State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: David A. Norris: General Assembly
The history of the North Carolina General Assembly, from the initiation of the legislature in the North Carolina Constitution of 1776, the ways the assembly town hopped for their meetings, troubles with underrepresentation of rural...
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Constitution, State
North Carolinians have lived under three state constitutions - the Constitution of 1776, the Constitution of 1868, and the Constitution of 1971. In general, each constitution expanded the rights and privileges of the citizenry as well as...
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Barbecue
Read about one of North Carolina's most popular foods as well as a beloved cultural icon.
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Historic Carson House
If the walls of this house could speak, they would tell a story of North Carolina mountain heritage spanning more than two hundred years.
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North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State: North Carolina History
This page provides both a brief summary of North Carolina's history and a detailed timeline of events.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: North Carolina
Help discover more about "the story of the lost colony of Roanoke Island." Why did the Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk? Learn more about North Carolina from the Library of Congress website.
University of North Carolina
Doc South: Nathanael Greene Monument, Guilford Courthouse
Read reference information, and view primary source documents from the Nathanael Greene Monument, Guilford Courthouse in Greensboro, North Carolina.
University of North Carolina
Doc South: Commemorative Landscapes: Independence Monument, Charlotte
Read reference information, and view primary source documents of Independence Monument, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
University of North Carolina
Doc South: u.s. Army's 30th Old Hickory Division in World War I Monument
Read reference information, and view primary source documents of U.S. Army's 30th Old Hickory Division in World War I Monument in Raleigh, North Carolina.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Convention of 1868
Read about the Convention of 1868, which was a direct result of the Radical Congressional Reconstruction Acts passed in 1867, overturning post-Civil War Presidential Reconstruction.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Convention of 1835
The constitutional convention of 1835 was convened to modify the North Carolina Constitution of 1776. Some provisions of the 1776 document were rooted in the colonial experience, and a growing segment of the population came to consider...
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Declaration of Rights
The first North Carolina Declaration of Rights, modeled in part on comparable declarations in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, was adopted on behalf of the state by the Fifth Provincial Congress on 17 Dec. 1776.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Convention of 1875
The Convention of 1875 resulted from legislation passed on 19 Mar. 1875 providing for the election of convention delegates in August. Since the adoption of the Constitution of 1868, the North Carolina Democratic Party had wanted to...
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Population: Change
Census population estimates for 2009 indicate that North Carolina continues to be one of the fastest-growing US states. Between the 2000 Census and July 1, 2009, the state's population grew by 16.5%, compared with the US growth rate of...
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Transportation Improvements in the 1920s
When World War I ended in 1918 and the troops came home, folks felt optimistic about the future and eager to get on with their lives. This optimism led to an extraordinary decade that brought major changes in the way citizens traveled by...
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Telegraph
The telegraph was an electronic means for the rapid and reliable transmission of coded information over extended distances. In time it was also perfected to interpret and print the electronic symbols into readable text. By 1848 a...
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Telephones
Telephones began to appear in North Carolina beginning in 1879, three years after Alexander Graham Bell's new invention had first been introduced at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. On 10 March of that year, a telephone was...
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: German Settlers
German settlers first came to what is now North Carolina as part of the second expedition sent to the Roanoke area by Sir Walter Raleigh in the 1580s. The largest influx of German people to North Carolina, however, occurred in the...
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Logging
For more than four centuries, North Carolinians have benefited from the commercial use of the state's timber resources. As early as the seventeenth century, the Carolina colony's rich forests gave rise to a lucrative naval stores...
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Oil
Geologists for many years have recognized that North Carolina is "dry hole country" with almost no potential for hydrocarbon reserves. Despite this fact, several individuals and companies have drilled for oil within the borders of the...
Ducksters
Ducksters: North Carolina State History for Kids
On this website, students read about the history and timeline of the state of North Carolina including early explorers, Native Americans, Roanoke Colony, the American Revolution, and the Civil War.
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Edenton North Carolina: Homepage
Read the story of the quaint town of Edenton, North Carolina, the first permanent settlement and former capital of the state.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Historical Highlights of North Carolina
A brief, concise history of North Carolina spanning from the time of the first European contact to the the twentieth century.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Gold Mining in the Uwharries
In the early decades of the 1800s, the southern Piedmont's gold mines attracted prospectors, investors, and miners. Tar Heel gold had first been found in 1799 on John Reed's farm in Cabarrus County, several miles west of the Uwharrie...