| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — C-7 "Caribou" |
| |
First flown by the Army in the 1960s,
the C-7 was used to provide logistic
support, particularly in Vietnam. Used
to support airborne training through
the 1970s. This aircraft was used by
the U.S. Army Parachute Demonstration
Team, the Golden Knights. — Map (db m31236) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — Curtis C-46 "Commando" |
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First aircraft with jump doors
on both sides of fuselage. Used
for airborne operations in
1945 to early 1950s. — Map (db m31230) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — DC-3/C-47 "Skytrain" |
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(top)
C-47D, Serial Number 44-118427
This aircraft was originally serial number 44-76462.
It is on loan from the U.S. Air Force Museum Program.
(middle)
The Douglas C-47 Skytrain, the military version of the DC-3, was the most commonly used transport in the allied air forces during WW II. The C-47 was stationed at Pope AFB under the Air Transport Command from 1942-1946.
Engines: 2 1200 hp, turbo-charged, P&W Twin Wasps
Crew: 2 pilots, 1 radio operator . . . — Map (db m43999) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — Douglas C-47 |
| |
Known as the “Skytrain”, the
C-47 was the workhorse of
the Army Air Corps transport
units. Carried 82D troopers
into battle at Sicily, Salerno,
Normandy, and Holland — Map (db m31231) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — Enlisted Personnel Memorial |
| | As enlisted men and women of our great nation, nothing captures our professionalism more than the Oath of Enlistment. It states... "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God" Lest we forget who we are... — Map (db m44007) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — Fairchild C-119 "Flying Boxcar" |
| |
Used to support airborne operations
from the 1940s through the 1960s.
First aircraft to handle large parachute
loads containing 3/4 ton trucks and
105-mm howitzers. — Map (db m31492) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — Fairchild C-123-K Provider |
| |
Developed in the 1950s as an assault
transport. The fullsection rear ramp door
made this an ideal aircraft for support of
airborne operations from the 1950s into
the 1970s. — Map (db m31234) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — I-17 — Fort Bragg |
| | Established 1918 as U.S. field artillery training center. Named for N.C. native Braxton Bragg, Lt. Col., USA; Gen., CSA. — Map (db m30973) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — Iron Mike — [The Airborne Trooper] |
| |
In honor of
Airborne Troopers
whose courage,
dedication, and
traditions make them
the world's finest
fighting soldiers — Map (db m31176) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — Lt. Harley H. Pope |
| | Aviation Pioneer 1879-1918 Presented by citizens of Bedford, Indiana — Map (db m43971) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — M-551A1 Sheridan Armored Reconnaissance/Airborne Assault Vehicle |
| | . . . — Map (db m31476) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — M-56 Scopion Self-Propelled Antitank Gun |
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A fully-tracked 90mm gun developed in
the 1950s to provide airborne troops with
a mobile antitank weapon. Used by airborne
armored battalions and airborne infantry
tank companies in the 1960s. — Map (db m31491) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — Meadows Memorial Parade Field — In Memory of Major Richard J. Meadows — 16 June 1931 – 29 July 1995 |
| | During his long and illustrious career, Major Meadows embodied all of those qualities that mark the unique individuals serving in Special Operations Forces. Major Meadows’ extraordinary achievements throughout his dedicated service with Army Special Forces and Ranger units contributed to our nation’s security for nearly four decades. His service included combat action in the Korean War, clandestine operations in Laos, exchange duty and troop command with the British 22nd Special Air Service, . . . — Map (db m31484) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — Pope Air Force Base Air Park |
| | Dedicated to the men and women who flew and maintained these aircraft. Responding to the call to arms, they embraced the difficult challenges and held high the proud heritage of the United States Air Force. This monument stands guard at Pope's entrance in tribute to our airmen, serving as the bridge that spans our present and past. This air park was made possible by the generous contributions of the Pope Special Activities Committee, 23d Civil Engineer Squadron, and the Fort Bragg Corps of . . . — Map (db m44004) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — Pope Airmen Memorial |
| | Front In honor of those Pope airmen who have given their lives for their country while performing flying duties * * * * * * Dedicated to the memory of those who were killed in a C-130 accident on November 30, 1978 Robert J. Caton • Bernie C. Finch III • Daniel K. Morris • Samuel P. Eskew • Mark D. Greer • Robert M. VanWinkle Back Dedicated to the memory of the crew of "Even 91" who lost their lives in a C-130 accident at Blewett Falls, NC on April 28, 1992 Flt Lt Mark . . . — Map (db m44005) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — Pope Airmen Memorial |
| | Dedicated to the memory of those Pope airmen who lost their lives in a C-130 accident at Sicily extraction zone on July 1, 1987 Capt. Garry M. Bardo, Jr. • A1C Albert G. Dunse • Capt. John B. Keiser, III • TSgt Timothy J. Matar — Map (db m44006) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — Stang Field |
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Named in honor of
Colonel Arthur C. Stang III
13 Mar 37 - 2 Sep 80
Former commander of the 3d Brigade
and Chief of Staff, 82d Airborne Division
who was awarded the
Distinguished Service Medal
for outstanding contributions to
America's Guard of Honor — Map (db m31184) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — T-8 90mm Antitank Gun |
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Developed late in World War II, the 90mm
was the most powerful American antitank
weapon of that conflict. It was used by
the 82nd Airborne Division in the postwar
era between 1946 and 1956. — Map (db m31475) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — UH-1A Iroquois Utility Helicopter |
| | Nicknamed the Huey, helicopters
of this type supported Division
airmobile operations in the 1960s
and 1970s. The UH-1 was also
capable of dropping paratroopers
or sling loading heavy equipment — Map (db m31465) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Fort Bragg — USASOC Memorial Wall — In Memory of Our Fallen Special Operations Soldiers — United States Army Special Operations Command |
| | Welcome Kinsman, Comrade, Friend. Recorded here on this humble Wall are the names of our fallen Heroes. They were and will always be cherished Soldiers of Army Special Operations, our comrades in arms. Know that they eagerly sought and accepted our Nation's most difficult missions against our most dangerous enemies. Know that they willingly endured hardship and danger and, at the end, sacrificed all for us. With solemn pride, know that in doing so they proved true to their oath to the . . . — Map (db m31488) WM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Godwin — Battle of Averasboro — Confederate First Defensive Line — Carolinas Campaign |
| | (Preface): The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the March to the Sea. Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to crush Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Scattered Confederate forces consolidated in North Carolina, the Confederacy's logistical lifeline, where Sherman defeated Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's last-ditch attack at Bentonville. After Sherman was . . . — Map (db m42002) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Godwin — I-81 — David M. Williams — 1900-1975 |
| | "Carbine" Williams, designer of short stroke piston, which made possible M-1 carbine rifle, widely used in WWII. Lived 2 mi. S. — Map (db m31793) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Grays Creek — I-59 — Dunn’s Creek Quaker Meeting |
| | Started about 1746; joined yearly meeting, 1760; discontinued about 1781. Site and cemetery are 2.5 miles S.E. — Map (db m1946) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Grays Creek — I 42 — Moore's Camp |
| | Prior to the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, forces of Gen. James Moore, Whig commander camped, Feb.15~21,1776, 1 ½ miles northeast. — Map (db m4588) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Hope Mills — I-27 — Cape Fear Baptist Church |
| | Constituted in 1756 as Particular Baptist. Stephen Hollingsworth, first minister. Present (1859) building 2 mi. E. — Map (db m864) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Linden — I-52 — Rev. James Campbell |
| | One of early Presbyterian ministers in N.C., 1757-1780. Organized Bluff, Barbecue, and Longstreet churches. Grave is 8 mi. east. — Map (db m42003) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Wade — Colonel Alexander McAllister — Patriot and Revolutionary Hero |
| | Near this spot at Old Bluff Church is buried Colonel Alexander McAllister; Patriot and Revolutionary Hero; Colonel of Cumberland County Militia; Representative First Assembly in Newbern, December 1773; Representative Second Assembly in Newbern, March 1774; Member of Provincial Congress held at Hillsboro, Aug. 1775; Member of Provincial Congress held at Halifax, April 1776; Member of Comittee of Safety for Wilmington District; Member of committee appointed by Provincial Congress, August 23, . . . — Map (db m31594) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Wade — I-1 — Old Bluff Church — Presbyterian |
| | Organized in 1758 by Rev. James Campbell. Present building erected about 1858. N.W. 1 mi. — Map (db m31592) HM |
| North Carolina (Cumberland County), Wade — Old Bluff Church — The Muddy Road to Averasboro — Carolinas Campaign |
| | (Preface):
The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savanna, Georgia, after the "March to the Sea." Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to crush Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Scattered Confederate forces consolidated in North Carolina, the Confederacy logistical lifeline, where Sherman defeated Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's last-ditch attack at Bentonville. After Sherman was . . . — Map (db m31593) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Coinjock — A-76 — Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal |
| | Constructed 1855~59 by steam dredges to assist commerce. Now part of Intracoastal Waterway.
N.C. Cut 5 miles long. — Map (db m11313) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Coinjock — Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal — Military Supply Route |
| | After the Battle of Elizabeth City and the destruction of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in February 1862, the Confederates scuttled ships to block the North Carolina cut. The Federals had the same idea to stall Confederate traffic and sent five vessels to the North River “with prize schooners in tow to obstruct the Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal,” only to find that their adversaries had already begun the task. After the Union occupation of Norfolk, the removal of the obstructions . . . — Map (db m56979) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Corolla — Boathouse |
| | With its gracious proportions, unusual pink color, and sloping rooflines, the Corolla Island boathouse built by Edward Collings Knight Jr. and his wife complemented their main house.
Even more than the main house, the boathouse was the center of activity for the waterfowl hunting that drew guests here. Decoys and hunting skiffs were stored inside, along with corn to lure the waterfowl into gunning range. While the Knights and their guests slept in the main house, hunting guides in the . . . — Map (db m10433) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Corolla — Corolla Island Bridges |
| | When Edward Collings Knight Jr. and his wife, Marie-Louise leBell, purchased this property in 1922, the Lighthouse Club, a hunting club, already existed on land just to the south. After the Knights completed a new private residence in 1925, they demolished the club, dredged a waterway completely around the house site, and renamed the property Corolla Island. A pair of bridges spanned the waterway.
Since there was no public road to Corolla Island until 1984, access was a challenge. Visitors . . . — Map (db m10437) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Corolla — Corolla Schoolhouse — C. 1900 |
| | Restoration began in the fall of 1999, revealing wonderful insights into life in this isolated coastal village.
Upon raising the building to repair rotten sills, workers discovered ship timbers in the foundation that were salvaged from shipwrecks on the beach.
Underneath the steeple was found a century-old collection of stones and other objects from the schoolyard. The old bell was badly deteriorated, so a new one was installed. Once again a bell tolls in this village to celebrate great occasions. — Map (db m10434) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Corolla — Currituck Beach Light Station |
| | On December 1, 1875, the beacon of the Currituck Beach Lighthouse filled the remaining "dark spot" on the North Carolina coast between the Cape Henry light to the north and Bodie Island to the south. To distinguish the Currituck Beach Lighthouse from the other regional lighthouses, its exterior remains unpainted and today gives visitors a clear picture of the multitude of bricks used to form the structure. The lighthouse was automated in 1939 when the United State Coast Guard assumed the duties . . . — Map (db m10685) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Corolla — Duck Blinds |
| | When the last inlet to Currituck Sound closed in 1828, the water began to change. As rain, rivers, and streams poured in to the sound, the water became less salty and tall-grass marsh and wild celery attracted large flocks of migratory waterfowl in winter. The Currituck Sound became a hunters' paradise.
