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While North Carolina certainly has some spectacular places of national and even international interest (Wright Brothers Memorial, Asheville, historic markings of the Civil War and an original colony), there are other spots around the state that are fascinating to visit.

George Santucci doesn’t worry anymore about the variety of spellings applied to his name in Ashe County, which he has called home for 25 years now after migrating from Long Island, New York.

Ashe County, which touches the Tennessee and Virginia borders, is touted by residents — many of them part-time dwellers who are otherwise “city folk” — as the “coolest corner of North Carolina.”

Halifax, North Carolina, was an important part of the Underground Railroad in North Carolina. With the largest free Black population of any county in the state in the antebellum period, the community provided a network to help freedom seekers as well as a place to blend in.

Keith Price does not wear academic robes — a 1954 graduate of what was then called Wake Forest College, he was in a variety of business ventures through his long working life — but if Forest City in Rutherford County had a historian-in-residence, Price would be it.