North Carolina

North Carolina is a Southern U.S. state in the United States, also considered a Mid-Atlantic state in some cases. It is bordered by South Carolina on the south, Georgia on the southwest, Tennessee on the west, Virginia on the north, and the Atlantic Ocean on the east. more...

The state was originally named for King Charles I of England.

History

Native Americans and the Lost Colony

North Carolina was originally inhabited by a number of native peoples, including the Cherokee, Creek, Tuscarora, Lumbee and Catawba. North Carolina was the first American territory the English attempted to colonize. Sir Walter Raleigh, for whom the state capital is named, chartered two colonies on the North Carolina (then Virginia) coast in the late 1580s, both ending in failure. The demise of one, the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke Island, remains one of the great mysteries of American history. Virginia Dare, the first English child to be born in North America, was born in North Carolina. Dare County is named for her.

Colonial and Revolutionary War period

The first permanent European settlers of North Carolina were English colonists migrating south from Virginia, following a sharp decline in this colony's mortality rate and the subsequent shortage of available farmland. The earliest documented of these Virginians was Nathaniel Batts, who settled south of the Chowan River and east of the Great Dismal Swamp in 1655. By 1663, this northeastern area of the Province of Carolina was experiencing full-scale English settlement.

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