Lemonade In Hickory
Nobody in Hickory wanted to admit it, but the unofficial capital of the western North Carolina...
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Apr 21, 2022 | Focus Historian In Residence
Nobody in Hickory wanted to admit it, but the unofficial capital of the western North Carolina...
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Though there was much hoopla about Lenoir getting a furniture factory in 1889, the reality was...
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An idea who’s time had come. W.W. Scott was sure he had a cure for all of Lenoir’s problems in the 1880s. Like many small southern towns in the wake of the Civil War, Lenoir could not overcome the losses brought on by what was...
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Bang the drum. Shout loudly in the press that something needs to change. And it will. It always...
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The most famous person to make furniture in North Carolina did not come from the manufacturing...
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