20 August 2015 ~ 2 Comments

The States OF Modern: North Carolina: The Tar Heel State

In 1584, Elizabeth I granted a charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, for whom the North Carolina state capital is named, for land in present-day North Carolina (then part of the territory of Virginia).  This was the second American territory which the English attempted to colonize. Raleigh established two colonies on the coast in the late […]

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