| North Carolina (Madison County), Hot Springs — P 66 — Balladry |
| | English folklorist Cecil Sharp in 1916 collected ballads in the "Laurel Country." Jane Gentry , who supplied many of the songs, lived here. — Map (db m23129) |
| North Carolina (Madison County), Hot Springs — Dorland - Bell Institute |
| | Founded as Dorland Institute in 1887 by Dr. and Mrs. Luke Dorland. Taken over by Presbyterian Church U.S.A. in 1893. Became Dorland-Bell Institute in 1918 when consolidated with Bell Institute from Jewell Hill. Moved to Asheville in 1942 as part of Warren-Wilson College. — Map (db m23128) |
| North Carolina (Madison County), Hot Springs — P 24 — Hot Springs |
| | Health resort since 1800. Name changed from Warm Springs, 1886. Internment camp for Germans in World War 1 was here. — Map (db m23127) |
| North Carolina (Madison County), Hot Springs — P 27 — Paint Rock |
| | Early landmark. Site of Blockhouse to protect settlers
from Indians, 1793. Figures on rock resemble paintings. Is 5 ½ miles northwest. — Map (db m23131) |
| North Carolina (Madison County), Hot Springs — Robert E. Lee |
| | In loving memory of
Robert E. Lee
and to mark the route of the
Dixie Highway
“The shaft memorial and highway straight
attest his worth — he cometh to his own.”
— Littlefield — — Map (db m3267) |
| North Carolina (Madison County), Hot Springs — Warm Springs Hotel — Brother against Brother |
| | On October 17, 1863, Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside reported from Knoxville, Tennessee, that "a regiment of North Carolina troops we are now organizing here yesterday captured Warm Springs, N.C., and now hold Paint Rock Gap." This regiment, the 2nd North Carolina Mounted Infantry, included Confederate army deserters and more than 70 men recruited at Shelton Laurel, a community northeast of here. At Shelton Laurel the previous January, Confederate troops executed prisoners "suspected of . . . — Map (db m23687) |
| North Carolina (Madison County), Mars Hill — P - 80 — Bascom Lamar Lunsford — 1882 - 1973 |
| | "Minstrel of Appalachia."
Folklorist, collector,&
performer. Pioneered and
promoted American folk
festivals. Was born here. — Map (db m22783) |
| North Carolina (Madison County), Mars Hill — P - 34 — Mars Hill College |
| | Baptist; coeducational. Founded 1856 as French Broad Baptist Institute. Name Changed 1859, Senior college since 1962. — Map (db m22786) |
| North Carolina (Madison County), Mars Hill — Mars Hill College — Strategic Location, Divided Loyalties |
| | Baptist farm families here established Mars Hills College in 1856. The four-acre college campus had three structures by 1861: a two-story brick classroom building, a frame dormitory for boys, and a frame teachers' residence. They stood about 75 yards in front of you. During the war, neighbors, families and even brothers here were divided in their loyalties to the Southern cause, but many joined the Confederate army during the first two years. Mars Hill was a strategic location, a crossroads . . . — Map (db m23140) |
| North Carolina (Madison County), Marshall — P 71 — " Shelton Laurel Massacre " |
| | Thirteen men and boys, suspected of Unionism, were killed by Confederate soldiers in early 1863. Graves 8 mi. E. — Map (db m23126) |
| North Carolina (Madison County), Marshall — Buncombe Turnpike |
| | "Completed in 1827 from Saluda Gap to Buncombe County Court House and along the French Broad River by way of Barnard's and Warm Springs to Tennessee line. Served as the major trade route through mountains of western North Carolina until 1882." — Map (db m23690) |
| North Carolina (Madison County), Marshall — David Vance |
| | Stock Stand owned by Vance, father of Governor Zebulon B. Vance, stood a few yard to the east. The Stand or Inn was also the home of the Vance family for a few years. In 1853 Zebulon Vance gave land as a site for Marshall as the county seat. — Map (db m23692) |
| North Carolina (Madison County), Marshall — P 73 — Frances Goodrich — - 1856 - 1944 - |
| | Missionary and teacher, Her Allanstand Cottage Industries promote the revival of Appalachian handicrafts. Lived here. — Map (db m23125) |
| North Carolina (Madison County), Marshall — Robert E. Lee — Dixie Highway |
| | Erected and dedicated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and friends in loving memory of Robert E. Lee and to mark the route of the Dixie Highway "The shaft memorial and highway straight attest his worth- he cometh to his own"
Littlefield — Map (db m23695) |
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