On Highway 32 N (State Highway 32) at Corapeake Road, in the median on Highway 32 N.
The road from New England to Charleston, over which mail was first carried regularly in North Carolina, 1738-39, passed near this spot. — — Map (db m2783) HM
On Highway 32 N (State Highway 32) north of Adams Swamp Road, on the left when traveling north.
North Carolina. Colonized, 1585-87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote readiness for independence, Apr. 12, 1775
Virginia. First permanent English colony in America, 1607; one of . . . — — Map (db m2787) HM
On Court Street (North Carolina Route 137) at New Ferry Road, on the right when traveling east on Court Street.
The Civil War was a major event in US history that cost the lives of thousands of citizens and left the landscape in ruins. Despite losing the war, there was a movement in the South during the era of Jim Crow to memorialize and honor veterans who . . . — — Map (db m251508) HM
On Court Street (State Highway 137) at New Ferry Road (County Road 1111), on the right when traveling east on Court Street.
To our Confederate dead
1861-1865
1915
Confederate Monument Organization
Gates Co.
To our Confederate soldiers.
Gates Co. furnished the youngest general officer in the Confederates States Army. Wm. P. Roberts without military . . . — — Map (db m60702) WM
On Church Street at Court Street ( Highway 137), on the left when traveling south on Church Street. Reported missing.
The Gates County militia had its headquarters here in the 1836 Gates County Courthouse. When the war began, the Gates Guards were organized and were mustered into Confederate service here as Co. B, 1st North Carolina Infantry. Other Gates County . . . — — Map (db m251507) HM
On Main Street (State Highway 37) 0.5 miles south of Alternate U.S. 158, on the left when traveling south.
Still on its original site, the Reid's Grove School educated African American students in the Gatesville area. Completed on November 5, 1927 and closed in 1951, it was one of seven schools in Gates County (and one of over 800 in North Carolina) . . . — — Map (db m79796) HM
