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During the late unhappy war between the States it [North Carolina] was sometimes called the "Tar-heel State," because tar was made in the State, and because in battle the soldiers of North Carolina stuck to their bloody work as if they had tar on their heels, and when General Lee said, "God bless the Tar-heel boys," they took the name. (p. 6) [10]
North Carolina: The Tar Heel State. North Carolina is known as the "Tar Heel State" because of the state's history is rooted in turpentine, tar, and pitch production from its pine trees, and the ...
However, during the Civil War, soldiers reclaimed the phrase for themselves, turning it into a celebration of their state, and North Carolina became known as the "Tar Heel State." North Dakota is ...
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
The state's nicknames – "The Old North State" and "The Tar Heel State" – are both traditional, but have never been passed into law by the General Assembly. The first symbol was the Seal of North Carolina, which was made official in 1871. The original seal also contained the future state motto. It served as the state's only emblem for 14 ...
As North Carolina baseball plays in the NCAA super regionals, here's some history on the origin and meaning of the school's nickname, the Tar Heels:
North Carolina: North Carolinian Tar Heel, Tar Boiler [46] Spanish: Norcarolino, norcarolina North Dakota: North Dakotan Spanish: Nordakotense Northern Mariana Islands: Mariana Islander Chamorro: Tåotåo Mariånas Ohio: Ohioan Buckeye [47] Ohian [48] Oklahoma: Oklahoman Okie, [49] Sooner [50] Oregon: Oregonian Pennsylvania: Pennsylvanian
Here’s all the Tar Heel state trivia the NYT crossword has featured from January through June. A North Carolina flag flies above South Building on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill on Monday, Oct ...