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10121
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During the 1980s, almost half of the furniture manufactured in the United States was made in North Carolina. Between 1990 and 2006, industry employment dropped 41 percent as many manufacturers moved overseas. North Carolina has lost 26,000 jobs since 2000. However, Lexington artist Bob Timberlake refused to allow one of his furniture lines to be moved overseas.
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12111
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Henry Talmadge Link started Dixie Furniture in Lexington in 1937 with eighty-six people, five salesmen, and three hundred customers. Today, the company has eight plants with five million-square-feet of floor space, 4,000 employees, 100 salesman and over 10,000 customers at home and abroad.
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38297
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On Bob Timberlake’s personal landscape is a barn that survived Union soldiers’ invasion, in addition to his guest house and studio. Along with his artistic endeavors, Timberlake produces furniture, made only by companies in North Carolina and part of a line Timberlake touted as the most famous in history.
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