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Some of the most rare and valuable rifles in the world will be on exhibit Tuesday at Robbins [NC] Town Hall. Popularly known as Kentucky Rifles, these long guns are considered to be among the most beautiful examples of early American art as well. A new coffee-table book published last fall by Asheboro attorney William W. Ivey tells the history of North Carolina long rifles in 332 pages, with more than 1,000 color illustrations. He will be on hand for the 6 p.m. event to talk about the first school of Carolina gunsmithing, the “Bear Creek” school that began not a mile from the town hall. On a hillside above Bear Creek in the 18th century, a Pennsylvanian by the name of Alexander Kennedy started the rifle factory that came to bear his name. Robbins became known as Mechanics Hill, and generations of Kennedys drew water power from a mill on that creek to run the drills that bored the long octagonal barrels of their guns…
http://www.thepilot.com/news/2011/may/15/rare-rifle-exhibit-tuesday-robbins/
