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The Occoneechee Speedway in Orange County opened in 1949. The track was one of only three East Coast tracks that measured a mile; the viewing stands could seat 17,000 fans. Many famous NASCAR drivers, including Richard Petty and Junior Johnson, raced on the dirt track. The track is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Closed in 1968, the track has recently reopened as a historic walking trail.
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Cold Mountain was made famous by Charles Frazier's Civil War novel of the same name. It is located in Haywood County and is part of the Shining Rock Wilderness Area in Pisgah National Forest. Cold Mountain's elevation is 6,030 feet; reaching its summit requires a strenuous 10-mile hike. For non-climbers, the Milepost 411 overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway provides a good view.
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Between 1862 and 1867, an experimental, planned community for freed slaves existed on Roanoke Island. It was under the direction of Union soldiers. Around 3,000 Afro-Americans lived there by the end of 1863. The colony had its own schools, churches, craft businesses, a sawmill, and around 600 houses and gardens.
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On February 13, 2004, the Great Dismal Swamp will receive recognition for its role in the Underground Railroad path to freedom for slaves prior to the Civil War. The National Park Service has designated three sites in the swamp as part of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program. The sites are the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Dismal Swamp Canal, and North Carolina's Dismal Swamp State Park.
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Hurricane Floyd was the worst natural disaster in the history of North Carolina. Two weeks after Hurricane Dennis dropped ten inches of rain, Floyd dropped another 26 inches on September 15 and 16, 1999. Severe flooding resulted, with damages reaching $6 billion, 60,000 homes flooded, and fifty-two deaths. The authors interviewed over fifty people in seventeen counties for their book, \"Faces From the Flood: Hurricane Floyd Remembered.\" Excerpts are presented in the article.
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The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum will reflect, when completed in 2004, the heritage of coastal Carolina and maritime history represented by the shipwrecks. Couch says, “It will put North Carolina in league with the maritime history heavyweights.†Located at Hatteras Village, the 19,000-square-foot climate-controlled facility is designed to withstand sustained winds of 135 mph and gusts of 200 mph. The museum has an amazing quantity of extraordinary relics connected to momentous events in history. Even more stunning is that many of these artifacts have landed on the Outer Banks from halfway round the world and from over 2,000 years ago. The artifacts will be showcased in five museum galleries, including the Piracy & Warfare Gallery and the Civil War Gallery.
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From January 1 through December 31, 2005, the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer is featuring an exhibit of the contributions women have made to transportation in North Carolina. Included in this exhibit are such women as Harriet Berry and Mary Nicholson. Berry had a crucial role in passage of the state Highway Act of 1921. Nicholson was the first licensed female pilot in North Carolina. She flew with the British Air Transport Auxiliary during World War II and was killed in action in 1943.
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There are around 1,300 beekeepers in North Carolina. Beekeepers James Patterson of Halifax County and Chuck Norton of Rockingham County discuss beekeeping, how to tell commercial honey from local honey, and how to tell one type of honey from another.
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Laurinburg Institute in Scotland County is the oldest private African American boarding school in the country. Founded with Booker T. Washington's help, the institute celebrated its one hundredth anniversary in September 2004. The school is a quiet learning haven for inner-city youth. Since 1963, graduates who have gone on to receive college degrees total 83 percent.
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Bluebirds are year-round residents of North Carolina. In recent years the species has been in decline because of pesticide use, dwindling habitats, and competition from aggressive non-native species. Conservationists say the best hope for the bird's comeback is wide-spread placement of nest boxes. In 1973, Jack Finch founded Homes for Bluebirds, a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring the bluebird's habitat. The organization has built and sold tens of thousands of boxes in North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Florida. One worker, Desma Perry, has built 70,000 boxes in the past twenty-five years.
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Over half a century ago polio killed or crippled thousands of adults and children. The disease had Americans living in fear every summer. In May 1944, the disease came to the Catawba River Valley. Almost one-third of the county's children were victims of the illness. Surrounding hospitals, including Charlotte Memorial, were full. County citizens responded by erecting and opening in just fifty-four hours a fully-functioning fifty-five bed hospital in Hickory. When these beds were filled, citizens expanded the structures. By September the hospital had 250 beds serving 400 patients. Through this heroic effort of citizens and medical staff, many victims of polio were saved.
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Because 2003 session of the North Carolina House of Representatives was almost evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, Republican Richard T. Morgan of Moore County and Democrat James B. Black of Mecklenburg County agreed to share the speakership. In this CAROLINA COUNTRY interview, Black and Morgan discuss how the experiment worked.
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Williams describes an incident of World War II having a North Carolina connection. On May 11, 1942, off the North Carolina coast, the German submarine U-558 sank HMS Bedfordshire, a British naval ship on submarine patrol. All thirty-seven British sailors were killed. Days later four bodies from the ship washed up on Ocracoke Island. Residents buried the four in a small plot. Later the United States ceded the land to England in perpetuity for one dollar. Each May memorial services are held there by military representatives from Canada, England, and the United States.
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Burgess discusses kenaf, a plant with amazing market potential and versatility that may one day outpace tobacco and cotton in the state's agricultural economy. Farmers in eastern North Carolina hope to become the world's largest single source of processed kenaf. The plant, which is cultivated worldwide, can stand twelve feet high and is very dense. Currently, a group of farmers in Greene, Pitt, and few other counties is growing kenaf. The group, known as Greene Natural Fibers, grows the crop, processes it, and develops markets for their products.
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What was predicted to be a tropical storm for Ocracoke and Hatteras residents became Hurricane Alex on August 2, 2004. The article discusses how the category 2 storm affected electrical service on the two islands.
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