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12577
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Scotland County is 28 miles long by 28 miles wide and has a varied topography encompassing some 318 square miles. The Lumber River and the federally owned Sandhills Game Management Area are located within the county which is served by four railroads. Major industries include cotton, tobacco, and livestock though manufacturing has increased with the textile industry.
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12578
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From World War II through 1955, Laurinburg Maxton Air Base, in Scotland County, sat unused and deserted. Located on 5,700 acres between Shoe hill Creek and the Lumber River, Airpine has been released by the government to a joint commission from the two neighboring towns. Airpine is the only park in America where class A manufacturing concerns operate side-by-side with a 900-acre pasture and feed lot for the commercial fattening of beef cattle. The Airport Commission has made elaborate and detailed plans for the development of this immense facility as one hundred zoned industrial sites are currently available.
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12588
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October 17, 1962 marks the 55th anniversary of the death of North Carolina's poet and, \"sweetest singer\", John Charles McNeill. McNeill produced the majority of his work between 1902 and 1904, and was awarded the Patterson Cup in 1905, for the best literary production of the year.
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