North Carolina Minute: Tar Heel trivia

August 15, 1585 – Sir Walter Raleigh’s first colony landed on Roanoke Island.
 
1712 – Edward Mashbone conducted a school for whites and Indians at Sarum in Gates County.
 
November 17, 1753 – Moravians from Pennsylvania purchased a tract of land in Piedmont North
 Carolina and called the land Wachovia.
 
January 15, 1771 – Queens College was established in Charlotte.
 
1802 – Michael Shinck established the first cotton mill in the state.
 
1810 – The first volume of North Carolina poetry was published
 
1840 – Southern Baptists send the first missionary to China.
 
May 12, 1842 – St. Mary’s school for girls opened in Raleigh.
 
1861 – The first military camp in North Carolina, Camp Ellis, was located on the old fairgrounds
 in Raleigh. It was named in honor of sitting governor John Ellis.
 
February 2, 1877 – The Carolina General Assembly created the first NC State Board of Health.
 
1970 – North Carolina claimed the largest highway system in the nation with 73,036 miles.