North Carolina Charms

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North Carolina Charms

14k Gold and Sterling Silver North Carolina State Charms. Choose from our selection of charms to remember a place where you where born, where you may live, or a place you visited or hope to visit in the future and make a memory to last a lifetime.

North Carolina Facts:

Capital: Raleigh

Entered the Union: November 21, 1789 (12th state)

Motto: Esse quam videri (To be rather than to seem)

Nickname: Tar Heel State

Flower: Dogwood

Bird: Cardinal

Song: The Old North State

Sports Teams: Charlotte Bobcats (Basketball), Carolina Panthers (Football), Carolina Hurricanes (Hockey)

Origin of Name: In honor of Charles I of England

Major Industries: furniture, tobacco, brick, textile products, metalworking, chemicals, paper, tobacco, corn, cotton, hay, peanuts, truck and vegetable crops, mica and lithium

Historical Sites: 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.

Points of Interest: The Great Smoky Mountains, the Blue Ridge National Parkway, and the Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout National Seashores.

Bordering States: Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia