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Carriages are horse-drawn wheeled vehicles built especially for carrying passengers. The Ellis Carriage Works of Kinston, established in 1886 as Oliver Ellis & Brothers was the first manufacturer of this means of transportation in North Carolina. The article depicts a trip from Asheville to Webster in a carriage, including the early technical problems of this mode of transportation.
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In 1766 or 1767, David Caldwell established what became known as the Log College in present day Greensboro. Many of the men who attended the school transferred to Princeton and UNC-Chapel Hill, which is why it gained the nickname “grandfather of U.N.C.†The school closed in 1822, two years after Caldwell retired at the age of ninety-five. By 1976, the North Carolina Society for Preservation of Antiquities was able to save a twenty-acre site, which included the Log College. The site was also developed into the Bicentennial Garden, which includes paths and historic markers.
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For the Norfolk and Southern Railroad to cross the Albemarle Sound in the 1880s, it was more efficient to float the entire train instead of unloading the freight onto the barge. In 1910, a five and a half mile bridge was built, making it the longest in the world. This allowed trains to cross the Albemarle in eighteen minutes rather than two and a half hours. By 1986, the seventy-six year old bridge was reaching its limits. Because it cost $19 million to strengthen the supports, the state considered floating the train across the water as it did in the past.
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