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Catawba County (/ k ə ˈ t ɔː b ə / kuh-TAW-buh) [1] is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 160,610. [2] Its county seat is Newton, [3] and its largest community is Hickory. The county is part of the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The primary governing body of Catawba County Schools follows a council–manager government format with a seven-member Board of Education appointing a Superintendent to run the day-to-day operations of the system. The school system currently resides in the North Carolina State Board of Education's Seventh District. [4]
Brookford is located in western Catawba County. It is bordered to the north by the City of Hickory and to the southwest by the unincorporated community of Mountain View. The town is located just to the southeast of the junction of Interstate 40 with U.S. Route 321 south of Hickory. As both of those highways are limited-access, the closest ...
Last year, the gaming commission certified a settlement agreement between the Catawba Nation and SkyBoat. Under that deal, the tribe would pay its former partners $125 million.
The idea for a dam on the Catawba River dated back to before 1900. Buck and Benjamin Duke saw dams on the Catawba as a way to help industry. [4] Duke Power had planned for a dam in this area since the early 1920s, when the company bought Long Island Mill, Monbo Mill and other properties to prepare for the building of a new lake. [5]
Catawba Valley Community College (CVCC) is a public community college in Hickory, North Carolina. The college, established April 3, 1958, is part of the North Carolina Community College System. The main campus covers 162 acres (0.66 km 2) and includes 16 buildings. The college also operates a Cosmetology Center in downtown Newton, the CVCC ...
Luther Henry Caldwell House is a historic home located at Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina. It was built between 1893 and 1903, and is a large two-story, eclectic Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It features a double tier wraparound porch with an octagonal pavilion and decorative woodwork on the porches, bayed gable end projections ...
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