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 North Carolina
Any time of year is time well spent in North Carolina. With four glorious seasons and a fantastic climate, North Carolina offers an abundance of activities and destinations all year round. As you embark on the exciting journey of exploring our region, prepare yourself for a wide array of amenities.
Covering nearly one half of North Carolina in the central part of the state, the Piedmont is an area of gently rolling foothills with the occasional boulder or unexpected rock outcropping. The Piedmont region boasts of one of the most dynamic economies in the United States and is home to the state's largest cities and biggest financial institutions. Renowned research universities, textile and furniture factories, tobacco farms, shopping meccas, top golf courses and abundant historic sites are also part of the makeup of the Piedmont.
Although the area enjoys four distinct seasons, temperatures are mild year round. The average wintertime temperature is about 42 degrees. In summer, it's 77 degrees. The area also enjoys sunshine for about 210 days a year.
Moore County, the home of Trident Marketing, has a dynamic business community, mild climate, high quality of life, nationally recognized hospital and medical community, quality school system, premier community college, close proximity to Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base. All of this is wrapped up in a friendly hometown environment that you cannot experience anywhere else.
- Population: 8,049,313 (11th in country)
- Size: 52,669 square miles (28th in country)
- Nickname: Tar Heel State -- the origin is clothed in mystery, but it probably evolved from the fact that during the Colonial period, the colony's chief exports were tar, pitch and turpentine.
- Origin of Name: North Carolina is named in honor of King Charles I of England, from the Latin Carolus.
- Song: "The Old North State" by Judge William Gaston
- Rock: Granite
- Vegetable: Sweet Potato
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Did You Know?
- The oldest town in the state is Bath, incorporated in 1705.
- On January 15, 1795, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was the first state university in the country to open its doors for students.
- The first silver mine in the country was the Silver Hill Mine, which opened in 1833 about 10 miles from Lexington.
- Putt-Putt Golf was invented in Fayetteville.
- The first forestry school in the United States was established in Transylvania County in 1898 by Dr. Carl A. Schenck.
- The first abbey cathedral in North America was Belmont Abbey – located in Belmont, North Carolina – established by a papal edict in 1910.
- Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run in Fayetteville on March 7, 1914.
- The Tar Heel State has more paved miles of road than any other state in the United States – over 78,000 miles.
- The first state-supported institution to emphasize the performing arts was the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.
- Millions of years ago, the area was home to 50-foot-long alligators, and huge megalodon sharks roamed the waters.
- The New River, which runs through Ashe County, is the oldest river in North America and second oldest in the world.
- More than 120 species of trees are found in North Carolina – more than can be found from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean.
- North Carolina boasts more than 200 waterfalls, including the highest on the East Coast: the 411-foot-high, two-tiered Whitewater Falls in Transylvania County.
- North Carolina has 1,500 lakes 10 acres or more in size and 37,000 miles of fresh water streams.
- There are more than 1.2 million acres of national forest land in the Tar Heel State.
- Blackbeard, America's most famous pirate, established a residence and married his 14th wife in Bath, NC, in 1718.
- At around 500 million years old, the North Carolina Uwharrie Mountains are the oldest in the nation and among the oldest in the world.
- Cape Hatteras lighthouse, built of brick in 1870, is 208 feet tall, making it the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States.
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