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100 unusual facts about North carolina


1913 Atlantic hurricane season

In Farmville, North Carolina, a warehouse collapsed, killing two boys inside.

1992 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship

The final match was played on December 6, 1992 in Davidson, North Carolina at Richardson Stadium.

3rd North Carolina Regiment

The 3rd North Carolina Regiment was raised on 16 January 1776 at Wilmington, North Carolina for service with the Continental Army.

Amos T. Akerman

Upon graduation, Akerman moved south and got a job as a headmaster instructor of a boy’s academy in Murfreesboro, North Carolina, at that time part of Richmond county.

Amy H. Sturgis

Sturgis lives in Granite Falls, North Carolina with her husband, Larry M. Hall, who is Provost at Lenoir-Rhyne University.

André Leon Talley

Talley was born in the community of Hayti, Durham, North Carolina, as the son of Alma Ruth Davis and William C. Talley.

Ashe County High School

Previously, high school students in Ashe County attended either Ashe Central High School in Jefferson, Beaver Creek High School in West Jefferson, or Northwest Ashe High School in Warrensville.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 17

The Business US 17 in Wilmington was the old routing of US 17 through the port city before the partial completion of the Wilmington Bypass, which in part is also designated as Interstate 140.

Beast of Bladenboro

The Beast of Bladenboro refers to the creature responsible for a string of deaths amongst Bladenboro, North Carolina animals in the winter of 1953-54.

Benjamin H. Bunn

He was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

Betty Lynn

In 2006, Lynn retired from acting and relocated to Mount Airy, North Carolina, the hometown of Andy Griffith and the town on which Mayberry is believed to have been based despite Griffith's repeated denials.

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son

FBI agent Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence) is elated to learn that his stepson, Trent Pierce (Brandon T. Jackson), has been accepted to attend Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Biltmore Village

Biltmore Village, formerly Best, is a small village that is now entirely in the city limits of Asheville, North Carolina.

Braggtown

This album was named after Braggtown, a neighborhood located in the northeastern corner of Durham, North Carolina, as Marsalis has been a resident of the Durham area for the past few years.

Brinkley Walser

The firm had its beginning on October 4, 1886, when Zeb Vance Walser of Davidson County was admitted to the Bar of North Carolina and began to practice law in Lexington.

Camp Merrie-Woode

National Register of Historic Places listings in Jackson County, North Carolina

Canonero II

Bred by Edward B. Benjamin in Greensboro, North Carolina, the bay colt was born with a noticeably crooked foreleg, and as such was considered to have no future in racing.

Centennial Olympic Park bombing

After more than five years on the run, Rudolph was arrested on May 31, 2003, in Murphy, North Carolina, by a rookie police officer, Jeffrey Scott Postell of the Murphy Police Department behind a Save-A-Lot store at about 4 a.m.; Postell, on routine patrol, had originally suspected a burglary in progress.

Charlie Poole

Poole was born in Spray, now part of Eden, Rockingham County, in the northern Piedmont region of North Carolina, near the Virginia border.

Chatham Central High School

Chatham Central High School is a public high school located in Bear Creek, North Carolina with a student population of around 450 students.

Chattooga River

The Chattooga headwaters start near Cashiers as a small stream, but Green Creek is the start of the boatable section.

Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance

An investigation revealed that his father had not been a Blackfoot chief, but a school janitor in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Constantine W. Buckley

Buckley was born January 22, 1815 in Surry County, North Carolina, but had moved to Georgia by 1828 where he began working as a store clerk.

Costen Jordan Harrell

Costen was born in 12 February 1885 on his grandfather's plantation, about five miles north of Sunbury, Gates County, North Carolina.

Council of the Southern Mountains

The issues came to a head at the annual meetings at Fontana, North Carolina in 1969, and at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina in 1970.

Cox Mill High School

Land was finally found in the burgeoning Cox Mill area of Concord, near the Odell Community approximately three miles from the Mecklenburg County line.

CSS Cotton Plant

In May 1865, Cotton Plant was surrendered to Union officials near Halifax, North Carolina by parties claiming that she had been appropriated by Confederate authorities.

David zum Brunnen

He is Co-Founder & Producing Director of EbzB Productions, based out of North Carolina, where he resides with his family in Chatham County.

De'Mon Brooks

Brooks, a 6'7" forward born in the U. S. state of Georgia, played high school basketball at Hopewell High School in Huntersville, North Carolina.

Dian Parkinson

Dian Parkinson (born Dianna Lynn Batts on November 30, 1944 in Jacksonville, North Carolina) is a former American model and hostess on The Price Is Right.

