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John Ruch lived here. He came to Franklin County in 1872 from Ohio. In 1892, with the aid of J. B. Killebrew, agricultural agent of the N. C. and St. L. Railroad and former State Commissioner of Agriculture, he imported from France the first crimson clover seed, thereby founding a new industry and adding materially to the economy of the region.
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