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ORIGIN OF THE STATE NICKNAME When Carolina was divided in 1719, the south- ern part was called South Carolina and the north- ern or older settlement was called North Carolina, or the Old North State, Historians had recorded the fact that the principal products of this State were “tar, pitch and turpentine,” It was during one of the fiercest battles of the War Between the States, so the story goes,that the column support- ing the North Carolina troops was driven from the field, After the battle, the North Carol inians, who had. successfully fought it out alone, were greeted from the passing derelict regiment with the question: Any more tar down in the Old North state, boys? Quick as a flash came the answer: UNO, ot ability old germs poustha ta) pa ee that so; what is he going todo with it? , was asked. He is going to put it on you'tns heels to make you stick better in the next fight. Creecy relates that General Lee, hearing of the incident, said: God bless the Tar Heel boys, “and from that they took the name, (Adapted from Grandfather Tales of North Carolina by KR. B. Creeey and’ Histories .of North Caroling Regiments, Vol. ITI, by Walter Clark, ) Le Joe
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NSOSh ir Geeks ee eee STATE CAPITOL BUILDING This building was begun in 1833 and completed in 1840 at.{a total cost of $531,671.46. The columns and’ entablature of the building are Grecian Doric, copied from the Temple of Minerva, commonly called the Parthenon, which was erected in Athens about ,500 B.C, It is judged by build- ing experts as a gem of architecture, DTATE CAPITAL In 1791 the Legislature appointed a committee of nine persons to lay off a city within ten miles of Issac Hunter's home, About March a, ot 702 ssGne committee met and bought from Joel Lane one thou- Sand acres of land for one thousand three hundred and seventy-eight pounds, The members of the committee then laid off the bounds of the present city of Raleigh named after the great Englishman, Sir Walter Raleigh, who tried faithfully to found a colony on the coast of North Carolina, we a lr
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