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Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (National Park Service)
A Midwesterner most of his life, Sandburg and his family moved to North Carolina in 1945. This farm offered the peace and solitude required for his writing and offered Mrs. Sandburg over 30 acres of pasture-land that she desired to raise her champion dairy goats. ... Sandburg, having already achieved literary fame before relocating to North Carolina, continued to write and lecture and published more than one-third of his works during his 22 years at Connemara. ... [Read More]
United States Newspaper Program
North Carolina has microfilmed 3 million pages of newspapers such as the North Carolina Gazette , first published in 1751. The project, which includes papers from ninety-nine out of one hundred counties, has received $1,334,095 in NEH support. ... The first newspaper in the Royal colony of South Carolina appeared when Thomas Whitemarsh produced the South-Carolina Gazette in 1732. In the 19th century, ethnic newspapers served the German and Irish communities and today's Hispanic and communities are reached by papers with Hispanic titles. The project has microfilmed 990,332 pages with $397,893 in NEH support. ... [Read More]
North Carolina State Page
North Carolina is located in the southeast United States, with its state capital located in Raleigh . North Carolina has 100 counties and is bordered by Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. Among the 50 states, North Carolina ranks 28th in size, covering 53,821 square miles. According to the 2000 Census, North Carolina ranks 11th in population size with 8,049,313 residents, and the state's population is projected to increase by 17.3 percent through 2010 . Several counties are projected to experience growth rates of 25 percent or more through 2010, including Brunswick, Cabarrus, Currituck, Dare, Franklin, Harnett, Hoke, Iredell, Johnston, Mecklenburg, Pender, Union and Wake counties. The three largest municipalities by population are Charlotte, Raleigh, and Greensboro, totaling over 1.3 million residents. ... [Read More]
North Carolina State and Local Government - Newspaper and Current PeriodicalReading Room (Serialand Government Publications Division, Library of Congress)
A joint project of the North Carolina Institute of Government, the North Carolina League of Municipalities, and the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners ... [Read More]
State & Federal Links
The purpose of the North Carolina General Assembly Home Page is to provide a starting point for access to and research and use of legislative information by the citizens of North Carolina and other persons interested in law, public policy, and the legislative process. ... The 1973 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Act in North Carolina established the Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS) as the lead agency at the state level for EMS. It also established the framework for developing a comprehensive EMS system in North Carolina. At the same time the federal EMS Act of 1973 was passed that started a federal initiative to develop comprehensive EMS systems throughout the country. ... [Read More]
Judges of the United States Courts
Member, North Carolina State Legislature, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1842-1843, 1846-1848, 1852-1857 ... Private practice, Henderson, North Carolina, 1849-1857 ... Private practice, Rutherford, North Carolina, 1841-1849 ... [Read More]
City of Asheville - Other Links
The North Carolina Arboretum ... North CarolinaTransitNet ... University of North Carolina at Asheville ... [Read More]
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources: News
In addition to the main text, “History for All the People” contains 20 detailed features written by Wegner and Michael Hill, Dennis Daniels, and Mark Moore, Wegner’s colleagues in the Research Branch of Archives and History. The features emphasize prominent figures and significant programs and events in the agency's history, such as publication of the North Carolina Historical Review, Town Creek Indian Mound, and the North Carolina Newspaper Project. Other features focus on the Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, the North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, a purported “Daniel Boone homeplace,” and the recovery of a 1790 George Washington letter now housed in the State Archives. ... [Read More]
[Portrait of Wilbur A. Sawyer in Wallace Carroll's newspaper office, Winston-Salem, North Carolina] (October 1949)
[Portrait of Wilbur A. Sawyer in Wallace Carroll's newspaper office, Winston-Salem, North Carolina] ... [Read More]
U.S. Newspaper Indexes at the Library of Congress
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