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10316
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Wake Forest College was founded in Wake County in 1834. Now the 122-year-old Baptist school is moving to a new campus in Winston Salem. The move and the new campus are described, as well as the reasons behind it.
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10317
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Growing Christmas trees is a new business developing in North Carolina. This article presents points to consider before going into the growing business.
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10318
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Founded in 1766, the Moravian village of Old Salem in Winston-Salem is becoming one of the country's foremost historical attractions. Each year over 30,000 visitors walk its streets and tour its historic buildings.
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10319
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Rabb discusses the history and the restoration of a pre-Revolutionary War home known as the “House in the Horseshoe.†The home's name derives from its location in a horseshoe bend of Deep River just north of Carthage. The exterior walls still bear the marks of bullets fired in a Revolutionary War skirmish.
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10320
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In the 19th- and 20th-centuries a railroad linked Eastern Tennessee with Western North Carolina. The most famous engine on the line was called “Tweetsie†because of its distinctive whistle. The engine was returned to the state in 1956 and now is located in Watauga County. The engine has been completely reconditioned and now pulls cars that give tourists a feel of what early train travel was like.
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10321
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Furniture manufacturing began in High Point in the late 1880s. The annually held Southern Furniture Mart attracts over 20,000 visitors to see and buy products of Southern furniture factories.
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10322
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Sizemore discusses the history of furniture manufacturing in High Point. Not only is the city the largest wooden manufacturing center in the nation but it is also one of the larger furniture markets because of the annually held exhibition of products.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 15 Issue 6, Nov 1957,
p22, 24, 26, 28, 30,, il
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10323
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Forests are the state's greatest undeveloped and neglected resource. Preston discusses the present condition of the state's forests, unproductive woodlands, and the importance of forests to the state's economy.
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10324
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The article presents the development of the particle board business in North Carolina. The first plant went into production in 1954, and by the end of 1956, there were eight.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 15 Issue 6, Nov 1957,
p42, 44, 46, 48, il, map
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10325
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North Carolina's pulp and paper industry is operated by five companies: Champion Paper & Fibre Company (Canton); Halifax Paper Company (Roanoke Rapids); Meade Paper Company (Sylva); North Carolina Pulp Company (Plymouth), now recently merged with Weyerhaeuser Lumber Company; and Reigel Paper Company (Acme). The companies employ from 500 to over 3,000 people at the plants and use thousands of cords of wood each week.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 15 Issue 6, Nov 1957,
p52, 54-55, 110-111, il
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10327
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In 1906, Peter G. Thompson came to Haywood County to examine its potential for the pulp and paper industry. Today, Champion Paper and Fibre Company's Carolina Division is the county's largest industry and largest employer, with 2,900 employees and an annual payroll of over $18 million.
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10328
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Lenoir's first furniture factory began in 1889 and was the third in the state. This article traces the development of the industry there.
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10329
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The furniture industry began in Thomasville almost after the end of the Civil War. It began as a family industry that made split bottom chairs, but over time expanded until now the city bears the title “The Chair City.â€
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10330
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According to U.S. government statistics, North Carolina is now known as the “Brick Capital of the Nation.†One-tenth of all brick produced in the country, roughly more than half a billion brick, comes from the state.
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10331
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The earliest record of lithium mining in North Carolina is around 1880. The deposits constitute the largest block of economically recoverable reserves in the Western Hemisphere and represent almost 93 percent of the total domestic reserves. Broadhurst discusses the properties and uses of the mineral, where it occurs, and the rise of the state's lithium industry.
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