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NORTH
CAROLINA
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First
In Flight
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| Asheville |
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| Charlotte |
| Durham |
| Fayetteville
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| Greensboro |
| Wilmington |
| Winston-Salem |
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| First
Gold Nugget |
The Great Smokey
Mountains of North Carolina. (Photo courtesy of Chris Haven)
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North Carolina
was one of the original thirteen colonies. Many think North
Carolina was the first to declare its independence from Great
Britian in 1775. North Carolina became the twelfth state of
the Union on November 21, 1789 and remained so until the outbreak
of the Civil War. It joined the Confederate States of America
in 1861 and lost 40,000 of its citizens in the fighting. Following
the Civil War, North Carolina was re-admitted to the Union
in 1868.
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| Biltmore
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| Brown
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| North Carolina is situated
north of South Carolina, east of Tennessee, south of Virginia
and to its east is the Atlantic Ocean coastline. |
| NORTH
CAROLINA FACTS: |
| In 1799, the
first gold
nugget found in the United States was found near present-day
Charlotte on a farm that would later become the Reed Gold
Mine. |
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The Wright Brothers
flew the first heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty
Hawk, North Carolina in 1903. |
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The largest house in America
is the Biltmore House
in Asheville, North Carolina. |
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For hundreds of
years the Brown
Mountain Lights have mystified people near Morganton,
North Carolina and they still do. So far, science has not
be able to explain them. |
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