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When George Vanderbilt purchased 125,000 acres near Asheville to build his home, Biltmore, he also hired landscape architects and forestry experts to restore land that had been eroded and poorly harvested. He hired Carl Schenck, a forester from Germany, in 1895. Schenck founded the Biltmore Forest School in 1898, the first forestry school in the nation. The school and 6,400 acres surrounding it were designated a national historic site in 1976.
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Scheduled for demolition in the 1970s, the Salisbury Railroad Station was saved when local citizens purchased it. However, they lacked funds to restore the station, which was built in 1907 and at one time handled forty-four trains a day. In 1989, the Historic Salisbury Foundation began a $2 million fund-raising campaign. To date, $1.5 has been raised, and the first phase of restoration is complete.
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Distressed that a woman had died because she was too embarrassed to be examined by a male doctor, Dr. J. B. Alexander and his wife decided that their daughter, Annie Lowrie, would become a physician. At medical school in Philadelphia, she excelled. In 1887, she returned home to Mecklenburg County and spent the rest of her life practicing there. Annie Lowrie Alexander was the state's first woman doctor.
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Duncan K. McRae of Fayetteville was a successful, although sometimes unlucky, individual. He was a scholar, lawyer, diplomat, and a courageous battle commander during the Civil War, serving as Colonel of the 5th N.C. Regiment. However, he was never successful in his bids for political office. He bought a lottery ticket, which he sold because he needed money. The ticket later paid off at $100,000. Receiving a $5,000 legal fee, he invested the money in cotton and went broke.
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Crowders Mountain State Park in Gaston County is an example of what concerned citizens can do when a natural resource is threatened. There was a possibility in the 1970s that the 1,625-foot Crowders Mountain would be strip-mined. Local citizens responded to the threat by convincing the state to accept the peak as a state park. Funds were approved, and in October 1974, the park became a reality.
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When Lady Susana Carolina Matilda, a sister of England's Queen Charlotte, visited New Bern and Wilmington, she was wined and dined. She was, however, Sarah Wilson, a former royal maid, who stole jewels and clothing from the royal household. Condemned to death, she was deported to Maryland at the last moment. There she escaped and began her assumed identity. In Charleston, South Carolina, she was arrested - the how and what happened later is history's mystery.
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Lizard Lick may not be one of the largest towns in North Carolina, but it has one of the most unusual names. Friday describes this unincorporated, four-square-mile community located between Wendell and Zebulon in Wake County.
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Published for the first time in 1828 by John Christian Blum, BLUM'S ALMANAC is the oldest continually published magazine in the state. The content and format have remained the same through the years, including items like sun risings and settings, household and health hints, farming help, and proverbs on moral precepts.
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During the Civil War many of the escaping slaves who reached the Union lines in Eastern North Carolina later joined the Union Army. In all 5,035 black soldiers from North Carolina made up four regiments. Two of these regiments, the 35th and 36th U.S. Colored Troops, were among the finest black regiments in the Union Army.
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Tom Wicker's newspaper career has stretched from the Sandhill Citizen in Aberdeen to the New York Times, where he was a reporter and columnist for 25 years. Mills profiles this distinguished writer, who is a member of the UNC School of Journalism Hall of Fame.
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Timlin profiles some of North Carolina's historic restaurants where diners can find some palatable surprises. Included are the Colonial Inn (Hillsborough); Jarrett House (Dillsboro); Nu-Wray Inn (Burnsville); and the River Forest Manor (Belhaven).
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Will Gorges and Dr. Harold Vandersea opened the New Bern Civil War Museum in 1989. The contents are valued at over $500,000, and the private collection is considered one of the finest ones on display in the nation.
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Cramerton, in Gaston County, is THE STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. Originally called Maysworth when the town was founded in 1906, it became Cramerton in 1915 after Stuart Cramer, who owned the textile mills. Hodge recounts the history of this unusual mill town and life there today.
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The Country Doctor Museum in Bailey was created in 1967 by physicians Gloria F. Graham and Josephine P. Newell. Housed in doctors' offices dating back to 1887, the museum harkens back to a time when doctors made house calls and measured their own medicine. Among the exhibits are eleventh century apothecary jars, bleeding bowls, ear trumpets, gunshot forceps, and the surgical tools used to amputate the left arm of Stonewall Jackson.
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Carriages are horse-drawn wheeled vehicles built especially for carrying passengers. The Ellis Carriage Works of Kinston, established in 1886 as Oliver Ellis & Brothers was the first manufacturer of this means of transportation in North Carolina. The article depicts a trip from Asheville to Webster in a carriage, including the early technical problems of this mode of transportation.
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