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
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
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
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
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
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
