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Index
Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
How to Read This Book
Map of North Carolina
1 Billion BC: Watered Down
250 Million BC: Land Ho!
60 Million BC: Mammal Time
10,000 BC: First Americans
1000 BC: Tribes
1540: De Soto
1568: Juan Pardo
1587: The “Hey, We’re Over Here” Colony
1587: First Birth
1653: First Resident
1663: The Charter of Carolina
1669: Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
1670: Tobah
1677: Culpepper’s Rebellion
1700: John Lawson
1705: First Incorporated Town
1710: Carolinas Divided
1711: The Quakers and Cary’s Rebellion
1711: Tuscarora War
1717: Pirates
1718: Blackbeard
1729: Royal Colony
1745: Settling the Piedmont
1750: Daniel Boone
1751: First Newspaper
1754: The French and Indian War
1760: The East-West Conundrum
1766: The Regulator Movement
1768: The Graveyard of the Atlantic
1770: The Naval Store Industry
1771: Carolina Slavery
1772: The Rice Plantation
1774: Edenton Tea Party
1775: Seeking Independence
1775: The Mecklenburg Resolves versus the Mecklenburg Declaration
1775: First Bonfire
1776: First Battle
1776: The Halifax Resolves
1776: First Constitution
1777: What War?
1781: The War Returns—The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
1784: Frankland
1789: Admitted to the Union
1792: The State Capital
1795: First Public University in America
1799: First Gold
1804: The Walton War
1812: Dolley Madison and the War of 1812
1825: The Rip Van Winkle State
1826: Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad
1829: Andrew Jackson
1830: Cherokee Land
1831: Nat Turner and Slavery
1835: Revised Constitution
1838: Eastern Band of the Cherokee
1839: Bright-Leaf Tobacco
1840: First Free Public School
1845: James Polk
1848: Calvin’s Railroad
1853: North Carolina State Fair
1857: Elisha Mitchell and the First State Park
1861: Secession
1861: The Civil War
1865: Battle of Bentonville
1865: The Tar Heel State
1865: Aftermath of the Civil War
1865: Andrew Johnson
1866: The Lowry War
1868: Reconstruction
1878: Cherokee Reservation
1890: Cotton, Rice and Tobacco
1893: The Tobacco State
1895: The Biltmore House
1898: The Cradle of Forestry
1898: The Wilmington Insurrection
1903: The Flying Brothers
1918: Fort Bragg
1923: Tourism Boom
1925: The Highway System
1930: Fast Moonshine
1930: The Furniture Industry
1935: The Blue Ridge Parkway
1937: The Appalachian Trail
1940: Great Smoky Mountain National Park
1941: World War II
1942: The Outer Banks War
1943: First Native American College
1945: World War II Legacy
1947: The Journey of Reconciliation
1955: Civil Rights Movement
1957: Billy Graham
1957: The Highland Games
1958: Klan versus Lumbee
1959: Research Triangle Park
1960: The Andy Griffith Show
1971: New Constitution
1971: The Wilmington Ten
1984: Hunt and Helms
1990: The Conservation Movement
1999: The Hurricane State
2000: Barbecue
2010: Today’s Tar Heels
2015: The New “Old North State”
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
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