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The North Wilkesboro Speedway was the first NASCAR ( National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing ) track ; it held its first race on May 18, 1947 As noted above, Wilkes County native and resident Junior Johnson was one of the early superstars of NASCAR, as well as a legendary moonshiner.
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The following year, Earnhardt won five times, but a late spin out at North Wilkesboro arguably cost him the 1989 championship, as Rusty Wallace edged out Earnhardt for the championship.
One of his wins that year came at North Wilkesboro, in a race where Harry Gant had a chance to set a single-season record by winning his fifth consecutive race, breaking a record held by Earnhardt.
Its county seat is Wilkesboro, and its largest town is North Wilkesboro.
Wilkes County is also a part of the North Wilkesboro Micropolitan Area.
The county is divided into twenty-two townships: Antioch, Beaver Creek, Boomer, Brushy Mountains, Edwards, Elk Creek, Hays, Jobs Cabin, Lewis Fork, Lovelace, Moravian Falls, Mulberry, New Castle, North Wilkesboro, Rock Creek, Somers, Stanton, Traphill, Union, Walnut Grove, Millers Creek and Wilkesboro.
* North Wilkesboro ( largest town )
In May of each year, Wilkes county celebrates the new wine industry with the Shine to Wine Festival, held in downtown North Wilkesboro.
The North Wilkesboro Speedway was closed following the 1996 NASCAR season after two new owners, Bob Bahre and Bruton Smith, moved North Wilkesboro's NASCAR races to their tracks in Texas and New Hampshire.
Held in downtown North Wilkesboro in September, this rock festival features 20 professional and amateur bands from across the region, performing original music and competing for cash awards and, in some cases, record labels.
It also hosts the annual Shine to Wine Festival, also in downtown North Wilkesboro.
Wilkes County is also home to the annual Brushy Mountain Apple Festival, which is held in downtown North Wilkesboro the first weekend in October.
The Carolina Mirror Company in North Wilkesboro, founded in the 1930s, was for many years the largest mirror factory in America.
Today Gardner Glass Products Inc. still produces mirrors in North Wilkesboro.
Recent consolidations of area furniture facilities ( Thomasville, Taylorsville, North Wilkesboro, etc.
Wilkesboro is a town in and the county seat of Wilkes County, North Carolina.
The town is located along the south bank of the Yadkin River, directly opposite the larger town of North Wilkesboro.
Wilkesboro is the home of Wilkes Community College, a public, coed, two-year college within the North Carolina Community College System.
Wilkesboro is served by several media sources based in near-by North Wilkesboro.
Wilkesboro is also served by the larger Winston-Salem Journal out of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Wilkes County's two largest radio stations are broadcast from North Wilkesboro: WKBC-FM ( 97. 3 FM ) broadcasts Adult Contemporary ( hot AC ) and WKBC ( AM ) ( 800 AM ) broadcasts American Country music.
North and Speedway
Earnhardt began his professional career at the Winston Cup in 1975, making his debut at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina in the longest race on the Cup circuit, the World 600.
Childress ' second-year Busch Series driver Kevin Harvick was named as Earnhardt's replacement driver, beginning with the race following Earnhardt's death held at the North Carolina Speedway.
Park won the very next NASCAR Winston Cup race: The Dura Lube 400 at North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, NC held on February 26, 2001.
* June 19 – Glenn Dunnaway wins the inaugural NASCAR race at Charlotte Speedway, a 3 / 4 mile oval in Charlotte, North Carolina, but is disqualified due to illegal springs.
* Orange County Speedway, a race track, formerly used by NASCAR, in Orange County, North Carolina
* Charlotte Motor Speedway, an auto racing track located in Concord, North Carolina ( in the Charlotte metropolitan area )
* Charlotte Motor Speedway, a speedway in Concord, North Carolina, north of Charlotte
East Carolina Motor Speedway opened its first season in 1989 with the thoughts of having a much needed attraction for racing fans throughout Eastern North Carolina.
