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3272
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Diversification is a key to economic growth in Stanly County, where businesses manufacture products ranging from space shuttle tires to down-to-earth farming and textile commodities.
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7657
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This special NORTH CAROLINA magazine community profile supplement features Stanly County. Although the county is generally rural, with farms, mountains, streams, and small towns, urban amenities are less than an hour away in Charlotte. The county has nine incorporated towns, with Albemarle as the county seat. Textiles brought prosperity to the county in the late 1890s, and today the textile industry remains the third largest private employer. Retail sale increased over the last five years, and the county is developing as a regional shopping area. The county school system had the state's highest K-12 test scores in 2005. The county has boundless tourism opportunities, including Morrow Mountain State Park.
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31116
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Carolina Planning regularly publishes a feature highlighting projects from members of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association (NCAPA). This year’s submissions focus on community planning initiatives that utilize a wide range of collaborations, ranging from updated citizen engagement techniques, partnering with the NC Department of Transportation to slow traffic and create a pedestrian street environment, and a variety of intergovernmental collaborations.
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32987
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Stanly County experienced a boom in economic and agricultural development in the turn of the twentieth century when the Yadkin Railroad was built from Salisbury to Norwood. This allowed for the establishment of a number of cotton mills in the centrally located Albemarle.
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