Due to incredibly good hunting conditions, the Knights, avid waterfowl hunters and conservationist, chose this site for a private residence. Experienced local guides ensured the hunters' . . . — Map (db m10686) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Corolla — First Swimming Pool on the Outer Banks |
| | The Whalehead Club has always been associated with wealth and leisure pursuits. When Edward Collings Knight Jr. and his wife, Marie-Louise LeBel, built their residence here in the 1920s, they made it as opulent as possible. The estate included the first swimming pool built on the Outer Banks.
Mr. Knight's wealth was derived from sugar and railroads. He and his wife, Marie-Louise Lebel Knight, also had grand homes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Middletown, Rhode Island.
From 1922 . . . — Map (db m10687) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Corolla — Ray T. Adam's Landing Strip |
| | When Ray T. Adams bought this estate for just $25,000 in 1940, he dreamed of opening a hunt club and selling parcels of land for real estate. He changed the name to the Whatehead Club and invited potential investors, politicians (including Dwight Eisenhower), and public figures (including boxing champion Jack Dempsey) to enjoy hunting on the property.
He built a landing strip on a man-made finger of land beginning in the sound (approximately where the red channel marker is today) and . . . — Map (db m10688) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Corolla — The Caretaker's Residence |
| | Architectural drawings suggest that the caretaker's residence dates to the 1920s and was designed to house two families who worked for the Knights. Cleveland lewark, chief hunting guide and superintendent of the property, lived in one side of the house while his father Tilman, who fished the area, lived in the other.
When the caretaker's residence burned to the ground in 1948, the two families living here worked for Whalehead Club owner Ray T. Adams. George and Gladys Smith lived in one . . . — Map (db m10689) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Corolla — The Knights |
| | Due to excellent wildfowl hunting conditions in the second half of the 19th century, private hunt clubs owned most of the land on the Currituck Outer Banks. In 1874 a group of wealthy Northeaster industrialists build the Lighthouse Club just south of here. In the 1920s Edward Collings Knight Jr. and his new wife, Marie-Louise Lebel, purchased the Lighthouse Club property and, for $383,000, built the house you see today. The Knights had the old club house torn down and a waterway dredged around . . . — Map (db m10690) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Corolla — The Whalehead Club Restoration |
| | After second owner Ray T. Adams died in 1957, the Whalehead Club was used as a summer boy's school, housed a focket fuel testing facility, and was proposed for resort development. With restoration in mind, Currituck County purchased the club in 1992, and by 1994 owned the surrounding 39 acres. By the time the county acquired the property, the main house had holes in the roof and the flooded basement teemed with snakes.
Aggressive restoration began in the spring of 1999. The copper roof . . . — Map (db m10691) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Corolla — Waterfowl Resting Area |
| | The Knights did not choose this location for their hunting retreat randomly. It sits on the Atlantic Flyway, a primary migratory route for waterfowl. Currituck, as in Currituck County, comes from the Native American work carotank or "land of the wild goose". The Currituck Sound is eight miles wide in places, very shallow, and ringed with reeds that give shelter and aquatic grasses that provide food for migrating birds.
In the past the number of waterfowl attracted here each winter soared . . . — Map (db m10719) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Corolla — A-33 — Wreck Of The Metropolis |
| | Steamer ran aground, Jan. 31, 1878, killing 85. Tragedy prompted improvements in the U.S. Lifesaving Service. Remains are 3/5 mi. SE. — Map (db m9668) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Currituck — Currituck County Courthouse — Confederate Recruiting Center |
| | Currituck has been the county government seat since 1723. The core of the present courthouse to the right and jail in front of you were here when the Civil War began. On March 31, 1862, the “Currituck Light Cavalry” began enlisting on the grounds under Capt. Demosthenes Bell. The company was assigned as Co. G to Col. Dennis D. Ferebee’s 4th North Carolina Cavalry, 59th Regiment North Carolina State Troops.
Because of the importance of water for military transportation and the . . . — Map (db m2764) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Currituck — Currituck County Old Jail |
| | Thursday the 31st December 1767
"On motion the following Bills were ordered to be read ... A Bill to impower the justices of Currituck County to build a prison pillary and stocks in the said county on the lot were the Court House stands for the use of the said county, in the Upper House read the third time and passed. Ordered to be engrossed."
The construction date of the "Old Currituck Jail" remains uncertain. Though there was mention of a jail as early as 1767 when the general . . . — Map (db m9468) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Jarvisburg — A-6 — Thomas J. Jarvis |
| | Governor, 1879 - 1885;
Minister to Brazil; U.S.
Senator; was born in a
house which stood here. — Map (db m9498) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Knotts Island — A-15 — Dividing Line — ··· |
| | Commissioners drove
the first stake for
the Virgina - Carolina
boundary, Mar. 18, 1728,
three miles N. E. across
Currituck Sound. — Map (db m11286) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Maple — Maple Leaf — A Great Escape |
| | Currituck County played a vital role in a prisoner-of-war escape in 1863. At 1:30 P.M. on June 10, the troop-transport steamer Maple Leaf sailed from Fort Monroe, Va., for Fort Delaware, carrying 97 captured Confederate officers bound for the prisoner-of-war camp at Johnson’s Island in Ohio. Two hours later, the prisoners overpowered the twelve-man guard and took over the ship, then escaped in small boats south of Cape Henry. About thirty officers, most of them wounded, remained aboard . . . — Map (db m56981) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Moycock — Moycock — Shingle Landing |
| | Currituck Sound and the surrounding area were under Union control by 1863. Local farmers and merchants sought permission from Federal authorities to sell their produce in Norfolk. They followed this route to the city. Union Gen. Henry M. Naglee, commander of the military district, was willing to accommodate them, but he also wanted to eliminate “guerilla” activity in the area and prevent the smuggling of contraband supplies to the Confederates. He issued orders in July and August . . . — Map (db m56982) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Moyock — A-16 — Dividing Line |
| | In 1728 the Virginia-Carolina boundary was first surveyed from the Atlantic coast to a spot two hundred twenty miles west of here. — Map (db m2762) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Moyock — A-59 — Joseph Pilmoor |
| | Preached first Methodist sermon in colony, 1772, at Currituck Courthouse. Pilmoor Memorial Methodist Church is near the site. About 300 ft. north. — Map (db m2763) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Point Harbor — Currituck Sound — Avenue of War |
| | For many years before the war, Currituck Sound was a busy avenue of commerce sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean by the Outer Banks. Vessels carried produce and goods between North Carolina and Virginia. After hostilities began, the sound became strategically important for both the Union and Confederate navies and armies.
On June 9, 1861, Confederate Gen. Walter Gwynn, commander of the coastal defenses, urged Currituck County’s citizens to send both enslaved and free black laborers to build . . . — Map (db m56980) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Shawboro — A-62 — Henry M. Shaw |
| | Member N.C. Assembly and U.S. Congress. Confederate colonel. Killed in attack on New Bern, Feb. 1, 1864. Home & grave about 150 feet West. — Map (db m9507) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Shawboro — Indiantown — Chasing “Guerrillas” |
| | Indiantown, a commercial center with a shipyard, store, and mill, became a focal point for military activity during the Civil War. On June 10, 1862, U.S. Navy Lt. Charles W. Flusser led several gunboats up the North River to capture a prominent secessionist here and seize the schooner Scuppernong with a load of oak timber bound for a Confederate shipyard. He burned the vessel and its cargo nearby. John Boushell had built the ship in 1853 as a Dismal Swamp Canal schooner. Under owner S.S. . . . — Map (db m56814) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Shawboro — A-66 — McKnight’s Shipyard |
| | Thomas McKnight, colonial merchant and legislator; Loyalist during Revolution. Operated large shipyard which stood near here. — Map (db m2765) HM |
| North Carolina (Currituck County), Shawboro — A-47 — Yeopim |
| | Reservation established for Yeopim Indians in 1704; sold after 1739. Northern boundary nearby; village was 2 miles S.E. — Map (db m2766) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Buxton — B32 — Billy Mitchell |
| | Brigadier general of the Army Air Service, demonstrated air power by bombing battleships off coast, Sept. 5, 1923. Landing field was here. — Map (db m20347) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Buxton — B-54 — Cape Hatteras Lighthouse — ··· |
| | Tallest brick lighthouse
in nation at 208 feet.
Constructed, 1869~1870,
to mark Diamond Shoals.
Replaced 1802 structure. — Map (db m29950) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Buxton — B-41 — Diamond Shoals — ··· |
| | "Graveyard of Atlantic."
German submarines sank
over 100 ships here, 1941~
42, in the "Battle of
Torpedo Junction."
Shoals are 3 mi. south. — Map (db m11400) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Buxton — Life at the Light |
| | There have been words written to the effect that the lighthouse keepers and their families had a very lonely life; however, we did not have this experience. In fact, just the opposite would be more apt to apply. The lighthouse was always a favorite place to visit by the village folk so we would have lots of company, especially on Sunday afternoons and the evening hours, when the heat of summer was unbearable in the wooded areas of the villages. Swimming, baseball games, croquet, chasing wild . . . — Map (db m32225) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Buxton — Paukenschlag — Operation Drumbeat |
| | "The losses by submarines off our Atlantic seaboard and in the Caribbean now threaten our entire war effort." Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, 19 June, 1942
During the first six months of 1942, these beaches revealed crude oil, twisted metal, and corpses from the Atlantic Ocean. The grisly flotsam was evidence of War's toll imposed by Unterseeboote ("U-boats") of the German Navy. Paukenschlag was the first of these campaigns undertaken by Germany to strike a devastating blow on the . . . — Map (db m32129) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Buxton — B-53 — Radio Milestone — ··· |
| | From near here in 1902
R. A. Fessenden sent the
first musical notes ever
relayed by radio waves.
Received 48 miles north. — Map (db m11402) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Buxton — B-50 — U.S.S. Monitor — ··· |
| | Fought C.S.S. "Virginia"
("Merrimac") in first
battle of ironclad ships.
Lost Dec. 31, 1862, in
gale 17 miles southeast.
