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Algonkian of Coastal Carolina

The Algonquin of coastal North Carolina from the time of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony to the intermarriage of Native Americans with white settlers and black slaves.

Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

Colonial Virginia-Carolina Frontier

Surnames associated with raids, massacres etc. in colonial frontier Virgina: BOONE, BRYAN, WALDEN, HENDERSON, MOTON.

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site

Manteo, North Carolina.

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - North Carolina

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Historical Highlights of North Carolina

History of North Carolina

Ebook by John Lawson, 1903.

NCpedia

The encyclopedia contains articles covering a broad spectrum of topics and resources about North Carolina, including: historical time periods, subjects, and events; biographies, including North Carolina’s governors; counties and government; geography and environment; business and economy; historical places and monuments; natural resources and natural heritage; and many others. NCpedia also includes thousands of images.

North Carolina ECHO : Exploring Cultural Heritage Online

NC ECHO enables users to search across thousands of digitized and born-digital historic materials including a wide variety of books, photographs, maps, family histories, state documents, newspapers, and much more from cultural heritage institutions around North Carolina. The collections available through NC ECHO include a diverse array of materials by and about the people, places, and history of North Carolina. All of the collections available through the NC ECHO Search are freely available online to all users, regardless of their location or affiliation.

North Carolina Encyclopedia

An overview of the people, the government, the history, and the resources of North Carolina from the Information Services Branch of the State Library of North Carolina.

North Carolina History Timeline

Raleigh's Lost Colony

Legends about Raleigh's Lost Colony (1584-1590 Roanoke Is NC). Lists of colonists. Surnames found among Lumbee Indians of NC. BROOKS, CAGE, CHEVEN, COOPER, COLEMAN, DARE, HOWE, JONES, SAMPSON, STEVENS.

The Way We Lived in North Carolina