The state has twenty-two historic sites, including Town Creek Indian Mound in Montgomery County and Bennett Place in Durham, that interpret the past for visitors and relate it to present-day life.
The state has many fine restaurants, but perhaps the most well-known one is the Sanitary Fish Market in Morehead City. Good food and service have kept customers returning for fifty-eight years.
Furniture making is the major industry in Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, and Catawba Counties. The centerpiece is a 20-mile stretch of highway in Caldwell County that features forty furniture stores and 600 lines.
Born in 1841, in Tyro, Davidson County, Henry Shoaf stood seven feet tall and weighed 400 pounds. His many feats of strength have raised his memory to a legendary level.
The state is home to some of the finest botanical gardens in the nation, including those of Orton Plantation near Wilmington, the Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island, and the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University.
Located in Hyde County on the shores of Pamlico Sound, Nebraska was a small center of trade in the 1800s. Now, with only thirteen families living nearby, it is comprised mostly of endless farm acres and a few empty buildings.
Dr. John Shelton Reed, who has made a career studying what it means to be a Southerner, helped found and direct UNC's Center for the Study of the American South during 1993 and 1994.
The marriage in 1865 of Eleanor Swain, daughter of a former governor and then UNC president David L. Swain, to Union General Smith D. Atkins, was highly controversial and divisive in the town of Chapel Hill.