In the 1950s, a Greensboro contractor, a governor and three universities bet that thousands of acres of pine woods could keep North Carolina's graduates at home.
Read the storyOn a freezing morning in 1903, two Ohio bicycle makers flew four times on the Outer Banks. Here is how they got there and how a lifesaver took the photo.
George Vanderbilt's Asheville château opened on Christmas Eve 1895. Its woodlands became a testing ground for American forestry and its first forestry school.
In the 1950s, North Carolina's leaders tried to turn pine woods between three universities into a research park. For years it looked like a long shot.
In 1999 engineers jacked up a 4,800-ton brick tower on North Carolina's Outer Banks and pushed it 2,900 feet inland, a few feet at a time, to save it from the sea.
On September 2, 1940, Franklin Roosevelt stood on the state line at Newfound Gap and dedicated a park assembled from thousands of tracts and many lost homes.
