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On November 14, 1910, M. F. H. Gouverneur, vice-president of the Tide Water Power Company, and H. M. Chase, manager of the American Chemical and Textile Coloring Company, made the only public test flight of the airplane they built on Shell Island, sometimes called Moore's Beach. More than 5,000 visitors crowded Wrightsville Beach four months earlier, when, on July 4, the pair had planned to attempt the first flight of their self-designed aircraft. Newspaper reports described the November flight, piloted by Mr. Chase, as having attained an altitude of about five feet, sustained for some distance, just long enough to demonstrate the plane's ability to fly. The event carries the distinction of being the first airplane constructed in North Carolina and owned and flown by North Carolinians.
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George Washington Vanderbilt II, Richard M. Hunt, Frederick Law Olmstead, and Gifford Pinchot are the four men primarily responsible for the planning, building and landscaping of Biltmore Estate, located near Asheville. Vanderbilt provided the initial inspiration, and most importantly, the financing for the palatial estate in the mountains of North Carolina. To complete his vision, he hired the best architect, landscape gardener, and forester that could be found in the United States. Hunt had worked in France as inspector of expansion construction at the Louvre and the Tuileries in Paris as well as having designed the central part of the Museum of Modern Art and the base for the Statue of Liberty in New York. Olmstead was well known as a travel writer in addition to being regarded as the premier landscape engineer of his time for his work designing Central Park in New York City and the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Despite being much younger than Hunt or Olmstead, Pinchot was considered the best forester in the country and his work in the developing field of forestry at Biltmore led to future appointments in the Theodore Roosevelt administration as National Forest Commissioner and head of the new National Conservation Association.
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According to Colonel C. Wingate Reed's BEAUFORT COUNTY: TWO CENTURIES OF ITS HISTORY, steamers first came to Washington, in Beaufort County, in 1847. Regular lines operated between Eastern North Carolina ports and destinations as far north as Norfolk and Baltimore. The Old Dominion Steamship Company ran regular service between Washington and Ocracoke while the Clyde Line ran ships between Washington and Norfolk. The steamers Amidas, R.L. Myers, and the Edgecombe were built specifically for river service between Washington, Greenville, and Tarboro.
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