North Carolina

By Colleen GrahamAnd Terry Smith

North Carolina

The Capitol

• The state capitol is located in Raleigh, NC

Photo taken from:http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/61capitol/61capitol.htm

The Governor

• This is Governor Bev Perdue and her family.

• She is the 73rd Governor of NC and our 1st woman governor.

Photo taken from http://www.governor.state.nc.us/firstFamily/default.aspx

SYMBOLS!

• The state of NC has many symbols. They include…

Our State Birdis the CARDINAL!

• Adopted in 1943• Lives in NC all

year• Both the male

and female are fine singers

Our State Floweris the DOGWOOD!• Adopted in 1941• Can be found

from the mountains to the coast

• Usually white, but can be pink or red

Our State Motto is…

• Esse Quam Videri

• (To be rather than to seem)

• Adopted in 1893

• The entire phrase from which this comes means: "Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it."

Our State has2 Nicknames!• The Old North State

• The Carolina colony was divided in 1710, when the Lords Proprietors appointed Edward Hyde to be "...Governour for North Carolina Independent of the Governour of South Carolina." The southern part was called South Carolina and the older, northern settlement North Carolina. From this came the nickname the "Old North State."

• Tar Heel State

• The origin of this nickname is mysterious, though most historians agree that the name derives from North Carolina's long history as a producer of naval stores--tar, pitch, rosin and turpentine--all of which were culled from the State's extensive pine forests.

Our State Seal

• The ladies are Liberty and Plenty

• Depicts the mountains and the sea

Our State Song is called “The Old North State” by William Joseph Gaston • Carolina! Carolina! Heaven's blessings

attend her! While we live we will cherish, protect and defend her; Though the scorner may sneer at and witlings defame her, Our hearts swell with gladness whenever we name her.

• CHORUS: Hurrah! Hurrah! The Old North State forever! Hurrah! Hurrah! The good Old North State!

• Though she envies not others their merited glory, Say, whose name stands the foremost in Liberty's story! Though too true to herself e'er to crouch to oppression, Who can yield to just rule more loyal submission?

• CHORUS: • Plain and artless her sons, but whose

doors open faster At the knock of a stranger, or the tale of disaster? How like to the rudeness of their dear native mountains, With rich ore in their bosoms and life in their fountains.

• CHORUS: • And her daughters, the Queen of the

Forest resembling- So graceful, so constant, yet to gentlest breath trembling; And true lightwood at heart, let the match be applied them, How they kindle and flame! Oh! none know but who've tried them.

• CHORUS: • Then let all who love us, love the land that

we live in As happy a region on this side of Heaven, Where Plenty and Freedom, Love and Peace smile before us, Raise aloud, raise together, the heart-thrilling chorus!

• CHORUS:

Our State Tree is the PINE!

• The most common tree found in NC

• Was vital to our naval stores

• Continues to supply us with wood

The NC Flag

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