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15713
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Bisher describes his hometown of Denton. Located south of Lexington in Davidson County, it's a place he says \"wouldn't win any municipal beauty contests.\" The town is small and plain, consisting of paved streets, stores, filling stations, hosiery mills, a schoolhouse and a bank.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 22 Issue 6, Aug 1954, p13, 40, il, map
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21381
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Denton, a small town (population about 1,700) located in Davidson County, is Our State Magazine's featured Tar Heel Town of the Month.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 7, Dec 2013, p42-44, 46-48, 50, 52, il Periodical Website
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31529
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The Fly-In and Threshers Reunion is a three-day annual event held at Denton International Airport in Southern Davidson County. The event started in 1970, when Brown Loflin and other community leaders invited airplanes to come in and offer free rides as a fundraiser for the Denton County rescue squad. Since then, the event has expanded to feature a variety of attractions and machinery, such as a wheat threshing machine, locomotives, an operating moonshine sill, and hundreds of exhibitors.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 12 Issue 6, June 1980, p20, il
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43087
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"Making molasses is no easy task. Yet for a group of friends in Davidson County, the painstaking process is something to look forward to. Every fall, they gather to enjoy each other's company. --and turn sorghum cane into sweet syrup fit for a biscuit." Gilbert E. Futrell founded Old Men's Molasses in 2000,
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