First marine sanctuary. — Map (db m11401) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Frisco — Mitchell Demonstrates Air Power |
| | In September 1923, Brigadier General Mitchell provided a chilling view of the effectiveness of aerial bombardment on surface vessels to skeptical government and military observers. Taking off from his temporary Hatteras Village airfield, Mitchell rendezvoused with Martin Bombers from Langley Field, Virginia. Equipped with newly developed bombsights and supercharged engines, the bombers quickly sank the obsolete battleships "Virginia" and "New Jersey" anchored just 20 miles off the Hatteras . . . — Map (db m20353) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Hatteras — America's 1st Attempt at Civil War Reunification |
| | Orchestrated by Union Colonel Rush C. Hawkins, the Hatteras Convention was held nearby on November 18, 1861. The state's secession was declared null and void, Hatteras was proclaimed the capitol and Marble Nash Taylor became provisional governor. Taylor called for a special Congressional election held November 28 but, Charles Henry Foster's unanimous election by the four island precincts was ignored by the 37th United States Congress. Abraham Lincoln's May 28, 1862 selection of Edward Stanley . . . — Map (db m46095) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Hatteras — Burnside's Expedition Crossing Hatteras Bar/The Burnside Expedition at Hatteras Inlet |
| |
Side A:Burnside's Expedition Crossing Hatteras BarOn January 11, 1862, the Burnside Expedition left for Fort Monroe, Virginia destined for Hatteras Inlet 120 miles to the south. Two days later, the fleet of over eighty vessels was struck by a strong Northeaster while crossing Hatteras Bar. Reassembling the fleet in Pamlico Sound was delayed until the month's end due to frequently stormy weather. Among the ships lost were the Pocohontas, Grapeshot and City of New York. The . . . — Map (db m46171) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Hatteras — Flagship USS Minnesota/Hotel de Afrique |
| |
Side A:Flagship USS MinnesotaUSS Minnesota, a wooden steam frigate built in 1855, was the flagship for the Atlantic Blockading Squadron commanded by Flag Officer Silas H. Stringham. Seven United States Navy warships bombarded Forts Hatteras and Clark, August 28-29, 1861. This was the first time the United States Navy employed the tactic of having ships sail in a single oval formation. Using Stringham's innovative maneuver, the fleet rained down a continuous barrage of several . . . — Map (db m46190) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Hatteras — Fort Clark/The Bombardment of Fort Hatteras |
| |
Side A:Fort ClarkHatteras Inlet, defended by Forts Clark and Hatteras, was a strategic port of entry for troops and supplies providing deep water access to the vital intercoastal waterways. In later May of 1881, the Federal Blockade Board of Strategy began implementing General Winfield Scott's "Anaconda Plan" intending to constrict the South's warfare capability. Initially, they regarded the "...sterile, half drowned shores of North Carolina" as unimportant; less than one month . . . — Map (db m46298) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Hatteras — Maritime Casualties of the American Civil War/Loss of the USS Monitor |
| |
Side A:Maritime Casualties of the American Civil WarAfterJan. 15, 1862 - The Graveyard of the Atlantic claims the lives of Colonel J.W. Allen and Surgeon Weller, officers of the 9th N.J. Volunteers, and the second mate of the Ann E. Thompson.
Dec. 31, 1862 - USS Monitor: N.K. Attwater, G. Frederickson, R.W. Hands, S.A. Lewis, W. Allen, W. Bryan, R. Cook, W.H. Eagan, J.R. Fenwick, R.H. Howard, T. Joyce, G. Littlefield, D. Moore, J. Nicklis, J. Stocking, R. Williams.
USS Rhode . . . — Map (db m32134) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — 12 Seconds that Changed the World |
| | After more than four years of hard work and experimentation, it only took the Wright brothers 12 seconds to change the world. On December 17, 1903, at 10:35, Orville Wright made the world’s first controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight.
The photograph that documented the Wrights’ success was taken by John T. Daniels, a Kill Devil Hills Life Saving Station surfman, who had never used a camera before. It was not until the Wright brothers returned to Dayton, Ohio, that they developed the . . . — Map (db m10181) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — A hospitable people... |
| | If you decide to try your machine here...you will find a hospitable people...
William J. Tate, Kitty Hawk Postmaster, in a letter to Wilbur Wright dated August 18, 1900
Wilbur and Orville Wright accepted Tate’s invitation and found that the Outer Banks of North Carolina not only provided hospitable people but also the conditions that they needed to fly – wind, sand, and solitude. While solitude was important to get the work done, the Wrights did not work . . . — Map (db m10183) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — Big Kill Devil Hill — 26 Acres of Shifting Sand |
| | Before construction of the memorial could begin, it would be necessary to stabilize the dune from which the Wright Brothers conducted their glider experiments. Twenty-five years of steady winds had moved Big Kill Devil Hill 450 feet southwest of its 1903 location. The U.S. Army Engineers, using exotic and native grasses and a covering of wood mold, succeeded in stabilizing the "shifting" dune. The Hill stands still now - supporting a monument to man's greatest dream. — Map (db m9768) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — Dare County's Tribute to Veterans |
| | [Center Panel]:
“By your courage in tribulation, by your cheerfulness before the dirty devices of this world, you have won the love of those who have watched you.”
- Guy Chapman
Dedicated: November 11, 1991.
[Left Panel]:
To all who’ve stood tall for freedom
Those of us
who’ve never served
can’t truly understand
the sacrifices that you made
protecting life and land.
You were called from homes and jobs.
You never turned around.
You did more . . . — Map (db m9631) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — Experiments |
| | On the slope of Kill Devil Hill to the left, the Wright brothers experimented with gliders in the period 1900 - 1903.
Here also Wilbur Wright failed in an attempted power-driven flihgt, December 14, 1903. After just 3½ seconds in the air the Wrights' flying machine stalled and settled to the ground.
Two days were needed for repairs. Then the stage was set for the successful flight of December 17. — Map (db m10179) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — Field for Flight |
| | "Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so that we could discover them!!"
Orville Wright, June 7, 1903 — Map (db m9770) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — Four Powered Flights |
| | The Wright brothers made four successful sustained powered flights the morning of December 17, 1903. The commemorative granite boulder and replica monorail mark the lift-off point of those four flights, the numbered markers the terminating point.
Since soft sand prohibited launching with conventional wheels, the Wright Flyer was placed on a 60-foot monorail with its landing skids resting on a wheeled truck.
Once the engine started, the Flyer was released and slid down the rail until . . . — Map (db m9769) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — Kill Devil Hills |
| | "...the sand fairly blinds us. It blows across the ground in clouds. We certainly can't complain of the place. We came down here for wind and sand, and we got them."
Letter from Orville Wright to Katharine Wright, October 18, 1900
"The practice ground at the Kill Devil Hills consists of a level plain of bare sand, from which rises a group of detached hills or mounds formed of sand heaped up by the winds. These hills are constantly changing in height and slope, . . . — Map (db m10146) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — Kill Devil Hills Fire Rescue Memorial |
| | This memorial is placed in tribute and to honor all of the Kill Devil Hills fire and rescue personnel who have and continue to faithfully and honorably serve the citizens and visitors of Kill Devil Hills
Dedicated this 11 day of September 2002 — Map (db m9595) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — Monument to the Impossible |
| | The Best Design
Design competition among 35 entrants was won by Rogers and Poor, a New York Architectural firm.
The 60-foot tower, similar to those used to mark courses in air races, embellished with wings on its side and a five-point star serving as the base, was to symbolize man’s conquest of the air.
No Simple Task
Designed with paper and pencil, it became an entirely different matter to carve 80 tons of solid granite. Using hand and pneumatic tools, the Mount Airy . . . — Map (db m9715) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — Pitch, Roll and Yaw |
| | At the turn of the century, this large hill and the three hills surrounding it were known as the Kill Devil Hills. Wilbur and Orville Wright performed thousands of experimental glider flights here between 1900 and 1903. The culminatino of those tests, a glider performing a simple turn, unlocked the secrets of controlled flight. With this flight, the three axes of control were mastered and the age of aviation was at hand. — Map (db m9767) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — The 1901 Glider |
| | "Our first experiments were rather disappointing. The machine ... at times seemed to be entirely beyond control."
Orville Wright in a letter to his sister Katharine, July 28, 1901
The 1901 experiments at Kill Devil Hills were considered a failure. Orville later recalled Wilbur, on the trip back home to Dayton, stating in frustration, "Not within a thousand years would man ever fly!" — Map (db m10149) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — The 1902 Glider |
| | "Our new machine is a very great improvement over anything we had built before and over anything any one has built."
Letter from Wilbur Wright to his father, October 2, 1902
The Wrights' experiments with the successful 1902 Glider solved most of the problems in achieving stability, lift and control, and set the course for the 1903 first powered flight. Their basic paten was on the control mechanisms of this glider. — Map (db m10150) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — The 1903 Flyer |
| | "A couple of small boys, who had come with the men from the station, made a hurried departure over the hill for home on hearing the engine start."
Orville Wright, diary D. December 14, 1903
Determined to achieve powered flight before returning to Dayton, the Wright brothers focused on the assembly of the Flyer. A cracked propeller shaft, constant repairs to the machine, and lack of winds delayed their trials at powered flight. — Map (db m10151) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — The Camp |
| | "We intend to be comfortable while we are here."
Wilbur Wright, November 23, 1903
These replica buildings mark the location of the Wright brothers' hangar (left) and living quarters (right) of their 1903 Kill Devil Hills Camp. They also established camps at this spot in 1901 and 1902. — Map (db m32120) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — The Conquest of the Air |
| | In commemoration of the conquest of the air…
Excerpt from the inscription on the monument atop Big Kill Devil Hill
From its establishment as a national monument in 1927 to the First Flight Centennial of 2003, the local people of the Outer Banks have shown “dauntless resolution and unconquerable faith” in honoring and recognizing the first flight of the Wright brothers.
The Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association, later to become the First Flight . . . — Map (db m10185) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — The First Flight |
| | "The flight lasted only 12 seconds, but nevertheless the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed, and had finally landed at a point as high as that from which it had started."
Orville Wright, 1903
The first flight, December 17, 1903, 10:35 a.m., 120 feet in 12 seconds. Orville Wright is at the controls, lying prone on the lower wing.
Running alongside to . . . — Map (db m31994) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — The First Flight |
| | The First Flight-From a 60-foot wooden track laid on these sands Orville Wright rose into the wind on the morning of December 17, 1903. It was the first time in history that “a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed, and had finally landed at a point as high as that from which it started.” The flight lasted about twelve seconds. — Map (db m62511) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — The First Successful Flight of an Airplane |
| | was made from this spot by
Orville Wright
December 17, 1903, in a machine designed and built by
Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright
This tablet was erected by the
National Aeronautic Association
of the U.S.A. December 17, 1928
to commemmorate the twenty-fifth
anniversary of this event — Map (db m9745) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — B-4 — Wright Brothers |
| | On December 17, 1093, from site near foot of Kill Devil Hill, Orville and Wilbur Wright made first successful powered flight 1/5 mile west. — Map (db m9714) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kill Devil Hills — Wright Brothers National Memorial |
| | Wilbur Wright Orville Wright
In commemoration of the conquest of the air by the brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright. Conceived by Genius. Achieved by dauntless resolution and unconquerable faith. — Map (db m10380) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kitty Hawk — Monument to a Century of Flight |
| | [Marker Front]:
Dedicated on November 8, 2003
In celebration of the soaring of the human spirit
Created by artists
Glen Eure, Hanna Jubran, Jodi Hollnagel Jubran
Architect - Benjamin B. Cahoon
and presented as an enduring legacy by
Icarus International, Inc.
Founders: Glen Eure • Denver Lindley, Jr. • Nancy Tarnai
Board of Directors:
President - William J. Kealy •
Vice President - Ellen Kealy •
Treasurer - Donald W. Bryan •
Secretary - Pat . . . — Map (db m10126) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Kitty Hawk — Wright Brothers' Memorial |
| | [Marker Front]:
On this spot
Sept. 17, 1900
Wilbur Wright
began the assembly of
the
Wright Brothers'
first experimental
glider
which led to man's
conquest of the air.
