The State of North Carolina

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Across
  1. 1. This fast food restaurant started in Greensboro in 1989
  2. 3. Location of the first successful airplane flights
  3. 6. Largest mountain range in the eastern United States
  4. 7. Middle region of the state
  5. 10. Hot sauce created in Winston- Salem, NC
  6. 11. Known as America’s Largest Home
  7. 12. Birthplace of Pepsi
  8. 16. This region of our state is nicknamed “The Graveyard of the Atlantic”
  9. 17. North Carolina’s most common nickname
  10. 18. “Furniture Capital of the World”
  11. 23. Tallest dam in the Eastern United States
  12. 26. This city is known as the pimento cheese capital of the world
  13. 27. Best retirement community in the state
  14. 28. Tallest living natural sand dune system in the Eastern United States
  15. 29. State gemstone
Down
  1. 1. NC is ranked second in the nation for harvesting and cash receipts of this popular winter decoration
  2. 2. Famous pirate killed off North Carolina’s Outer Banks
  3. 4. State flower
  4. 5. Number of congressional districts
  5. 8. Largest lighthouse to ever be moved
  6. 9. Native to Charlotte he became the 10th man to walk on the moon
  7. 13. Oldest incorporated town
  8. 14. State mammal
  9. 15. The state of North Carolina is the number one producer of this vegetable
  10. 19. State insect
  11. 20. Native to North Carolina this soft drink was created in Salisbury and is run by the same family who created it
  12. 21. The first English child born in a New World English colony on Roanoke Island
  13. 22. Pottery Capital of the World
  14. 24. State beverage
  15. 25. Oldest operating lighthouse