It’s Great to Be a Fan in North Carolina

It’s Great to Be a Fan in North Carolina — page 3
But contained in that land area are a wide variety of landscapes From the Appalachian Mountains in the west to the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the rolling hilly land called the Piedmont in between North Carolina has it all American Indians were the first people to live in what is now North Carolina The first tribes settled the area at least 10,000 years ago Eventually more than 30 tribes made their homes there They included the Cherokee Croatan Pamlico and many others Explorers from Europe first arrived in the 1500s European settlers built a village at Roanoke Island in 1585 More settlers came in the 1600s They pushed many native tribes off their land often through violence In 1663 the settlers established the British colony of Carolina The northern and southern 6