proximity to the state seaports at Morehead City and Wilmington and the county's location along Interstates 40 and 95. Sampson County's industries include the Schindler Escalator Corp., which is the largest producer of escalators in the nation; the Garland Shirt Factory, which makes Brooks Brothers shirts; and Kivett's Inc., an outfitter of churches, from pews to spires to stained glass windows. The county has 1,200 family-owned and corporate farms. With annual cash receipts of over $538 million, the county has the state's largest farming economy and ranks among North Carolina's top five producers in turkey, pork, sweet potatoes, and corn.
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