NC may have the best basketball team, and Mass the Best Football team, and Ca and FLA the biggest theme parks, but here in the Old Dominion, the Mother of Presidents, we got the fastest Roller Coaster!

To quote:

In 1884, LaMarcus A. Thompson built a ride at New York's Coney Island to bring people out of the local beer gardens. The tracks carried individual cars that climbed 15 feet in the air and zoomed along at 4 miles per hour. People swarmed to Coney Island to try this novelty for a nickel a ride. Today, the fastest roller coaster is the Alpengeist at Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, VA. It goes 67 mph - and it probably costs more than a nickel.

And it is free.  As long as you pay the $50 entrance fee.

(FYI: Sandusky ohio had the title of the fastest.  No more!)