NC H1175

Honors the 220th anniversary of the North Carolina Assembly's first session in the State House on December 30, 1794

Acknowledges the historical establishment of Raleigh as the state capital within 10 miles of Isaac Hunter's plantation in Wake County, as decided by the Constitutional Convention in 1788

Recognizes that the original State House was a simple two-story brick building constructed beginning in 1792 on Raleigh's central square, designed on the layout of Philadelphia

Notes that the original State House served as the State Capitol until it burned in 1831, with the present State Capitol's cornerstone constructed on the site of the former building

Memorializes the early Assembly members and their role in establishing North Carolina's permanent seat of government