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While tobacco has long been the state's prime crop, sericulture, or the raising of silkworms for silk production, was a minor industry in the eastern counties for almost 200 years. The last plant, located in Greensboro, closed in the 1930s.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 63 Issue 9, Feb 1996, p14-15, por
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