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People who craft ships inside bottles do not always receive a great deal of attention in the highbrow art world. Some, like Jim Goodwin of Charlotte, have achieved true folk art status with their creations of intricate and historically accurate ships. Goodwin focuses mainly on building ships that have a connection to the Carolinas. Many of replicas are of ships that were built in the state, captained by local pirates, or were wrecked along the state's treacherous shores. Goodwin, a history buff, teaches geology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Anson County was formed from Bladen County in 1750 and named for Lord George Anson, a British admiral. Wadesboro is the county seat. The county is home to an active historical society. A number of historic homes as well as 500 cemeteries are found throughout the area. The Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge attracts 35,000 visitors annually, and educational and historical groups study around 150 prehistoric and historic sites, many along the Pee Dee River. A number of famous people were born in Anson County, including Leonidas Polk, state agricultural leader; John Kiker, NASA scientist; and Samuel Spencer, N.C. Supreme Court Justice.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 5, Oct 2005,
p210-212, 214, 216, 218-219, il
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Wallace in Duplin County is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. It is a place an individual can go on a shopping spree at the former stockyard site where vendors bring truckloads of items to sell, and then follow it up with a refined afternoon tea. The textile industry faded in Wallace, as did the stockyard sales. The last textile plant closed in 1998. The town is reinventing itself through downtown revitalization. The downtown area achieved historic status in 1995. A number of buildings have been restored, and unique specialty businesses have opened in them.
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Many individuals in North Carolina participate in recreating the Civil War period with historical accuracy in dress and battles. Members of Battery B are typical reenactors, but in one way are very different. The Wilmington-based unit's full name is Battery B, 2nd Regiment, United States Colored Troops (USCT). The crew is the only African-American artillery reenactment unit on the East Coast. Battery B attends over a dozen events a year, from parades to battles like Averaboro and Bentonville. The participants are drawn to reenacting through a love of history, camaraderie, family participation, and the spiritual aspect of being where family members fought or died.
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Marion, county seat of McDowell County, is OUR STATE magazine's Tar Heel town of the month. The town is located near major highways, which allows residents to enjoy the charm of a small town and still have easy access to the amenities of larger towns like Asheville and Hickory. Preservation is important in the downtown area with a number of buildings refurbished for modern-day uses. Marion is home to several structures on the National Register of Historic Places, including the McDowell County Courthouse. For the past nineteen years the Appalachian Potters Market, which brings sixty artisans from the Southeastern United States, has been a major tourist draw.
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In 1874, residents in the vicinity of Bald Mountain in Rutherford County reported feeling the ground shake, hearing loud booms, and seeing smoke and vapors coming from the mountain. Word spread, and soon newspaper correspondents from Raleigh to New York were arriving to see the volcano. Horan recounts the story of North Carolina's 19th-century “volcano.â€
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Americans are great collectors of all kinds of items. Dr. Manny Rothstein, a Fayetteville dermatologist, has one of the more unique collections. Given a back scratcher as a promotional item in 1975, he began to acquire more on his own. Today he has nearly 600 back scratchers in his still-growing collection, and according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the collection is the largest in the world.
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The bald cypress tree, while not a true cypress, has played a part in North Carolina history for over 4,500 years. The tree grows in wet, swampy areas, often in standing water. At Phelps Lake in Washington County 30 dugout canoes made of bald cypress by Native Americans were found; the oldest canoe dates back to around 2430 B.C. The bald cypress was popular with colonists, who used it in ship building, fence making, and other types of construction. The greatest use of the tree was in making house shingles. At the start of the Civil War, a company, founded in the Dismal Swamp by George Washington, was shipping a million and a half shingles a year. Logging felled most of the state's old-growth bald cypress trees during the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, though some remain in out-of-the-way swamps. One tree in Three Sisters Swamp in Pender County is 1,600 years old, making it the oldest documented living thing in the eastern United States.
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Starting in 1926, W. C. Page, Sr., and Arthur Presnell manufactured rocking chairs in Asheboro. The P&P Chair Company still occupies the original factory buildings. Presnell sold his share to his partner in the 1930s. The company experienced economic up-and-downs, and in the 1950s, the owners contemplated closing. Dr. Janet Travell, a back specialist, liked the chair and ordered several for her waiting room. When she placed her order, she asked for the Carolina Rocker, and the name stuck. One of her patients, a U.S. Senator, sat in one, and just had to have one for his office. When the senator moved to the White House in January 1961, the rocker went with him. The Carolina Rocker quickly became the Kennedy Rocker, and company sales took off.
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The North Carolina Main Street Program, a part of the Department of Commerce's Division of Community Assistance, is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2005. North Carolina was one of the six original states to participate in the program. Since 1980, fifty-three towns across the state have signed up. The program promotes preservation and economic development in downtown areas. Caldwell profiles several program participants, Edenton, New Bern, Salisbury, Shelby, and Waynesville.
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The Pitt County Courthouse was built in Greenville in 1910. The courthouse, designed in the neo-Classical Revival style, is the fifth in the county's history. It is one of eleven North Carolina courthouses designed by the Washington, D.C., architectural firm of Milburn and Heister. By 1997, the courthouse was in a state of disrepair, and there was a movement to build a new one on the north side of the Tar River in the county government complex. Bradsher describes the seven-year, $17 million renovation of the courthouse.
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At the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh is one of the only art-nature trails in the country. The trail, which opened in 2005, is dotted with art inspired by the natural world such as a giant brambly structure by Patrick Dougherty and a whirligig by Vollis Simpson. The two-mile trail ends in a pedestrian stone bridge over the Raleigh Beltline that connects it with miles of Raleigh greenway trails.
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Volunteer efforts are restoring the long-forgotten Jackson County Cemetery with gravesites dating back to 1870. The work began 20 years ago when the county proposed clearing the land for a recreation center. The volunteers invoked an early 20th-century law passed in the General Assembly that makes it illegal to desecrate a cemetery, no matter how old. Originally a pauper cemetery, the site is believed to be the final resting place of Native Americans, slaves, and one Confederate soldier. The volunteers have organized the Jackson County Cemetery Society to continue restoration work at other historic cemeteries in Sylva and Whittier.
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For fifty years on Charlotte's Elizabeth Street, Jimmie's Restaurant, operated by Jimmie Pourlous, was an institution. In 2002, when Central Piedmont Community College purchased the building where the restaurant was located, Pourlous and his family faced the decision of moving or retiring. His sons Chris and George had worked in the restaurant all their lives. They planned a new restaurant, and in 2004, the new Jimmie's Restaurant opened in Mint Hill just thirteen miles away from the original. Timblin recounts the history of the restaurant and compares the old one with the new one.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 6, Nov 2005,
p122-124-126, 128-129, il, por
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Over thirty years ago Sol Rose purchased thirty acres on the east bank of the Cape Fear River in Fayetteville. Now semi-retired from the surveying business he founded after graduating from North Carolina State University in 1951, Rose has plans for the area he calls Campbellton Landing. He built an amphitheater in 2004 and has plans for a restaurant and shops. The restaurant would be a pub-type, and the shops would sell outdoor merchandise for activities like archery, canoeing, and kayaking. Rose has discovered many historical facts about his property, such as Peter Lord receiving a franchise from the King of England in 1764 to operate a public ferry there.
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