[Marker Back]:
Sept. 17, 1987
This is a
reproduction of the
Wright Brother's
Memorial Marker
placed on this site
by the Citizens of
Kitty Hawk on
May 2, 1928 — Map (db m9625) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manns Harbor — B-52 — Fort Forrest — ··· |
| | Confederate, mounting seven guns. Protected west side of Croatan Sound. Destroyed on Feb. 8, 1862. Earthworks stood 1 mile N. — Map (db m11339) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manns Harbor — Purple Martin Bridge Roost |
| | (panel 1)
Welcome to Manns Harbor
Purple Martin Bridge Roost
The Outer Banks of North Carolina are famous for beautiful beaches and other natural attractions, including a fascinating roost of purple martins here at William B. Umstead Memorial Bridge. East of the Rocky Mountains, martins are completely dependent on people to provide them with nesting structures in which to raise their young. Without their caring “landlords,” these birds would likely become very . . . — Map (db m57094) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — B-44 — Andrew Cartwright |
| | Agent of the American Colonization Society in Liberia, founded the A. M. E. Zion Churches in Albemarle area. His first church, 1865, near here. — Map (db m9462) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — BB-4 — Battle of Roanoke Island |
| | At 3 P.M. February 7, 1862, Union forces under Gen. Ambrose Burnside landed at Ashby Harbor (A). By midnight 7,500 Federals were ashore. A Confederate force of 400 men and 3 field-pieces was sent to resist the Federal landing. The Confederates were driven away by gunfire from the Federal fleet in Croatan Sound (B). The Confederates withdrew north along the only road on the island (C), situated a little to the west of the present State Highway 345 (D), across which a line of breastworks had . . . — Map (db m11386) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — Bondage |
| | and they made their lives
bitter with hard bondage
Exodus 1:14
For the millions of immigrants to this land, America has not been so much a destination as a promise: a promise of equality, a promise of self-determination and a promise of a better life for self and children. Not so for the slave.
With their arrival at the Jamestown colony in August of 1619, twenty captive Africans began a legacy of chattel bondage that by 1860 would include 15 states, 4 . . . — Map (db m9670) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — Bowser Family Cemetery |
| | This marker recognizes the final resting place of Spencer Bowser, the patriarch of a prominent African American family in North Carolina. Also buried here are several other members of the Bowser family, including J.P. Bowser, Lloyd B. Bowser, Q.B. Bowser, L.C. Bowser, Naomi Augusta Collins, Reginald Mahew Collins, and William C. Bowser, who was a "surfman" at the Pea Island Station of the United States Life Saving Service, the only station manned entirely by African Americans in this division of the United States Coast Guard. — Map (db m57026) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — Burnside Expedition of 1862 |
| | Much of coastal North Carolina fell to Union forces in 1862. For the duration of the Civil War Northern troops kept a sizable presence in the area. The peculiar geography of the Outer Banks and the sounds region, a damper to antebellum trade, proved indefensible for the outnumbered and poorly equipped Confederates. Under Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, a Rhode Islander, Union forces swept across the region, rolling up one victory after another.
In August 1861 Confederate Forts Hatteras and . . . — Map (db m56925) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — BBB 3 — Confederate Channel Obstructions |
| | Wood pilings placed to stop Federal fleet in Croatan Sound, still visible at low tide. Remains are 2½ mi. W. — Map (db m4875) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — Deliverance |
| | Thus saith the Lord,
Let my people go.
Exodus 8:1
The bloodbath called the Civil War had begun and would cost the lives of over 600,000 Americans. As the Union armies advanced south, refugee slaves followed. After the Northern capture of Roanoke Island in February 1862, more than 3,000 ex-slaves arrived on the island. At the direction of Maj. Gen. John G. Foster, Army chaplain Horace James organized a formal colony with one-acre lots provided for about 600 . . . — Map (db m9669) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — B-1 — First English Colonies |
| | Explored in 1584. Site of first English settlements in new world, 1585-1587. Birthplace of Virginia Dare, first child born of English parents in America. — Map (db m11343) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — First Light of Freedom — The Freedmen’s Colony of Roanoke Island — National Underground Railroad - Network To Freedom |
| | [obverse:]First Light of Freedom Former slaves give thanks by the creek’s edge
at the sight of the island - “If you can cross the creek to Roanoke Island, you will find ‘safe haven’.” [rendering of Edwin Forbes' "The Sanctuary"]
[reverse:] The Freedmen’s Colony of Roanoke Island 1862–1867 A year after the Civil War began, Roanoke Island fell to Union Forces. Word spread throughout North Carolina that slaves could find “safe . . . — Map (db m46990) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — BBB 2 — Fort Bartow |
| | Confederate earth fort mounting nine guns. Bombarded by Federal fleet February 7, 1862. Earthworks 2 ½ mi. W. — Map (db m4874) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — B-64 — Fort Blanchard |
| | Confederate earth fort mounting four guns. Smallest on Roanoke Island. Surrendered on Feb. 8, 1862. Earthworks are 300 yds. S. — Map (db m4863) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — B-2 — Fort Huger |
| | Principal Confederate fort on Roanoke Island. Mounted twelve guns. Surrendered Feb. 8, 1862. Earthworks are 100 yards south. — Map (db m4862) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — Naval Battle of Roanoke Island |
| | During late January, 1862, a Federal land-sea expedition assembled at Hatteras Inlet to take Roanoke Island and capture control of the North Carolina Sound region. This force was under the joint command of General Ambrose Burnside and navy Flag-Officer Louis Goldsborough. After several delays due to bad weather, the Union fleet, consisting of numerous troop transports and more than 20 war vessels, arrived at the southern end of Roanoke Island. On February 7, 1862, Federal warships (O) bombarded . . . — Map (db m4828) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — B-26 — R. A. Fessenden |
| | Inventor. Pioneer in radio communication, conducted wireless experiments, 1901-02, from a station, 600 yds. S. W. — Map (db m9513) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — Red Wolf Country |
| | (panel 1)
Welcome to Red Wolf Country
Northeastern North Carolina is Famous for the Outer Banks with its beautiful beaches, but the region has plenty of other natural attractions. Just a short drive inland, you’ll find many more places to appreciate nature and the areas diverse wildlife – including a fascinating animal found nowhere else in the world, the red wolf.
Hearing is Believing
Red wolves are shy and tend to avoid humans, so your best bet for . . . — Map (db m57095) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse — Celebrating Manteo's Centennial, 1899 - 1999 |
| |
"In the years to come, as islanders mingle with visitors along the Manteo waterfront, let us remember that on this spot, where so many vessels have been built and launched, dreams still light the way. For how else can you explain how a lighthouse now casts its reassuring beam into the night sky, where the Town's wastewater treatment plant once stood? Safeguarding the environment, honoring our past, and dreaming of a brighter future is Manteo's shining path."
- From a letter by Mayor John . . . — Map (db m47013) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — Spirit of Roanoke Island |
| |
Recreating History
The Spirit of Roanoke Island, completed in 2000 by volunteers of the North Carolina Maritime Museum on Roanoke Island, is a fine example of the shad boat. A traditional work boat built of juniper (Atlantic white cedar) and fastened with copper rivets, she carries a sprit mainsail, jib and topsail.
Volunteers and the public alike learned about this innovative design firsthand, by building the shad boat through a "hands-on history" experience. They used . . . — Map (db m47026) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — The New Fort in Virginia / Virginia Dare |
| | On this site, in July – August, 1585 (O.S.), colonists, sent out from England by Sir Walter Raleigh, built a fort, called by them
“The New Fort in Virginia”
These colonists were the first settlers of the English race in America. They returned to England in July, 1586, with Sir Francis Drake.
Near this place was born, on the 18th of August, 1587,
Virginia Dare,
the first child of English Parents born in America – daughter of Ananias Dare and Eleanor White, . . . — Map (db m9460) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — The Promised Land |
| | I have caused thee to see it
with thine eyes,
but thou shalt not go over thither.
Deuteronomy 34:4
The Proclamation of Emancipation gave the military authority to enlist “Such persons of suitable condition…into the armed service of the United States” and the Bureau of Colored Troops was established. Many African-Americans served with distinction.
Despite the promise and participation, African-Americans, in many instances, would continue to be . . . — Map (db m9671) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Manteo — USLSS/USCG Station Pea Island Memorial — 1880 - 1947 — [Richard Etheridge, 1842 - 1900] |
| | Located south of Oregon Inlet, Lifesaving Station Pea Island was the only unit in the history of the Coast Guard manned by all Black crews. This marker is dedicated to the crews of Pea Island who risked their lives and endured so that others might live. — Map (db m48610) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Nags Head — Bodie Island Light Station |
| | Bodie Island Light Station
has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — Map (db m47028) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Nags Head — B-60 — Port Ferdinando — ··· |
| | Roanoke voyages, 1585~1590, based operations at inlet near here. Long closed, it was named for
pilot Simon Fernandes. — Map (db m11395) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Nags Head — B-31 — The Wreck of the Huron |
| | Near this spot, Nov. 24, 1877, the U.S.S. "Huron" ran ashore with loss of ninety-eight lives. — Map (db m9667) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Pea Island — B-66 — Pea Island Lifesavers |
| | Only U.S. Lifesaving Station manned by black crew. Led by Richard Etheridge, 1880-1900. Operated near here. — Map (db m46140) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Rodanthe — B-30 — "Mirlo" Rescue — ··· |
| | A German submarine
sank the British tanker
"Mirlo" off coast nearby,
Aug. 16, 1918. Coast Guard,
led by J. A. Midgett,
saved most of the crew. — Map (db m11394) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Rodanthe — The Chicamacomico Races / Exodus from Chicamacomico |
| | The Chicamacomico Races
Soon after the capture of Hatteras Inlet, Union Colonel Rush C. Hawkins anticipated an assault to dislodge his troops from their new foothold on Hatteras Island. He dispatched 600 troops of the 20th Indiana Regiment from Fort Hatteras to Camp Live Oak, two miles south of here. On October 1, 1861, Captain William A. Lynch of the Confederate Navy, commanding the "Mosquito Fleet," seized the USS Fanny in Pamlico Sound. Three days later, the fleet returned to . . . — Map (db m11489) HM |
| North Carolina (Dare County), Salvo — The Fanny — First Capture of a Federal Vessel During the Civil War |
| | Late in the afternoon of October 1st, 1861, the Confederate steamers Raleigh, Junaluska and Curlew engaged and seized the Union tug Fanny three miles west of here. Her ammunition and supplies, intended for 600 Union soldiers camped at Chicamacomico near Loggerhead Inlet, were instead delivered to the Confederate troops at Roanoke Island.