Rockingham is the home of Rockingham Speedway, formerly the North Carolina Speedway, which was a staple of the NASCAR schedule for nearly 40 years, before the race was discontinued in 2004.
* North Wilkesboro Speedway
The intention was to make it the fourth largest stadium in the world ( in terms of seating capacity ), after the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the USA ( 297, 000 capacity ), the Rungrado May Day Stadium in North Korea ( 150, 000 capacity ) and the Salt Lake Stadium in India ( 120, 000 capacity ).
* North Wilkesboro Speedway, a track that was the site of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racing until closing in 1996, the track reopened in 2010 and will hold a USARacing event.
The next season, he ran seven races and had his first top-five finish at North Carolina Speedway.
The controversy lies in two races: the 1971 Myers Brothers 250 held at Bowman Gray Stadium ( Winston-Salem, North Carolina ), and the 1973 National 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
The 1973 National 500 was held October 7, 1973 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina.
He had already won the second race of the season Feb 28th 1993 at North Carolina Motor Speedway but also a sad one as his friend and reigning NASCAR Champion Alan Kulwicki was killed flying into Bristol Speedway in April 1993, because of this Rusty won the race at Bristol and in respect to Alan Kulwicki he did a " Polish victory lap "— turning his car around and driving around the track the wrong way, as made famous by Kulwicki.
He was also the last driver to win a race and lap the field, in the fall 1994 race at North Wilkesboro Speedway.
Three spectators were fatally injured after a tire went into the grandstands during a race at Lowe's Motor Speedway in North Carolina.
Charlotte Motor Speedway is a motorsports complex located in Concord, North Carolina, United States 13 miles from Charlotte, North Carolina.
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For over a hundred years Southerners have felt that the North was picking on them.
In the pre-Civil War years, the South argued that the slave was not less humanely treated than the factory worker of the North.
Mr. Justice Taney's Dred Scott decision in 1857 was unpopular in the North, and soon became a dead letter.
it was visiting University of North Carolina alumni in New York to ask them for contributions to the Graham Memorial Building fund.
Pope was convicted last year of having aided North Celebes rebels by flying bombing missions.
It was the opinion of some of us that these must be part of the Committeemen who had been in the Battle of the North Bridge, which entitled them to a sort of veteran status, and we felt that if they employed this tactic, it was likely enough the best one.
more doubtful, but possible, ( with an assist from the North ) was the neutralization of the Latin American countries ; ;
His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.
The ship's compass was useless because of the nearness of the magnetic North Pole.
For he seemed to sense at once that before him was no South Sea, but the solid bulk of the North American continent.
Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.
O'Banion was born in poverty, the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer, in the North Side's Little Hell, close by the Sicilian quarter and Death Corner.
In his teens O'Banion was enrolled in the vicious Market Street gang and he became a singing waiter in McGovern's Cafe, a notoriously low and rowdy dive in North Clark Street, where befuddled customers were methodically looted of their money by the singing waiters before being thrown out.
Within about an hour with the help of reports from seismic stations in Alaska, Arizona and California, the quake's epicenter was placed at 51 degrees North latitude and 158 degrees East longitude.
Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.
The regiment was dug in on the east side of the river and the North Koreans were steadily building up a concentration of crack troops on the other side.
There was Sounder, too, also a veteran of the North Rim, and Rastus and the Rake from a pack of English fox-hounds, and a collie from a London pound, and Simba, a terrier.
He was born in the North and did his military training in the South.
He was also, if Pam North was right, a closer acquaintance of Lauren Payne's than she, now, was inclined to admit.
Miss Shirley Joan Meredith, a former student of North Texas State University, was married Saturday to Larry W. Mills, who has attended Arlington State College.
The victim, Norman B. Wiley, 38, of the 900 block North Charles Street, was treated for cuts at Franklin Square Hospital after the robbery.
A 62-year-old Smithfield man, Lester E. Stone of 19 Beverly Circle, was in satisfactory condition last night at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, North Providence, with injuries suffered when a car he was driving struck a utility pole on Woonasquatucket Avenue in North Providence near Stevens Street.
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