UNDERSTANDING DESTINATIONS

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UNDERSTANDING DESTINATIONS

• 5.02 Explain major travel destinations in North
  Carolina
• (Coastal Region)

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Major Destinations in the Coastal Region

• Cape Hatteras National Seashore and Lighthouse
• Fort Macon State Park
• NC Aquariums
• Wright Brothers National Memorial
• Tryon Palace Historic Site and Gardens
• Historic Bath
• Fort Raleigh National Park
• Battleship USS North Carolina
• The Lost Colony
• Worthy is the Lamb

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Cape Hatteras National Seashore and Lighthouse

• Became nations first National Seashore in 1953
• Beaches famous for surf fishing
• Tallest lighthouse in North America
• Built in 1870
• 208 ft. high, 268 steps

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Fort Macon State Park

• Completed in 1834 to guard Beaufort Inlet
• Located on 389 acres
• Five-sided construction of brick and stone

• Twenty-six rooms (casements) enclosed in 4.5 feet
  thick outer walls
• Visitors can see a wide moat that served to
  protect the fort when waters from Bogue Sound
  flooded the area

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• Established in 1976
• Promote education of North Carolinas aquatic
  environment
• Open year round

• Roanoke Island
• Pine Knoll Shores
• Fort Fisher

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Wright Brothers National Memorial

• Near Kitty Hawk/Kill Devil Hills
• First Flight Centennial Celebration, December
  12-17, 2003
• Tribute to Wilbur and Orville Wright from Ohio
• First powered flight lasted 12 seconds and
  traveled 120 feet

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• New Bernfirst capital of North Carolina
• Mansion constructed between 1767 and 1770
• 38 rooms
• Residence of William Tryon, governor of the
  colony and state of NC
• 14 acres of beautiful period gardens

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• North Carolinas first town
• Founded in 1705
• First official port of entry
• Home to Blackbeard the pirate
• Location of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, the
  states oldest church

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• Established in 1941
• 413 acre park
• Commemorates the first English attempts at
  colonizing the New World
• Manteo, NC

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• Wilmington, NC
• Commissioned in 1941
• Participated in every major campaign in WWII in
  the Pacific
• Saved from scrapping in 1960 by a statewide
  fundraising campaign

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• Roanoke Island, NC
• Americas first and longest outdoor drama
• 400 year old mystery of first settlers in NC
• Mysterious disappearance of 117 men, women, and
  children in 1587 while establishing the first
  English settlement

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• Swansboro, NC
• North Carolinas third largest outdoor drama
• Passion play about the life of Christ