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8971
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The sweet pecan, now commonly found in the Southeast, is not native to the area. The trees are indigenous to Mississippi westward and then northward to the southern part of the Midwest. Pecan trees in Eastern North Carolina often do not grow in forests but rather around towns and farms where the ground is fertilized and minerals have been added to the soil. Most varieties require long hot summers and the majority of pecan groves are located in southeastern counties.
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10950
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Three miles north of Turkey in Sampson County stands what is possibly the largest and most historic pecan tree in North Carolina. Measuring 17 feet 2 inches in circumference, the tree was a gift from President James Madison to Thomas Kenan, a member of Congress from that district. The tree was planted between 1805 and 1811.
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33663
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A gnarled old tree in Charles O. Robinson’s yard in Elizabeth City, is responsible for the many thousands of other pecan trees that now abound in the Albemarle section. The area’s leading textile manufacturer and banker got his start when he planted groves of pecan trees by transplanting the nuts from the pecan tree in his father’s yard when he was a teenager.
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