Hey You, Tar Heel!

Did you ever wonder why North Carolina is known as the “Tar Heel” State? Historians have recorded that the principal products during the early history of North Carolina were "tar, pitch, and turpentine." In 1862 "tar-heel" was introduced as a term of ridicule. It was during one of the fiercest battles of the War Between the States, so the story goes, that the column supporting the North