The North Carolina Watermelon Festival is an annual celebration of the watermelon started in 1957 in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1985 it was relocated to Murfreesboro, North Carolina. The festival features a seed-spitting contest, the crowning of a "Miss Watermelon" and an award for the best/biggest melons.
There'll be no celebration planned in 2020.
Winners
Watermelon grower
1970 - Ed Weeks, 2004 - Adam Worley,
Miss Watermelon / Watermelon Queen
1966 Eleanor Brantley
1986 Whitney Cuthbertson
2003 Tracy Lynn Register
2009 Kensley Leonard
2014 Breanna Williams
Seed spitting
1963 - Wally Ausley - *
1970 - John "Speedy" Adams -
2004 - Kristin Cucci
* World Record
Activities
The four-day event now includes: a parade musical performances food festival carnival rides craft sales 5 km run watermelon-seed spitting contest crowning of the Watermelon Princesses a visit from the North Carolina Watermelon Queen