Andrew Johnson started his career as a tailor's apprentice in Raleigh, North Carolina and rose to lead in the reuniting of the nation as the seventeenth President of the United States.
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North Carolina was the first state in the nation to establish a state museum of art.
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The Mile-High Swinging Bridge near Linville, North Carolina is 5,305 feet above sea level. The bridge actually hangs about 80 feet above the ground.