Eloise Greenfield

Greenfield was born in Parmele, North Carolina, and grew up in Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression in a housing project called Langston Terrace, named after John Mercer Langston, that provided a warm childhood experience for her.

Elon Phoenix men's basketball

The Elon Phoenix men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents Elon University in Elon, North Carolina, United States.

Erik Liljegren

Before taking his position at the Fox News Channel (FNC), Liljegren served as a general assignment reporter at the Fox affiliate station, WGHP-TV, in High Point, North Carolina from 2003-2005.

Ernie and the Emperors

In 1969 Ernie Joseph changed his musical direction with the driving rock Confusion album, teaming up with brothers "Ruben the Jet" (Brian Faith), Cory (Cory Colt), and drummer Steve Dunwoodie (Stevie D), to tour the southeastern states as Big Brother Ernie Joseph, a tour that included the Love Valley Music Festival near Greensboro, NC).

Falling Creek Camp

Falling Creek Camp was founded as a boys-only camp in southern Henderson County as a brother camp to nearby Camp Greystone - a camp for girls only.

Flat Rock, North Carolina

Flat Rock, Henderson County, North Carolina (an incorporated village with its own zip code and CDP)

Frances Mayes

Now writing full time, she and her poet husband divide their time between homes in Hillsborough, North Carolina and Cortona, Italy, where she serves as the artist director of the annual Tuscan Sun Festival.

Gary Clarke

In July 2003, Clarke and Drury, along with two other The Virginian costars, Roberta Shore and singer Randy Boone, were guests at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Grady Howard

Howard held membership in the North Carolina Beekeepers' Association, handling gallberry and gum honey in several farms in Cedar Creek and Harnett County, North Carolina.

GrapeCity

2009 (USA) Acquired FarPoint Technologies in Morrisville, North Carolina.

Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

It is located in parts of the independent cities of Chesapeake and Suffolk in Virginia, and the counties of Camden, Gates, and Pasquotank in North Carolina.

Gregory Normal School

Gregory Normal School was the first legal school admitting African-American students in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Harry F. Weyher Jr.

Born in Wilson, North Carolina, Weyher attended the University of North Carolina.

Henry B. Chase

Sources conflict as to whether this marriage took place in August 1896 in Catawba, North Carolina, or in 1900 in Hickory, North Carolina.

Henry Berry Lowrie

Several Lowrie cousins, excluded from military service because they were free men of color (also called free blacks), had been conscripted to help build Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, North Carolina.

Hertford County, North Carolina

In 1779 the northeastern part of Hertford County was combined with parts of Chowan County and Perquimans County to form Gates County.

Highly Questionable

Jones, a former North Carolina-based radio show host, was a frequent contributor to the program and Le Batard's daily radio show and moved full-time to Miami to contribute to Highly Questionable.

Hollywood of the East

Hollywood of the East (Informally: Hollywood East) are terms which refer to the film industry of Wilmington, North Carolina and South Eastern North Carolina in general.

Inez and Charlie Foxx

Inez Foxx (born September 9, 1942) and her elder brother Charlie Foxx (October 23, 1939 – September 18, 1998) were an African-American rhythm and blues and soul duo from Greensboro, North Carolina.

James Larkin Pearson

For most of his adult life Pearson lived on his farm, called "Fifty Acres", in Boomer, North Carolina.

Pearson was born on September 13, 1879 in the Brushy Mountains of Wilkes County, North Carolina.

Jim Van Cleve

Jim Van Cleve, born October 12, 1978 in Canton, North Carolina is an American fiddle player, songwriter, session musician, and producer.

Joey Calderazzo

Now a resident of Wake Forest, North Carolina, Calderazzo continues to perform as a solo pianist, at the head of a trio, and as a member of the Branford Marsalis Quartet.

John Evans Brown

On his father's land in Asheville, he came to considerable wealth due to the mining of mica.

Jonathan Linton

Prior to entering the NFL, Linton played high-school football at Catasauqua High School in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania and college football at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Jones Gap State Park

From 1840 to 1848, the self-taught mountain road builder Solomon Jones (1802-1899) cut a toll road from Caesars Head, South Carolina, to Cedar Mountain, North Carolina.

Keith P. Williams

A real estate broker and developer from Hubert, North Carolina, Williams is currently (2003-2004 session) serving in his first term in the state House.

