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Palmetto State1835
Turpentine State1850
1850 M. ReidRifle Rangers I. v. 46 The danger is, we may stick in the Turpentine State.
1859 J. R. BartlettDict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Turpentine State, the State of North Carolina, so called from the quantity of turpentine obtained from its pine forests.