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13846
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The three-mast ship Ephraim William grounded on Diamond Shoals during a storm on December 16th, 1884. Sailing from Savannah, Georgia, to Providence, Rhode Island, with a cargo of lumber, a crew of 9 men was left stranded aboard the grounded vessel. Surf men from the Cape Hatteras, Cape Kinnakeet, and Creeds Hill Lifesaving Stations, saved the crew of the Ephraim Williams and earned Gold Life Saving Medals awarded by the Secretary of the United States Treasury.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 20 Issue 40, Mar 1953, p3, 18, il
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13847
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The Karastan Mill opened in 1928 as part of the Fieldcrest Group based in Leaksville. The Karastan Mill employs the only mechanical Persian rug looms in the state and produces over 75,000 rugs per year. Utilizing grippers or mechanical fingers to weave the rugs through the back, a characteristic feature of oriental rugs, Sharpe claims these looms were invented because Americans were unwilling to spend the amount of time required to weave these rugs by hand.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 20 Issue 40, Mar 1953, p5-6
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