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North Carolina Wine Pioneer Sidney Weller

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The General Assembly Chartered UNC

On December 11, 1789, the General Assembly passed a bill chartering a state-supported university. 

Creating the Town of Halifax

On November 21, 1757, the town of Halifax was established by the colonial legislature, which was meeting in New Bern. The act called for the establishment of a town on the lands of James Leslie on the Roanoke River.

W. W. Kitchin, North Carolina-Style Progressive Politician

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Halifax Day Celebrates Embrace of Independence

Independence: The "Halifax Resolves," first formal sanction of American Independence, adopted in this town. April 12, 1776.

Classical Origins of the State’s Motto

On February 21, 1893, the General Assembly adopted Esse Quam Videri as the official state motto. Translated from Latin, the phrase means “To be rather than to seem.”