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    "id": "nc-history-timeline",
    "name": "North Carolina History Timeline",
    "description": "Dated events in North Carolina history, from the earliest people to today, each with the agency, archive or encyclopedia page it was read from.",
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    "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "attribution": "It's North Carolina (itsnorthcarolina.com), CC BY 4.0",
    "citation": "It's North Carolina (2026). North Carolina History Timeline. https://itsnorthcarolina.com/history/timeline/",
    "publisher": "It's North Carolina",
    "geo_scope": "North Carolina, USA",
    "last_checked": "2026-10-20",
    "row_count": 59,
    "columns": [
        "date",
        "era",
        "event",
        "place",
        "county",
        "source_title",
        "source_url",
        "checked"
    ],
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        "date": "Date as the source writes it",
        "era": "Era of state history (our grouping)",
        "event": "One-sentence description",
        "place": "City, county or area",
        "county": "County where one applies",
        "source_title": "Title of the source page",
        "source_url": "Source page the row was read from",
        "checked": "Date (YYYY-MM-DD) the row was read"
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        {
            "date": "13,000-8000 B.C.",
            "era": "First peoples",
            "event": "American Indians have lived continuously in the region that became North Carolina since the Paleo-Indian period.",
            "place": "Statewide",
            "county": null,
            "source_title": "NCpedia: American Indian People in North Carolina - Introduction",
            "source_url": "https://www.ncpedia.org/american-indians/introduction",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "About the 11th century A.D.",
            "era": "First peoples",
            "event": "A Pee Dee (South Appalachian Mississippian) culture emerged in the Pee Dee River Valley and built a ceremonial center with an earthen mound at Town Creek.",
            "place": "Mount Gilead",
            "county": "Montgomery",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Town Creek Indian Mound - American Indian Legacy",
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            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1524",
            "era": "Colonial era",
            "event": "Giovanni da Verrazano, sailing for the king of France, explored the southern and central coast of what became North Carolina.",
            "place": "Cape Fear to Cape Hatteras coast",
            "county": null,
            "source_title": "NCpedia: Verrazano Expedition",
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        },
        {
            "date": "1540",
            "era": "Colonial era",
            "event": "Hernando De Soto's Spanish expedition visited Native towns in the interior Southeast, including a town later visited by Juan Pardo.",
            "place": "Western North Carolina region",
            "county": null,
            "source_title": "NCpedia: Pardo Expeditions",
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        {
            "date": "1566-1567",
            "era": "Colonial era",
            "event": "Juan Pardo's Spanish soldiers built Fort San Juan at the Native town of Joara, believed to be in present-day Burke County.",
            "place": "Joara (near Morganton)",
            "county": "Burke",
            "source_title": "NCpedia: Pardo Expeditions",
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        },
        {
            "date": "1584-1590",
            "era": "Colonial era",
            "event": "English colonization attempts sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh were made on Roanoke Island, ending with the disappearance of the 'Lost Colony.'",
            "place": "Roanoke Island (Manteo)",
            "county": "Dare",
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            "date": "1587",
            "era": "Colonial era",
            "event": "John White led 117 men, women and children to the New World; when he returned three years later the colony had disappeared.",
            "place": "Roanoke Island (Manteo)",
            "county": "Dare",
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        },
        {
            "date": "1705",
            "era": "Colonial era",
            "event": "Bath, North Carolina's first town, was founded near the Pamlico River.",
            "place": "Bath",
            "county": "Beaufort",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Historic Bath - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/historic-bath/history",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1711",
            "era": "Colonial era",
            "event": "Cary's Rebellion, a yellow fever epidemic and drought struck the colony, followed immediately by the Tuscarora War between settlers and the Tuscarora.",
            "place": "Bath and Pamlico region",
            "county": "Beaufort",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Historic Bath - History",
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            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1718",
            "era": "Colonial era",
            "event": "An expedition of the British Navy killed the pirate Edward Teach ('Blackbeard') in a naval battle near Ocracoke.",
            "place": "Ocracoke",
            "county": "Hyde",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Historic Bath - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/historic-bath/history",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1722",
            "era": "Colonial era",
            "event": "Edenton was incorporated, and the Assembly selected it as the capital.",
            "place": "Edenton",
            "county": "Chowan",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Historic Edenton; NC State Capitol - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/historic-edenton",
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        },
        {
            "date": "1734",
            "era": "Colonial era",
            "event": "Construction began on St. Thomas Church in Bath, the state's oldest existing church today.",
            "place": "Bath",
