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Becky Phillips, executive director of the Fort Defiance Museum, the home of General William Lenoir in Caldwell County, and Teresa Teague, conservator at Two Turtles Textiles, a company specializing in the preservation of textiles, seek to preserve clothing and quilts from the past as a way of learning about and guarding the history of North Carolina. The two discuss what clothing from the past centuries can reveal, how to store and display quilts, and ways to preserve centuries-old clothing.
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The Single Sisters House at Salem College in Winston-Salem is the oldest building on a North Carolina college campus. The year on the date stone of the original house is 1786. A 19th-century addition enclosed it, although it is still visible in the attic of the addition. In the early days, the house served as quarters for students and teachers, who lived, studied, worshipped, and worked together. The house is being reclaimed and rededicated by Salem Academy and College as a national landmark of women's education.
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The Fort Bragg Cultural Resources Program unearths, catalogs, and preserves the rich historical resources that are located on the fort's 160,000 acres. The program manages prehistoric archaeological sites, historic landscapes, artifacts, and documents. The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 requires all federal installations to make this preservation effort. The program has identified over 3,900 archaeological sites, 374 historic buildings, 27 historic cemeteries, and a Civil War battlefield.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 3, Aug 2005,
p108-110, 112, 114-115, il
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The Edenton Cotton Mill Village was built in the late 19th-century for the mill's workers. The mill was a principal employer in Edenton, until the late 20th-century. The mill was sold to Unifi Inc. of Greensboro, and closed in 1995. The mill and village have historical significance, and fearing site's loss, state officials were able to persuade Unifi to donate the 44 acre site to Preservation North Carolina. Revitalization of the mill village began in 1996, and to date more than 50 houses have been restored.
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The skipjack ADA MAE was built by Captain Ralph Hodges in Rose Bay, Hyde County, in 1915. Skipjacks, or two-sail bateaus, were dredge boats that supported the state's oyster industry. The ADA MAE is believed to be the only remaining skipjack built in North Carolina. It was found in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1994, by an East Carolina University graduate student who was working on a research project in Maryland. The ADA MAE is moored at Washington, North Carolina, where restoration work is being completed. It will be used there as a classroom to teach students about the oyster industry in the state.
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John McElwrath built the brick house on his Iredell County cotton plantation in 1753, and it is one of the oldest residences still standing in North Carolina. McElwrath died in 1785. Tomlin traces the ownership down to the present owners, Susan and Meredith Hall, who live on the plantation as they restore it. The Halls purchased the property thirty-six years ago and renamed it Darshana Hall Plantation. In 1973, the property was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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Midway Plantation in Knightdale was built on a 1739 land grant from Lord Granville. The property has remained in the Silver family for seven generations. The plantation house sits on what was the old Tarborough Road, which has become a major highway in 2005. Highway I-540 is encroaching nearby. The family decided that the only way to save their 4,000-square-foot home was to move it. Structural engineer for the project is David Fischetti, who supervised relocation of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. In 2005, the house will be moved two and a half miles north and relocated on land that passed out of the family in 1830.
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Bob Jenkins, a native of Sneads Ferry, spent much of his early life in Wilmington, before going off to study interior design. When he returned to Wilmington in the late 1960s, he found the downtown area had become seedy and catered to a coarse trade. Families had moved out, and many of the old historic homes were decaying or being torn down. Jenkins became a pioneer when he opened a design shop near the riverfront and purchased one of the historic homes nearby. Fortunately, he found other like-minded individuals who cared about revitalizing downtown and preserving historic buildings. Today more than three hundred blocks of downtown Wilmington are on the National Register of Historic Places, and the town is mentioned in the same breath as Savannah and Charleston. Jenkins retired in 1989, and is the owner and sole employee of Wilmington's Adventure and Walking Tours.
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The Civil War Trails program is a three-state, federally funded program that seeks to increase recognition of Civil War history at sites in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. In North Carolina the new driving trails recall the state's pivotal role in the Civil War. Over forty-one of the state's counties participate in the program, and one hundred and five markers stand along the first section of the trail. Markers include photos, illustrations, maps, and text. The second stage of trail development will focus on the war's action in the western part of the state.
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Eight years ago Bob Plimpton discovered North Carolina and decided not to return to Florida. He purchased eighty-eight acres in Henderson County and settled in. On his property, where moonshiners had formerly operated, he discovered an old stump with a bubbling spring of clean, pure water. A former salesman, Plimpton became a full-time natural spring water supplier in North Carolina and across the Southeast. He now bottles and sells spring water under approximately seventy different labels. He is currently president of the North Carolina Spring Water Association, an alliance of about twenty small spring owners, bottlers, and distributors.
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In 1991, Mike and Sarah Bridges purchased a 1918 farmhouse that stood on twenty-five acres in Grover, located in Cleveland County. They finally dismantled the dilapidated barn on the property in 2004 and discovered that it encased an entirely different structure - a log cabin. Estimates place the cabin's construction in the late 1700s. Teague discusses the renovation of the cabin.
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Milling discusses the circuitous path that eventually led woodcarver Dennis Ruane and his wife to settle in downtown Waynesville. Ruane earned degrees from the universities of West Virginia and Wisconsin and was working on his doctorate when he decided to pursue his love of carving. He had never taken an art class before. He lived in Pennsylvania and Maryland before friends recommended that he explore the artistic happenings in western North Carolina. The family came to North Carolina in 1999, and in 2000, opened Hardwood Gallery in Waynesville.
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Wales reminisces about family trips to Nags Head in the summertime in the 1920s. The eighty-five mile trip from Edenton to the beach took all day and required five different modes of transportation. There were about fifty buildings in the whole of Nags Head at that time. Many had no electricity for refrigerators, lights, stoves, and hot water heaters. Nor were there large supermarkets. What Nags Head lacked in modern conveniences, it made up for with its lively interaction of vacationers and residents.
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Caldwell describes three western North Carolina bed and breakfast inns that were once private residences. They are the Mountain Magnolia Inn and Retreat (Hot Springs); the Lovill House Inn (Boone); and the Turn of the Century Bed and Breakfast (Salisbury).
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Oxford in Granville County is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The town has a wealth of 19th- and early 20th-century homes, many of which have been restored. Located within a short drive of Durham and Raleigh, Oxford has a vital downtown business district and a tobacco-farming heritage. For years the population has remained under 10,000. This will change soon as construction has begun on Oxford Park, a 1,500 home development.
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