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Website. www .deq .nc .gov. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) is an agency of the government of North Carolina that focuses on the preservation and protection of natural resources and public health. The department is headed by the Secretary of Environmental Quality, who is appointed by the Governor of North Carolina ...
1870. Louisa Swainwas the first woman in the United States to vote in a general election, after the women of New Jersey lost the right to vote in 1807; she cast her ballot on September 6, 1870, in Laramie, Wyoming. [32][33] 1870. Esther Hobart Morriswas the first woman in America to serve as Justice of the peace.
Coffman was the first woman to receive a death sentence in California since the reinstatement of the death penalty in that state in 1977. James Marlow was also sentenced to death. In 2005, Coffman's petition to the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari was denied. [ 20] Kerry Lyn Dalton.
Tennessee — Jimmy Ray Williams Jr, a resident of Spring Creek, North Carolina, died after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake during a religious service in the House of Prayer in Jesus Name in Morristown. His father died in 1973 after drinking strychnine during a religious service in the nearby Carson Springs Holiness Church in Jesus Name.
The geography of North Carolina falls naturally into three divisions — the Appalachian Mountains in the west (including the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains ), the central Piedmont Plateau, and the eastern Atlantic Coastal Plain. North Carolina covers 53,819 square miles (139,391 km 2) and is 503 miles (810 km) wide by 150 miles (241 km ...
Headquarters. 109 East Jones Street. MSC 4601. Raleigh, NC 27699-4601. Agency executive. D. Reid Wilson, Secretary. Website. www .ncdcr .gov. The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources is a cabinet-level department within the state government of North Carolina dedicated to overseeing projects in the arts, culture, and ...
www .ci .fayetteville .nc .us. Fayetteville ( / ˈfeɪətvɪl, ˈfɛdvɪl / FAY-ət-vil, FED-vil) [ 8] is a city in and the county seat of Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. [ 9] It is best known as the home of Fort Liberty, a major U.S. Army installation northwest of the city.
By 1712, the term "North Carolina" was in common use. In 1728, the dividing line between North Carolina and Virginia was surveyed. In 1730, the population in North Carolina was around 30,000. [ 38] By 1729, the Crown bought out seven of the eight original proprietors and made the region a royal colony.