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Churchyard View, Calvary Episcopal Church Tarboro

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W Saint James Street, Tarboro, North Carolina.

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"Tarboro has a colored woman who was raised as a boy; does not recollect when she began to wear male clothing; still dresses and acts like a man; does a man's work, and bears a man's name. She has an aversion to being with women or doing their kind of work, and says she would go to the penitentiary before she would wear a bonnet. She is a mother, but not at all motherly, and her child calls her papa."

Some TMOC history from the Digital Transgender Archive. Wish we had his name.

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Tarboro, North Carolina

built in 1820

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Janice Bryant Howroyd (September 1, 1952) is an entrepreneur, businesswoman, and author. She is the founder and chief executive officer of The ActOne Group, the largest privately held, minority-woman-owned personnel company founded in the US. She is the first African American woman to build and own a billion-dollar company.

She was born in Tarboro, North Carolina, the fourth of 11 children in her family. She was one of the first African American students to participate in the desegregation of her town’s high school.

She moved to Los Angeles and worked as a temporary secretary for her brother-in-law, Tom Noonan, at Billboard magazine. Noonan introduced her to business executives, celebrities, travel, and workplace diversity.

With an approximate budget of $1,000, she continued to focus on employment services and launched her company, The ACT 1 Group, in 1978, with Tom Noonan as her first client. ActOne Group companies include AppleOne, All’s Well, AT-Tech, ACT-1 Personnel Services, Agile-1, ACT-1Govt, A-Check Global, which provides personnel and recruiting services to different industries, and DSSI, which provides document management services.

She is an ambassador of the Department of Energy’s Minorities in Energy Initiative, and a board member of numerous organizations including the United States Department of Labor’s Workforce Initiative Board, Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, WeConnect, National Utilities Diversity Council, Harvard Women’s Leadership Board, California Science Center, Los Angeles Urban League and a member of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Services and Finance Industries of the U.S. Trade Representative and the United States Department of Commerce. She serves on the Board of Trustees for North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

She received a key presidential appointment by President Barack Obama as a member of the President’s Board of Advisors on HBCUs. She joined the Diversity Committee of the FCC.

She has served on the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Board of Directors as an officer and Treasurer. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Expert Land Clearing Near Tarboro: Getting Your Property Ready for Development

Whether you are planning on a construction project or need land cleared for farming purposes, chances are high that you will be looking for land clearing near Tarboro. Proper land clearing is important in order to have a good area that is safe with good drainage and level ground. King Land Clearing provides you with a professional service to meet your requirements for clearing your land for the next use. For your convenience, you can now get a cleared site without the added pressure of having to do it yourself with our help.

Understanding the Importance of Land Clearing

Benefits of Professional Land Clearing Services

Safety First: Land that becomes overgrown can be dangerous during construction because stumps and roots are often concealed. Land clearing and grading near me services help make your site safe by eliminating objects that pose a risk of accidents.

Increased Usable Space: Removing overgrown brush and other unwanted vegetation makes the space available for use on your property larger. It can then be used for planting of gardens, patios, or even for construction of building foundations.

Improved Drainage: Well done work of land clearing can improve the water drainage, which means that water will not stand on your land. It is especially vital in the regions with high rainfall frequency because such plantings prevent soil erosion and destruction of property.

Our Comprehensive Land Clearing Services

King Land Clearing offers several services to ensure that you get the desired outcome in land clearing services. Here’s what we offer:

1. Land Clearing and Grading

Our team is the best when it comes to the provision of efficient land clearing and grading services. We clear land by eliminating trees, shrubs, and any other vegetation and stumps in order to level your projects. 

2. Brush Clearing Services

As part of our services, we are also able to clear large trees and large brush as well. This entails the clearance of smaller plants, under growth, and vegetation that could in one way or the other hinder your project. If you require the land to be cleared for agricultural purposes or if you just need the land to be cleared for aesthetic purposes, our brush clearing services near me are on hand to assist you.

3. Stump Removal

Sometimes the trees are cut down leaving behind their stumps, which make the land unfit for various uses. We also provide stump removal services to make sure that your property is cleared out to the best of our ability. The stump removal service that our specialists provide is fast and effective, they will leave your site free of stumps and ready for any kind of development.

4. Site Preparation

Clearing of the land can be done and then site preparation can be provided to you afterwards. This ranges from marking the ground to level the surface which is a very important step in any construction. 

Choosing the Right Land Clearing Company

In regard to the selection of a land clearing company, it is always advisable to engage a company of people who are well experienced in the task. Here’s why King Land Clearing stands out:

1. Experienced Professionals

The members of our team are experienced and knowledgeable of the different aspects of land clearing. We are aware of the various hurdles that may come along the process in order to provide the best service.

