North Carolina
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- Names
North Carolina
NC
- Place Type
- state
- Description
- Inhabited since 14,000 BCE; Catawba, Cherokee and others were here when Europeans arrived 16th-17th cen., last group was forced out in 1830s; had internal strife due to divided loyalties during the American Revolution; joined the Confederacy in Civil War.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Rand McNally Atlas (1994); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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