NC League of Municipalities

The civil rights sit-in movement was launched on February 1, 1960, when four N.C. A&T State University students sat at the whites-only counter of the downtown Greensboro Woolworths store.

Washington is proud to have been the first city in America to be named for General George Washington, the future first president of the United States.

Birthplace of James K. Polk, the 11th President of the United States.

The Roanoke Canal Museum honors the heritage of the region's early canal system.

Fairmont was known as the “biggest little tobacco market in the world” during the 1950s.

Tobaccoville was named for a plug chewing tobacco factory owned and operated in the 1870s. The Orrender Tobacco Factory was the principal landmark in the area, and the name "Tobaccoville" was suggested for the post office.

Originally called “Wye Town,” Conover began to develop in the mid 1800s as a "Y" intersection of the railroad traversing North Carolina.

On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright were successful in making four flights at the base of the big hill that is now a part of the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kill Devil Hills.

Begun in 2002, the Brevard sculpture project is a fascinating addition to downtown and is a great way to acquaint yourself with the indigenous animals that abound in the southern Appalachian mountains.

The "Bull City" prospered as a manufacturing hub for the tobacco industry and textiles for many decades, but has transformed itself into a place where shopping thrives and high-tech industry flourishes with upscale housing in the same classic buildings.