<P> From 1000 B.C.E. until the time of European settlement , the time period is known as the `` Woodland period '' . Permanent villages , based on settled agriculture , were developed throughout the present - day state . By about 800 C.E. , towns were fortified throughout the Piedmont region , suggesting the existence of organized tribal warfare . An important site of this late - Woodland period is the Town Creek Indian Mound , an archaeologically rich site occupied from about 1100 to 1450 C.E. by the Pee Dee culture of the Mississippian tradition . It became a colony in 1653 . </P>
<P> From 1000 B.C.E. until the time of European settlement , the time period is known as the `` Woodland period '' . Permanent villages , based on settled agriculture , were developed throughout the present - day state . By about 800 C.E. , towns were fortified throughout the Piedmont region , suggesting the existence of organized tribal warfare . An important site of this late - Woodland period is the Town Creek Indian Mound , an archaeologically rich site occupied from about 1100 to 1450 C.E. by the Pee Dee culture of the Mississippian tradition . It became a colony in 1653 . </P>
when was north carolina founded as a colony
when was north carolina founded as a colony
1653
1653