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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.
Texas' nickname was taken from the state flag, which was adopted after the state gained independence from Mexico and features a single, "lone" star. Texas remained an independent entity for 10 ...
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 ...
In the mid-18th and 19th centuries, North Carolina was a leading producer of turpentine, TAR, and pitch, products of the state's plentiful pine trees. This is the origin of the TAR Heel nickname.
Incorporated on December 27, 1839, [9] it is the 26th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, the 11th-most populous city in the United States, [10] the fourth-most populous city in the state after Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas, and the second-most populous state capital city after Phoenix, the capital of Arizona. [11]
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.
The Tar Heels, the No. 4 national seed, have advanced to the super regional round of the 2024 NCAA Tournament, where they’ll face West Virginia in a best-of-three series that begins Friday.