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Published on Dec 08, 2015

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State Bird Cardinal

  • The red Cardinals are males,the female Cardinals are brown.
  • Northern Cardinals will breed 2-3 times each season.
  • The Cardinal is the State bird for 7 States.
  • NC State bird is the Cardinal.
  • www.statesymbolsusa.org
Photo by Todd Ryburn
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State flag

  • North Carolina State flag is the State flag.
  • The dates May,20th, 1775 and April,12th,1776 are on the NC flag.
  • The NC flag remained unchanged for over 100 years until 1991.
  • The NC State flag was used by NC troops during the Civil War.
  • www.statesymbolsusa.org
Photo by e r j k p r u n c z y k
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state shell

  • NC State shell is the Scotch Bonnet.
  • The Scotch Bonnet can be found on the Alantic coast...
  • The Scotch Bonnet is a gastrood  in the same mollusk...
  • The Scotch Bonnet is found in the NC coastal water depth 50-150
  • www.statesymbolsusa.org
Photo by MyFWC Research
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state flower

  • NC State is the Dogwood. 
  • The Dogwood blossoms appear in the early Spring and continues into Summer
  • The dogwood tree was made the official State flower of  NC in 1941.
  • They are mostly white,Sometimes they can be in shades of pink [red] are not
  • www.statesymbolsusa.org
Photo by MissTessmacher
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state vegetable

  • NC State vegetable is the sweet potatoe.
  • Native Americans were growing sweet potatoes long before European colonizat
  • The large starchy,sweet tasting tuberous  roots of the sweet potatoe can b 
  • North Carolina is the largest producer of sweet potatoes in the U.S.
  • www.statesymbolsusa.org
Photo by miheco
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STATE STONE

  • NC State stone is emerald.
  • Different varietys of minerals have been found in NC than any other State.
  • A emerald crystal is the largest ever found in North America [weight 1869 c
  • In the 1960s,American jewlry industry changed the meaning of emerald.
  • www.enwikipedia.org
Photo by Kotomi_
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state colors

  • NC State colors are red and blue.
  • The National flag does not have any meaning to the specific colors.
  • Red on the flag-means hardness and valour-White-purity and innocence-
  • Blue-vigilance,perseverance,and justice.There are no 
  • specific meanings for the colors.www.statesymbolsusa.o
Photo by Jeff Kubina
8.

state folk dance

  • NC State folk dance is clogging.
  • Clogging is a distinctive dance style which orginates in the 
  • Appalachian mountains.
  • In the 1920s Bascom Lamar Lunsford added team clogging to the 
  • competitions he held every year.NC also recognizes a State symbol[the shag 
Photo by Sir Hectimere
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state rock

  • NC State rock is granite.
  • NC State rock granite is used as a building material.
  • NC has a lot of granite rock in its surroundings. 
  • Granite become one of the first commerical natural
  • stone businesses in NC and the granite quarry.
Photo by brewbooks
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state beverage

  • NC State beverage is milk.Seventeen other States recognize
  • milk as a State symbol.NC ranks 31st among dairy producing States in the
  • nation.Milk has been nearly called perfect food -a source of 
  • protein,calcium,and several other important nutrients.Milk was 
  • made as the offical State beverage in 1987.www.statesymbolsusa.
Photo by em-si

Jada Coley