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100 unusual facts about North Carolina


1992 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship

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

1994 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship

The final match was played on December 11, 1994 in Davidson, North Carolina at Richardson Stadium for the third straight year.

36th parallel north

Cities and landmarks close to the parallel include Kettleman City, California; Henderson, Nevada; Hoover Dam; South Rim of the Grand Canyon; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Nashville, Tennessee; Knoxville, Tennessee; Winston-Salem, North Carolina; High Point, North Carolina; Greensboro, North Carolina; Durham, North Carolina; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and others.

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.

Adlai Stevenson I

John Turner Stevenson's grandfather, William was born in Roxburgh, Scotland then migrated to and from Ulster around 1748, settling first in Pennsylvania and then in North Carolina in the County of Iredell.

Alexander Campbell King

King died soon thereafter, in Flat Rock, North Carolina.

Amy Steinberg

She currently lives in Matthews, North Carolina with her two dogs, Luna and Tiki and her two cats, Ico and Doodie-Dot,

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.

Bertha Merrill Holt

After World War II Bertha and Clary Holt moved to Burlington, North Carolina, and raised three children, a daughter, Harriet, and two sons, Merrill and Jefferson Holt.

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.

Biltmore Village

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

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.

Burl Noggle

Noggle was born to the late Walter Farris Noggle and the former Annie Bell Greene in rural Bostic in Rutherford County in western 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.

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.

Clifton Williams

They were married on July 1, 1964, in St. Paul's Catholic Church in New Bern, North Carolina, which was Lansche's hometown.

Congregational Christian Churches

The Christians founded schools such as Ohio's Defiance College and Antioch College and North Carolina's Elon University; during the early 20th century, an academy and seminary for African-Americans operated in Franklinton, 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.

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.

Dave Fuller

Fuller attended Wake Forest University in Wake Forest, North Carolina, where he played for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football, Demon Deacons basketball and Demon Deacons baseball teams.

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Fuller tried his hand at coaching, first as the head football, basketball and baseball coach at Perquimans County High School in Hertford, North Carolina from 1940 to 1942, and then as an assistant football coach for the backfield at Northwest Missouri State Teacher's College in Maryville, Missouri in 1943.

David N. Henderson

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->B.S., Wallace High School, Wallace, North Carolina, 1938.

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.

Double Barrel Benefit

Double Barrel Benefit (DBB), is WKNC-FM's annual fundraiser that provides for two nights of music from local North Carolina based bands.

Doyle Lawson

Every year Doyle hosts the Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver Festival in Denton, North Carolina.

Eastridge Mall

Eastridge Mall (Gastonia) a mall in Gastonia, North Carolina formerly known (2002-2013) as Westfield Eastridge

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.

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.

False Cape

False Cape is located along the section of ocean adjacent to North Carolina and a small portion of Virginia known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic due to the many shipwrecks.

Flat Rock, North Carolina

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

Folk Art Center

She founded Allanstand Cottage Industries in 1897 in Madison County, North Carolina.

Gene Monahan

After retiring from the Yankees, Monahan moved from his home in Hackensack, New Jersey to Mooresville, North Carolina, where he now works as a consultant for Hendrick Motorsports.

George A. Slater

George Atwood Slater (September 2, 1867 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut – February 23, 1937 in Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

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.

Harry J. Brooks

A first attempt launched on 24 January 1928, witnessed by Henry Ford, landed short in a forced landing at Asheville, 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.

Henry River Mill Village

Henry River Mill Village is a small textile village in Burke County, North Carolina.

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.

Jack Hogan

Jack Hogan is an American actor, born November 25, 1929 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

James City, North Carolina

It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

James Larkin Pearson

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

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.

Joanne W. Bowie

Joanne W. Bowie was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's fifty-seventh House district, including constituents in Guilford county.

John Archdale

The city of Archdale, North Carolina, which began as a Quaker settlement, was named for him because Archdale was himself a Quaker.

John Blust

John Marshall Blust (born June 4, 1954) is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly, representing the state's sixty-second House district, including constituents in Guilford county.

John Evans Brown

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

John Scott, Jr.

Scott entered the coaching ranks in 2001 as a defensive line coach at West Davidson High School in Tyro, North Carolina.

Junaluska salamander

The Junaluska salamander (Eurycea junaluska) was first described by David M. Sever, who found the species in the range from the Cheoah River, Santeetlah Creek, and Tululah Creek in Graham County of North Carolina.

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.

Keeth Smart

Keeth married Shyra (Cooper) Smart on May 27, 2007 in Chapel Hill, 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.

KTBQ

Weekday personalities include John Boy & Billy (based out of Charlotte, North Carolina) on mornings, Lisa on mid-days, Jen Austin on afternoons, and Lu Valentino (based out of Denver, Colorado) on evenings.

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 Roberts

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

Lizard Lick Towing

The show is a spin-off of the truTV series All Worked Up, and follows Ron, Amy, Bobby and their team of repossession agents in Wendell, North Carolina (the town that has jurisdiction over the Lizard Lick unincorporated area).

Mabel Hampton

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

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.

Marian N. McLawhorn

Marian Nelson McLawhorn is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's ninth House district since 1999, including constituents in Pitt County.

Michael A. Gorman

Michael A. Gorman (July 9, 1950 – December 2, 2012) was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's third House district, including constituents in Craven and Pamlico counties, from 2003-2004.

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.

