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Record #:
12817
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Focusing on some of the smaller towns in Washington County, this article mentions Roper, Mackeys, Creswell, and Spruill's Point. Roper is the focus of the piece, a small town named for the John L. Roper Company, established in 1890 as one of the largest lumber concerns in the South. The William Lumber Company of Mackeys is also mentioned as well as a few other industrial ventures within the aforementioned towns.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 28 Issue 11, Oct 1960, p17, il
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36236
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North Carolina’s population reached 10 million by 2017. Factors noted were states of origin, numbers of people moving and out, counties that have decreased and increased in population, and abroad ethnic groups most contributing to the population explosion.