North Carolina the last shots of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War. For many years, North Carolinians proudly boasted that they had been "First at Bethel, Farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga, and Last at Appomattox." North Carolina is bordered by South Carolina on the south, Georgia on the southwest, Tennessee on the west, Virginia on the north, and the Atlantic Ocean on the east. The United States Census Bureau places North Carolina in the South Atlantic division of the southern region. North Carolina consists of three main geographic regions: the Atlantic coastal plain, occupying the eastern portion of
North, South Carolina North, South Carolina North is a town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 754 at the 2010 census. In 1891 the SouthBound Railway Company came through the area with the assistance of John F. North. In 1892 John North, along with George W. Pou and Sampson A. Livingston, donated 100 acres for the railway depot and townsite. A US Post Office was established. The next year John North, a Confederate veteran and businessman, was elected the first mayor of his namesake town of North, South Carolina. North, South Carolina, has been noted for its unusual place