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Eva Clayton (born 1934), U.S. Congresswoman from North Carolina 1992–2003; she graduated from Johnson C. Smith University and North Carolina Central University Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), American Book Award-winning author of Blood Run and other novels (raised in North Carolina, various counties)
The history of North Carolina from pre-colonial history to the present, covers the experiences of the people who have lived within the territory that now comprises the U.S. state of North Carolina. Findings of the earliest discovered human settlements in present day North Carolina, are found at the Hardaway Site , dating back to approximately ...
History portal; United States portal; This category includes people who were notable in the Province of North Carolina (and the Roanoke Colony) prior to the era of American Revolution. That is, they were notable before about 1765, such as people involved in the French and Indian War.
Calvin Jones (1775–1846), Mayor of Raleigh, Adjutant General of North Carolina, and founder of Wake Forest College [23] I. Beverly Lake, former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court; Clarence Lightner (1921–2002), mayor (1973–1975); Raleigh's first popularly elected African-American mayor and first of any major Southern city
North Carolina portal; This category includes people associated with North Carolina during the American Revolution. People in this category should not also be placed in Category:People of colonial North Carolina, unless they were notable in North Carolina before the Revolutionary era (i.e., before about 1765).
Asheville. The mountainous western North Carolina city of Asheville is mentioned several times throughout the book. Kya’s dad, Pa, is from Asheville. His family owned a plantation there, but ...
19th century homestead of a traveling physician, Dr. Edward Hiram Ward (August 1829 – June 1896) was the son of Hiram Ward (1794–1842) and Sara Hackney (1806–1848) and lived in Chatham County, North Carolina.
Famous people who nearly boarded the Titanic but didn't ... most well known for commissioning the largest standing monument of Vanderbilt wealth — the Biltmore Estate in western North Carolina ...