| Whether it's a 100-year-old lighthouse, a Native American Indian Village, a battleground or a Civil Rights Movement museum, North Carolina is rich in history.
North Carolina is the nation's largest furniture, tobacco, brick and textile producer. The major agricultural products are tobacco, corn, cotton, hay, peanuts and vegetable crops. Tourism is also important, with visitors spending more than $1 billion a year.
Major attractions in North Carolina include: the Great Smoky Mountains, the Blue Ridge National Parkway, the Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout National Seashores, the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kitty Hawk, Guilford Courthouse and Moores Creek National Military Parks, Carl Sandburg's home near Hendersonville, and the Old Salem Restoration in Winston-Salem.
Charlotte is North Carolina's largest city and Raleigh is its second largest city. Other large cities include Greensboro, Durham, Winston-Salem, Fayetteville, Cary, High Point, Wilmington and Asheville. | 
