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The Spruce Pine Mining District is a swath of the valley of the North Toe River in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northwestern North Carolina. The area is mined for its mica, kaolin, quartz and feldspar. [1] Spruce Pine district is one of the largest suppliers of high-purity quartz, which is used in the manufacture of silicon for integrated ...
On October 1, 2015, former President and CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation, Bob Geolas, announced RTP's plans for a $50,000,000 redevelopment involving the formation of "Park Center". $20,000,000 will be allocated from Durham County, $10,000,000 from the Durham-Wake Counties Research and Production Service District, and $20,000,000 as a ...
The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663–1943. Raleigh: State Dept. of Archives and History, 1950. Reprint, Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1987. ISBN 0-86526-032-X; Powell, William S. The North Carolina Gazetteer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968. Reprint ...
The second NC 741 was established in 1935 as a new primary routing between the South Carolina state line, through Harris, to US 74/US 221/NC 181, in Rutherfordton. [10] In 1941, NC 741 was decommissioned and replaced mostly by US 221, with Jack McKinney Road, between the state line to Harris, as secondary road.
North Carolina Highway 751 (NC 751) is a north–south state road in North Carolina that runs from U.S. Route 64 (US 64) near Jordan Lake State Recreation Area, to US 70 Business near Durham. The road also continues south approximately 4.3 miles (6.9 km) to US 1 as New Hill-Olive Chapel Road (SR 1141).
The North Carolina state House map passed by the General Assembly on Oct. 25, 2023, to use in the 2024 elections. Changes to NC congressional districts for 2024 The congressional map will help ...
The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City. By the ...
It’s also the second-oldest colonial town in North Carolina — so not the first, as Barkley Cove is described, but close — and is the county seat of Craven County.