Susan McLaurin created a sculpture of First Dog Millie presenting the American flag to Santa Claus. McLaurin gave it to the Bushes as a Christmas present.
Raleighite Hannah Casso, popularly known as \"Pretty Peggy,\" was responsible for naming the infant who became the 17th President of the U.S., Raleigh native Andrew Johnson.
North Carolina provides about 15% of the nation's Christmas trees, making it the third-largest Christmas tree producing region in the nation. The growing popularity of the Fraser fir, a variety indigenous to North Carolina, should increase the market share in the future.
In 1940, Nyal \"Doc\" Womble II, opened the Womble Drug Company in Plymouth. Fifty years later, the drug store, now moved to a shopping center and run by his widow and children, still maintains the down home flavor of the original.
Duke University library is home to the largest advertising archives in the nation, and is fast becoming a center for academic research in advertising history.