You know, of course, that North Carolinians are called tarheels. But you may not know that the nickname comes largely from New Bernian activities. Vast forests of Longleaf Pine flourished in this part of Eastern North Carolina in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Wound faces were cut in the bark, allowing early settlers to collect pine pitch and sap to make pine tar. Pine tar made wooden ships watertight, and was essential to the British Navy. By the late eighteenth c