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The Southern Railway train depot in Greensboro is under a one-year lease with the Carolina Midland Railway. Tom Tedford, an English teacher at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is president of Carolina Midland, a model railroad club. Most members are adults, some of whom own thousands of dollars worth of equipment.
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Dr. Walter Reed of Murfreesboro was in Cuba in 1900 and discovered yellow fever to be transmitted by a particular kind of female mosquito, single-handedly abolishing the health threat of the disease. His home in Murfreesboro is set to be restored and used as a Satellite Medical Center. Reed, born in Virginia in 1851, courted and married Emily Lawrence of Murfreesboro. Reed died in 1902.
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Collards became a staple in the south because it is one of the few vegetables that can survive the cold winters. Some people cook the entire plants and some only the leaves, but mostly they are boiled. Collards received national recognition in 1975 when Ayden held their first annual Collard Festival.
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The first part of a two-part article concerning July 1907 when Carry Amelia Moore Nation came to Raleigh to lecture against the sale of alcoholic beverages. Nation also attacked smoking, Republicans, saloons, and Theodore Roosevelt. Some newspapers gave her ample press while others only brushed her off.
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In 1975 and 1976, scallop fishing in Dare County became big business. The Wanchese Fish Co., fishing in water fifty miles east of Atlantic City, New Jersey, is showing how profitable this new enterprise can be for North Carolina. Sea scallops, which are sweeter than calico and bay scallops, are brought to shore in roughly 13,000 loads. As well as the ships' crews, shuckers also make money. Unlike other meat industries, nothing is wasted; empty scallop shells are dumped into oyster beds to become feeding grounds.
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In the 1920s and 1930s with the introduction of automobiles and buses, the railroad industry came up with the doodlebug to help spur passenger business. Cheap and energy-efficient, travelers and railroad companies embraced the new car. The base of the doodlebug was actually a Model-T Ford on railroad wheels. Streetcars and highway trucks with railroad wheels also functioned as doodlebugs. Several businesses set up in North Carolina to manufacture the cars, including the Edwards Company, which supplied cars to Fort Bragg's railway. By 1950, bigger, sleeker railroad cars were introduced, ending the doodlebug era.
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Patterson's Mill Country Store, located between Durham and Chapel Hill, combines a country store with a museum. Following authentic 19th century store plans, owners Elsie and John Booker built their store using boards from old warehouses and stores, and opened Patterson's Mill in 1973. The Bookers travel all over the country for their treasures, and devote one room to North Carolina handicrafts. Although still not very well-known, the Bookers' store is starting to gain attention nationally as well as internationally.
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9177
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Garrison reviews where some of the Big Four's big stars went on to do after college. He updates the whereabouts and occupations of athletes from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, North Carolina State University, and Wake Forest University. Also included are several ex-coaches.
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In the Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, 260 sailors were killed with a bomb placed under the USS MAINE exploded, leading to the Spanish-American War. In 1911, the MAINE was resurrected, and a ceremony was held on March 16, 1912, aboard the cruiser NORTH CAROLINA as remains of the dead were brought onboard in coffins. The hull of the MAINE was then allowed to sink back into the ocean. Battleship Day is observed each year on February 15th.
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Barbara Lee parks outside the Uwharrie National Forest in Montgomery County after dinner each night, preparing to spend the night in her car. She is looking for nesting holes of the endangered Red-cockaded Woodpeckers. Last year, Lee covered 8,000 of the 40,000 acres of the forest, but rarely sees any of the birds. In a time when clear-cutting of forests is prevalent, it is illegal to cut down nesting trees of these endangered birds. Lee urges property-owners with short-leaf pines to keep an eye out for the birds and to not cut down their trees.
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A crack was discovered in Fontana Dam, located in Swain County, in 1972. The four-year effort to repair the dam ended in late 1976. The crack was caused by heat expansion, with temperatures reaching 125 degrees. An expansion slot was constructed and placed in the curve in late 1976 after Fontana Lake was lowered 134 feet. With the lake still lowered, now is a great time to visit and see some of the land normally below water.
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Brigadier General Griffith Rutherford led 2,500 militia man over a buffalo trail over twenty days in September of 1776, destroying Cherokee town, barns and crops, and driving the Indians into the hills. Today, the trail is called Rutherford's Trace and historical highway markers line its path from Old Fort to Murphy. In 1946, a monument was erected in Murfreesboro in Rutherford's honor.
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Duke University Chapel's Dirk Andries Flentrop organ, built over the course of six years in Zaandam, Holland, will be used for the first time during Christmas services this year. The 18th century organ is made of 5,000 pipes which were dismantled in Holland and reassembled in the Chapel. This is one of the largest Flentrops in the world, second only to one in Rotterdam.
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By the 1720s, rice was becoming a staple crop in North Carolina. In 1860, the rice yield from the Lower Cape Fear region reached eight million pounds. Swamp land had to be cleared to plant rice and slaves were used to cultivate and harvest the crop. Although rice continued to be grown after the Civil War, rice-growing in North Carolina came to a cessation in the 1890s.
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Peggy Hoffmann was approached by ex-con Frank Watson to help him write his autobiography. One on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, Watson is now a counselor who works with young offenders to steer them off the course he chose to follow. The book, BEEN THERE AND BACK, is available through John F. Blair Publisher of Winston-Salem.
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