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This article describes historic methods of travel and highlights three important trails in North Carolina history, including The Great Wagon Road, the Trail of Tears, and The Underground Railroad.
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Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 54 Issue 2, Spring 2015, p6-7, il, por, map
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Trains connected North Carolina towns to the rest of the United States during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The NC Transportation Museum in Spencer celebrates this history by displaying train cars, locomotive engines, the town's old roundhouse, and other related artifacts.
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Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 54 Issue 2, Spring 2015, p12-14, il, por
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Showboats were a popular form of entertainment in river and coastal towns during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Since the Eastern North Carolina infrastructure developed more slowly than other parts of the country, showboating was popular into the 1940s. One boat in particular, the James Adams Floating Theatre, toured North Carolina ports, including Hertford, Plymouth, Edenton, Columbia, and Bath.
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Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 54 Issue 2, Spring 2015, p20-21, il, por
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The first recognized bookmobile originated in Washington County, Maryland in 1905, and since that time, bookmobiles have had a presence throughout the country and in North Carolina. Cities like Durham and Charlotte had bookmobiles, as well as rural counties like Avery, Mitchell, and Yancy.
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Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 54 Issue 2, Spring 2015, p28-30, il, por
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