North Carolina is the home of the Great Smoky Mountains and Kitty Hawk, where the Wright Brothers experimented and flew. It was the home of Carl Sandburg and is home to some of the finest college basketball teams in America.
English colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh tried unsuccessfully to settle North Carolina on Roanoke Island in 1585 and 1587. The first English child born in North America, Virginia Dare, was born there.
The first successful and permanent English settlements took place in 1653 near the Roanoke and Chowan Rivers. The area became an English colony during 1663 to 1665. Its early history included Culpepper’s Rebellion in 1677; the Quaker led Cary Rebellion in 1708, the Tuscarora Indian War between 1711 and 1713 and many pirate raids.
During the American Revolutionary War, there was little fighting in North Carolina, but its citizens fought elsewhere in many battles.
Though there was considerable anti slavery sentiments in North Carolina, the state joined the Confederacy during the Civil War.
North Carolina is the nation’s largest producer of bricks, textiles, tobacco and furniture. Chemicals, paper and metal work are also large industries.
The state is rich in lithium and mica.
Its farmers produce peanuts, tobacco, hay, vegetables, corn and cotton.
Tourism has become a $1 billion industry. North Carolina offers year around golf, skiing at beautiful mountain resorts, hunting and fresh water and salt water fishing.
The major cities in North Carolina are Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Durham, Winston-Salem, Fayetteville, Cary, Wilmington, High Point and Asheville.
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