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.

North Carolina General Assembly of 2013–14

McManus represented the 54th House District, which includes all of Chatham County and parts of Lee County.

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.

Oliver Smithies

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

Phoenix14news

Phoenix14News is a student-run newscast and one of several media organizations that are a part of ESTV at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina.

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.

Powder Horn Mountain

Powder Horn Mountain (PMH) is a gated residential/resort community in Triplett, Watauga County, North Carolina, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Ray Willis

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

Remington Arms

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

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.

Ronald J. Rabin

Ronald Joseph Rabin (born May 16, 1932) is a Republican state senator in the state of North Carolina, representing the 12th district, encompassing Harnett, Johnston, Lee Counties.

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."

Steve Goss

He represented the 45th Senate district, including constituents in Alexander, Ashe, Watauga, and Wilkes counties.

Still Live after All These Years

Still Live after All These Years is a live album from North Carolina music group, Nantucket, recorded November 29, 1991 with all six original band members at a night club called The Longbranch in Raleigh, 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.

The Hutchens

The Hutchens was an American country music trio from Sandy Ridge, North Carolina composed of brothers Barry, Bill and Bryan Hutchens.

The School Of Alternatives

The School Of Alternatives, also known as The HUB, is an alternative school in Jackson County, North Carolina for grades K-12 which deals with students who are disabled or have social/behavioral issues in the other county schools.

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.

University, North Carolina

University, Orange County, North Carolina a small, unincorporated settlement in Orange County, North Carolina

Vicks

In 1890, pharmacist Lunsford Richardson took over the retail drug business of his brother-in-law Dr. Joshua Vick, of Greensboro, North Carolina.

WBZJ

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

Whaleyville, Virginia

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

Wilbur Wade Card

Card was born in Franklinton, North Carolina on October 29, 1873 to Sabert Henry Card and Cecilia Bennett Fuller.

William Aiken, Jr.

Aiken died at Flat Rock, NC, September 6, 1887, and was interred in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C. His house, the Aiken-Rhett House, is part of the Historic Charleston foundation.

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

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.

WRSF

In 1986 the station moved its studios and offices to Kill Devil Hills in the Nags Head Resort area of Dare County and became a live adult contemporary format as WRSF, Surf 106.

WYMY

WBBB-FM signed on at 101.3 in 1946 as a sister station to WBBB in Burlington, North Carolina.


Al-Huda Islamic Academy

Charlotte Islamic Academy is a junior kindergarten to grade 12, private Islamic school in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Anthony Foriest

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.

Battle of Averasborough

The Battle of Averasborough or The Battle of Averasboro, fought March 16, 1865, in Harnett and Cumberland counties, North Carolina, as part of the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War, was a prelude to the climactic Battle of Bentonville, which began three days later.

Carolina heelsplitter

Historically the Carolina heelsplitter was known to be found in the Catawba River and Pee Dee River systems in North Carolina, and the Pee Dee and Savannah River systems of South Carolina.

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.

Clachan, Kintyre

Once the home of Coll McAlester, who led the first large settlement of highlanders in North Carolina at Cross Creek in the Cape Fear River valley in 1739, and later the home of Sir William Mackinnon, the house is now a self-catering residence.

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.

Daniel Mcjunkin

He was a Revolutionary War Patriot, serving in the Battle of Kings Mountain, North Carolina.

Erick Baker

He ended the year performing at the official Belk Bowl FanFest in Charlotte, North Carolina, along with McCain and the rock band Daughtry, as well as at a New Year's Eve show for the U.S. troops stationed at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

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.

Gail McDonald

McDonald and her husband moved to North Carolina in 2004, and she took a position with the state Ports Authority.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

James Larkin Pearson

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

Lenny Cooke

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

Lined lanternshark

The lined lanternshark, Etmopterus bullisi, is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the western Atlantic from North Carolina to northern Florida, and Honduras, between latitudes 34°N and 15°N, at depths of up to 850 m.

Lois Mailou Jones

In 1928 she was hired by Charlotte Hawkins Brown after some initial reservations, and founded the art department at Palmer Memorial Institute in North Carolina.

Louis M. Goldsborough

During his command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, which he commanded from its inception to September 1862, he led his fleet off North Carolina, where in cooperation with troops under General Ambrose Burnside, he captured Roanoke Island and destroyed a small Confederate fleet.

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.

Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina

The mayor of Raleigh is the mayor of Raleigh, the state capital of North Carolina, in the United States.

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.

Millis Athletic Convocation Center

The James H. and Jesse E. Millis Athletic and Convocation Center is a 1750-seat multi-purpose athletic and academic facility on the campus of High Point University in High Point, North Carolina.

Myrick Davies

He served as the 13th Governor of Georgia from 1780 to 1781, after Stephen Heard moved to 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.

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.

Offshore drilling on the US Atlantic coast

A number of oil companies bought federal leases offshore North Carolina, but in 1990 the US Secretary of Commerce denied Mobil Oil permission to drill after Congress passed the North Carolina Outer Banks Protection Act, prohibiting leasing and drilling on federal seabed offshore from North Carolina.

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.

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.

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.

USS Isonomia

She served off New Inlet, North Carolina, until ordered to Key West on 18 September with special instructions to cruise in the vicinity of Nassau and the Bahama Banks.

VMM-264

The squadron returned to flood ravaged North Carolina and provided real world contingency operations in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the citizens of North Carolina.