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  2. Sawmills, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Sawmills is located in southern Caldwell County, bordered by Hudson to the north and Granite Falls to the east. Lake Rhodhiss borders the town to the south. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sawmills has a total area of 6.6 square miles (17.2 km 2), of which 0.008 square miles (0.02 km 2), or 0.09%, is water.

  3. List of plantations in North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records. [ 10 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Sloop Point plantation in Pender County, built in 1729, is the oldest surviving plantation house and the second oldest house surviving in North Carolina, after the Lane House (built in 1718–1719 and not part of a plantation).

  4. Sawmill - Wikipedia

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    A combustion engine drives a selfmade sawmill in north Florida. Stereo recording 1988. A sawmill's basic operation is much like those of hundreds of years ago: a log enters on one end and dimensional lumber exits on the other end. After trees are selected for harvest, the next step in logging is felling the trees, and bucking them to length.

  5. History of the lumber industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Billings, W. M. (1975). The Old Dominion in the seventeenth century: A documentary history of Virginia, 1606–1689. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press. Evans, C. W. (1957). Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia.

  6. List of watermills in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Main Sawmill, Ledyard, Connecticut; Winthrop Mill, New London, Connecticut, built circa 1650; Georgia. Historic mills of the Atlanta area; Old Mill at Berry College, Rome; Nora Mill at Helen, Georgia; Illinois. Franklin Creek Grist Mill, Franklin Creek State Natural Area, Franklin Grove, Illinois [1] Graue Mill and Museum, [2] Oak Brook ...

  7. Hillbilly Highway - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the Hillbilly Highway is the out-migration of Appalachians from the Appalachian Highlands region to industrial cities in northern, midwestern, and western states, primarily in the years following World War II in search of better-paying industrial jobs and higher standards of living.

  8. Where exactly is NC setting of ‘Where the Crawdads ... - AOL

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    Asheville. The mountainous western North Carolina city of Asheville is mentioned several times throughout the book. Kya’s dad, Pa, is from Asheville. His family owned a plantation there, but ...

  9. Granite Falls, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    There were 1,758 households, out of which 33.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.3% were married couples living together, 12.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.1% were non-families. 25.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or ...