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Once there was a quiet, peaceful, slow-moving county in eastern North Carolina on the Atlantic Ocean, known as Onslow County. The people farmed and fished and took life easily. But today Onslow is a modern, bustling, wide-awake section of North Carolina thanks to Camp Davis and two marine bases.
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14948
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Large sums of money were expended in the antebellum period by the Neuse River Navigation Company, and a tremendous amount of work was done in an endeavor to bring about an increase in river transportation.
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18693
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After Daniel Boone, North Carolina's most famous mountain man was Big Tom Wilson, who was a noted guide, tracker, bear hunter, and master story teller who lived in Yancey County. When Dr. Elisha Mitchell, in seeking to prove the height of a mountain later named for him, disappeared, it was Tom Wilson who lead a search party to find Mitchell's body in 1857 that brought him nationwide fame.
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