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North Carolina Name For: King Charles I of England Motto: "Esse Quam Videri" Nikename: The Old North State or The Tar Heel State Statehood: November 21, 1789, the 12th state Capital: Raleigh Oldest City: Highest Point: 6,684 feet (2037 meters) above sea level, Mount Mitchell in Yancey County Lowest Point: sea level, the coast State Symbols Colors:Red and Blue Flower:Dogwood Bird:Cardinal Tree:Pine Christmas Tree: Fraser Fir wildflower:Carolina Lily Mammal:Gray Squirrel Shell:Scotch Bonnet Rock: Granite Stone: Emerald Insect:Honeybee Dog:Plott Hound Fruit:Scuppernong grape Berries: Strawberry and Blueberry Reptile: Eastern Box Turtle Drink: Milk Fish: Channel Bass Freshwater TroutSouthern Appalachian Brook Trout Boat:Shad Boat Folk Dance: Clogging Popular Dance: The Shag Carnivorous plant: Venus Flytrap Vegetable: Sweet Potato State Songs and Toast Song:"The Old North State" Toast: The Tar Heel Toast (Session Laws, 1957, c. 777). Here's to the land of the long leaf pine, The summer land where the sun doth shine, Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great, Here's to "Down Home," the Old North State! Here's to the land of the cotton bloom white, Where the scuppernong perfumes the breeze at night, Where the soft southern moss and jessamine mate, 'Neath the murmuring pines of the Old North State! Here's to the land where the galax grows, Where the rhododendron's rosette glows, Where soars Mount Mitchell's summit great, In the "Land of the Sky," in the Old North State! Here's to the land where maidens are fair, Where friends are true and cold hearts rare, The near land, the dear land, whatever fate, The blest land, the best land, the Old North State! |
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