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2. Swansboro, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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   In 1818, Otway Burns built the Prometheus, the first river steamboat constructed in North Carolina. The town, originally spelled Swannsborough, is sometimes called "The Friendly City by the Sea". M.N. Lisk, a popular Swansboro mayor, initiated the annual Mullet Festival, [5] one of the first coastal seafood festivals in North Carolina.

3. How to make the most of your city break in the USA - AOL

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   Whether it's sun and sand and party in Miami, the glitz and energy of New York or the history and community spirit of Detroit, Annabel Grossman and Benjamin Parker give you their hints and tips to ...

4. Central Children's Home of North Carolina - Wikipedia

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   The Central Children's Home cares for disadvantaged, orphaned, and troubled children. Admission is accepted from social services organizations that includes the North Carolina Department of Social Services for applicants between the ages of nine to twenty-one with an IQ of 70 or above. The Robert L. Shepard Scholarship Fund was established in ...

5. Top 10 Cities for Child-Free Living - AOL

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   Time magazine explored "The Child-Free" life in a recent cover story that trumpeted it as perhaps the new way of "having it all," and cited a birthrate that's at its lowest point in American ...

6. Durham, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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   Durham's population, as of July 1, 2019 and according to the 2019 U.S. census data estimate, had grown to 278,993, [68] making it the 50th-fastest-growing city in the US, and the 2nd-fastest-growing city in North Carolina, behind Cary but ahead of Charlotte, Raleigh and Greensboro. [68]

7. North Carolina - Wikipedia

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   North Carolina's port city of Wilmington, was the last Confederate port to fall to the Union, in February 1865, after the Union won the nearby Second Battle of Fort Fisher, its major defense downriver. The first Confederate soldier to be killed in the Civil War was Private Henry Wyatt from North Carolina, in the Battle of Big Bethel in June 1861.