North Carolina State Information From Americas Home Place
The state of North Carolina has 100 counties whose capital is
Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte. It is a fast-growing state with an increasingly diverse economy and population. North Carolina recognizes eight Native American tribes making it the largest population of Native Americans of any state east of the Mississippi River. The sate is surrounded by
South Carolina,
Georgia,
Tennessee, and
Virginia.
Facts about the sate of North Carolina:
- The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is the oldest State University in the United States.
- In 1903 the Wright Brothers made the first successful powered flight by man at Kill Devil Hill near Kitty Hawk. The Wright Memorial at Kitty Hawks now commemorates their achievement.
- High Point is known as the Furniture Capital of the World.
- Know as "Fish Town" in the early 1700's when Blackbeard frequented the coast, "Beaufort Town" was established as a seaport with the right to collect customs, in 1722.
- The Outer Banks of NC hosts some of the most beautiful beaches in the country.
- 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.
- The University of North Carolina's mascot, the Tarheels, is a nickname for North Carolinians that supposedly came from the days when NC produced a lot of tar, and someone saw a set of footprints made by someone who had stepped in the tar.
- North Carolina was the first state in the nation to establish a state museum of art.
- Havelock is home of Marine Base "Cherry Point." It is the largest air base in the Marine Corps.
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