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The American Hebrew Academy, located on 100 acres of rolling woodland in Greensboro, is a one-of-a-kind Jewish boarding school for high school students who come from as far away as Mexico and Moldava. The benefactor of the school is Greensboro resident Maurice Sabbah. The school seeks to develop each student's individual intelligence, strength of character, and Jewish identity to prepare them for admission to the finest colleges and universities and positions of leadership in the Jewish community.
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Oak Ridge Military Academy, established in 1852, is located in Oak Ridge in Guilford County. In the early 20th-century, the school was hailed as one of the finest secondary schools in the country; that reputation for excellence continues into the 21st-century. This reputation extends beyond the state's borders, with approximately 240 members of the student body coming from 26 states and 20 foreign countries. Tuition is not cheap; the boarding program costs $19,990 and the day program $13,300. Oak Ridge is the nation's third oldest military school and has been designated a North Carolina Historical Site.
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Fourteen species of gulls can be observed in North Carolina, depending on the season of the year, location, and being in the right place at the right time. Of that number, only three nest in the state-–the laughing gull, ring-billed gull, and herring gull. The other eleven gulls range from locally common to extremely rare. Adams describes physical features of the gulls and some of their behaviors, such as dropping shells onto rocks to break them open for food.
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Richard Stanhope Pullen had a dream for a park in Raleigh. On March 22, 1887, his dream became a reality when the park was donated to the city, making it the state's first public park. The National Amusement Park Historical Association lists Pullen Park as the fourteenth oldest amusement park in the world. The park's many offerings include sixty-eight tree-shaded acres, the historic C.P. Huntington miniature train, and playgrounds. The crown jewel, however, is the park's magical musical carousel. Built around 1900 and intricately hand-carved, the carousel is one of twenty-three remaining historic Dentzel Carousel Company machines still operating in North America. The carousel was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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Banner Elk, located in Avery County, is OUR STATE magazine's Tar Heel town of the month. The town of approximately 1,000 people dates back to the arrival of Martin Luther Banner in 1848. Tourism is the major force of its economy. Between July and October, as many as 15,000 people will come on weekends to shop, enjoy the scenery, visit the many restaurants, or attend the town's famous Wooly Worm Festival. The town's quiet allure and scenic beauty attracts second-home owners. Lees-McRae College, with a student of body of 700, has been a Banner Elk institution for over 100 years and contributes to the cultural scene by bringing novelists, musicians, and other artists to the campus.
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North Carolina has a number of well-known bed and breakfast inns. Three lodging establishments in the mountains are known not only for the amenities offered but also as places where previous occupants continue to linger on after death. The inns are the White Gate Inn and Cottage (Asheville); Lodge on Lake Lure (Lake Lure); and the Inn on Main Street (Weaverville).
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 5, Oct 2004,
p170-172, 174, 176-177, il
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Lost Cove, four hundred acres of rocky but fertile land in the North Carolina mountains near the Tennessee border, was settled around 1861 by Morgan Bailey. It existed as a small community through the years and never totaled more than twenty families. The remote location did not prevent it from having a school, mail delivery, and services of a physician. Discontinued passenger train service and the lack of a suitable road into the community contributed to Lost Cove's demise in 1957.
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George Moses Horton was the first African-American slave to voice a protest of his bondage in poetical form. Born in Northampton County, Horton, when he was around three years of age, was moved to Chatham County, where he worked his master's farm. He taught himself to read, but did not learn to write until he was an adult. Wilson discusses Horton's early attempts at composing poetry; his encounters with students at the university at Chapel Hill, for whom he composed acrostics and poems for 25 to 75 cents; his coming to the attention of novelist Caroline Hentz, who became his patron; his eventual freedom; and his books of poetry.
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William Bartram, son of the famous royal botanist John Bartram, left Philadelphia in 1773, on a four-year botanizing expedition across the Southeast. Part of his travels took him through eighty-one miles of western North Carolina. Today a hiking trail marks his journey's path. Nickens retraces the naturalist's steps and records his observations.
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Morris visited seven of North Carolina's tiniest towns. He describes each one and discusses why these small places appeal to people. Each of the towns is listed in the U.S. census of 2000 as an incorporated municipality with a population under 300. The towns are Gatesville (pop. 281); Seven Springs (pop. 86); Macon (pop. 115); Seagrove (pop. 274); Danbury (pop. 108); Hayesville (pop. 297); and Seven Devils (pop. 130).
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Jacksonville, county seat of Onslow County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The city dates back to the 1700s and is the state's eleventh largest city with over 66,000 residents. The Marine Corps arrived in 1941 and its presence remains today with Camp Lejeune, the largest Marine Corps amphibious training center in the country. Besides military history and tributes located in Jacksonville, visitors can visit the Lynnwood Park Zoo, the Coastal Plains Raceway Park, the Jacksonville Raiders semi-pro football team, and a variety of restaurants and shopping venues.
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Cruze discusses the Endor iron furnace which was built near Sanford in Lee County in 1862. The furnace went into blast in 1863, producing twenty-one tons of pig iron a day for material used in Confederate munitions. No one can say for certain who the builder was or how the furnace got its name. The stones used in the construction weighed between one and two thousand pounds and were joined without using mortar. Today the top left corner of the furnace remains in its original condition, standing thirty-five feet tall and thirty-two feet wide with an eight foot tall open arch on each side. The furnace was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places in 1974.
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The Mast General Store was opened for business in Valle Crucis in 1883 by Henry Taylor. In 1897, he sold a half interest in the store to W. W. Mast. The Mast family operated it until 1973, when they sold it to an absentee landlord. The store closed in 1977. Enter John and Faye Cooper, who were attracted to the site in 1976. Boyanoski describes how the Coopers purchased and revived the store, establishing it as an institution, treasured by locals and visitors for its mix of the old and the new.
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Tuberculosis had been a serious health problem in North Carolina from colonial times until the mid-20th-century. From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, trailers belonging to the Tuberculosis Control section of the North Carolina State Board of Health traveled the state offering chest X-rays to the general public. There was no charge for the service, which, by 1964, had taken X-ray pictures of around 500,000 people. Pittard discusses this preventative care program that helped to nearly eradicate tuberculosis in the state.
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North Carolina historian, Dr. Lindley Butler, taught history at Rockingham Community College for nearly thirty years before his retirement in 1996. Butler was born in Eden and grew up on its rivers. He discusses his love of water, the state's history, and historical research. Since 1996, he has been a volunteer diver for the North Carolina Underwater Archaeology Branch.
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