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Fike Cyclones Football

1967, 19868, 1969 4-A State Champions

 
 
Fike Cyclones Football Marker image. Click for full size.
By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), December 27, 2025
1. Fike Cyclones Football Marker
Inscription.
Led by Coach Henry Trevathan, the Fike High School Cyclones won three straight NCHSAA 4-A football championships-at that time an unprecedented historic achievement.
 
Erected by Wilson County Historical Association.
 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: EducationSports. A significant historical year for this entry is 1967.
 
Location. 35° 45.222′ N, 77° 55.217′ W. Marker is in Wilson, North Carolina, in Wilson County. It is on Harrison Drive North west of Drexel Street North, on the left when traveling west. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 487 Harrison Dr N, Wilson NC 27893, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in North Carolina’s Piedmont. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Upper South. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.

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least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Elizabeth Gold Swindell (approx. 1.2 miles away); Charles Lee Coon (approx. 1.4 miles away); Barton College (approx. 1.4 miles away); Wilson Veterans Memorial (approx. 1.6 miles away); Our Confederate Dead (approx. 1.7 miles away); Alpheus Branch (approx. 1.7 miles away); P.D. Gold (approx. 1.8 miles away); John Fletcher Bruton (approx. 1.8 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Wilson.
 
Fike Cyclones Football Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), December 27, 2025
2. Fike Cyclones Football Marker
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on March 18, 2026. It was originally submitted on December 28, 2025, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 99 times since then and 80 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on December 28, 2025, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
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