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Built in 1926 as a memorial to Greensboro’s World War I soldiers, War Memorial Stadium is one of the nation’s oldest minor league ballparks.

first appeared: 8/31/2003

Immaculate Baking Co. of Flat Rock (pop. 2,565) baked the world’s largest cookie last May to raise funds for a craft museum. The whopper chocolate chip cookie weighed 20 tons and required a baking pan the size of a basketball court.

first appeared: 8/24/2003

The state claims to be second only to California in number of movie production complexes. A sample of movies filmed here: Hannibal, Forrest Gump, and The Fugitive.

first appeared: 8/17/2003

A 1930s shell-shaped gas station built by Quality Oil Co., a Shell gasoline marketer, is the lone survivor of eight in Winston-Salem. The landmark was formed from concrete, green wood, and wire.

first appeared: 8/10/2003

Horses and pedestrians are welcome, but not vehicles, on the main street at Love Valley (pop. 30), a Western-style town incorporated in 1954.

first appeared: 8/3/2003

Self-taught gunsmith David Marshall “Carbine” Williams of Godwin (pop. 112) invented the M-1 carbine, which Gen. Douglas MacArthur applauded for helping win World War II.

first appeared: 7/27/2003

In the 1880s, Lunsford Richardson, a druggist in Selma (pop. 5,914), concocted a salve for chest colds and pneumonia and named it Vicks VapoRub after his brother-in-law Dr. Joshua Vick.

first appeared: 7/20/2003

The 1916 Keystone Camp in Brevard (pop. 6,789) is the oldest private girls’ camp in the Southeast.

first appeared: 7/13/2003

The 1859 Old Wilkes Jail in Wilkesboro (pop. 3,159) is one of the nation’s best examples of a 19th-century jail.

first appeared: 7/6/2003

Janet Burleson, founder of the Guide Horse Foundation in Kittrell (pop. 148), trains miniature horses for working guide-horses for the blind and visually impaired.

first appeared: 6/29/2003

Ostriches, pigs, and rabbits are among 52 carved critters on the 100-year-old carousel whirling in Pullen Park in Raleigh. Gustav Dentzel designed the carousel.

first appeared: 6/22/2003

Eroded by waves and weather, the 1870 Cape Hatteras Lighthouse near Manteo (pop. 1,052) was moved inland 2,900 feet in 1999.

first appeared: 6/15/2003

Incorporated in 1893, Mars Hill (pop. 1,764) sprang up around Mars Hill College, chartered in 1859.

first appeared: 6/8/2003

During the Civil War, thousands of freed and runaway slaves found asylum at Union-held Roanoke Island.

first appeared: 6/1/2003

Some cash-strapped cities are accepting an offer made by Government Acquisitions Inc. of Charlotte—a free patrol car, but it comes with advertising on the hood, trunk, and sides.

first appeared: 5/18/2003

Artist Bob Timberlake of Lexington (pop. 19,953) is internationally known for his realistic rural paintings and rustic home furnishings. He was born in 1937 in Salisbury (pop. 26,462).

first appeared: 5/11/2003

The Will Rehder Florist company took root in 1872 in Wilmington and is the state’s oldest florist.

first appeared: 5/4/2003

Tired of sweeping dirty corners, Harriet Irwin of Charlotte designed a hexagonal house without sharp corners in 1869 and became the first woman to patent a house design.

first appeared: 4/27/2003

Organized in 1727, Shiloh Baptist Church in Camden County (pop. 6,885) is the state’s oldest Baptist church.

first appeared: 4/20/2003

Organized in 1937, the North Carolina Gourd Society in Fuquay-Varina (pop. 7,898) is the oldest chapter of the American Gourd Society.

first appeared: 4/13/2003

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