Neat things about North Carolinia....
The Wright brothers completed the first successful flight of a mechanically propelled airplane over the sands of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903.
The University of North Carolina was the first public university in the United States to open its doors.
The first known miniature golf course was in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run in Fayetteville on March 7, 1914.
The first English child born in America, Virginia Dare, was born in Roanoke, North Carolina, in 1587.
Many people believe that North Carolina was the first state to declare independence from England with the Mecklenburg Declaration of 1775.
Cabarrus County, North Carolina, was the site of America's first gold rush.
What was probably the first drawbridge built in the United States was built over the Cape Fear River.
The first state art museum in the country is located in Raleigh.
The first Pepsi was created and served in New Bern, North Carolina in 1898