Genealogy Projects tagged with north carolina on the Geni Family Tree

Caldwell County, North Carolina

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Caldwell County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1841 from parts of Burke County and Wilkes County. It was named for Joseph Caldwell, presiding professor (1796–1797, 1799–1804) and the first president (1804–1812, 1816–1835) of the University of North Carolina. A series of reductions in the county's territo...

Burke County, North Carolina

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Burke County, North Carolina. Official Website Native Americans of the Mississippian culture inhabited the county long before Europeans arrived in the New World. The largest Mound Builder settlement was at Joara, a 12-acre site and regional chiefdom near present-day Morganton. It was the center of the largest Native American settlem...

Mitchell County, North Carolina

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Mitchell County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1861 and was named for Elisha Mitchell, professor of mathematics, chemistry, geology, and mineralogy at the University of North Carolina from 1818 until his death in 1857. The county is home to the "Mineral City of the World", Spruce Pine and Roan Mountain w...

Avery County, North Carolina

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Avery County, North Carolina. Official Website The county is the newest of North Carolina 's 100 counties. It was formed in 1911 from parts of Caldwell County, Mitchell County, and Watauga County. It was named for Waightstill Avery , a colonel in the American Revolutionary War and the first Attorney General of North Carolina (1777–1...

McDowell County, North Carolina

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McDowell County, North Carolina. Official Website Both the historic Cherokee and Catawba Indians were Native American peoples known to live in what is now McDowell County, and they had been there long before any Europeans. These Native Americans were living in this section for centuries before the Spanish Juan Pardo's 1566 expeditio...

Harnett County, North Carolina

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Harnett County, North Carolina. Official Website Harnett County was formed in 1855 and was named for American Revolutionary war soldier Cornelius Harnett,[3] who was also a delegate to the Continental Congress. The first settlers came to the region in the mid-1720s, and were followed by Highland Scots immigrants. The Scots settled...

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Official Website Mecklenburg County, located in the Piedmont section of the state, was formed in 1762. It was named in commemoration of the marriage of King George III to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was allegedly signed on May 20, 1775; if the ...

Richmond County, North Carolina

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived, or died in Richmond County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1779. It was named for Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox who was an Englishman and a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom who sided with the colonists in America during the American Revolution. Adjacent Counties Montgomery County ...

Montgomery County, North Carolina

Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Montgomery County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in January 1779, by an act of the North Carolina General Assembly of 1778. It was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City, Canada. The county's motto is "The Golden Opp...

Ashe County, North Carolina

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ashe County, North Carolina. It is not to be confused with the city of Asheville in Buncombe County . Official Website Historical evidence shows that Ashe County was inhabited by Native Americans, which included the Cherokee, Creek, and Shawnee tribes. Pieces of broken pottery, arrowheads, and other Native American artifacts have...

Watauga County, North Carolina

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Watauga County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1849. It was named for the Watauga River, whose name is said to be a Native American word. Meanings include "beautiful water," "whispering waters," "village of many springs," and "river of islands." Adjacent Counties Ashe County Wilkes County Johnson C...

Bladen County, North Carolina

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bladen County, North Carolina. Official Website Bladen County was formed in 1734 as Bladen Precinct of Bath County, from New Hanover Precinct. It was named for Martin Bladen, a member of the Board of Trade. With the abolition of Bath County in 1739, all of its constituent precincts became counties. Bladen's original residents inclu...

Northampton County, North Carolina

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Northampton County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1741 and was named for James Compton, 5th Earl of Northampton. Adjacent Counties Hertford County Bertie County Halifax County Warren County Greensville County, Virginia Southampton County, Virginia

North Carolina with Counties, Towns and Communities Project.

This subportal is part of the State of North Carolina Portal . Wikipedia Please go to following link for further information: United States with Counties, Areas & Communities Project . Projects on Geni Cities Asheville Charlotte Durham Fayetteville Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty)

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Moore County, North Carolina

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Moore County, North Carolina. Official Website In the historic period that included European encounter, tribes included Algonquian speakers in the coastal area, with Siouan-speaking tribes in the border and Piedmont, and the Iroquoian-speaking Cherokee in the western mountains. This area was settled by Highland Scots and descendant...

North Carolina State University

Wikipedia =North Carolina State University, is a public, coeducational, research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. the university is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a Morrill Land-Grant University, the only NC member of the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, and a member of the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Progr...

Surry County, North Carolina

Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Surry County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1771 as part of the British Province of North Carolina. It was named for the county of Surrey in England, birthplace of William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771. Surry County is apparently home to the fictitious community of Mayberry from "T...

Anson County, North Carolina

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Anson County, North Carolina . Official Website The county was formed in 1750 from Bladen County . It was named for George Anson , Baron Anson, a British admiral, who circumnavigated the globe from 1740 to 1744, and later became First Lord of the Admiralty. Anson purchased land in the state. Like its parent county Bladen, Anson Cou...

Durham (City), North Carolina

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Durham, North Carolina. Durham is the county seat of Durham County in the Piedmont Region on the Eno River. Official Website Wikipedia A railway depot was established on land donated by Bartlett S. Durham in 1849, the namesake of the city. Following the American Civil War, the community of Durham Station expanded rapi...

Yadkin County, North Carolina

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Yadkin County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1850. It is south of the Yadkin River, for which it was named. Adjacent Counties Surry County Forsyth County Davie County Iredell County Wilkes County Towns, Townships & Communities Arlington | Barney Hill | Boonville | Branon | Brooks' Crossroa...

Northeastern University

From the Wikipedia article on Northeastern University .Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private, research university in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 1898. It is categorized as a RU/H Research University (high research activity) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.The university offers undergraduate and graduate programs leading to doctoral degrees...

University of North Carolina at Asheville

Wikipedia The University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA) is a co-educational, four year, public liberal arts university. The university is also known as UNC Asheville. Located in Asheville, Buncombe County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina, UNC Asheville is the only designated liberal arts institution in the University of North Carolina system. UNC Asheville is member of the Council ...

Fayetteville, North Carolina

This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Official Website Fayetteville is a city in and the county seat of Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. It is best known as the home of Fort Liberty, a major U.S. Army installation northwest of the city. The area of present-day Fayetteville was historically inhabited by various Siouan Native A...

Orange County, North Carolina

Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Orange County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1752 and was named for the infant William V of Orange, whose mother Anne, daughter of King George II of Great Britain, was then regent of the Dutch Republic. Adjacent Counties Durham County Person County Chatham County Alamance County Caswell Coun...