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UNC Royster fellows created the following tour guide of North Carolina. These tour sites are of interest to gradaute students.
The Piedmont mid-section of North Carolina is in transition. Small farms and mixed hardwood forests are being replaced by subdivisions or pine plantations. Textile and tobacco, the industries that have defined the Piedmont since the Civil War, are quickly fading. In their wake, civic leaders are left hoping that promising new economic arenas, such as biotechnology and finance, will be able to carry their economies forward. Long-time local residents are learning how to live with the waves of immigrants that are arriving daily in their communities.
All of these transitions are evident in south-central North Carolina. This region is bounded by the state’s major metropolitan areas: Charlotte to the west, the Triad to the north, the Triangle to the northeast, and Fayetteville to the east. However, in its heart lies one of the most rural and remote parts of the Piedmont: the Uwharries. In traveling across the South-Central region, a visitor will witness the varied changes and continuities that characterize our state’s landscapes—urban, rural, and everything in between.
Visiting North Carolina from the grad student's perspective
May 2007
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