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Eustace Conway, age twenty, is known as the Mountain Man of the Piedmont. Living in a teepee in Lincoln County, Conway reads Walden and is completely self-reliant. He eats mostly fruit and peanut butter and believes in living in harmony with nature and not in competition with it. For this reason, he rarely kills animals or even plants. A true outdoorsman, in 1981, Conway hiked the Appalachian Trail, a 2,200-mile trip, in sixteen weeks. He canoed from St. Louis to New Orleans, a 1,030-mile trip, in a month.
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The Snowbird Mountain Lodge, ten miles outside of Robbinsville, has been open for forty years. Naturalists, birdwatchers, honeymooners, and hikers all frequent the lodge which offers the comforts of home in beautiful surroundings. Bob and Connie Rhudy own the forty-five-guest lodge and provide jigsaw puzzles, Monopoly, and cards to guests in the lobby.
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Just outside Highlands, in Horse Cove, stands a 145-foot yellow poplar tree that dwarfs all other surrounding trees, including several red oak trees. Scientifically known as LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA, the Horse Cove Poplar is commonly called the tulip poplar. The Wasilik Poplar, another yellow poplar located in North Carolina, was the national champion in the American Forestry Association's registry of big poplar trees until a larger tree was discovered in Bedford County, Virginia.
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Started in 1972, Aqua-10 Corporation near Beaufort harvests seaweed and makes it into a concentrate used in crop spraying. Used primarily as a fertilizer supplement, this concentrate improves plant growth and development, may protect against frost damage, and is proven beneficial when used over several years.
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At one time, huge herds of buffalo crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains in order to winter along the east coast shoreline. Because these herds had a keen sense of direction, their trails were the same year after year. As a result, they were used as footpaths by the Cherokee Indians, and can still be followed today. Once in Boone, the buffalo trail is called the Wilderness Trail, and continues on into Kentucky. The last reported herd of buffalo to pass through North Carolina was in 1790.
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Squire W.O. Bailes' estate lay partly in North Carolina and partly in South Carolina. He owned and operated a farm and cotton gin in the North Carolina part of the estate, but found it to not be as profitable as he would have liked. Because South Carolina marriage laws were so lax, Bailes was able to perform marriages easily in order to supplement his income. Between 1897 and 1902, he performed 527 ceremonies, at varying prices depending on income.
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William R. Poole, born in 1796, was a conservationist. His greatest love was for the pine tree, and he reportedly patrolled the land around his Raleigh property even after his death in 1889. Yankees came to his mansion during the Civil War in search of Poole's gold which he had already buried in the woods. After his death, a 75-acre tract of land was named Poole's Woods and conserved until bought by a logging company in the 1920s. As a twist of fate, the trees proved worthless as lumber, the timber having rotted internally.
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In Balsam stands the Balsam Mountain Inn. Opened in 1908, the inn is currently owned by the Woods family who leases it to the LaBrant family of St. Petersburg, Florida. The LaBrants continue to run a successful hotel operation, and the family has deliberately kept prices low so as to encourage business. During the winter, the family returns to St. Petersburg and runs the Mountain inlet Restaurant there.
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In 1796, the first Cape Fear Lighthouse was completed. Because of the extensive shoals, the tower was built four miles inland. As a result of its location, it was effectively useless to sailors, and was replaced by a new tower in 1818. The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, built in 1802, also proved ineffective. Lighthouses are no longer built today. In their stead are skeleton towers.
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The Alexander Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, based in Taylorsville, restores and runs train cars. One train, nicknamed the June Bug, is taken by the group all over the country, from New Orleans to Disney World to Boston. In September, the chapter will host a run open to the public using the Skyland Steam Special, another of its trains, from Hickory to Asheville.
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Born in 1782, Adam Springs attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was one of the first seven graduates. He and his wife lived in Gaston County where they employed a girl to wash and iron his clothes. Her name was Nancy Hanks, and it is rumored her son, Abraham Lincoln, was the son of Adam Springs. Springs spent a great deal of time fish trapping on his property, and he was buried at the gravesite on his land, supposedly upside down, to keep an eye over the fish traps. For years, visitors insisted the gravesite was haunted, and ghost hunters today still go there searching for ghosts.
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Dr. John Carr Monk converted to Catholicism and founded St. Mark's Church in Newton Grove in 1871. Concerned with the salvation of the souls of newly freed slaves, Monk asked Father Mark S. Gross of Wilmington to visit. Gross visited Newton Grove once a month and baptized large groups of converts, both black and white. The church structure itself was not built until 1874, and Mass was held in Dr. Monk's house until that time. Monk died in 1877 and was buried behind the church. St. Mark's was renamed Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1958 following integration.
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This is the second half of Lieutenant George C. Rounds' first-hand account of being in Raleigh in 1865. This part recounts the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the end of the war. Rounds sent a message from the top of the Capitol builging announcing the end of the war. The message read P-E-A-C-E.
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Having recently sold his family's one hundred-acres Charlotte property, David Henderson worries about what will happen to the old farm. He knows that the area will soon become new condos, but he is really worried about the abundant wildlife that lives on the property. Henderson realizes, however, that he has seen wildlife throughout Charlotte. Animals have adapted to their changing environment and continue to flourish. With a little luck, the wildlife living on his family's old farm will continue to thrive and make their home Charlotte.
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As a child, Billy Arthur spent his summers with family members in Cabarrus County. Saturdays took the appearance of small holidays as the whole family took baths throughout the day so that all would be clean for Sunday morning church. Bathing was done in order from youngest to oldest and ended when the oldest male finished his bath. During the summer months rural families usually used an outdoor tin wash tub, but some were lucky enough to have a porcelain tub. In the cold winter months, however, bathers stood in a wash bowl and sponged themselves in front of a fire. While progress has made the bathing process much easier, it has also taken away the simple pleasures that the weekly Saturday bath created.
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