25．The first state owned art museum in the country is located in Raleigh．
26．Fontana Dam is the tallest dam in the Eastern United States，at 480feet high．
27．Many people believe that North Carolina was the first state to declare independence from England with the Mecklenburg［梅克伦堡州（德意志民主共和国州名）（濒波罗的海）］Declaration of 1775．
28．Grandfather Mountain，highest peak in the Blue Ridge，is the only private park in the world designated by the United Nations as an International Biosphere Reserve（生物圈保护区）．
29．The Mile－High Swinging（愉快活跃的；多姿多彩的）Bridge near Linville is 5，305feet above sea level．The bridge actually hangs about 80feet above the ground．
30．Pepsi［百事可乐（一种饮料）］was invented and first served in New Bern in 1898．
31．Beech（山毛榉树或其木材）Mountain is Eastern America’s highest town at 5，506ft above sea level．
32．Andrew Jackson，seventh President of the United States，was born in the Waxsaws area on the border of North and South Carolina．
33．Arnold Palmer recognized as the player whose aggressive（敢作敢为的，有闯劲的）play and winning personality raised golf to national attention，honed（用磨刀石磨）his skills on the championship（锦标赛）golf team of Wake Forest University．
34．James K．Polk，born in Mecklenburg County，North Carolina，was the eleventh President of the United States．
35．Hiram Rhoades Revels，born in Fayetteville in 1822，was the first African－American member of the United States Congress．
36．Andrew Johnson started his career as a tailor’s apprentice（学徒）in Raleigh，North Carolina and rose to lead in the reuniting of the nation as the seventeenth President of the United States．
37．North Carolina leads the nation in furniture，tobacco，brick，and textile production．
38．Saluda，North Carolina is located at the top of the Saluda Grade．The crest of the steepest standard gauge（标准尺，规格）mainline railroad in the United States．
39．State Motto（座右铭，笺言）：Esse quam videri（To be rather than to seem）
40．The town of Wendell town was named for the American writer，Oliver Wendell Holmes．
41．The Swiss and German settlement of New Bern was named in honor of the founder’s home，Bern，Switzerland．When Bern，Switzerland was founded，it was named by a group of hunters．They named the city for the first animal they came upon on their hunting expedition（远征，探险队）．It was a bear．“Bern”is the old Germanic word for Bear，and the bear became the symbol of the city．It has been adopted by New Bern，as well．
42．North Carolina was the first state in the nation to establish a state museum of art．
43．North Carolina was one of the first states in the U．S．to establish a state symphony（交响乐，交响曲）．The North Carolina Symphony，founded in 1943，currently performs nearly 185full－orchestra concerts each year．
44．North Carolina has the largest state－maintained highway system in the United States．The state’s highway system currently has 77，400miles of roads．
45．The General Assembly of 1987adopted milk as the official state beverage（饮料）．
46．The oldest town in the state is Bath，incorporated in 1705．
47．Located in northeastern North Carolina on the Albemarle－Pamlico peninsula（半岛），Columbia is on the eastern shore of the Scuppernong［〈美〉斯卡珀农葡萄（美国南部产的黄绿色大粒葡萄）］River．The Indians called the area “the place of the sweet bay tree”．
48．Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run in Fayetteville on March 7，1914．
49．White Lake near Elizabethtown is very unique in that it has a white sandy bottom and is blessed with crystal clear（完全透明的）waters．It has also been labeled as the “Nation’s Safest Beach”．It is truly a child’s paradise（天堂）in that there are no currents，no tides，no hazardous（危险的，冒险的，碰运气的）depressions（沮丧，消沉）or real dangers of any kind to swimmers．
50．North Carolina has 1，500lakes of 10acres or more in size and 37，000miles of fresh water streams．
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