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  2. Columbus County, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.columbusco.org. Columbus County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina, on its southeastern border. Its county seat is Whiteville. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population is 50,623. [2] The 2020 census showed a loss of 12.9% of the population from that of 2010.

  3. Robeson County, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Robeson County is located in North Carolina's 7th congressional district, [209] the North Carolina Senate's 24th district, and the North Carolina House of Representatives' 46th and 47th district. [208]

  4. Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Gompers, Chair, Executive Committee. The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada (FOTLU) was a federation of labor unions created on November 15, 1881, at Turner Hall in Pittsburgh. [1] It changed its name to the American Federation of Labor (AFL) on December 8, 1886.

  5. A centuries-old way of learning a trade is hot again in North ...

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    A centuries-old way of learning a trade is hot again in North Carolina. Richard Stradling. August 1, 2024 at 1:20 PM. Wake Technical Community College student Dominic Cavallini spends two days a ...

  6. Columbus, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    FIPS code. 37-13980 [3] GNIS feature ID. 2406301 [2] Website. www.columbusnc.com. Columbus is a town and the county seat of Polk County, [4] North Carolina, United States. The population was 999 at the 2010 census.

  7. Columbian exchange - Wikipedia

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    The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the New World (the Americas) in the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) in the Eastern Hemisphere, in the late 15th and following centuries. [1]

  8. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers - Wikipedia

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    The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union that represents approximately 820,000 workers and retirees [1] in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, [3] Guam, [4] [5] Panama, [6] Puerto Rico, [7] and the US Virgin Islands; [7] in particular electricians, or inside wiremen, in the construction industry and lineworkers and other employees of public ...

  9. Powell House (Fair Bluff, North Carolina) - Wikipedia

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    January 31, 1978. Powell House, also known as The Trading Post and Wooten-Powell House, is a historic home located in Fair Bluff, Columbus County, North Carolina. The original section was built about 1803, and consisted of two equal-sized rooms. Its architectural style is vernacular Federal. It has several mid-to-late 19th century additions ...