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In 1942, at nine years old, Blanche Taylor Moore, born Blanche Kaiser, left the small town

of Tahoeal North Carolina with her family, in search of opportunity in the growing city

of Burlington. Burlington had sprung almost a century before, when in the mid-1800s, that

became a small village built around the office for the North Carolina Railroad, a small community

of simple shops servicing the comings and goings of the train network. By the 1900s, the rail

officers had moved elsewhere and Burlington in order to prosper, moved with the taunt.

Small textile mills opened up, and these factories drew more people to Burlington as work

grew scarce through the Great Depression. As the Second World War approached, the army

started a military tank rebuilding program in Burlington, and the federal government

purchased land to construct an aircraft factory where they built military planes. After

the war, the company Western Electric arrived, adding electronics to the growing military

industry. They built radar equipment and guidance systems for missiles. With the addition of

these new jobs, the years between 1940 and 1950 saw the city's population double from

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