Pressed into Confederate service, the Fanny returned to the Union camp three days later as part of the “Mosquito . . . — Map (db m20426) HM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Churchland — Trading Ford |
| | General Nathanael Greene in his masterly retreat from the British army under Lord Cornwallis, crossed the Yadkin at Trading Ford, one-half mile southeast of this spot, February 2-3, 1781. A sudden rise in the river prevented the passage of the British and permitted the American army to escape and prepare for the Battle of Guilford Court House. — Map (db m43430) HM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Lexington — Captain Benjamin Merrill |
| | Sacrificed his life for the cause of regulators. Was executed by officials of the Crown, June 19, 1771. Home was 8 miles south. — Map (db m34379) HM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Lexington — City of Lexington — Incorporated 1828 |
| | Named during the Revolutionary War in 1775 after the Battle of Lexington. — Map (db m34388) HM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Lexington — Daniel Boone and Gen. Nathanael Greene |
| | In 1750, Daniel Boone, age 16, came with his father from Pennsylvania and settled near Boone’s Ford on Yadkin River, then in Rowan, now Davidson County. Near this spot, in 1781, the American Army under Gen. Nathanael Greene passed on its way from Trading Ford to fight the British under Lord Cornwallis at Guilford Court House. — Map (db m34377) HM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Lexington — Lexington in the Civil War — Occupation and Fire |
| | President Jefferson Davis and his entourage paused here in Lexington on April 16-17, 1865, as the Confederate government fled south after the April 3 evacuation of Richmond, Virginia. While here, Davis telegraphed Gen. Joseph E. Johnston as to the whereabouts of Secretary of War John C. Breckinridge. The Civil War essentially ended after Johnston surrendered the forces under his command to Union Gen. William T. Sherman at Bennett Place near Durham on April 26, 1865. Officers belonging to the . . . — Map (db m34182) HM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Lexington — K 44 — Old Davidson County Courthouse |
| | Completed 1858. Interior was burned, 1865, rebuilt ca. 1867. Fine example of Classical Revival style. — Map (db m34184) HM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Lexington — Our Confederate Dead |
| | Erected by The Robert E. Lee Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy No. 324 Sept. 14, 1905. [ Back of Monument: ] Sleep sweetly in your humble graves. Sleep martyrs of a fallen cause. For lo, a marble column craves the pilgrim here to pause. 1861 – 65. — Map (db m34392) HM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Lexington — The Homestead — Unexpected Houseguests |
| | The Homestead was the home of Dr. William R. Holt, one of antebellum North Carolina’s most versatile and talented men, with interests in medicine, agriculture, education, religion, transportation, and manufacturing. In May 1865, when Dr. Holt learned that Federal forces were approaching Lexington, he left to secure his plantation, Linwood, while his wife, Louisa Holt, remained here with their children. Union Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick and the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry soon arrived in Lexington to . . . — Map (db m34190) HM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Lexington — K 56 — Wm. Rainey Holt |
| | Physician. Advocate of scientific agriculture. His plantation “Linwood” was 6 miles southwest. Built home here, 1834. — Map (db m34193) HM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Linwood — K 15 — Stoneman’s Raid |
| | Southern troops turned back Stoneman’s U. S. Cavalry, raiding through western North Carolina, at the Yadkin River Bridge, April 12, 1865 — Map (db m33927) HM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Reeds Crossroads — George Washington Boulder |
| | George Washington Boulder
On this rock
President George Washington
rested and ate dinner, enroute
from Salisbury to Winston-Salem
May 31, 1791
Erected by
Gen Wm. Davidson Chapter D.A.R.
Lexington N.C.
1926 — Map (db m55238) HM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Reeds Crossroads — K-24 — Yadkin College |
| | A Methodist Protestant institution. Opened in 1856, made co-educational in 1878, closed in 1924. Building stands 1 mi. N — Map (db m55064) HM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Thomasville — K 16 — Jefferson Davis |
| | President Davis, fleeing southward after Lee’s surrender, with members of his cabinet spent the night of Apr. 16, 1865, in a pine grove nearby. — Map (db m33917) HM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Thomasville — NC Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
| | The North Carolina Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park Dedicated to the 216,000 North Carolinians who served and the over 1,600 who sere killed or missing in the Vietnam War Memorial Day 1991 — Map (db m63387) WM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Thomasville — Thomasville — Caring for the Sick and Wounded |
| | During the Civil War, Thomasville became a hospital center that treated the sick and wounded, civilian and soldier alike. From 1862 to 1865, a local doctor, D. W. Smith, operated a smallpox hospital just outside of town. In March 1865, Surgeon Simon Baruch arrived in Thomasville with orders to prepare a “hospital depot” to serve sick and wounded Confederate soldiers in North Carolina. The need for such services had grown acute as Confederate forces under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston . . . — Map (db m34232) HM |
| North Carolina (Davidson County), Thomasville — Thomasville City Cemetery — Union of Combatants |
| | (Preface): John W. Thomas, who represented this area in the state legislature in the mid-1800s, laid out the town of Thomasville in 1852 on the proposed route of the North Carolina Railroad. Three years later, the line was completed to the new town, and the first train passed through on January 20, 1856. By 1860, Thomasville was thriving with 308 residents, a female seminary and a shoe factory. After the war, the town became noted for its furniture-making industry, especially chair . . . — Map (db m34234) HM |
| North Carolina (Davie County), Advance — M-44 — Cokesbury School |
| | Short lived. The first Methodist school in North Carolina. Began about 1790. Was two miles east. — Map (db m55022) HM |
| North Carolina (Davie County), Advance — The Advance Academy |
| | The Advance Academy
Property deeded by F.M. Potts and Daniel Orrell in 1892
Academy established in 1893
Later became a public school operating until 1924
It is the largest Academy building still standing in Davie County — Map (db m55186) HM |
| North Carolina (Davie County), Mocksville — Boone Memorial — This Memorial Erected To — Daniel Boone | Squire and Sarah Boone |
| | Daniel Boone
Hunter, Explorer Backwoodsman, Soldir Surveyor Roadbuilder Legislator, Magistrate
He lived and learned woodcraft in Davie County 1750-65
Squire and Sarah Boone
Parents of Daniel Boone
Pioneers of the Yadkin whose remains are interred one mile N W. in Joppa Graveyard
Coming from PA 1749 — Map (db m53211) HM |
| North Carolina (Davie County), Mocksville — M-47 — Boone Tract |
| | In 1753 Lord Granville granted 640 acres on Bear Creek to Squire Boone who sold it in 1759 to his son Daniel. This was a part of the original Boone tract. — Map (db m53197) HM |
| North Carolina (Davie County), Mocksville — Colonel Thomas W. Ferebee |
| | Family Homesite
Colonel Thomas W. Ferebee
Bombardier, Enola Gay
Dropped Atomic Bomb on
Hiroshima, Japan
August 6, 1945 — Map (db m55184) HM |
| North Carolina (Davie County), Mocksville — M-3 — Daniel Boone's Parents |
| | Squire and Sarah Boone are buried here. Daniel Boone, 1734-1820, lived many years in this region. — Map (db m53190) HM |
| North Carolina (Davie County), Mocksville — Davie County in the Civil War — Stoneman in Mocksville — Stoneman's Raid |
| | (Preface):
On March 24, 1865, Union Gen. George Stoneman led 6,000 cavalrymen from Tennessee into southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina to disrupt the Confederate supply line by destroying sections of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, the North Carolina Railroad, and the Piedmont Railroad. He struck at Boone on March 28, headed into Virginia on April 2, and returned to North Carolina a week later. Stoneman's Raid ended at Asheville on April 26, the day that Confederate . . . — Map (db m53207) HM |
| North Carolina (Davie County), Mocksville — Davie County War Memorial |
| |
front center
Dedicated in Honor of All Davie County Veterans and to the Memory of Those Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice for Our Freedom
front left
Spanish American War (?)
World War I (18)
Vietnam (9)
front left
World War II (53)
Korean War (2)
Beirut (1)
back
Civil War (259 + 36)
...They Gave the Last Full Measure of Devotion.
1861 - 1865 — Map (db m55909) HM |
| North Carolina (Davie County), Mocksville — H. Andrew Lagle — A Half-Century of Service |
| | Employee and Town Supervisor
Volunteer. Fireman and Fire Chief.
His extensive knowledge, expertise, and resourcefulness - His dedication and compelling sense of duty ably served the citizens of Mocksville. — Map (db m54052) HM |
| North Carolina (Davie County), Mocksville — M-33 — Hinton R. Helper |
| | Author of The Impending Crisis, a bitterly controversial book which denounced slavery; U.S. Consul at Buenos Aires, 1861-66. Born 150 yds. N. — Map (db m53186) HM |
| North Carolina (Davie County), Mocksville — The Boone Family in Davie County |
| | On 04 October 1750, Squire Boone received a Land Warrant and Survey for a 640-acre tract "lying...upon Grant's Creek, alias Lickon (Licking) Creek" in present Davie County. He received a grant for this 640 acres on the present Elisha and Dutchman creeks 30 April 1753 and a second grant on Bear Creek 29 December 1753. (A roadside marker locates this Bear Creek site on Highway 64 west.)
