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Hodge recounts the history of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, located near Mount Holly in Gaston County. The church was built in 1843 and claims to be the oldest Catholic church building in the state. It is also one of the smallest, being 40 feet long and 30 feet wide. Regular services at the church stopped in the late 19th-century, and at one time the building was used to store hay. Plans for restoration began in 1974, and on November 2, 1975, St. Joseph's was rededicated. In 1979, the church was named a National Historic Site by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the state of North Carolina.
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Reevy recounts the history of one of the shortest rail lines in the country. The short-run Carrboro Branch line between Chapel Hill and Carrboro has served its unique purpose for more than a century. Incorporated in 1873 as the Chapel Hill Iron Mountain Railroad Company, the ten-mile railroad was to serve an iron mine. Construction of the road began in 1879, but the company soon ran out of money. The mine was never a success, and ownership passed through several large railroad companies. Today, the line carries coal to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Cogeneration Facility three times a week as well as other freight for the area. About the mid-20th-century, Carrboro native and folksinger, Elizabeth “Libba†Cotton wrote a famous song, called “Freight Train,†about the Carrboro train as she knew it.
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Westbrook describes Duke University's new art museum, the Nasher Museum of Art, opened in October 2005. Formerly, the Duke University Museum of Art was located in what was once a science building. The museum takes its new name from its major benefactor, Raymond D. Nasher, a 1943 Duke alumnus. Uruguayan-born architect Rafael Vinoly designed the museum. The Nashers collected modern American and pre-Columbian art. Their 20th-century modern sculpture collection is one of the world's most extensive and significant private collections, and part of their collection is currently on exhibit. The 65,000-square-foot museum features 14,000 square feet of exhibit space, a cafe, a museum shop, and classrooms.
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At the beginning of the 20th-century, African American businessmen in Durham developed a business district to provide economic assistance and opportunities to the African American community. The area, which came to be known as the Black Wall Street, was located in downtown Durham on Parrish Street. A number of businesses flourished there, including the N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Company (1898) and Mechanics & Farmers Bank (1907), as well as a drugstore, tailor, barber, and beauty shops, clothing stores, and law offices. Plans to commemorate the street's local and national significance and rejuvenate the historic structures located there are underway.
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Heritage tourism is “travel that is motivated by a desire to experience the authentic natural, historic, and cultural resources of a community or region,†and it is one of the fastest growing segments in the state's tourism industry. Morris discusses areas in the state from the mountains to the coast that attract tourists interested in cultural tourism, eco-tourism, agri-tourism, and the Civil War.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 6, Nov 2005,
p186-188, 190, 193-193, il
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Jones recounts the history of the Sans Souci ferry, a small two-car cable ferry that carries traffic across Cashie River in Bertie County. In 1722, a man named Tomlinson applied for and received permission to build a ferry. Since then a ferry has operated at that crossing. Artist Francis Speight's famous painting of the idyllic ferry crossing brought the scene to wider audience beyond the state.
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Ivey Hayes, age fifty-seven, was born on a farm in Rocky Point in Pender County. By age seven he displayed artistic talent, and by high school he was earning $20 for portraits of neighbors. After college he was drafted into the army in 1971, but later received a medical discharge because of arthritis that would plague him the rest of his life. La Vere discusses how Hayes has dealt with rheumatoid arthritis, how he earned a living before returning to painting, the various phases of his painting, and how he discovered the signature style by which he is known. Hayes has exhibited his work at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., galleries in New York and other major cities, and across North Carolina.
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Ellerbe, located in Richmond County, has a population of approximately 1,000. A mineral spring gave the town its start, and the Ellerbe Springs Inn and Restaurant was built there in 1906. The inn is now a bed and breakfast and has thirteen room accommodations. Several produce stands attract visitors with fresh fruit and vegetables, and the downtown area features the Rankin Museum of American History, Carolina Antiques and Restorations, and the Farm Supply Store.
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On August 16, 1918, a German submarine torpedoed the British tanker Mirlo loaded with 6,679 tons of gasoline off the Outer Banks. Members of the Chicamacomico Life Saving Station responded and rescued forty-two of the fifty-one crewmen from burning oil covering acres of oceans and flames that reached one hundred feet in height.
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Built in 1847, St. Thomas was Wilmington's first Catholic church and served both black and white parishioners. When St. Mary's Church opened in 1911, the parish divided, and St. Thomas served the African American community. When desegregation came in the 1950s, St. Thomas closed. The church fell into disrepair, and in 1970, the Historic St. Thomas Preservation Society formed to restore the building. Warren discusses the work of Betty Ann Sanders with the preservation society.
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Fishing for bluefin tuna, which can weigh up to 1,000 pounds and measure ten feet in length, is growing in popularity. Strong annual runs of bluefin make it a popular sport in the winter months off Morehead City and Cape Hatteras. The bluefin is also the subject of one of the largest research projects ever conducted on a single species of fish, the Tag-A-Giant program. The tuna is caught, tagged with an archival tag, and released. The tag transmits data to a satellite about movement, diving activity, depth, light, and external temperatures.
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There are about 25,000 elevators in buildings throughout the state, but only one is run by a full-time operator. Ronald Chester runs the elevator in the historic, six-story Snow Building in Durham. The building was constructed in 1933. Paige discusses the ups and downs of being the state's last elevator operator and the 1929 Otis elevator.
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Zepke describes seven coastal communities that celebrate the Christmas season with an annual holiday flotilla, boats lit with brightly colored lights. The communities are Elizabeth City, Pleasure Island, Wrightsville Beach, New Bern, Southport, Swansboro, and Topsail Island.
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The residents of Portsmouth Island, Core Banks, and Shackleford Banks are long gone. Churches, houses, and graveyards stand silent. Hurricanes and dwindling jobs drove them away. Their descendants, though scattered among Carteret, Pamlico, Hyde, and Dare Counties, continue the old island traditions of Christmas. A number of them share their remembrances with Biro.
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The National Gingerbread House Competition at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville is in its twelfth year. The annual competition is featured on ABC's Good Morning America program. The competition, which began in 1993 with a dozen entries, now has over two hundred contestants competing from all over the United States. Kerr discusses the building of the houses and the judging.
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