Scuppernong Scuppernong The scuppernong is a large variety of muscadine ("Vitis rotundifolia"), a species of grape native to the Southern United States. It is usually a greenish or bronze color and is similar in appearance and texture to a white grape, but rounder and larger and first known as the 'big white grape'. The grape is commonly known as the "scuplin" in some areas of the Deep South. It is also known as the "scufalum", "scupanon", "scupadine", "scuppernine," "scupnun", or "scufadine" in some parts of the South. The scuppernong is the state fruit of North Carolina. The name comes from the
Hallsville, North Carolina Hallsville, North Carolina Hallsville is an unincorporated community located adjacent to the Northeast Cape Fear River in Duplin County, North Carolina. Hallsville was served by a post office from 1828 until March 1930; its first postmaster was Zebulon Simpson. In 1736, Duplin County (then upper New Hanover County) was the destination of several hundred Ulster Scots (Scotch-Irish) and a handful of Swiss Protestants. They settled on a plot of land, 71,160 acres between the N. E. Cape Fear River and Black River, obtained from the Crown by Henry McCulloh Esq. of London - this tract included what would become Hallsville.