Hickory, North Carolina

Hickory, United States

Hickory, North Carolina participates in 40 Bunkabop connections with 3020 other places across 11 topics, spanning sports, transportation, government, and industry. Many connections overlap with North Carolina, California, and San Francisco. In 1944, the Catawba Valley around Hickory became the center of one of the worst recorded polio outbreaks. The city also houses one of the oldest furniture manufacturers in the United States still operating on its original site, and was the first municipality in North Carolina to hire a city manager, in 1913.