Eleven children of Squire and Sarah (Morgan) Boone all came and lived in present Davie County. They were . . . — Map (db m53219) HM |
| North Carolina (Davie County), Reeds Crossroads — M-41 — Cooleemee |
| | Fine example of "Anglo-Grecian Villa." Built on 4,000 acre plantation by Peter W. Hairston in 1855. House stands 1 mi. south. — Map (db m55180) HM |
| North Carolina (Duplin County), Warsaw — Duplin Old Courthouse Site |
| | Erected 1754. Stood one mile north. Served until Sampson County was created from Duplin County in 1784. — Map (db m55496) HM |
| North Carolina (Duplin County), Warsaw — F-63 — Henry L. Stevens, Jr. — 1896–1971 |
| | Veterans leader. National Commander of American Legion, 1931–32; Superior Court judge, 1939–62. He lived 2 blocks north. — Map (db m28610) HM |
| North Carolina (Duplin County), Warsaw — F-26 — James Kenan |
| | Revolutionary leader, member Provincial Congresses, conventions 1788, '89; militia brigadier general; trustee of University. Grave 2 mi. N. — Map (db m55497) HM |
| North Carolina (Duplin County), Warsaw — Veteran’s Memorial |
| | Warsaw, N.C. is home to the oldest, continuous Veterans Day celebration in America. First held November 11, 1921
This WWII 155mm howitzer is placed in honor of all veterans who sacrificed for our freedom
Erected in remembrance by Duplin County American Legions and friends — Map (db m39651) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — G-80 — Bennett Place |
| | Farm home of James Bennett, where Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered his army to Gen. William T. Sherman, April 26, 1865. Johnston’s surrender followed Lee’s at Appomattox by 17 days and ended the Civil War in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. — Map (db m1495) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — Bennett Place — The End of War — Carolinas Campaign |
| |
(Preface, upper left) : The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman’s objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to crush Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Scattered Confederate forces consolidated in North Carolina, the Confederacy’s logistical lifeline, where Sherman defeated Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s last-ditch attack . . . — Map (db m3635) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — Brassfield Station — A Path Both Traveled — Carolinas Campaign |
| | (Preface): The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to crush Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Scattered Confederate forces consolidated in North Carolina, the Confederacy's logistical lifeline, where Sherman defeated Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's last-ditch attack at Bentonville. . . . — Map (db m14710) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — G 85 — Bull City Blues |
| | During the 1920s - 1940s, Durham was home to African American musicians whose work defined a distinctive regional style. Blues artists often played in the surrounding Hayti community and downtown tobacco warehouse district. Prominent among these were Blind Boy Fuller (Fulton Allen) (1907-1941) and Blind Gary Davis (1896-1972), whose recordings influenced generations of players. — Map (db m39611) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — G-63 — Duke Homestead |
| | Birthplace of J. B. and B. N. Duke, tobacco and hydroelectric magnates, philanthropists (Duke University, the Duke Endowment), is 1 mi. S.W. — Map (db m30683) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — Duke Homestead — Prosperity from War |
| | When North Carolina became the last state to secede from the Union in May 1861, Washington Duke’s small farm and homestead here consisted of more than 300 acres. He grew typical crops such as corn, wheat, oats, and sweet potatoes, and had raised cotton as a cash crop until it failed in the 1850s, when he began cultivating bright-leaf tobacco. Drafted into the Confederate Navy in September 1863, Duke was soon captured and imprisoned in Richmond, Va. He was released after the war and sent to New . . . — Map (db m37834) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — Durham's Station — Prelude To Peace — Carolinas Campaign |
| | (Preface):The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to crush Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Scattered Confederate forces consolidated in North Carolina, the Confederacy's logistical lifeline, where Sherman defeated Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's last-ditch attack at Bentonville. After . . . — Map (db m14674) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — G 109 — John Merrick — 1859 - 1919 |
| | Black business leader. In 1898 he founded what is now N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Company. His grave is 85 yds. N.W. — Map (db m39609) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — Meeting of the Generals |
| | On April 17, 1865, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and Gen. Joseph Eggleston Johnston met on this section of the Raleigh to Hillsboro Road at the home of James and Nancy Bennett to negotiate a peace settlement to end the war. Staff officers, troopers, and news reporters accompanied them. Limited documentation makes it difficult to know who came to the Bennett Farm each day, but it is clear that several officers in attendance assisted the generals during the three meetings. After the . . . — Map (db m58322) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — North Carolina — Civil War Trails |
| | North Carolina’s Civil War stories are as diverse as its landscape. The Outer Banks and coastal rivers saw action early in the war, as Union forces occupied the region. Stories abound of naval battles, blockade running, Federal raids and the Confederacy’s struggle to supply its armies. Other tales are told in the western mountains, a sometimes-lawless region where Unionists and Confederates fought a war within the war. In the rolling central piedmont, memories linger of Union Gen. William T. . . . — Map (db m37830) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — North Carolina — Civil War Trails |
| | North Carolina’s Civil War stories are as diverse as its landscape. The Outer Banks and coastal rivers saw action early in the war, as Union forces occupied the region. Stories abound of naval battles, blockade running, Federal raids and the Confederacy’s struggle to supply its armies. Other tales are told in the western mountains, a sometimes-lawless region where Unionists and Confederates fought a war within the war. In the rolling central piedmont, memories linger of Union Gen. William T. . . . — Map (db m58392) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — North Carolina — Civil War Trails |
| | North Carolina’s Civil War stories are as diverse as its landscape. The Outer Banks and coastal rivers saw action early in the war, as Union forces occupied the region. Stories abound of naval battles, blockade running, Federal raids and the Confederacy’s struggle to supply its armies. Other tales are told in the western mountains, a sometimes-lawless region where Unionists and Confederates fought a war within the war. In the rolling central piedmont, memories linger of Union Gen. William T. . . . — Map (db m63217) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — G 53 — North Carolina Central University |
| | Founded 1910 by James E. Shepard for Negroes. State liberal arts college, 1925-1969. Now a regional university. — Map (db m39613) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — Rotary Bandstand |
| | Erected by the Rotary Club of Durham as its first community gift in November, 1916. Originally located in Rotary Park in downtown Durham; Relocated to Bennet Place Memorial Park in1924. Refurbished and rededicated by the Rotary Club of Durham on October 8, 1990 on its 75th anniversary. — Map (db m63215) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — The Original Chimney of the Bennett House |
| | The original Bennett House, which burned on October 12, 1921, faced east on the old Hillsboro Road; the road ran in 1865 as now, south of the building. The structure consisted of one room downstairs and a small room over it; in the former Generals Johnston and Sherman held their conferences and signed the terms of their agreements. On the south side of the road stood the stable, and nearer the road was a well, still to be seen. Under the large white-oak tree near the well the Generals hitched . . . — Map (db m58326) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — Unity |
| | One hundred feet east of this spot in the Bennett House General Joseph E. Johnston and Major General William T. Sherman met at noon, April 17, 1865, to discuss terms of a proposed surrender. They met in this house again on April 18 and wrote and signed a “Basis of Agreement,” under the terms of which General Johnston agreed to surrender all the Confederate armies then in the field. President Andrew Johnson rejected the terms agreed upon, sent orders to General Sherman on April 24 . . . — Map (db m58396) HM |
| North Carolina (Durham County), Durham — West Point Truce Line — Waiting, Looting, and Shooting — Carolinas Campaign |
| | (Preface) The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman’s objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to crush Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Scattered Confederate forces consolidated in North Carolina, the Confederacy’s logistical lifeline, where Sherman defeated Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s last-ditch attack at Bentonville. After Sherman . . . — Map (db m45346) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Bricks — E-90 — Brick School |
| | Established for blacks in 1895 through philanthropy of Mrs. Joseph K. Brick; became junior college in 1926. Closed, 1933. Buildings stood here. — Map (db m16244) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Princeville — E-97 — Freedom Hill |
| | Community established here by freed blacks in 1865. Incorporated as Princeville in 1885. — Map (db m46096) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Rocky Mount — E-117 — Anna Easter Brown — 1879-1957 |
| | A founder in 1908 of Alpha Kappa Alpha,
nation’s oldest sorority for African Americans;
history teacher. Her grave is ¼ mile east. — Map (db m48677) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Rocky Mount — E-74 — Dred Wimberly |
| | Former slave. Voted for better roads, schools, and colleges as State representative, 1879, 1887; and State senator, 1889. His home stands here. — Map (db m44998) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Rocky Mount — E-112 — Martin Luther King Jr. — 1929 ~ 1968 |
| | In his speech, Nov. 27, 1962, in gym 200 yards S.E., civil rights leader delivered refrain "I have a dream," used in Lincoln Memorial address, 1963. — Map (db m44900) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Rocky Mount — Miss Anna Easter Brown |
| | Founding Member
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
Incorporated
Lived in this residence (1926-1857).
Educator - Brick Junior College (1910-1926).
Booker T. Washington High School (1926-1952).
Historian - Annual Negro History Exhibit
attracted national attention. Civic Leader -
Charter member YWCA. Founding Member-
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.
First Sorority by African American
College Women (1908). — Map (db m49016) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Rocky Mount — E-70 — William R. Cox |
| | Confederate general. His brigade fought in last infantry action at Appomattox. Later Congressman; Secretary U.S. Senate. Home here. — Map (db m44997) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Tarboro — Civil War Cemeteries — Buried with Honor |
| | Civil War soldiers and veterans are buried in Calvary Episcopal Churchyard and Old Town Cemetery. Among the
fifty Confederates interred in the churchyard are Gen. William Dorsey Pender and Lt. Col. John L. Bridges. In May 1863,
Pender led a brigade at the Battle of Chancellorsville,"bearing the colors of a regiment in his own hands up to and over
the entrenchments, with the most distinguished gallantry." He was mortally wounded during the Battle of Gettysburg on
July 2, . . . — Map (db m45432) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Tarboro — Edgecombe County Confederate Memorial |
| | (Front):Erected in honor of The Confederate Soldiers of Edgecombe County. "Defenders of State Sovereignty." 1861 C.S.A. 1865 (Back):Erected Oct. 29, 1904 — Map (db m31099) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Tarboro — E-116 — George H. White — 1852 ~ 1918 |
| | Represented the state's "Black Second" district, U.S. House, 1897-1901. Last black Southerner in Congress for 72 years.
Lived two blocks east. — Map (db m45101) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Tarboro — E-65 — Henry T. Clark |
| | Governor of North Carolina, 1861-1862. Speaker of the State Senate. Helped organize the State for war. Grave is 3 blocks E. — Map (db m44999) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Tarboro — E-85 — John C. Dancy — 1857 ~ 1920 |
| | Editor of A.M.E. Zion Church papers; orator; a delegate to Methodist world conference; customs collector of Wilmington. Home stood 3 blks. E. — Map (db m45347) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Tarboro — E 95 — John Spencer Bassett — 1867 - 1928 |
| | Historian. Professor at Trinity College, 1894-1906. Secretary, Amer. Historical Association, 1919-1928. Born here. — Map (db m31106) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Tarboro — E-96 — Joseph Blount Chesire, Jr. — 1850 ~ 1932 |
| | Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of N.C., 1893-1932; lawyer & writer. Birthplace is one block W.; grave 100 yards S. — Map (db m46213) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Tarboro — Occupation of Tarboro — "All were burned ..." — Potter's Raid |
| | (Preface): On July 18, 1863 Union Gen. Edward E. Potter led infantry and cavalry from New Bern to destroy the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad bridge at Rocky Mount. The infantry feinted toward Kinston and retreated to New Bern. Potter raided Greenville, then sent part of his cavalry to Rocky Mount and occupied Tarboro. The raiders damaged or destroyed bridges, trains, munitions, and mills before returning to New Bern on July 23, but the Confederates restored rail service by Aug. 1. On . . . — Map (db m31074) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Tarboro — Occupation of Tarboro — Daniel's Schoolhouse Engagement — Potters Raid |
| | (Preface): On July 18, 1861, Union Gen. Edward E. Potter led infantry and cavalry from New Bern to destroy the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad bridge at Rocky Mount. The Infantry feinted toward Kinston and returned to New Bern. Potter raided Greenville, then sent part of his cavalry to Rocky Mount and occupied Tarboro. The raiders damaged or destroyed bridges, trains and mills before returning to New Bern on July 23, but the Confederates restored rail services by Aug. 1. . . . — Map (db m62211) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Tarboro — St. Paul A.M.E. Zion Church — Historical Marker |
| | St. Paul A.M.E. Zion Church was organized
on the fourth Sunday in March 1866 under
the leadership of George C. Caine.
The house of worship was erected on the
corner of St. David and Granville Streets
in 1869.
We are grateful to God
for those who laid the foundation of
St. Paul A.M.E. Zion Church
in Tarboro, N.C.
Among our most notable trustees were
John C. Dancy, Jr., who was elected
editor of the Star of Zion and trustee
of Livingstone College in Salsbury, N.C.