2. Modern Equipment

We employ advanced methods and tools for providing the land clearing services to our clients. We have state of the art equipment to enable us to clear the land in record time and with minimal interference on your property.

3. Customer-orientated or Commitment to Customer Satisfaction

At King Land Clearing, customers are our main focus. We always ensure that we understand the needs of the clients, and ensure that we meet them adequately. We involve you in every aspect of the project right from the time of consultation to the time the project is completed.

Why Choose Land Clearing Near Tarboro?

There are many benefits of selecting a local company to undertake your land clearing services. Here’s why opting for land clearing near Tarboro is beneficial:

Knowledge of Local Regulations: We know the local laws and ordinances for land clearing in the Tarboro area and keep the process legal and smooth.

Familiarity with Local Terrain: We have had exposure in the region and therefore we know the environment well enough to deal with any difficulties that may occur.

Quick Response Times: As a local company, we are in a position to address your needs promptly hence delivering services that meet your project schedule.

Get Started with King Land Clearing Today!

Do you need land clearing solutions in Maysville, NC? In this case, King Land Clearing should be your go-to. Our highly qualified staff is always willing and able to help you with your needs in order to create your property as painlessly as possible. We are happy to offer you a full range of services related to land clearing, which means you will not have to worry about that aspect of project implementation.

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Magazine Club of Tarboro, 2024 Paralympics, Telegram, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, August 28, 2024

NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: Magazine Club of Tarboro programs and Tarboro Main Street panorama now online. ���Thanks to our partner Edgecombe County Memorial Library, Magazine Club of Tarboro yearly programs dating from 1910 to 1984 are now online. The Magazine Club is a literary club in Tarboro and each year they created a program that showed their monthly meeting topics, who was hosting, and what…

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Talksport

Welcome to Talksport where you can choose the most comfortable outfit. Our store is committed to providing customers with a wide selection of high-quality clothing suitable for every occasion. At Talksport, we believe that fashion should be an exciting combination of visual appeal and comfort to the touch. This guiding principle is evident in our extensive collection of comfortable and versatile styles, carefully curated for both everyday wear and formal events.

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Tombstones and Trunks

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NEW: Banks County, Ga.; Dolores County, Colo.; Kelly Township, Pa.; and Tarboro, N.C., have joined the list of governments asking for potential corrections to their 2020 census results via the Census Bureau's Count Question Resolution (they wouldn't change congressional apportionment or redistricting)

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ABSOLUTE EMPOWERMENT WITH COACH JEFF CONNORS: Shaun Draughn, Former Tarboro, UNC & NFL RB https://audioboom.com/posts/8251424-absolute-empowerment-with-coach-jeff-connors-shaun-draughn-former-tarboro-unc-nfl-rb

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State of NC Fast Charging: Winter 2021

It is that time of year where I look back on the growth of the open-charging network in North Carolina (this report does not cover brand exclusive infrastructure such as Rivian, Porsche, and Tesla). There are some changes this year, first and foremost, I am now an employee with ChargePoint Holdings, Inc. I do not have any insider knowledge regarding ChargePoint deployments in the state despite my employment with the company. All information relayed within is information gleaned from public sources or one-on-one conversations with the parties involved with the deployment. With that said, what has changed since the Winter 2020 report? Let’s find out!

Greenlots

Last I reported, QwickCharge out of Atlanta bought these old Greenlots assets and intended to slap a credit card reader on them and get them back in operation. To date, nothing has happened at any of these locations:

The Biltmore Ave Parking Deck

The Asheville Public Works station

Charlotte’s  AAA South End

Charlotte’s AAA on Flat River Dr.

Cherokee

Waynesville (personally tried to use this unit, while powered up it will not start a CCS session due to a proximity error)

Dallas

Salisbury

Matthews

Wadesboro

Greensboro

Hillsborough

Durham

Chapel Hill

Leland

Calabash

The only active Greenlots machines that I can find are all Level 2 systems, however, Duke Energy’s Plug&Charge pilot will use Greenlots as their management backend (the only site currently open is just over the border in SC at South of the Border). It’s entirely possible that in next year’s report there will be some Greenlots stations to report.