Ken Huff

Currently Huff is the owner of an award winning, custom home building company in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Kenly

Kenly, North Carolina, town in Johnston and Wilson counties, North Carolina, United States

Lenny Roberts

Leonard Roberts was born on September 18, 1922 in Price, North Carolina.

Maggie Jeffus

Margaret A. Moore Jeffus (born October 22, 1934) is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's fifty-ninth House district, including constituents in Guilford county.

Mandie

She was born on June 6, 1888 and grew up in a log cabin in Swain County, North Carolina, with her beloved father Jim Shaw, her stepmother Etta, and her stepsister Irene in this slight adaptation to the Cinderella fairy tale.

Marshall Plumlee

Marshall Plumlee played all four years of his high school basketball career at Christ School in Arden, North Carolina, and was the only Plumlee brother to win four state championships during his time there.

Miles Plumlee

Plumlee attended high school at Christ School in Arden, North Carolina, where he led the school to a 63–6 record as a junior and senior.

MINIs on the Dragon

MINIs on the Dragon is an annual gathering of MINI Coopers in Robbinsville, North Carolina.

Mississippian culture

At Joara, near Morganton, North Carolina, Native Americans of the Mississippian culture interacted with Spanish explorers of the Juan Pardo expedition, who built a base there in 1567 called Fort San Juan.

Mordecai House

Jacob Mordecai, Moses' father, founded a girls' school in Warrenton, North Carolina.

Newport River

The Newport River is a small river in North Carolina that runs approximately twenty kilometers southeast through the town of Newport with its mouth opening into Bogue Sound, between Morehead City and Beaufort.

Nikkie Groat

Nikkie Groat is a beauty queen from Matthews, North Carolina who has competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant.

Norman Lloyd Johnson

Norman Lloyd Johnson (9 January 1917, Ilford, Essex, England – 18 November 2004, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA) was a professor of statistics and author or editor of several standard reference works in statistics and probability theory.

Nutbush

Nutbush Township, Warren County, North Carolina, one of twelve townships in Warren County, North Carolina

Oliver Smithies

Smithies is the first full professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to receive a Nobel Prize.

Owen Burns

The county seat, Burnsville, North Carolina is named for Owen's grandfather, Otway Burnes, Sr., a privateer naval hero and legislator, and the town of Otway, in Carteret County, North Carolina also is named for him.

Pohl Trial

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal II, were Robert M. Toms (presiding judge) from Detroit, Michigan, Fitzroy Donald Phillips from North Carolina, Michael A. Musmanno from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and John J. Speight from Alabama as an alternate judge.

Polish–Romanian Alliance

Michael Alfred Peszke, The Polish Underground Army, The Western Allies, And The Failure Of Strategic Unity in World War II, McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2004, p.

Pure-N-Heart

Members of Pure-N-Heart originate from the Upstate and includes membership in Augusta, Georgia and Charlotte, North Carolina.

Ray Willis

Ray Willis is married to the former Kimberly Pettaway of Tarboro, North Carolina.

Regina Regina

The duo consisted of female singers Regina Leigh and Regina Nicks, respectively natives of North Carolina and Houston, Texas.

Remington Arms

Corporate Headquarters: The corporate headquarters for Remington Arms is located at Madison, North Carolina.

Robert P. Dick

He was in private practice in Wentworth, North Carolina from 1845 to 1848, and in Greensboro from 1848 to 1853.

Rod Broadway

Born April 9, 1955 in Oakboro, North Carolina, Rod Broadway is the ninth head football coach at Division I-AA/FCS powerhouse Grambling State University.

Saffron Sky

"This lyrical memoir evinces the author's passion for constructing an American life with the spiritual fervor and deeply aesthetic rituals that were part of her childhood in Iran. Asayesh, who immigrated to North Carolina as a girl, writes too of her struggle to arrive at an acceptable sexuality in the face of parental panic, and tells of her frustration, during later trips to post-Shah Iran, with "the sisters," the Ayatollah's ubiquitous enforcers of female modesty."

Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival

The Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival is a music and dance festival that takes place each spring and fall in Silk Hope, North Carolina, near Chapel Hill.

Smithfield Foods

Headquartered in Smithfield, Virginia, it runs facilities in 26 U.S. states, including the largest slaughterhouse and meat-processing plant in the world, located in Tar Heel, North Carolina.

Tanglewood International Tennis Classic

The Tanglewood International Tennis Classic was a men's tennis tournament played in Clemmons, North Carolina from 1971-1973.