He was also . . . — Map (db m46638) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Tarboro — E 18 — Town Common |
| | Established in 1760 by the legislative act which crated the colonial town of Tarboro. — Map (db m31081) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Tarboro — U.S.S. Maine Memorial |
| | In Memoriam U.S.S. Maine Destroyed in Havana Harbor February 15th 1898 This tablet cast from metal recovered from the U.S.S. Maine Placed by John W. Cotten Camp No. 9 and Auxiliary United Spanish War Veterans — Map (db m31105) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Tarboro — E-41 — W.D. Pender |
| | Confederate major general; graduate of U.S. Military Academy, 1854. Mortally wounded at Gettysburg, age 29. Grave is 4 blocks east. — Map (db m44899) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Tarboro — E-40 — W.L. Saunders |
| | Editor "Colonial Records of North Carolina," Confederate colonel, N.C. Secretary of State, 1879-91. His grave is four blocks east. — Map (db m46603) HM |
| North Carolina (Edgecombe County), Tarboro — E 24 — Washington's Southern Tour |
| | President Washington spent the night, April 18, 1791, in the town of Tarboro. — Map (db m31083) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Arcadia — George Washington Stopped Here |
| |
In 1709
George Washington
stopped here at an inn
where these stones
were in use
———
D.A.R. 1930 — Map (db m54392) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Bethania — Bethania — Founded 12 June 1759 |
| | First planned Moravian Village in N. Carolina. Colonial and antebellum trade and agricultural center. Only remaining continuous, independent Wachovia Settlement. Contains unique remnants of original medieval style plan where families lived in a central village and the Moravian church assigned each family roughly equal strip fields in bottom-lands along Muddy Creek and orchard lots on higher ground. — Map (db m52627) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Bethania — Bethania Freedman's Community |
| | The community established along this road in the Bethania Town Lot was built by African-American men and women who began acquiring land here following the Civil War. Many of these people had been enslaved on the Oak Grove plantation, from which they had purchased much of this land. The area became a thriving historic African-American community, and included a church, school, stores, canning factory, farms, and a popular fishing lake. The nearby church, established by Bethania Moravians in 1850, . . . — Map (db m52538) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Bethania — Cedar Grove School |
| | One room school that was used to educate African American children from approximately 1915 to the late 1940s. Grades 1 through 7 were all taught in one room with as many as 50 children and "one small library of 20 books over in the corner". First teacher was J.L. Lash who was licensed by Israel Butner, first superintendent of Forsyth County schools. Abraham Speas also taught at Cedar Grove. — Map (db m52541) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Bethania — J-69 — Great Wagon Road |
| | Frontier road from Pennsylvania to Georgia in 18th century. A major avenue for settlers of the N.C. backcountry. Passed near here. — Map (db m52532) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Bethania — Lord Cornwallis |
| | Occupied Bethania during American Revolution, 9 February 1781, with 2,000 soldiers after crossing the Shallowford on the Yadkin while pursuing patriots whom Daniel Morgan led to victory over a portion of the British army under Banastre Tarleton at Cowpens, S.C. on 17 January 1781. Pursued by the entire British force under Lord Cornwallis, patriots then staged a masterful retreat led by General Nathanael Greene across N.C. to southern Virginia, where they regrouped, re-entered N.C. and fought . . . — Map (db m52626) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Bethania — Oak Grove School |
| | Oak Grove School was constructed ca. 1910 and served nearby African-American children from ca. 1910-1950. Tradition maintains that Oak Grove's construction was made possible through the donation of the site by a local African-American family, the assistance of a local church, contribution in money and labor of the population the school would serve, and assistance from Forsyth County. Oak Grove School is the only known example of Forsyth County's once common, one-room, African-American . . . — Map (db m52577) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Bethania — J-23 — Plank Road |
| | The western terminus of the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road, 129 miles in length, longest in North Carolina, built 1849-1854, was here. — Map (db m52530) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Clemmons — J-70 — Fries Manufacturing and Power Co. |
| | First producer of hydroelectric power in North Carolina, April 20, 1898. Located 3 mi. S.W. at early ferry crossing. — Map (db m55021) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Clemmons — J-66 — McKnight's Meeting House |
| | Est. by Methodists ca. 1782. Annual Conferences held here in 1789, 1790, & 1791 by Bishop Asbury. Site was 400 yards N.W. — Map (db m51878) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Clemmons — The "Hattie Butner" |
| | A nine passenger Concord stagecoach built in 1872 for Edwin T. Clemmons by the Abbot-Downing Co. of Concord, New Hampshire. Named for his wife Harriet (Hattie) Butner. A gift to the people of Clemmons by the Wachovia Historical Society in 1993 and adopted as the symbol of the Village of Clemmons. Conserved and restored by the Clemmons Historical Society. On display inside this building. — Map (db m54285) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Clemmons — William Johnson |
| | William Johnson
Built a fort of huge logs at this place about 1757 to protect his family and neighbors from attack by the Indians
Erected by his Descendants
1956 — Map (db m54396) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Clemmons — William Linville — (c. 1711-1766) — Militia Captain and "Long Hunter" |
| | First frontier explorer and settler of Tanglewood lands along the Great Wagon Road running from PA to GA. Born in Chester and raised in Conestoga, PA. Married Eleanor Bryan and moved to Shenandoah Valley, VA (on Linville Creek) by 1733, serving as militia Captain. Built log cabin near this site circa 1749-50, obtaining original Lord Granville Land Grants in 1753 & 1755. Older brother Thomas Linville, first American-born Linville, settled Belews Creek, NC, northeast of Moravian settlement at . . . — Map (db m54413) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Donnaha — Wright Court House Site 1771-1774 — Richmond Court House Site 1774-1789 |
| | Court Houses that served old Surry County. Wright Court House Site is located one mile south. Richmond Couurt House Site is located one mile northeast. Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, was admitted to the bar to practice law in Surry County at Richmond Court House on November 13, 1787. — Map (db m54487) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Kernersville — Kerner Tannery |
| | 300 yards Northwest of this marker, near the creek branch, stood a tannery begun by John Frederick and Philip Kerner, two sons of Joseph Kerner for who the town was named. During the War between the States (1861-1865) the tannery was operated by Nathaniel and Israel Kerner. It made leather goods, including harnesses, saddles, and shoes, for the Confederacy. The tannery was in existence until circa 1912. Its memory is perpetuated by the street bearing the name Tanyard Lane.
Marker Dedicated . . . — Map (db m54129) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Kernersville — Railroad Street Mural |
| | In the early 1870's, the citizens of the Town of Kernersville literally brought the Railroad to and through Kernersville by contributing the physical labor to construct over four miles of track, thereby bringing commerce to the Town and raising the census from 100 in 1870 to 500 in 1880 and 1,000 by 1888.
Jule Korner is recognized not only as the designer and builder of our local landmark, Korner's Folly, but also as one of the first designers of outdoor advertising on the large . . . — Map (db m54134) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Kernersville — Stuart Motor Company |
| | Est. 1926
by Ned R. & Annabel Stuart
The Bldg. was originally opened as Kernersville's First Auto Showroom and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Due to the many Hats Ned Stuart wore serving the town it was used as: The First Hudson Essex & Ford Dealer, Office of the Fire Chief, Police Commissioner, Town Commissioner, Head of the School Board, Town Building Inspector and Civil Defense Warden in WWII.
The building served as a town meeting place for many civic . . . — Map (db m54131) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — "Battle Cross" |
| | podium beside statue
This arrangement of a fallen soldier's boots, rifle and helmet known as a BATTLE CROSS began in World War I. Since then, when a serviceman or woman is lost on the battlefield, comrades erect a Battle Cross to mark the spot and memorialize his or her supreme sacrifice.
in bricked area
Dedicated to the men and women who have served, survived, or died in the service of the USA Military.
We Honor You.
Thank you and God Bless you all. — Map (db m55908) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — Charles L. Spaugh House — ca. 1900 |
| | Charles L. Spaugh, a Christian and civic leader in Lewisville, built this large two-story house with lumber from his own sawmill, for his wife Dora Alspaugh Spaugh and their family. Jesse Joel Jones, Sr. and his wife Annie Shermer Jones purchased this home in 1931. The ownership of this house has remained in the Jones family for 75 years. One of the notable owners included Lois Elizabeth Jones Kiger. — Map (db m53007) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — Concord United Methodist Church |
| | Founded in 1782. Called Waggoner's Chapel by Bishop Asbury. Present sanctuary built in 1908. Oldest Methodist congregation in Forsyth County, according to Methodists in assembly. — Map (db m53025) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — George Mock House |
| | George Mock (1847-1925) built this house in the 1870s and brought his bride, Adeline Shouse, here. The structure of the house had not changed until their son, Marvin Mock (1881-1961), built rooms to the east. — Map (db m53018) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — Great Philadelphia Wagon Road — ca. 1754 |
| | The Great Wagon Road passed 120 feet north of this marker.The Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to Augusta was the premier 18th century backcountry road from Pennsylvania to Georgia. From about two miles north of Bethabara it was cut to Lewisville by the Moravians in February 1754. The "German Settlement on the Yadkin", later Lewisville, was founded on the Great Wagon Road in the 1760s. The Great Wagon Road entered Forsyth County at Germanton and continued to Lewisville north of Shiloh . . . — Map (db m52921) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — Jones Grocery Store — 1875 |
| | Joseph Spurgeon Jones (1845-1928) built the original store that at the time was in the Little Yadkin Township, a part of Yadkin County. In 1914, his son, Will A. Jones (1871-1940), moved the store across the road east of its present location. After a disastrous robbery in 1926, Will built the present structure, which included a residence. Three generations of the Jones family ran the store for a century. Subsequent owners include James and Frances Vaughn Gough. — Map (db m51888) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — Lewis C. Laugenour House — ca. 1860 |
| | Built by Lewis Case Laugenour, early community benefactor, for whom Lewisville is named. Architecturally one of the best examples of the Greek Revival Style in Forsyth County. — Map (db m53010) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — Lewisville Baptist Church — Established 1881 — Lewisville's First Organized Baptist Church |
| | Lewisville Baptist Church was established in 1881. In 1882 on this highest knoll in the Lewisville village, a 40'x60' wooden building with double doors and a stately steeple was built. Following destruction by lightning in 1936, it was replaced with a brick structure. The third Church building was dedicated in 1974. Older Education Buildings were replaced in 1998. — Map (db m53022) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — Lewisville Roller Mill — 1910 |
| | Built by the J.P. Sprinkle family in 1910. Sold to Fielden Hale Jennings in 1925, who operated the mill for 58 years as the largest village employer. Now used as Lewisville Hardware. Oldest continuously occupied commercial building in Lewisville. — Map (db m53006) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — Lewisville United Methodist Church — Establised 1878 |
| | The church was established in 1878 by Methodists from Brookstown and Sharon. The chief founder, Augustus Eugene Conrad, made plans for the first church, a one room building, and it was dedicated in 1882. It was replaced with a three-story brick building in 1931 during a severe depression. That year was considered a high point in the congregation's dedication and faith in God. A second sanctuary was dedicated in 1989. A second fellowship hall was built in 2001. — Map (db m53023) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — Methodist Church Parsonage |
| | In 1884 the Forsyth Circuit of the Methodist Church bought this house, known as the Wesley Vogler house, for a parsonage. The Circuit consisted of twelve churches in western Forsyth County. By 1901 the Lewisville Charge had been created and took over the parsonage. Many changes were made to the house through the years. In 2000 the exterior was restored to its original appearance. — Map (db m53020) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — New Hope AME Zion Church — 1883 — Date of Deed |
| | New Hope Church is the oldest continuing African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church within the Township of Lewisville. This church is among the oldest AME Zion congregations in Forsyth County. — Map (db m54288) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — POW-MIA Memorial |
| | On Behalf of a Grateful Nation and a Proud American Legion
This POW-MIA flag flies to honor those veterans who, in service to this great nation, sacrificed their freedom and their physical and mental well-being as prisoners of war. It also recognizes those who are still missing in action or remain imprisoned.
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The light at the base of this plaque will burn until all POW-MIAs are accounted for or returned home.
