The earliest evidence of human occupation in North Carolina dates back 10,000 years, found at theHardaway Site.North Carolina was inhabited byCarolina Algonquian,Iroquoian,andSiouanspeaking tribes of Native Americans prior to the arrival of Europeans. King Charles II granted eight lord proprietors a colony they named Carolina after the king and which was established in 1670 with the first permanent settlement at Charles Town (Charleston). Because of the difficulty of governing the entire colony from Charles Town, the colony was eventually divided and North Carolina was established as aroyal colonyin 1729 and was one of theThirteen Colonies.TheHalifax Resolvesresolution adopted by North Carolina on April 12, 1776, was the first formal call for independence from Great Britain among the American Colonies during theAmerican Revolution.
NC 231 was first established in 1926 running betweenElizabethtownandDelcoinSoutheastern North Carolina.By 1929,NC 21was extended southwest along the route of NC 231 and the highway was decommissioned. Modern-day NC 231 was established in 1935, between NC 39 inEmitandUS 64west of Spring Hope. In 1948, NC 231 was extended west along its current routing to US 64 in Wendell. With the exception of a minor realignment in 1978, the routing of NC 231 has remained the same since. (Full article...)
TheCarolinas,also known simply asCarolina,is the term for the U.S. states ofNorth CarolinaandSouth Carolina,considered collectively. They are bordered byVirginiato the north,Tennesseeto the west, andGeorgiato the southwest. The Atlantic Ocean is to the east.
Combining North Carolina's population of 10,439,388 and South Carolina's of 5,118,425, the Carolinas have a collective population of 15,557,813 as of 2020. If the Carolinas were a single state of the United States, it would be thefifth-most populous state,behindCalifornia,Texas,Florida,andNew York.(Full article...)
Image 16Map of North America byVesconte Maggioloafter an earlier map made on the Verrazzano expedition of 1524. The narrow isthmus of land separating "Tera Florida" from "Francesca" is theOuter Banksof North Carolina.Cape Fearis labeled "C. de la Forest". (fromHistory of North Carolina)
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