ChargePoint

ChargePoint’s footprint continues to grow the North Carolina Electric Member Cooperative’s Electric Vehicle Network using funds from the VW Diesel Emission Mitigation funding plan. The complete list of online locations:

2020 Machines Online: 18

2021 Machines Online: 34 (change: +16)

Machines to be built in 2022: 7

Raleigh: Land Rover, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Durham: BMW, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Greensboro: Land Rover, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Concord: Speedway Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Raleigh: Tobacco Road Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Fayetteville: Fort Bragg Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Shallotte: Beach House Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Wallace: Bad Boar Restaurent, 50kW (CPE250)

Lenoir: Blue Ridge Energy District Office, 50kW (Tritium)

Moncure: Jordan Damn Mini Mart, 50kW (CPE250)

Avon: Pangea Tavern, 50kW (CPE250)

Dobson: Circle K, 50kW (CPE250)

Huntersville: BP, 50kW (CPE250)

Asheboro: McDonalds, 50kW (CPE250)

High Point: Riding High Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Evergreen: Sun-Do Kwik Stop, 50kW (CPE250)

Enfield: Shell, 50kW (CPE250)

Boone: Blue Ridge Energy, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Statesville: The Greenbrier Grill/Banner Drug, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Mocksville: Mcdonalds, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Marshville: Town of Marshville Public Parking, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Elizabeth City: McDonalds,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Tarboro: Edgecomb EMC,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Wilson: Chick-Fil-A,  125kW/62.5kW (2x Powershared CPE250)

Mebane: Arby’s,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Carrboro: Carrboro Plaza,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Halifax, 125kW/62.5kW (2x Powershared CPE250)

Hope Mills: Dirtbag Ales/Dirty Whiskey,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Lake Gaston: Lake Gaston Pit Stop,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Graham:  PART Park & Ride, 50kW (CPE250)

Lexington: Lexington Parkway Plaza 62.5kW (CPE250)

Lilesville (formerly Wadesboro): Pee Dee Electric, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Locations that should be open by Winter 2022 report:

Waynesville: Unknown

Morganton 1: Unknown

Morganton 2: Unknown

Siler City: in the ground, not yet activated

Kinston: Unknown Status

New Bern: in the ground, not yet activated  125kW/62.5kW (2x Powershared CPE250)

Wilmington: Unknown

It is safe to assume that all new locations will either be a single 62.kW CPE250 or a pair of power-shared CPE250s that can provide up to 125kW to a single vehicle. ChargePoint now has two, and hopefully soon three, locations that have redundancy (meaning 2 or more stations at the location).

EVgo

EVgo has expanded their footprint and improved reliability in 2021:

2020 Machines Online: 23

2021 Machines Online: 30 (change: +7)

Machines to be built in 2022: 0

Asheville outlet mall (2) 50kW

Asheville Biltmore Park 50kW

Charlotte Ballantyne Commons Pkwy BP 50kW

Charlotte Walker Branch Road BP  50kW

Charlotte Steele Creek Rd BP  50kW

Charlotte Mt Holly-Huntersville Rd BP  50kW

Charlotte Vinnie’s Way BP  50kW

Charlotte Cambridge Commons Dr BP  50kW

Charlotte The Shoppes at Highland Creek  50kW

Charlotte Thomas Ave Public Lot  50kW

Charlotte SouthPark Mall  50kW

Mooresville BP  50kW

Durham at The Hyatt  50kW

Durham South Square Mall  50kW

Cary Sheetz  50kW

Morrisville Sheetz  50kW

Raleigh Marriott  50kW

Raleigh Airport Sheetz  50kW

Raleigh AAA New Hope Rd  50kW

Wake Forest has one at the AAA  50kW

Mint Hill at Earp’s Express  50kW

Matthews BP  50kW

Charlotte Carmel Commons 2x 100kW and 1x 350kW (dual CCS no CHAdeMO)

Greensboro Lowe’s Foods Jamestown 2x 100kW

Raleigh Lowe’s Foods Brier Creek 2x 100kW

EVgo listed Harrisburg as the award site under the Phase 1 VW Settlement funds, but it appears they built in South Charlotte instead. At least all three locations are online! EVgo’s new sites are all minimum 2 dispensers at twice the power level of their existing network footprint.

Electrify America

2020 Machines Online: 54

2021 Machines Online: 58 (change: +4)

Machines to be built in 2022: 0

Electrify America is the largest operator by a wide margin now: 58 dispensers across 12 sites. They’re no longer the only company with a redundant design - meaning more than one dispenser and more than one cable per machine. The open locations:

Raleigh: 6 (BTCPower)

Wake Forest: 3 (Signet)

Rocky Mount: 4 (Signet)

Henderson: 4 (Signet)

Greensboro: 8 (Signet)

Charlotte: 10 (ABB)

Asheville: 4 (Signet)

Hillsborough: 4 (ABB)

Cary: 3 (Signet)

Smithfield: 4 (Signet)

Lumberton: 4 (Signet)