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Town of Lewisville
Lewisville American Legion Post 522 — Map (db m55910) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — J-9 — Shallow Ford |
| | Colonial route across Yadkin River. Scene of Tory defeat by Whigs, 1780. Crossing used in 1781 by army of Lord Cornwallis. 600 yds. S. — Map (db m51877) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — Shiloh Lutheran Church |
| | Founded in 1777 as the German Church Beyond Muddy Creek. Named Gerber's Church in 1813. Graveyard and old church site, quarter mile east. Called Shiloh since circa 1860. Present sanctuary built in 1883. Oldest congregation in Lewisville. — Map (db m53024) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — Site of Lewisville Academy — Founded 1901 |
| | Lewisville Academy, the first public high school in Forsyth County, was established in 1901. Lewisville Academy became a part of the consolidated Forsyth County School System in 1907. This site has served as the location of three subsequent public schools. — Map (db m53008) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — Site of Sunny Acres — ca. early 1930's |
| | Built by Miss Anna Ogburn of Winston-Salem, a Methodist philanthropist and benefactor. The large 200-foot long house was originally used as a country retreat for underprivileged children and as a Methodist Church conference center. Later Sunny Acres was used as a community center to house a doctor's office and other businesses. It was the site of the first location of the Lewisville Branch of the Forsyth County Public Library. — Map (db m53017) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — J-20 — Stoneman's Raid |
| | On a raid through western North Carolina Gen. Stoneman's U.S. cavalry fought a skirmish with southern troops at Shallow Ford, April 11, 1865. — Map (db m51884) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Lewisville — Vogler-Reynolds House |
| | Late nineteenth century homestead of James Emmanuel and Elizabeth Irene Standiford Vogler. Residence of Lamb Archibald and Bessie Binkley Reynolds from 1904-1917 and 1924-1961. L. A. Reynolds, a leading nurseryman in Forsyth County, operated his business on this site. — Map (db m53019) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Apothecary Shop 1763 |
| | Constructed for the apothecary (pharmacist), this building was both his home and office. For medicinal purposes, the apothecary dissolved and distilled various herbs and plants--some grown in his garden and others found in nearby fields.
"During the month careful survey was made of the native herbs, with an eye to their medicinal value, and several useful ones were found, for instance, 'Squasweed' for rheumatism, 'Milkweed' for pleurisy, 'Indian Physic' for preventing fevers, 'Robert . . . — Map (db m53452) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Bake Oven 1753 — (reconstructed) |
| | The Brothers, tired of eating unleavened "journey cakes" (johnnycakes), began building an oven to bake bread almost immediately upon arrival. Although once found throughout the thirteen colonies, no original oven currently exists; however, there is a photograph taken in the early 20th century of one that was in the nearby Moravian community of Friedland. This interpretive reconstruction is made of wattle and daub (interwoven sticks covered with clay and straw) and is of Scandinavian design. . . . — Map (db m53512) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Bastion 1756 |
| | In the late 1750s Indian hostilities spread through Bethabara and the surrounding area. When the palisade fort was built, these bastions offered good defense by allowing a man to see up and down each side of the fort. Night watch duty was assigned and one man was put in command at the mill where many refugees were camping.
"One of our refugees narrowly escaped death on the path between Bethabara and Bethania; two others going out against the advice of Br, Auspach... were attacked and . . . — Map (db m53490) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Bell House — (reconstructed) |
| | A bell used in Bethabara to strike the hours and to call the people together for services, or emergencies, such as the Flax House fire in 1776. The first bell--the only one within 200 miles of Bethabara--frightened Cherokee Indians from the fort in 1760, and was broken "into many pieces" in a storm later that year. A new bell, first placed here, was moved in 1788 to the new Gemeinhaus, where it still hangs (and rings) today.
"We found that one post in the tower in which the bell hangs . . . — Map (db m53455) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Bethabara Fort 1756-63 — (reconstructed) |
| | The French and Indian War (1754-63) prompted the peaceful Moravians, in the midst of busy harvest time and in only 18 days, to build a five-sided palisade around the central part of the community. Later, such fortifications were added to the mill and graveyard nearby. Fortunately, the Indians never attacked Bethabara.
"Next day, after dinner, Br. Jacob Loesch called the Single Brethren together to decide the matter discussed on the 4th, which was quickly done, the unanimous conclusion . . . — Map (db m53517) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Bethabara Tavern 1757 |
| | Accommodating strangers was difficult until the Brethren built the first tavern in 1757. This tavern served until 1775, when the new tavern was opened on the east side of the extensive community gardens. The old 1757 tavern partially collapsed very soon after being vacated.
"Many people come here to buy and sell, some remaining overnight with us, and some at the mill."
Wachovia Diary, January 13, 1757.
"Last night again one of the most unruly companies of hunters was . . . — Map (db m53509) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Calf Barn 1765 — (reconstructed) |
| | According to a 1766 map a calf barn was erected on this site in 1765. The map suggests it was made of two equal sized barns, like this one, connected by an open roofed area. The current structure, a late 18th or early 19th-century timber-framed barn was moved here and restored in 1993.
"A wagon loaded with butter left for the market at Newbern. The store here has bought about 3000 lbs. of butter."
Bethabara Diary, October 7, 1774.
"During this month and last more than . . . — Map (db m54350) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Community Garden 1759 — (reconstructed) |
| | The earliest garden was planted near the Wagner Cabin in 1754. The area was later enlarged by the head garnener, Jacob Lung, to include one half acre and appear as they do today. The members of the community worked in the garden together and then shared the produce. They called this arrangement "the Oeconomy." These are the only known well-documented colonial community gardens in America, and remain as community gardens today.
"Their garden has given them good service; from May 8th to . . . — Map (db m53519) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Congregation Kitchen 1766 |
| | In the face of frontier hardships the Moravians practiced common housekeeping. Their system of communal living meant that every member of the congregation had a share in the necessary tasks of sustaining the town, such as raising cabins, clearing fields, growing and preparing food.
"It was decided to build another kitchen, in which food shall be cooked for the congregation, with the exception of the Single Brethren and boys, who shall continue to cook in the present kitchen."
Bethabara Diary, October 13, 1766. — Map (db m53459) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Congregation Store 1759 & 1764 |
| | Opened in 1759, the Bethabara store played an important role in the life of the community. It provided basic goods, not only to the Moravians, but also to customers from many miles around. The store served as a shipping point for Moravian goods sent in trade, especially to Charleston, SC. A 1764 addition greatly enlarged to 1759 building, and sometime after 1766 another addition was made.
"George Loesch brought 300lbs. of lead for our store from the mine on the New River."
. . . — Map (db m53480) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Congregation Store Addition after 1766 |
| | This addition to the Bethabara store was built sometime after 1766, according to surviving maps. Notice the fireplace base support extending to the cellar floor. Additions to Moravian buildings were common, often based more on practicality that architectural aesthetics. This second addition to the store stood diagonally adjacent to it.
"Busy day, the roof and rafters over the store were rapidly taken down, and new rafters placed to cover the old house and the addition which had been . . . — Map (db m53483) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Distiller's House 1803 |
| | After a December 2, 1802 fire, which destroyed the original 1756 brewery and distillery, this home was built during the spring and summer of 1803 for the community's distiller, Hermann Buttner, and his wife. Some of the materials were probably salvaged from the ruins of the first structure. The rear wing dates from 1938.
"The house for the distiller having been finished, Br. and Sr. Hermann Buttner moved today from the farm-house where they have lived since the fire."
Bethabara Diary, September 14, 1803. — Map (db m53443) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Doctor's Laboratory 1759 |
| | This building served as the workshop for the Bethabara doctors. Hans Martin Kalberlahn, the first doctor in Wachovia, died shortly after the building was completed. He was followed by many capable and dedicated physicians. The doctor served not only the Moravians in Bethabara, but tended the sick and injured of the entire region. In this laboratory, one may have found the doctor tending to minor injuries, performing an operation, or conducting the common practice of blood-letting.
"Our . . . — Map (db m53451) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Dwelling House/Cow House 1754 — (reconstructed) |
| | Within weeks of their first arrival, the Brothers found the need to build a guesthouse for the "strangers" who came to seek the services of the doctor, lawyer and tradesmen. However, this particular structure was converted into a "house" for cows by the following summer. The interpretive reconstruction is based on a sketch of the house from a map drawn in July 1754.
"In the afternoon a place for a small dwelling house was staked off near the spring."
Bethabara Diary, January 7,1754. — Map (db m53508) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Family House 1758 |
| | The Moravians in Bethabara used a "choir" system, which assigned each member of the congregation to a group according to age, sex and marital status. Nevertheless, the importance of the individual family remained a vital part of community life. As families came to the village in the early years, homes were provided for them.
"Br. and Sr. Rogers and Br. and Sr. Jacob Loesch moved into their new houses."
Bethabara Diary, October 14, 1758.
"...Our Christmas joy was . . . — Map (db m53454) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Flour Bin 1758 |
| | Added to the bakery, which adjoined the bin on the northeast side, this was a secure storage place for flour supplied by the Moravians' mill (1755). This bakery supplied the town with bread unitl it was replaced by a new bakery in 1782.
"(Meeting) was held to consider defense against the Indians. A large flour bin was finished on the third, near the bakery, so that in case of need there would be an ample supply of flour on hand inside the fort. It was decided to stockade the mill and to . . . — Map (db m53495) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Gemeinhaus 1756 |
| | This large two-story log building was the first Moravian Congregation House, or church, in North Carolina. It was begun in 1755 and consecrated in February, 1756. It contained the Gemeinsaal (meeting hall) and living quarters for the Minister's family. Three or more services were held daily in German for the Moravians and sometimes in English for the benefit of visitors.
"Br. Gaff set up in our Saal the organ he brought from Bethlehem, and during the Singstunde (song service) in the . . . — Map (db m53518) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Gemeinhaus 1788 |
| | This was the second Gemeinhaus, or Congregation House, built by the Moravians in Bethabara. Today it is the oldest surviving Moravian church in the southeast and the oldest surviving colonial German church with attached living quarters in the United States. The fieldstone walls are nearly two feet thick. The exterior walls were plastered and lined to resemble fancier cut stones. This building was used as a church until 1953 when the Bethabara Congregation moved into its new sanctuary just south . . . — Map (db m53448) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Hans Wagner Cabin 1752 — (reconstructed) |
| | Hans Wagner, a hunter, trapper and miller, and his teenage son built this cabin in 1752, but left for new land on the Yadkin River, when the Moravians purchased the Wachovia Tract. On November 17, 1753, the first 15 Brothers found the abandoned cabin where they lived until 1755, when the Brothers' House was completed. Refugees used the cabin during the French and Indian Was. The village of Bethabara grew up around it.
"We...cut a road for two and a half miles to the little house that . . . — Map (db m53515) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Locksmith and Gunsmith Shop 1759 |
| | From 1759 to 1786 this building housed a locksmith and gunsmith shop. Customers came from miles around Bethabara, often staying several days in the village, while having work done by the talented Moravian craftsmen. Master Potters Rudolph Christ, from 1786-1789, and Gottlob Krause, during 1789, lived in this shop while working next door.
"Rudolph Christ (expressed) his wish to establish a pottery in Bethabara, and says that he will begin in a small way in the old locksmith shop and . . . — Map (db m53500) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Log House ca. 1816 |
| | This log house was built on the site of an earlier 1759 house. Although the date of its construction is still under investigation, according to the Records of the Moravians this house may have been built as early as 1816. Over the years it was modified to meet different uses, tastes and fashions. The last family lived here in the 1950's. Presently, the building serves as a learning laboratory to demonstrate the techniques of dating a building in preparation for historical restoration. . . . — Map (db m53516) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Oldtown — Medical Gardens 1761 — (reconstructed) |
| | The first Medical Garden (Hortus Medicus) was planted here in 1756 for Dr. Hans Martin Kalberlahn. This reconstruction is based upon the Christian Gottlieb Reuter map of Dr. August Schuberts' 1761 garden. The map indicates the plants for each bed. The garden is the earliest known well-documented colonial medical garden in America.
"Toward evening a man came from fifty miles away for medicine for his sick wife, but this time Br. Kalberlahn could not furnish it"."
Bethabara . . . — Map (db m53520) HM |
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