            "county": "Beaufort",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Historic Bath - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/historic-bath/history",
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        },
        {
            "date": "November 1753",
            "era": "Colonial era",
            "event": "The first Moravian settlers arrived at Bethabara, the community that gave rise to Bethania, Salem, Friedberg and Friedland.",
            "place": "Bethabara (Winston-Salem)",
            "county": "Forsyth",
            "source_title": "NCpedia: Moravians",
            "source_url": "https://www.ncpedia.org/moravians",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "February 27, 1760",
            "era": "Colonial era",
            "event": "During the French and Indian War, a Cherokee attack on Fort Dobbs, the colony's only permanent frontier provincial fort, was repelled.",
            "place": "Statesville",
            "county": "Iredell",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Fort Dobbs - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/fort-dobbs/history",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1767-1771",
            "era": "Colonial era",
            "event": "Governor William Tryon's Palace was built in New Bern as the governor's residence and office.",
            "place": "New Bern",
            "county": "Craven",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: NC State Capitol - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/north-carolina-state-capitol/history",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "May 16, 1771",
            "era": "Revolution",
            "event": "Royal governor William Tryon's militia defeated about 2,000 backcountry Regulators at the Battle of Alamance.",
            "place": "Burlington",
            "county": "Alamance",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Alamance Battleground - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/alamance-battleground/history",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "October 25, 1774",
            "era": "Revolution",
            "event": "Fifty-one women in Edenton resolved to stop buying English imports, among the first public political acts by women in America.",
            "place": "Edenton",
            "county": "Chowan",
            "source_title": "NCpedia: Edenton Tea Party",
            "source_url": "https://www.ncpedia.org/edenton-tea-party-0",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "May 31, 1775",
            "era": "Revolution",
            "event": "A committee in Charlotte adopted the Mecklenburg Resolves, a set of anti-British resolutions.",
            "place": "Charlotte",
            "county": "Mecklenburg",
            "source_title": "NCpedia: Mecklenburg Resolves",
            "source_url": "https://www.ncpedia.org/mecklenburg-resolves",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "February 27, 1776",
            "era": "Revolution",
            "event": "Patriots defeated a Loyalist charge at Moores Creek Bridge - the last broadsword charge by Scottish Highlanders and the first significant Patriot victory of the Revolution.",
            "place": "Currie",
            "county": "Pender",
            "source_title": "NPS: Moores Creek National Battlefield",
            "source_url": "https://www.nps.gov/mocr/index.htm",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "April 12, 1776",
            "era": "Revolution",
            "event": "The Fourth Provincial Congress at Halifax unanimously adopted the Halifax Resolves, the first official action by an entire colony recommending independence.",
            "place": "Halifax",
            "county": "Halifax",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Historic Halifax - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/historic-halifax/history",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1776",
            "era": "Revolution",
            "event": "British troops razed the port of Brunswick on the Cape Fear River; it was never rebuilt.",
            "place": "Winnabow",
            "county": "Brunswick",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/brunswick-town-fort-anderson",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "Fall 1776",
            "era": "Revolution",
            "event": "The Fifth Provincial Congress at Halifax drafted and approved North Carolina's first state constitution and appointed Richard Caswell the first governor.",
            "place": "Halifax",
            "county": "Halifax",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Historic Halifax - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/historic-halifax/history",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "March 15, 1781",
            "era": "Revolution",
            "event": "Gen. Nathanael Greene's army fought Lord Cornwallis at Guilford Courthouse, a battle that changed the course of the Southern Campaign.",
            "place": "Greensboro",
            "county": "Guilford",
            "source_title": "NPS: Guilford Courthouse NMP",
            "source_url": "https://www.nps.gov/guco/index.htm",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "September 1781",
            "era": "Revolution",
            "event": "Loyalist colonel David Fanning raided the temporary capital of Hillsborough and captured Governor Thomas Burke.",
            "place": "Hillsborough",
            "county": "Orange",
            "source_title": "NPS: Guilford Courthouse NMP - History & Culture",
            "source_url": "https://www.nps.gov/guco/learn/historyculture/index.htm",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "November 21, 1789",
            "era": "Early statehood",
            "event": "Meeting in Fayetteville, a state convention voted to ratify the U.S. Constitution, making North Carolina the twelfth state.",
            "place": "Fayetteville",
            "county": "Cumberland",
            "source_title": "NCpedia: Convention of 1789",
            "source_url": "https://www.ncpedia.org/government/convention-1789",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1792",
            "era": "Early statehood",
            "event": "Construction of a State House began on the central square of the newly planned capital, Raleigh.",
            "place": "Raleigh",
            "county": "Wake",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: NC State Capitol - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/north-carolina-state-capitol/history",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1795",
