Explore North Carolina

General Information

The Way We Lived In North Carolina: A Social History of the Tar Heel State from Precolonial Times. Excerpts from the book by the same name (available in our media center). Includes an image gallery, historic place and pertinent live links - Select the "before 1770" tab.

http://www.waywelivednc.com/before-1770/default.htm

Presented by the North Carolina Office of Archives and History

Includes information about North Carolina’s early history and Colonial period; includes a few images.

http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/NC/HISTORY/HISTORY.HTM

North Carolina’s Historical People and Places

http://www.itpi.dpi.state.nc.us/nchistorical/default.html

Click on the map or the table for links to places like Historic Edenton, Historic Bath, Fort Raleigh, etc. The map was created by DPI and links to people and places important to North Carolina History.

Special Interest

Tryon Palace – Just for Kids: stories, puzzles and pictures

http://www.tryonpalace.org/pages/classpgs/kids_frame.html

Learn about the life and times of Thomas Tryon, his family, his servants and his slaves.

Charter of Carolina - March 24, 1663

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nc01.htm

Find the text of the Charter of Carolina from March 24, 1663. From the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.

Blackbeard the Pirate… and the Presumed Wreck of Queen Anne’s Revenge

http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/maritime/blackbeard/default.htm

Published by the North Carolina Office of Archives and History — North Carolina Maritime Museum

Queen Anne’s Revenge – the QAR Project

http://www.qaronline.org/history/history.htm

This site is written at a high level, but it has some good drawings, maps, and pictures of artifacts that have been recovered.

National Geographic Kids – Pirates

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/pirates/maina.html

“Click here for a high-seas adventure”