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The state has twenty-two historic sites, including Town Creek Indian Mound in Montgomery County and Bennett Place in Durham, that interpret the past for visitors and relate it to present-day life.
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The state has many fine restaurants, but perhaps the most well-known one is the Sanitary Fish Market in Morehead City. Good food and service have kept customers returning for fifty-eight years.
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2838
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Furniture making is the major industry in Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, and Catawba Counties. The centerpiece is a 20-mile stretch of highway in Caldwell County that features forty furniture stores and 600 lines.
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Born in 1841, in Tyro, Davidson County, Henry Shoaf stood seven feet tall and weighed 400 pounds. His many feats of strength have raised his memory to a legendary level.
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The state is home to some of the finest botanical gardens in the nation, including those of Orton Plantation near Wilmington, the Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island, and the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University.
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Located in Hyde County on the shores of Pamlico Sound, Nebraska was a small center of trade in the 1800s. Now, with only thirteen families living nearby, it is comprised mostly of endless farm acres and a few empty buildings.
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Dr. John Shelton Reed, who has made a career studying what it means to be a Southerner, helped found and direct UNC's Center for the Study of the American South during 1993 and 1994.
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The marriage in 1865 of Eleanor Swain, daughter of a former governor and then UNC president David L. Swain, to Union General Smith D. Atkins, was highly controversial and divisive in the town of Chapel Hill.
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Peggy Kirk Bell of Southern Pines, a pioneer of the Ladies Professional Golfers Association tours, purchased the Pine Needles Resort in 1953. The Southern Pines course is now one of the top golf resorts in the nation.
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The first rebellious act against British rule in the state may have been carried out by nine patriots, known to history as the \"Black Boys of Cabarrus.\" They destroyed Governor William Tryon's munitions train on May 2, 1771, near Concord.
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2879
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For rafters and canoeists, the western mountains offer beautiful scenery and challenging whitewater or placid stretches of rivers, including the Nantahala, New, and French Broad.
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Carolina bay lakes are a unique natural wonder in that they are no deeper than six feet, elliptical, and dependent on rainwater. Among the best known are Lake Phelps, Lake Mattamuskeet, and White Lake.
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Born on Christmas Eve, 1922, near Smithfield in Johnston County, Ava Gardner achieved movie stardom in films like ON THE BEACH. The Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield contains numerous momentoes of her career.
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Located at Pine Knoll Shores, Roanoke Island, and Fort Fisher, the state's three public aquariums are observing their 20th anniversary in 1996. In 1995, over 1,000,000 people visited them.
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The red wolf has been reintroduced in the state through the Red Wolf Recovery Program. The world's largest free-roaming red wolf population, about sixty, now lives on 500,000 acres in the eastern part of the state.
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