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The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is the oldest State University in the United States.
Cape Hatteras is the largest lighthouse ever to be moved due to erosion problems.
The first English colony in America was located on Roanoke Island. Walter Raleigh founded it. The colony mysteriously vanished with no trace except for the word "Croatoan" scrawled on a nearby tree.
Krispy Kreme Doughnut was founded in Winston-Salem.
The Venus Fly-Trap is native to Hampstead.
Babe Ruth hit his first home run in Fayetteville on March 7, 1914.
The first English child born in America was born in Roanoke in 1587. Her name was Virginia Dare.
Pepsi was invented and first served in New Bern in 1898.
James K. Polk, born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, was the eleventh President of the United States.