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Until recently, Corolla in Currituck County was a tiny, isolated village where N.C. Highway 12 ended and wild horses had roamed for centuries. Vacationers' discovery of Corolla has caused its transformation into a tourist and vacation home area.
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Belmont is holding a year-long centennial celebration from March 6, the date of the town's incorporation, to Christmas. Originally called Garibaldi for the man who built the town's railroad tower, the name was changed to honor August Belmont, a banker.
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Eden, the most populous city in Rockingham County, is a mid-sized town near the Virginia border that boasts a healthy and diversified economy as well as a number of historic homes and sites.
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Franklin County's Abby House, known as Aunt Abby, was defined by a fierce loyalty to the Confederacy during the Civil War and a cantankerous resolve to aid her friends and her kin. Her epitaph reads, \"Angel of Mercy to Confederate Soldiers.\"
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The impressive Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island have become one of the major attractions on the Outer Banks. The gardens were conceived nearly 50 years ago as a memorial to the Roanoke colonists sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh.
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During the weekend of April 28-30, Chimney Rock Park will host the 50th and final Chimney Rock Hillclimb, a grueling event wherein sports car drivers negotiate the meandering mountain road. Planned park landscape changes forced the event's cancellation.
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Brevard, in Transylvania County, is home to one of the few non-albino white squirrel populations in the country. The squirrels are a popular tourist attraction during the summer months.
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Each year since 1980 the Martin County community of Farm Life, nicknamed Jerusalem South, has staged its original outdoor drama, THE MESSAGE OF EASTER. An expected 20,000 people will attend this year's play.
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Born in New Garden in Guilford County, Joseph \"Uncle Joe\" Cannon spent 46 years in the United States House of Representatives. Cannon served eight years as Speaker of the House, and is noted for his iron-fisted reign.
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Fleming and Brit Pfann own and operate Celebrity Dairy, North Carolina's only licensed goat cheese dairy. The dairy, located eight miles northeast of Siler City, produces specialty cheeses from a herd of 60 goats.
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The North Carolina Outward Bound School will move from Morganton to new quarters in Swannanoa in the fall of 1995. The new building will be named for Arthur M. Blank, board chairman of the school and CEO of Home Depot, Inc.
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The N.C. Sports Hall of Fame will induct five new members: Furman Bish, sports columnist; Ted Brown, football player; Bill Dooley, football coach; John Lucas, basketball player; and Jim Valvano, basketball coach.
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Founded by James Walker Tufts as a health resort in 1895, Pinehurst has grown into one of the world's golfing meccas. Despite the large volume of visitors each year, Pinehurst still retains the village charm and ambience of its early beginnings.
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Legends and rumors about Confederate Treasury gold being buried in N.C.'s Piedmont continue to the present day. That any vast horde of gold was ever hidden in the state, however, is unlikely.
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Carl Sandburg, poet and Lincoln biographer, bought Connemara, his home in Flat Rock, in 1945, and lived there with his family the last twenty- two years of his life. The three-story, twenty-two-room house is a National Historic Site.
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