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• The University of North Carolina at-Chapel Hill was the FIRST public university in the nation.

• Babe Ruth hit his FIRST professional home run in Fayetteville in March 1914.

• The FIRST English child born in America, Virginia Dare, was born in Roanoke in 1587.

• Cabarrus County was the site of America's FIRST gold rush.

• The FIRST state art museum in the country is located in Raleigh.

• The FIRST Pepsi was created and served in New Bern in 1898.

• NC has MORE paved roads than any other state--a total of 78,000 miles.

• The Biltmore Estate in Asheville is the LARGEST private house in the world with 250 rooms.

• Grandfather Mountain is home to the HIGHEST swinging bridge--one mile high.

• Mount Mitchell is the TALLEST mountain in the eastern US.

• The LOWEST point in Wake County is 160 feet above sea level.

• Rex Healthcare in Raleigh and Glaxo Wellcome in RTP have been named among the BEST places to work by Working Mother magazine.

  
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