Statesville: 4 (Signet)

Interstate Highway Coverage: I-95

Interstate 95 now has 7 DC fast charging locations with 18 dispensers. Starting at the North Carolina Welcome center:

13.6mi: Halifax, 2x ChargePoint 62.5kW to 125kW

7.4mi: Enfield, 1x ChargePoint 50kW

25.7mi: Rocky Mount, Electrify America 2x 150kW and 2x 350kW

18.8mi: Wilson,  2x ChargePoint 62.5kW to 125kW

27.3mi: Smithfield, Electrify America 2x 150kW and 2x 350kW

55.7mi: Hope Mills, 1x ChargePoint 62.5kW

21.1: Lumberton, Electrify America 2x 150kW and 2x 350kW

27.5: South of the Boarder, 2x 150kW Duke Plug & Charge

The single longest stretch between chargers is Smithfield and Hope Mills. If a single charger were to be installed between these locations, I-95 would qualify for Alternative Fuel Corridor signage from the Federal Government. I-95 needs to have billboard signage to promote these charging locations, this is a project I’ve been trying to engage Plug-in NC and The NC Clean Energy Technology Center into funding.

Interstate Highway Coverage: I-85

Interstate 85 now has 7 DC fast charging locations with 29 dispensers. Starting at the VA State Line:

29.7mi: Henderson, Electrify America 2x 150kW and 2x 350kW

48.2mi: Hillsborough, Electrify America 2x 150kW and 2x 250kW

11.6mi: Mebane, 1x ChargePoint 62.5kW

9.0mi: Graham, 1x ChargePoint 50kW

25.9mi: Greensboro, Electrify America 6x 150kW and 2x 350kW

33.9mi: Lexington, 1x ChargePoint 62.5kW

50.9mi: Charlotte, Electrify America 8x 150kW and 2x 350kW

44.3mi: SC Border

Interstate 85 technically qualifies for Alternative Fuel Corridor signage, being that 50.9 miles is the single longest stretch between charging stations. This doesn’t denote non-networked/dealership charging stations or any charging station below 50kW.

Interstate Highway Coverage: I-40

Interstate 40 now has 13 DC fast charging locations with 29 dispensers. Starting at the TN border:

41.1mi: Asheville, Electrify America 2x 150kW and 2x 350kW

6.7mi: Asheville, EVgo 2x 50kW

108mi: Statesville, Electrify America 2x 150kW and 2x 350kW

4mi: Statesville, ChargePoint 62.5kW

16.9mi: Mocksville, ChargePoint 62.5kW

45.1mi: Greensboro, EVgo 2x 100kW

11.4mi: Greensboro, Electrify America 4x 150kW 2x 350kW

26.8mi: Graham, ChargePoint 62.5kW

8.6mi: Mebane, ChargePoint 62.5kW

25.4mi: Durham, EVgo 50kW

11.4mi: Morrisville, EVgo 50kW

7.1mi: Raleigh, EVgo 50kW

3.9mi: Cary, Electrify America 3x 150kW

94.2mi: Wallace, ChargePoint 50kW

39.8mi: Wilmington (pending DC Fast charger)

Interstate 40 needs a lot of work! The 108-mile (106 if you go from Electrify America Asheville to Electrify America Statesville) stretch between Asheville and Statesville, and the stretch from Cary to Wallace need immediate attention. This corridor also has a lot of locations with a single charger, which is not sufficient for the number of EVs that Gov. Cooper is calling for (1.25M by 2030). There you have it folks! That’s the NC State of Charge for 2021! I’ll do the 2022 in a year - so stay tuned!

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The Story Of Princeville: The First Black Town In America

At the turn of the 20th century, white supremacy threatened Black communities all over the south. But in Princeville, North Carolina, Black residents were the majority and eager to participate in the political process.

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It was 1865, the American Civil War was coming to a close. The south was changing rapidly and the confederate chokehold on the region was coming to an end. Former slaves from Edgecombe County in North Carolina fled slave plantations for Union Army encampments. They were seeking protection from the confederates and freedom from slavery. Not long after their arrival, Union soldiers left for the north, leaving the land to the now-freed slaves of Edgecombe County. They began to slowly build the community of Freedom Hill, incorporating the town in 1885 and naming it Princeville, the first Black town in the United States.

