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Founded on the cotton industry in the early 1800s, the town of Matthews, population 13,000, began life as Stumptown. It is a town proud of its sense of community and of its keeping its identify in the rapidly growing Charlotte area. Currently a number of improvement projects are underway, including revitalizing the business district and turning the old high school into a community center.
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South Mountain State Park, created by the General Assembly in 1974, has over 12,000 acres of spectacular scenery, streams, solitude, and diverse biology. The park, located near Morganton, has grown in popularity over the years and recently approached a yearly total of 100,000 visitors.
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Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald, vacationed often with her parents in Western Carolina. Little could she know that she would die in a fire in 1948 in Asheville's Highland Hospital, where she was confined as a psychiatric patient. The cause of Buncombe County's most disastrous hospital fire, in which nine died, has never been determined.
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The University of North Carolina at Wilmington's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing degree is in its third year. Spaces in the program are limited, and competition for them is high. In 1998, seventy-five individuals applied for the twelve openings. In addition to a talented university writing faculty, nationally-known writers teach a semester, sharing their expertise and knowledge.
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Founded in 1705, Bath, the oldest incorporated town in the state, was prominent in politics and trade until after the Revolution. Today, with its population swelled from twelve to 250 over almost three centuries, it is a small, quaint, historic town, attractive to visitors.
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Through her prominent position in Washington, DC society, Mrs. Rose O'Neal Greenhow was able to gather information of value to the South during the Civil War. Imprisoned by the North, then later deported to Richmond, she went to Europe in 1862 to try to win support for the Southern cause. On her return in 1864, her ship ran aground off Wilmington, and she drowned attempting to reach shore.
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Born in the small town of Dothan in Columbus County, sisters Annie Laurie Cox Willard and Nina Gertrude Cox Lane are two of Wilmington's most knowledgeable and respected authorities on how to grow and nurture beautiful plants and gardens.
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Charlotte native Charles Duke, Jr., is one of only twelve earthmen to walk on the moon. Selected by NASA for astronaut training in 1996, Duke and two other astronauts flew the Apollo 16 mission, which landed on the moon April 20, 1972. Duke retired from the space program in 1975.
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The eight coastal lighthouses are among the state's best-known symbols. However, they are not the state's only lights. Beacon lights were used at Ocracoke Inlet as early as 1715, and through the years, almost 30 other lighthouses and light ships have guided mariners. Most have been lost to warfare, neglect, and weather, so that only eight remain at the end of the 20th-century.
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Solutions to saving Cape Hatteras Lighthouse from the encroaching Atlantic have been controversial. Those who favor moving the lighthouse back from the ocean have prevailed. The move will begin in June, 1999, and should be completed by the end of July. On Memorial Day, May 29, 2000, the lighthouse will reopen to the public.
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Until the 1820s, flames reflecting off a mirrored surface fired lighthouse beacons around the world. Around 1815, French civil engineer Augustin Fresnel designed a system to use prisms to refract light and focus a powerful beam. The United States resisted using the new system for years, until it proved to be cost- effective. The first of four Fresnel lenses was installed at Cape Hatteras in 1854. Fresnel lenses were used at Hatteras until 1935, when the lighthouse closed.
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The movie industry started in Wilmington in 1983 when Frank Capra, Jr. selected parts of it for the film Firestarter and Dino deLaurentis later built a studio to make his own films. With a film infrastructure now in place, the city did more movie business in 1997 than forty-five states.
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For couples seeking an inexpensive way to get married, the state's many wedding chapels can afford an answer, providing ministers, flowers, bridal shops, and unique ceremonies, all for a modest price. The Sunshine Wedding Chapel (Cumberland County), Domestic Bliss (Wilmington), Tweed's Wedding Chapel (Buncombe County), Smithfield Wedding Chapel (Johnston County), and the Crystal Wedding Chapel (Blowing Rock) are profiled.
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During the 1930s, the state endured the depths of the Great Depression. President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal legislation pumped millions of dollars into the economy, which resulted in projects including the Appalachian Trail, Blue Ridge Parkway, tree planting to control erosion, and building courthouses. Much of the work was done, not by heavy equipment, but by men with shovels.
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The North Carolina Zoological Park is marking its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1999. Having opened in 1974 with a forty-acre Interim Zoo, the park now covers 1,450 acres and features over 1,100 animals and 60,000 plants.
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