Lexington, North Carolina, is known as the Barbecue Capital of the World, and October
was officially declared 'Barbecue Month' with a month long Annual Barbecue Festival. The Festival has a Parade of Pigs
on bicycles (also called the Tour de Pig)! If you didn't already guess, Lexington is famous for its barbecue.
The city's first barbecue restaurant opened in 1919. Lexington barbecue is pork shoulder basted with 'dip,' a mixture of water,
vinegar, salt, and pepper. It is cooked slowly over hickory wood until it is 'fall apart tender.' One pound of pork takes
about an hour to cook. Today there are over 20 barbecue restaurants in Lexington. In the 1994 Barbecue Festival,
11,000 pounds of barbecue were served to more than 100,000 people. *source-Library of Congress Local Legacies Project
From Manteo in the east to Murphy in the west, North Carolina is 560 miles long, making
it the longest state east of the Mississippi.
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- Major Rivers - Neuse River, Roanoke
River, Yadkin River
- Major Lakes - Lake Mattamuskeet,
Lake Phelps, Lake Waccamaw
- Highest Point - Mt. Mitchell -
6,684 feet (2,037 m) above sea level
- Bordering States - Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
The State Flower is Dogwood.
- State Colors - Red and Blue
- State Beverage - Milk
- State Historical Boat - Shad Boats
- State Rock - Granite
- State Precious Stone - Emerald
- State Soil -North Carolina Cecil
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Origin of the Name North Carolina - North Carolina was named to honor King Charles
I (Carolus is Latin for Charles).
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State Nickname - Tar Heel State
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State Motto - "Esse Quam Videri" (To Be Rather Than to Seem)
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State Song - The Old North State
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Dinosaur Fossils Found in North Carolina - Hypsibema, Lophorhothon, Zatomus
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