North Carolina has faced catastrophic flooding from hurricanes, with inland water damage often surpassing the destruction ...

Military music and the reading of the Declaration of Independence filled Salem Square for their 242nd Fourth of July ...

Founded on November 21, 1789, North Carolina was one of the US's thirteen original colonies. Its rich history at the beginning of American history makes it a core part of our nation, and it's seen ...

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

In 1776, after the U.S. achieved independence from Britain (but before North Carolina became a state in 1789), the Provincial Congress commissioned the creation of a new seal. However, it is ...

The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a ...

A mystery of colonial history. The story this place has to tell was always complicated. ... a North Carolina native, to develop an outdoor play honoring Dare for her 350th birthday in 1937.

South Carolina's history is deeply woven into the fabric of the United States, spanning from the early colonial period through the American Revolution and into the turbulence of the Civil War ...

This riverside city in North Carolina boasts a familiar historical name and offers access to a beautiful state park and a ...

Smith, W. R.; So. Car Royal Province. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

It's a mystery that has intrigued Americans for centuries: What happened to the lost colonists of North Carolina's Roanoke Island? (See "America's Lost Colony.". The settlers, who arrived in 1587 ...

MANTEO, N.C. — Archaeologists say an unearthed copper earring likely came from European explorers who made up part of the "Lost Colony" in modern-day Roanoke Island, North Carolina.