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Tryon, William

(Encyclopedia) Tryon, William, 1729–88, English colonial governor in North America. After a distinguished army career he was appointed (1764) lieutenant governor of North Carolina and succeeded (1765…

Sevier, John

(Encyclopedia) Sevier, JohnSevier, Johnsəvērˈ [key], 1745–1815, American frontiersman and political leader. He was born near the site of New Market, Va., the town he founded in his young manhood. In…

Asheville

(Encyclopedia) Asheville Asheville ăshˈvəl, –vĭl [key], city (2020 pop. 94,589), seat of Buncombe co., W N.C., on the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers and on a plateau in…

Horton, George Moses

(Encyclopedia) Horton, George Moses, c.1797–c.1883, African-American writer, b. near Raleigh, N.C. Born into slavery, he worked as a handyman at the Univ. of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he…

Vance, Zebulon Baird

(Encyclopedia) Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830–94, American political leader, Confederate governor of North Carolina (1862–65) in the Civil War, b. Buncombe co., N.C. A lawyer and a Whig, he served in the…

Harriet Monroe: April — North Carolina

April — North CarolinaHarriet MonroeWould you not be in Tryon Now that the spring is here, When mocking-birds are praising The fresh, the blossomy year?Look — on the leafy carpet Woven of…

North Carolina NPR Member Stations

StationCityFrequencyWCQS-FMAsheville88.1WBJD-FMAtlantic Beach91.5WBUX-FMBuxton90.5WUNC-FMChapel Hill91.5WFAE-FMCharlotte90.7WDAV-FMDavidson89.9WNCU-FMDurham90.7WRVS-FMElizabeth City89.9WFSS-…

Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence

(Encyclopedia) Mecklenburg Declaration of IndependenceMecklenburg Declaration of Independencemĕkˈlənbûrgˌ [key], resolution alleged to have been proclaimed at Charlotte, N.C., by the citizens of…

Odum, Howard Washington

(Encyclopedia) Odum, Howard WashingtonOdum, Howard Washingtonōˈdəm [key], 1884–1954, American sociologist, b. Bethlehem, Ga., grad. Emory College, 1904, Ph.D. Clark Univ., 1909, and Ph.D. Columbia,…

Royall, Kenneth Claiborne

(Encyclopedia) Royall, Kenneth Claiborne, 1894–1971, U.S. army officer and government official, b. Goldsboro, N.C., grad. Univ. of North Carolina (1914), Harvard Law School (1917). Royall served in…