North Carolina Watermelon Festival

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The North Carolina Watermelon Festival is an annual celebration of the watermelon started in 1985 in Murfreesboro, North Carolina.

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Each year the festival has grown, and the four-day event now includes:

  • a parade
  • numerous musical performances
  • food festival
  • craft sales
  • 5 km run
  • watermelon-seed spitting contest
  • crowning of the Watermelon Princesses
  • a visit from the North Carolina Watermelon Queen

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