Tawl Ross

Lucius "Tawl" Ross (born October 5, 1948, in Wagram, North Carolina) was the rhythm guitarist for Funkadelic from 1968 to 1971 and played on their first three albums.

Three in the Attic

Much of Three in the Attic was filmed at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Tim Kirkman

Writer and director Tim Kirkman was born on November 2, 1966 in Monroe, North Carolina, the third child of a public school educator and a music teacher, and spent his childhood in nearby Wingate, North Carolina.

Timeline of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season

EDT (0000 UTC) – Tropical Storm Agnes emerges into the Atlantic Ocean near Nags Head, North Carolina.

United Family Services

United Family Service (UFS) is a not-for-profit, family service organization based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with offices in Concord, Huntersville, Monroe and Mooresville, NC.

W. Kerr Scott

Scott died in Burlington, North Carolina on April 16, 1958 and is buried in Hawfields Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Mebane, North Carolina.

WBZJ

This station also ran a country format, simulcasting with WKXU in Burlington as "Kix 96.9 and 101.1".

West Lincoln High School

West Lincoln High School (WLHS) is located in Lincoln County, North Carolina, outside Vale, North Carolina.

Whaleyville, Virginia

The Lumber Mill at Whaleyville closed in 1919, and moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina.

When the Light Is Mine: The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982–1987

# "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" (Howard Libov, shot December 1983 at Reflection Studios, Charlotte, NC)

William Dathan Holbert

William Dathan Holbert, also known as Wild Bill, is a self-confessed serial killer from Hendersonville, North Carolina.

William E. Ingram, Jr.

# February 1995 – April 1997, Rear Operations Officer, 139th Support Detachment, Morrisville, North Carolina

# December 1982 – July 1984, S-3 Air, 1st Battalion, 119th Infantry, Ahoskie, North Carolina

# February 1998 – July 1998, Commander, 139th Support Detachment, Morrisville, North Carolina

WNOB

WNOB began broadcasting in 1974 under the callsign WMYK, a nod to the then community of license Moyock, North Carolina, playing an album rock format.


1822 in the United States

July 1 to 3 – US House of Representatives elections begin in Louisiana and continue until the last elections are held in North Carolina on August 14, 1823.

Ali Baba's Tahini

The following year, the original lineup of the band (Engelmann/Cinninger/Krojniewski) reunited in the North Carolina mountains to record the album Rockstars and Lawnmowers.

Anthony Foriest

In March 2012, Foriest filed to run in the newly redrawn North Carolina's 6th congressional district, held by Republican U.S. Congressman Howard Coble.

He is currently seeking the US House of Representatives seat held by Republican incumbent Howard Coble in North Carolina's 6th congressional district.

Argopecten gibbus

The Atlantic calico scallop lives in the ocean (it is not found in bays) east of Cape Lookout and southwest of Beaufort Inlet and lives in up to 100-foot depths.

Conrad Lynn

In 1958, Lynn became involved in the highly publicized North Carolina "Kissing Case", involving a pair of African American boys, 7 and 9 years old, who were jailed, convicted of rape, and sentenced to reform school until age 21 after they playfully kissed (or were kissed by) a white girl as part of a game.

Crawford County, Missouri

Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) still received 2.61 percent of the vote in Crawford County.

CSS Cotton Plant

On May 5, 1864 she steamed as convoy to Albemarle from the Roanoke River en route to the Alligator River.

Dana Summers

He began his career as an editorial cartoonist, first as a freelancer, then with The Fayetteville (North Carolina) Times, and then with the Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald (now the Dayton Daily News).

East Mecklenburg High School

Local rivals of East Mecklenburg include Butler High School, Providence High School and Myers Park High School.

Fayetteville Municipal Airport

Fayetteville Municipal Airport (North Carolina), now known as Fayetteville Regional Airport, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States (FAA: FAY)

Franklin County, Missouri

Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) still received 2.96 percent of the vote in Franklin County.

GO!radiorock

The first song broadcast on radio was "The first part", the second track on the album Foolish, from the American band Superchunk, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Gonionemus vertens

In the United States, Gonionemus vertens specimen have been found on the Pacific coast, from The Aleutian Islands to Southern California, and on the Atlantic coast, from Massachusetts to North Carolina.

Great Balsam Mountains

The most famous peak in the Great Balsam range is Cold Mountain, which is the centerpiece of author Charles Frazier's bestselling novel Cold Mountain.

Harry Deal and the Galaxies

Harry Deal and the Galaxies is a rock and roll band formed in Taylorsville, North Carolina, United States, in 1959.

