North Carolina south of the Chowan River and east of the Great Dismal Swamp in 1655. By 1663, this northeastern area of the Province of Carolina, known as the Albemarle Settlements, was undergoing full-scale English settlement. During the same period, the English monarch Charles II gave the province to the Lords Proprietors, a group of noblemen who had helped restore Charles to the throne in 1660. The new province of "Carolina" was named in honor and memory of King Charles I (Latin: "Carolus"). In 1712, North Carolina became a separate colony. Except for the Earl Granville holdings, it became a royal colony
1660 Wood who had discovered 12 asteroids himself between 1911 and 1928. He had the prime responsibility for the famous "Franklin-Adams Star Camera" (Franklin-Adams photographic refractor) since its acquisition in 1909 "(also see 1925 Franklin-Adams)". The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center before November 1977 (). 1660 Wood 1660 Wood, provisional designation , is a stony Phocaea asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter. It was named after British–South African astronomer Harry Edwin Wood. "Wood" was discovered on 7 April 1953, by South African astronomer Jacobus Bruwer at Johannesburg Observatory in