From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor ... of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work on rice plantations.

North Carolina, which was at one time combined with South Carolina to form a single territory, was one of the original 13 colonies and became the 12th state in 1789. It sent the most troops to ...

As a Fayetteville native and a North Carolina resident all my life, I have been interested in and have absorbed a fair amount of information about our community and our state. Even as a young child, I ...