I Wonder as I Wander

While in the town of Murphy in Appalachian North Carolina, Niles attended a fundraising meeting held by evangelicals who had been ordered out of town by the police.

Jack Russell Weinstein

A chance meeting with Richard Simmons, at Detroit Metro Airport reportedly led Weinstein to propose to Donehower and the two were married in January, 2003, in Donehower’s home town of Asheville, North Carolina.

Jane P. Gray

Jane P. Gray is a North Carolina judge and candidate for the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the 2010 election.

Jennifer Loven

A Matthews, North Carolina native, Loven graduated from East Mecklinburg High School and then attended University of Virginia and Northwestern University, where she was graduated from the Medill School of Journalism.

Kate Taylor

Kate was born in Boston and grew up with her four brothers in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where her father was Dean of the medical school at the University of North Carolina.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

Gilkey attended elementary school at the University of Chicago Laboratory School, and in 1936 graduated from the Asheville School for Boys in North Carolina.

Laurel Creek Gorge Bridge

The Laurel Creek Gorge Bridge is a continuous steel Plate girder bridge that spans Laurel Creek on Interstate 26/U.S. Route 19/U.S. Route 23 between Asheville, North Carolina and Johnson City, Tennessee.

Len Lacy

There were six Lacy grandchildren, residing as of 1998 in five states: J. Russell Barnes, M.D. (born 1952), of Vicksburg, Mississippi, David Lacy Barnes, M.D. (born November 11, 1954), of Monroe; Terry Ainsworth Evans of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Martha Ainsworth Healey of Edmond, Oklahoma, Stephen C. Carrow of Tulsa, and T. Scott Carrow of Jacksonville, Florida.

Lenny Cooke

Cooke himself had other options for basketball: North Carolina, Seton Hall, St. John's, Miami and Ohio State.

Mabel Hampton

Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on May 2, 1902, Hampton was only two months old when her mother died.

North Carolina Superior Court

The first three judges elected by the North Carolina General Assembly were Samuel Ashe of New Hanover County, Samuel Spencer of Anson County, and future U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Iredell of Chowan County.

North Carolina–NC State football rivalry

However, following Sheridan's retirement from coaching, North Carolina went on another seven-game winning streak, leaving NC State head coach Mike O'Cain winless against Tar Heels coaches Mack Brown and Carl Torbush.

North Carolina's 4th congressional district

The presence of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Duke University, as well as a large African-American population in Durham County help contribute to the liberal nature of the 4th district.

Peroxwhy?gen

gen (pronounced peroxygen) are a two-piece American rock band based in North Carolina and formed by professional wrestlers Jeff Hardy and Shannon Moore.

Petersburg, Madison County, North Carolina

Petersburg is an unincorporated community on North Carolina Highway 213, in south-central Madison County, North Carolina.

Richard Jadick

Jadick was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve, assigned as a battalion surgeon to the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment of the 2nd Marine Division from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Richard N. Hackett

He was unsuccessful in a run for the U.S. Congress in 1896, but won a seat ten years later representing North Carolina's 8th congressional district in the 60th United States Congress (defeating incumbent Republican E. Spencer Blackburn).

Richard Tufts

Born in Medford, Massachusetts, he was a grandson of James Walker Tufts, the founder of Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina, which was long America's preeminent golf resort.

Saint Francis' Satyr

It is a subspecies of N. mitchellii and is only known from a single metapopulation on Fort Bragg military base in Hoke and Cumberland Counties.

Smoke on the Mountain

The setting is in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina Baptist church in 1938 and it revolves around the Sanders family.

Stanly Community College

Stanly Community College (SCC) is one of 58 community colleges in the North Carolina (NC) Community College System (NCCCS).

Tanisha Brito

She competed in the Miss USA 2005 pageant held in Baltimore, Maryland on 11 April 2005, but failed to make the cut at the nationally televised pageant, which was won by Chelsea Cooley of North Carolina.

Tina Tyus-Shaw

She worked a series of radio and television jobs in Macon, Georgia; North Carolina; and Columbus, Georgia, before settling in Savannah in 1992.

Vinegar Bend, Alabama

Wilmer "Vinegar Bend" Mizell, Major League Baseball pitcher and U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, was born across the state line in Mississippi but the family's residence was on the Vinegar Bend, AL mail route therefore Vinegar Bend was recorded as his birthplace and he was nicknamed for the community.

Winston-Salem Entertainment-Sports Complex

BB&T Ballpark is also part of the complex and is located in downtown at the intersection of Business 40 and North Carolina Highway 150.