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North Carolina

The Tar Heel State

 

Capital City: Raleigh
Area: 53821 sq.mi, 28th Land 48718 sq. mi., 29th - Water 5103 sq.mi., 10th
Coastline 301 mi., 7th - Shoreline 3,375 mi., 6th
Bird: Cardinal
Flower: American Dogwood
Statehood: November 21, 1789
Tree: Longleaf Pine

Facts about North Carolina

  • The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is the oldest State University in the United States.
     
  • High Point, is known as the Furniture Captial of the World.
     
  • Beaufort, is home of Blackbeard, the Pirate.
     
  • The Outer Banks of NC hosts some of the most beautiful beaches in the country.
     
  • Kitty Hawk, located on the Outer banks, is where the Wright Brothers first took flight.
     
  • Whitewater Falls in Transylvania County is the highest waterfall in the eastern United States.
     
  • Cape Hatteras is the largest lighthouse ever to be moved due to erosion problems.
  • Havelock, is home of Marine Base "Cherry Point." This is the largest air base in the Marine Corps.
     
  • The first English colony in America was located on Roanoke Island. It was founded by Walter Raleigh. It mysteriously vanished with no trace except for the word "Croatoan" scrawled on a nearby tree.
     
  • The first English child born in America, Virginia Dare, was born in Roanoke in 1587.
  • Pepsi was invented and first served in New Bern in 1898.
     
  • North Carolina has 78,000 miles of paved road, more than any other state.
     
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    Counties

    Alamance Albermarle Alexander Alleghany
    Anson Ashe Avery Bath
    Beaufort Bertie Bladen Brunswick
    Buncombe Burke Bute Cabarrus
    Caldwell Camden Carteret Caswell
    Catawba Chatham Cherokee Chowan
    Clay Cleveland Columbus Craven
    Cumberland Currituck Dare Davidson
    Davie Duplin Durham Edgecombe
    Forsyth Franklin Gaston Gates
    Graham Granville Greene Guilford
    Halifax Hartnett Haywood Henderson
    Hertford Hoke Hyde Iredell
    Jackson Johnston Jones Lee
    Lenoir Lincoln Macon Madison
    Martin McDowell Mecklenburg Mitchell
    Montgomery Moore Nash New Hanover
    Northampton Onslow Orange Pamlico
    Pasquotank Pender Perquimans Person
    Pitt Polk Randolph Richmond
    Robeson Rockingham Rowan Rutherford
    Sampson Scotland Stanly Stokes
    Surry Swain Tyrrell Transylvania
    Union Vance Wake Warren
    Washington Watauga Wayne Wilkes
    Wilson Yadkin Yancey  

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