On Boydton Plank Road (U.S. 1) 0.6 miles south of Tanner Town Road, on the right when traveling north.
According to local tradition, while Dr. Creed Haskins and several friends were on a hunting trip in Brunswick County in 1828, his camp cook, Jimmy Matthews, hunted squirrels for a stew. Matthews simmered the squirrels with butter, onions, stale . . . — — Map (db m20188) HM
On Pleasant Grove Road (County Route 681) 0.3 miles north of Governor Harrison Parkway (U.S. 58), on the right when traveling north. Reported permanently removed.
Though many freed African Americans continued after the Civil War to work the same farms on which they had been slaves, many also left their homes in search of better opportunities elsewhere. Often the sick, elderly and very young were left . . . — — Map (db m30873) HM
On Piney Pond Road (U.S. 58) 0.1 miles west of Main Street (County Route 659), on the left when traveling west.
Mecklenburg County. Formed in 1764 from Lunenburg, and named for Princess Charlotte, of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III. A small army under the command of rebel Nathaniel Bacon destroyed the town of the Occaneechee Indians near . . . — — Map (db m30875) HM