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North Carolina has two nicknames, “The Old North State” and “The Tar Heel State”. The nickname ‘The Old North State’ dates back to 1710 when the Carolina colony was divided into North Carolina and South Carolina. ‘The Tar Heel State’ comes from North Carolina’s history of producing tar, pitch, rosin, and turpentine from it’s pine forests.
