History.
Exploration and Colonization.
North Carolina's treacherous coast was explored by Verrazano in 1524, and possibly by some Spanish navigators. In the 1580s, Sir Walter Raleigh attempted...
North Carolina became a state on November 21, 1789. On 20 May 1861, it became one of the last Confederate states to secede from the Union, and was readmitted on the 4 of July 1868. It is the state of...