Edgecombe County was an important area for slavery in the south. In 1860 almost sixty percent of the county’s population were slaves. The area was rich with tobacco farms and white plantation owners relied on the slaves in Edgecombe to cultivate and labor in their fields. More than 10,000 slaves lived in the county and almost all of them tended to the tobacco fields. But once the civil war ended former slaves weren’t obligated to work the farms and had control over their labor. This gave the former slaves power that they didn’t previously possess. Whites were furious that free Blacks were living among them, but the separate Black community of Freedom Hill supplied the surrounding white area with laborers and sharecroppers to tend the farms, as well as servants to tend the homes of former slave owners. The town was also home to carpenters, Blacksmiths, grocers, seamstresses brick masons. Although wealth was short, Freedom Hill became self-sufficient and was renamed Princeville in honor of ex-slave Turner Prince, a carpenter who had lived in the town since its founding.

At the turn of the 20th century, white supremacy threatened Black communities all over the south. But in Princeville Black residents were the majority and were eager to participate in the political process. Princeville and other Edgecombe County voters sent eleven Black men to the state legislature from 1877 to 1890. They served a total of fifteen terms in office. They also sent two Black representatives to Congress, James E. O’Hara of New Bern, from 1883 to 1887; and Henry Plummer Cheatham of Vance County, from 1889 to 1893. By the early 1900s as white supremacy began to influence legislation, Black representation was systematically excluded from politics. Literacy tests and poll taxes made it almost impossible Blacks for to vote, and local laws excluded Blacks from holding office.

In 1903, Tarboro, a predominantly white town located on the opposite bank of the Tar River from Princeville, pushed back against Princeville’s idea of a Black utopia and demanded the town’s charter be revoked, taking away its right to govern itself. The local newspaper was controlled by white supremacists. They printed stories that claimed Black were unruly and needed white “law and order” to function in their society. This would ultimately end Princeville’s Black political participation at the federal and state level, but residents continued to vote in municipal elections, and in 1883 the town established its first school with Black principals educated at some of the top universities in the country. By 1910 half of Princeville’s population could read and write and in 1912 the town added a high school curriculum to their school. They also built churches both Baptist and Methodist to serve the community.

Princeville’s unique experiment was a true testament to the will of ex-slaves during the period of reconstruction. It wasn’t attacked by an angry white mob or mysteriously burnt down in the late hours of the night. Mother Nature would ultimately be the town’s greatest foe. Major floods in 1924, 1928, 1940, and 1958 would shrink the town’s population by more than fifty percent. The Great Migration would also help to dwindle the number of residents in Princeville as Blacks from North Carolina relocated to larger more acceptable cities like New York and Philadelphia.

Princeville was founded by ex-slaves with a dream of creating a world for themselves. It still holds the memories of some of our greatest pioneers. Their stories should be in our history books and their legacies should be more than words on a tombstone in the Princeville cemetery. The people of Freedom Hill deserve their flowers because without their willingness to never give up on their dream of true freedom, we wouldn’t be who we are today.

To read more about the history of Princeville, click here.

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The Haunting Of Lake Lanier And The Black City Buried Underneath

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John Campbell Dancy, Jr. (May 8, 1857 - December 5, 1920) was born in Tarboro, North Carolina, and headed the Detroit Urban League through the tumultuous years of the Great Migration, Great Depression, and WWII. He was born into a prominent family in North Carolina who steered him to the north to obtain degrees from Phillips-Exeter Academy and the University of Pennsylvania. He returned south to become secretary of a segregated YMCA branch in Norfolk, Virginia. He began to realize the importance of recreation for urban African Americans excluded from public and private facilities. He worked as a probation officer in New York City where he became interested in the National Urban League. The League asked him to serve as the second director of the Detroit Urban League.

He sought to train and place talented African American workers in places of prominence in the city: as white-collar workers, teachers, and doctors. He pioneered recreational programs for Black migrants, who would be lured into disreputable commercial leisure. He opened a community center in the heart of the Black East Side that served as a baby clinic, job placement office, and cultural center. Working closely with prominent black ministers, he forged a relationship with the Ford Motor Company by placing qualified Black workers into factories.

African American activists were critical of his accommodationism to white employers. African American women were unable to break into white-collar labor beyond the few token jobs arranged by him. His close relationship with auto industry executives hampered the efforts of United Auto Workers organizers to appeal to Black auto workers. Detroit’s migrant generation found the Urban League an essential resource and a comforting presence. He led the Detroit Urban League for forty-two years, retiring in 1960. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Tarboro police searching for man who allegedly shot dog

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Tarboro police searching for man who allegedly shot dog

TARBORO, N.C. — Tarboro police on Friday were looking for a man whom neighbors claimed shot their dog. Police said that residents of a home in the 400 block of Chestnut Street told them Ladarius Devon Powell, 31, had complained about the dog before, and on Thursday night, entered their home and shot it with […]

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W Saint James Street, Tarboro, North Carolina.