            "era": "Early statehood",
            "event": "The University of North Carolina opened its doors, the first state institution of higher learning in the nation.",
            "place": "Chapel Hill",
            "county": "Orange",
            "source_title": "NCpedia: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill",
            "source_url": "https://www.ncpedia.org/university-north-carolina-chapel-hi",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "November 2, 1795",
            "era": "Early statehood",
            "event": "James K. Polk, later the 11th U.S. president, was born on his parents' farm in Mecklenburg County.",
            "place": "Pineville",
            "county": "Mecklenburg",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: President James K. Polk - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/president-james-k-polk/history",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1799",
            "era": "Early statehood",
            "event": "Conrad Reed found a 17-pound gold nugget in Little Meadow Creek - the first documented gold find in the United States.",
            "place": "Midland",
            "county": "Cabarrus",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Reed Gold Mine - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/reed-gold-mine/history",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1831",
            "era": "Early statehood",
            "event": "The State House in Raleigh burned, destroying Canova's statue of George Washington.",
            "place": "Raleigh",
            "county": "Wake",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: NC State Capitol - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/north-carolina-state-capitol/history",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "May 1838",
            "era": "Early statehood",
            "event": "U.S. troops and militia began forcibly removing Cherokee people from their homelands, including North Carolina - the Trail of Tears.",
            "place": "Western North Carolina",
            "county": null,
            "source_title": "NPS: Trail of Tears NHT - History & Culture",
            "source_url": "https://www.nps.gov/trte/learn/historyculture/index.htm",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "June 1840",
            "era": "Early statehood",
            "event": "The North Carolina State Capitol opened and has been the seat of state government since.",
            "place": "Raleigh",
            "county": "Wake",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: NC State Capitol",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/north-carolina-state-capitol",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "May 20, 1861",
            "era": "Civil War",
            "event": "A convention in Raleigh unanimously passed North Carolina's ordinance of secession.",
            "place": "Raleigh",
            "county": "Wake",
            "source_title": "NCpedia: Secession Movement",
            "source_url": "https://www.ncpedia.org/secession-movement",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1862",
            "era": "Civil War",
            "event": "After the Battle of Roanoke Island, a Freedmen's Colony was established on the island for formerly enslaved people.",
            "place": "Roanoke Island (Manteo)",
            "county": "Dare",
            "source_title": "NPS: Fort Raleigh NHS",
            "source_url": "https://www.nps.gov/fora/index.htm",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "January 15, 1865",
            "era": "Civil War",
            "event": "Fort Fisher fell to a massive U.S. amphibious assault, closing the last supply line to Lee's army through Wilmington.",
            "place": "Kure Beach",
            "county": "New Hanover",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Fort Fisher",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/fort-fisher",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "March 19-21, 1865",
            "era": "Civil War",
            "event": "The Battle of Bentonville, the largest battle fought in North Carolina, failed to stop Sherman's army.",
            "place": "Four Oaks",
            "county": "Johnston",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Bentonville Battlefield",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/bentonville-battlefield",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "April 26, 1865",
            "era": "Civil War",
            "event": "Johnston surrendered to Sherman at the Bennitt (Bennett) farm - the largest troop surrender of the Civil War.",
            "place": "Durham",
            "county": "Durham",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Bennett Place - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/bennett-place/history",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1866",
            "era": "Reconstruction",
            "event": "A state act allowed formerly enslaved couples to legitimize their marriages through cohabitation bonds filed with county registers of deeds.",
            "place": "Statewide",
            "county": null,
            "source_title": "State Archives of NC: North Carolina Digital Collections (Cohabitation Bonds)",
            "source_url": "https://digital.ncdcr.gov/",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "December 16, 1870",
            "era": "Reconstruction",
            "event": "The new Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was lit for the first time.",
            "place": "Buxton",
            "county": "Dare",
            "source_title": "NPS: Cape Hatteras Light Station",
            "source_url": "https://www.nps.gov/caha/planyourvisit/chls.htm",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "February 10, 1885",
            "era": "New South and industry",
            "event": "North Carolina legally recognized the 'Indians of Robeson County,' a milestone for the tribe now known as the Lumbee.",
            "place": "Robeson County",
            "county": "Robeson",
            "source_title": "NCpedia: Lumbee",
            "source_url": "https://www.ncpedia.org/lumbee",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "Christmas Eve 1895",
            "era": "New South and industry",
            "event": "George W. Vanderbilt officially opened Biltmore House after five years of construction.",
            "place": "Asheville",
