17 Our State Covers Through the Decades

Take a scroll through time — and get a peek at how our design has changed over the last 90 years — as you browse a selection of beautiful covers.

 

1930s

April 23, 1938 — The Blowing Rock

 

1940s

June 2, 1945 — Wrightsville Beach

 

1950s

September 13, 1952 — The Blue Ridge Parkway, with Grandfather Mountain in the distance

 

April 10, 1954

 

1960s

July 1, 1966 — Old Baldy Lighthouse on Bald Head Island

 

April 15, 1969 — The Old Well at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

1970s

August 1979 — Hang gliding off the first peak of Grandfather Mountain

 

1980s

April 1985

 

1990s

May 1991 — Tweetsie Railroad in Blowing Rock

 

2000s

February 2002 — The Linn Cove Viaduct on the Blue Ridge Parkway

 

January 2003 — The Mile-High Swinging Bridge on Grandfather Mountain

 

2010s

July 2010

 

October 2010

 

July 2012

 

November 2016

 

July 2019

 

2020s

August 2021