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North Carolina Important Dates


Important Dates in North Carolina History

  • 1650's The first permanent settlements were made in the Albemarle Sound area by colonists from Virginia.
  • 1706 - 1725 French Huguenot, German, and Swiss colonists founded towns near the coast.
  • 1730 - 1770 Scottish Highlanders immigrated directly to North Carolina ports. People of Ulster Scottish and German descent arrived from Pennsylvania and Virginia using the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road.
  • 1789 North Carolina became a state and ceded what is now Tennessee to the United States government.
  • 1850 One-fourth of all native North Carolinians had left the state and were living in other states or territories.
  • 1861 North Carolina seceded from the Union. It was readmitted in 1868. About 125,000 men served in the confederate armed forces, more than from any other confederate state.
  • 1862 - 1907 Twenty-four counties in southern and western North Carolina suffered major losses of records, mostly due to fire and war.

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