Interesting Facts about North Carolina

• A prehistoric group known as the Early Farmers was notable for its careful burial of dogs.
• Trader John Lawson revealed that traders looked for the Indians with the smallest mouths. The Indians filled their mouths with as much rum as they could and spit it into a container before giving up a pelt.
• Colonel Benjamin Cleveland was noted not only for his courage in the Battle of Kings Mountain but also for his weight of 450 pounds.
• The women of Edenton opposed the British tax on tea by deciding not to drink it. A teapot-shaped monument pays tribute to this decision.
• Blowing Rock is a unique natural formation. When handkerchiefs are tossed over the ridge, the currents of air waft them back.
• In the course of the Civil War, General Bryan Grimes of Grimesville had six horses shot from under him.