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More than 90% of the functional carpet produced in the world today is made within a radius of the city. The agglomeration of the carpet industry in Dalton can be traced back to a wedding gift given in 1895 by a teenage girl, Catherine Evans Whitener, to her brother, Henry Alexander Evans, and his bride, Elizabeth Cramer. It was said that Singapore even copied Penang’s Chingay processions in order to spice up its own Chinese New Year festivities. [Read More]