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A Cross-Section Through North Carolina
Hart, Albert Bushnell | March 17, 1892 issue

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Frederick Law Olmsted visited North Carolina and summed up his judgment of the State as follows, industry is almost entirely rural, and there is little communication or concert of action among the small and scattered proprietors of capital. As soon as one gets off the main commercial arteries of the Richmond and Danville and Seaboard Air-Line Railroads, and follows the old east-and-west highway to the coast, he finds himself not simply in the middle of this century, but in the end of the eighteenth century. North Carolina is the type of the natural development of an American community, much influenced by slavery, but little influenced, by coal and iron, foreign immigration, commerce, or Northern capital.

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RAILROADS; TRANSPORTATION; INTERSTATE commerce; PUBLIC utilities; NORTH Carolina -- Economic conditions; NORTH Carolina; UNITED States
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