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-Blueberry Buckle

Many of North Carolina's best-known qualities are concentrated among these rolling hills of sandy soil: the 60-degree average temperature, longleaf pines, friendly towns, golf courses and car racing.

Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Whispering Pines - these places developed as resorts because of their charming surroundings. Transplants from all over retire here. This is, after all, the golf capital of the world.

Passenger rail travel boosted the development and is celebrated at Hamlet. Car racing continues to fuel it and is celebrated at Rockingham. In between are the more leisurely paced pursuits of horseback riding and bicycling so well suited to the terrain.

Its western edge contains the ancients: Uwharrie mountains and forest, the river named Pee Dee (Catawba phrase for "something good"), and 500-year-old Town Creek Indian Mound ceremonial grounds.

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