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Quick NC Firsts

North Carolina:

  • was the site of the first English settlement
  • was the first colony to advocate breaking with England
  • was first in lives lost in the Civil War
  • is the first state in textile production
  • is first in furniture manufacturing
  • is first in tobacco products
  • is first in turkey raising
  • was headquarters for Blackbeard
  • was the site of the first airplane flight
  • was home to the nation’s first gold rush (which occurred in 1799)
  • was the first state to demand that a Bill of Rights be added to the Constitution (which it refused to ratify without said addition)

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