West Rowan High School - West Wind Yearbook (Mount Ulla, NC)

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INTERESTING FACTS NAME In 1629, King Charles the First of England erected into a province, all the land from Albemarle “Sound on the north to the St. John's River on the south,which he directed should be called Carolina. The word Carolina is from the word Carolus, the Latin form of Charles, FIRST SETTLERS Our first settlers were largely from Virginia. Some came from the New England States and others came direct from England. Still others came from the English Colonies in the West Indies. There were small se,ttle- ments of French, German and Swiss. OUR CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT The first constitution of North Carolina was adopt- ed December 18, 1776. This constitution provided for three departments of government: legislative, executive, and judicial. A governor, a secretary, and a council of seven members made up the executive department. he ju- dicial devartment was formed by the General Assembly by the creation of courts and the election.of judges. The constitution was revised:in 1835. The legisiature was to meet every two years, and the members were to be elected for that period, in April 1868 the censticucion was again revised and this instrument with certain a+ mendments is the foundation of the law and government of today. The governor and all other constitutional offi- cers are elected for four year terms. POPULATION North’ Carolina ranks llth among the States in total population, 3,563,174 by the 1940 census. The popular tion of the State increased 12.4 per cent between 1930 and 1940, while. the percentage increase for the country as a whole was 7.03.

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INTERESTING FACTS (continued) GHOGRAPHY Twenty-seventh State in size, with a total land area of 31,193,631 acres, North Carolina has 125 moun- tain peaks 5,000 feet or more in elevation, 43 of these being over 6,000 feet. North Carolina has about 320 miles of shoreline on the Atlantic. Ocean, more “than 1, 500 miles of inland waterways, and approximately 3,000 square miles of coastal sounds. Greatest length of the State is 503 miles; greatest width, 188. EDUCATION There were 892,543 pupils enrolled in the elemen- tary and high’ schools of the State during 1938-39. More than $116,000,000 is invested in public school property. North Carolina transported 340,000 pupils to =schoolo at public expense. The State appropriated $27,000,000 to- ward the operation of an eight-months term for the school year 1910-41. The State operates six institu- tious of Righer- earning =for the whitew race, Tivestcr Negroes, and one for Indians. There are 36 donomina- tional and privately endowed colleges for white students and seven for Negroes in the State. HIGHWAYS North Carolina was the first State’ to take over the Ieintenance of all its principal roads, There arse some 27,000 miles of roads in the State, of which over 11,000 miles constitute the major system, about half of this being hard-surfaced. More than $210,000,000 has been Spent in creating one of the best highwey systems in the nation, : NATURAL RESOURCES Approximately 20,568,000 of the 31,193,631 acres in the Stata are forest lands. About a billion board feet of timber are provided. annually. Returns’ from commer- clal fisheries have been as high as $4,000,000 annually. some 300 different species of native minerals are found, Wildlife and game is abundant. The State ranks high in value ofyfgrm products, (From Publication No. 228--A LEAFLET OF INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA) 6