            "county": "Buncombe",
            "source_title": "NCpedia: Biltmore House",
            "source_url": "https://www.ncpedia.org/biltmore-house",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "November 10, 1898",
            "era": "New South and industry",
            "event": "A white mob led by Red Shirts violently overthrew Wilmington's legitimately elected biracial government, burned the Black-owned Daily Record and killed Black citizens - the Wilmington Massacre and Coup d'etat.",
            "place": "Wilmington",
            "county": "New Hanover",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Governor Charles B. Aycock Birthplace - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/governor-charles-b-aycock-birthplace/history",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1899-1900",
            "era": "New South and industry",
            "event": "The General Assembly passed a 'suffrage amendment' adding a literacy test and poll tax designed to eliminate African American voting.",
            "place": "Statewide",
            "county": null,
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Governor Charles B. Aycock Birthplace - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/governor-charles-b-aycock-birthplace/history",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1902",
            "era": "20th century",
            "event": "Charlotte Hawkins Brown founded Palmer Memorial Institute, an African American boarding school in Sedalia.",
            "place": "Sedalia (Gibsonville)",
            "county": "Guilford",
            "source_title": "NC Historic Sites: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum - History",
            "source_url": "https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/charlotte-hawkins-brown-museum/history",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "December 17, 1903",
            "era": "20th century",
            "event": "Wilbur and Orville Wright made the world's first heavier-than-air, powered, controlled flight at Kitty Hawk.",
            "place": "Kill Devil Hills",
            "county": "Dare",
            "source_title": "NPS: Wright Brothers NM - Stories",
            "source_url": "https://www.nps.gov/wrbr/learn/historyculture/stories.htm",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1929",
            "era": "20th century",
            "event": "The Gastonia (Loray Mill) Strike, the most notorious textile labor struggle in North Carolina history, ran from spring to early fall.",
            "place": "Gastonia",
            "county": "Gaston",
            "source_title": "NCpedia: Gastonia Strike",
            "source_url": "https://www.ncpedia.org/gastonia-strike",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1935",
            "era": "20th century",
            "event": "Construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway began as a New Deal Public Works Administration project; it was completed 52 years later with the Linn Cove Viaduct in 1987.",
            "place": "Blue Ridge (multiple counties)",
            "county": null,
            "source_title": "NCpedia: Blue Ridge Parkway",
            "source_url": "https://www.ncpedia.org/blue-ridge-parkway",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1937",
            "era": "20th century",
            "event": "The outdoor drama The Lost Colony began at the Waterside Theater on Roanoke Island.",
            "place": "Manteo",
            "county": "Dare",
            "source_title": "NPS: Fort Raleigh NHS",
            "source_url": "https://www.nps.gov/fora/index.htm",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "September 2, 1940",
            "era": "20th century",
            "event": "President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated Great Smoky Mountains National Park at Newfound Gap.",
            "place": "Newfound Gap",
            "county": "Swain",
            "source_title": "NCpedia: Great Smoky Mountains National Park",
            "source_url": "https://www.ncpedia.org/great-smoky-mountains-national-park",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1959",
            "era": "20th century",
            "event": "Research Triangle Park, the largest planned research center in the United States, was created.",
            "place": "Research Triangle Park",
            "county": null,
            "source_title": "NCpedia: Research Triangle Park",
            "source_url": "https://www.ncpedia.org/research-triangle-park",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "February 1, 1960",
            "era": "Civil rights",
            "event": "Four N.C. A&T students sat at the whites-only Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, launching sit-ins across the South.",
            "place": "Greensboro",
            "county": "Guilford",
            "source_title": "NCpedia: Greensboro Sit-Ins",
            "source_url": "https://www.ncpedia.org/greensboro-sit-ins",
            "checked": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
            "date": "1960",
            "era": "Civil rights",
            "event": "At Shaw University in Raleigh, Ella Baker was credited with creating the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a principal outcome of the sit-ins.",
            "place": "Raleigh",
            "county": "Wake",
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            "event": "The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Memorial opened as North Carolina's first state historic site honoring African American heritage.",
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            "event": "The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was moved 2,900 feet in 23 days to protect it from erosion.",
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            "date": "February 2024",
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            "event": "Thomas Day's workshop in Milton was designated a State Historic Site, honoring the free Black master furniture maker.",
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            "event": "The North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh closed for a renovation; it is scheduled to reopen in 2028.",
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            "event": "The Lumbee Fairness Act, granting full federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, was signed into law.",
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