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15193
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In the 1930s Elizabeth City trumped other favorite stopping places for sailing enthusiasts making trips along the eastern seaboard. Elizabeth City cashed in on the natural features which gave its yacht basin advantages including: no tide, clean water, plentiful docking and repair facilities, and the Pasquotank's warm water temperatures which prevented freezing. Its location halfway between New York and Florida also added a benefit for the yachtsmen looking to rest.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 6 Issue 25, Nov 1938, p9, 24, il
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17141
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Hicklin recounts a little-remembered incident in Western North Carolina in the period following the Revolutionary War. In 1784, citizens there felt isolated from the eastern section because of the Appalachian Mountains and formed, along with citizens in Eastern Tennessee, their own state called Franklin. It didn't last.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 6 Issue 25, Nov 1938, p11
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17142
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Dr. Gudger reminisces about things he saw during the period when the Western North Carolina Railroad was being built and operated west of the Swannanoa tunnel in the late 1870s and 1880s.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 6 Issue 25, Nov 1938, p13, 26
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