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National seashores are located in ten states and national lakeshores are in two other states. Florida, North Carolina, and Michigan each have two. The largest national seashore or lakeshore is Gulf Islands, at over 137,000 acres (550 km 2); the smallest is Fire Island, at 19,579 acres (79.23 km 2).
The following is list of beaches in the U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories.. Beaches occur both on the ocean shoreline and inland on lakes, rivers, etc.
[note 1] The state coastline lengths were computed by an unspecified method that includes tidal areas not included in the first method. [3] These numbers also include the Great Lakes coastlines, which do not have similar tidal areas. Data for the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands is from the CIA World Factbook. [4] [5] [6]
The oldest state fair is that of The Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair, established in 1738, and is the oldest fair in Virginia and the United States. [1] The first U.S. state fair was the New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually since. [2] The second state fair was in Detroit, Michigan, which ran from 1849 [3] to 2009.
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A staffer new to North Carolina listed all of her questions about the NC State Fair, and then tracked down the answers. The fair kicks off Thursday, Oct. 13.
America's Puritan history makes nude beaches far and few between. Many states, like Alaska and Arkansas , have outright banned bathing in the buff, while others consider public nudity 'indecent ...
Congress can admit more states, but it cannot create a new state from territory of an existing state or merge two or more states into one without the consent of all states involved, and each new state is admitted on an equal footing with the existing states. [7] The United States has control over fourteen territories.