- South Carolina owns and operates its own school bus fleet, and is the only state in the nation to do so
- Stokes County, North Carolina, is the only American county to boast a mountain range all its own – the Sauratown Mountains
- At more than 1,500 years old, Angel Oak on John’s Island, South Carolina, is thought to be the oldest living thing east of the Mississippi River
- The old Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in North Carolina was the first structure for which the United States Congress ever appropriated money
- The first game of golf played in the U.S. took place in Charleston, SC
- North Carolina has the largest state-maintained highway system in the United States at 77,400 miles of roads
- Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, is home to the country’s only commercial tea plantation
