Heavens Angels Around The World

Angel of Dreams Angel Wolf Yankee Angel

North Carolina:
From the coastal areas to its western boundaries, American Indian tribes inhabited the North Carolina area for centuries.

The first English colony in the New World was established here in 1585 on Roanoke Island In 1587, the people within the colony vanished, and the mystery of their disappearance remains today.

In 1776 North Carolina became the first colony to vote for independence from England, and after the Revolutionary War it became the 12th state in 1789.

It took years for the land to reach its full potential, but by the mid-1830s, its agricultural and manufacturing industries began to prosper, anchored by tobacco.

North Carolina joined the Confederacy during America's Civil War. It contributed the most troops to that war, and suffered over 25% of all casualties.

Reconstruction brought hydro-electric power and the resurgence of its tobacco industry.

In the opinion of many, North Carolina was the site of "Modern mankind's single most important event," as the Wright Brother's first flight occurred here.

Today it's famed for furniture manufacturing, and the high-tech industries in the Research Triangle encompassing Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.

It's also home to some of the most beautiful scenery in America, including Cape Hatteras National Seashore, and the nation's busiest national park, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

North Carolina

North Carolina's state flag was officially adopted in 1861 - at the beginning of the Civil War.

It was updated in 1865, when the state's initials were added to the original flag of red, white and blue, and placed to the left and right of the white star.

The upper date, May 20th, 1775, commemorates the first meeting of North Carolina citizens that were declaring their freedom from Great Britain. The lower date, April 12th, 1776, commemorates the first official action by an entire colony calling for independence from Britain.

Official name: North Carolina
Capital: Raleigh
Statehood: Nov. 21, 1789 the 12th state
State nickname: The Tar Heel State
Name for residents: North Carolinians
State motto: Esse quam videri
(To be rather than to seem)
Abbreviation: NC

North Carolina's Historical Event's:

10,000 bc Paleo-Indians pursue game in North Carolina.
about 8000 bc Archaic peoples appear.
about 1000 bc Woodland peoples live in North Carolina and introduce agriculture and pottery.
about ad 800 Mound Builders live in the south and west of North Carolina.
1524 A Florentine navigator, Giovanni da Verrazzano, explores the North Carolina coast.
1585 At Roanoke Island, Raleigh's expedition makes the first English attempt to settle in America.
1587 Virginia Dare becomes the first child of English parentage to be born in America.
1663 Charles II grants Carolina to eight lords proprietors.
1712 North Carolina and South Carolina become separate colonies.
1729 North Carolina becomes a royal colony.
1768 The Regulators are organized to resist arbitrary taxes.
1771 Regulators clash with the militia in the Battle of Alamance Creek.
1775 The royal governor flees, and his government is replaced by a provincial congress and council.
1776 Loyalist Tories are defeated by revolutionary Whigs in the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge. Rebels draw up the Halifax Resolves, making North Carolina the first colony to declare itself for complete independence from Britain.
1789 North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution, becoming the 12th state to enter the Union (November 21).
1794 The state capital is moved to Raleigh.
1861 North Carolina joins the Confederacy (May 20).
1868 Under a new constitution, the state is re admitted into the Union (July 20).
1903 The Wright brothers make the first successful motorized airplane flight near Kitty Hawk.
1960 The sit-in movement to win civil rights for black Americans begins in Greensboro.
1971 A new state constitution goes into effect.
1972 North Carolina elects a Republican governor and a Republican U.S. senator for the first time in the 20th century.
1992 United States Representative Eva Clayton is elected as North Carolina's first black member of the U.S. Congress since 1901.

All ideas, concepts, and content including text and graphics are owned by Heavens Angels and it's members unless otherwise noted and should not be taken or duplicated without expressed written consent.
Copyright © 2001/2005 Heavens Angels.