The Bear Grass Primitive Baptist Church is the oldest congregation in Martin County. The Facility has been well maintained through the years and is still used for weddings and community functions. Heat for the building was provided by two . . . — — Map (db m257093) HM
The Everetts Christian Church was chartered with 78 members on Sunday, July 3, 1921. Revivals in the area had been being held on the second floor of the Champion Auto Building, later to become the Zimba Cola Bottling Company. The first services . . . — — Map (db m257094) HM
In 1923, this church was built by local townspeople who cut timbers from the local forests and built the church, under the supervision of Ben Perry, J.J. Barnhill and Charles B. Roebuck. The original pressed tin ceilings and raised panel doors . . . — — Map (db m257095) HM
At the beginning of the Civil War, the Confederates fortified the high bluffs of Rainbow Banks here on the Roanoke River. The fort helped prevent Union gunboat attacks in the upper Roanoke River Valley, guarded the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad . . . — — Map (db m59063) HM
Confederate fort at Rainbow Banks, built to protect railroads and the upper Roanoke River valley. Earthworks remain. 3 miles northeast. — — Map (db m59060) HM
Confederate fort. Was built, 1862-1863, at Rainbow Banks to protect railroads & Upper Roanoke River valley. Earthworks 3 miles NE. — — Map (db m227090) HM
After having been established in 1811, the present church was built in 1878. When the Kehukee Association met, with the 5,000 attending, they declared it the largest church in the Association. It was one of five churches with an upper balcony where . . . — — Map (db m257159) HM
Situated at the northeast junction of a rural crossroads between the Roanoke River towns of Hamilton and Williamston. Spring Green Primitive Baptist Church’s pastoral setting has changed little from when this front-gable, frame meeting house was . . . — — Map (db m257160) HM
St. Martin’s Episcopal Church is one of the most outstanding examples of frame Victorian Gothic architecture in eastern North Carolina. This church was established as a mission in 1868 through the efforts of Mary Anne Boyle, a native of Wales who . . . — — Map (db m257161) HM
St. Martin’s Episcopal Church was established as a missionary station in 1868. The present structure was built in either 1879 or 1880. All materials were produced locally except for the bell and stained glass which were imported from England. The . . . — — Map (db m257162) HM
The Jamesville Primitive Baptist Church was built between 1865 and 1870 on land donated by Clayton Moore who also was the builder. The last member of the church, Luther Hardison, gave the building to the Women’s Club in 1953.
NHR — — Map (db m257009) HM
The Jamesville Primitive Baptist Church featured the classic two-front door type of entrance as was prevalent for most of the Primitive Baptist churches, one for the men and one for the women. The building is rectangular in shape with few adornments . . . — — Map (db m257010) HM
The Oak City Christian Church is also known as Oak City Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The church is a single story, frame, weather-boarded, Gothic Revival style building. It features five lancet-arched stained glass windows and a . . . — — Map (db m227080) HM
Oak City, NC
Martin County
The National Register
of Historic Places
January 25, 2018
High School opened in 1952 and served the communities until 1970. Elementary School was added in 1956 for students in grades K-8.Closed 2008
"When . . . — — Map (db m227083) HM
The First Christian Church of Robersonville was born out of a July 1876 revival meeting conducted by Josephus Latham and Stanley Ayers for the Disciples of Christ in Robersonville. At the end of the revival, the new church was organized with 28 . . . — — Map (db m257156) HM
Located in the center of Robersonville, this Primitive Baptist Church was a more "worldly" design of Colonial Revival with no separate entrance for each gender. The steeple was also a unique feature. In 1992, A. Everette James, Jr., grandson of . . . — — Map (db m257158) HM
Stood one-fourth mile south. Parmele Institute, 1900. Industrial Training School - 1912-1914. First brick school Martin County. 1914. Served Black youths, teachers in a training curriculum in the State. — — Map (db m226934) HM
Asa Biggs (1811-1878), a prominent North Carolina politician and jurist, and his wife, Martha, built this Federal and Greek Revival—style house and lived here from 1835 to 1862. Biggs practiced law from his office just across Smithwick Street. . . . — — Map (db m152853) HM
POW Camps Across the United States
There were POW camps across the United States, setup by the federal government. By May of 1945, the United States held 378,000 German prisoners of war, across 155 base camps and 511 branch camps. They were . . . — — Map (db m186841) HM
Mass meetings at Green Memorial Church for 32 days, June-July 1963, & nonviolent marches, led to the desegregation of local public facilities. — — Map (db m225143) HM
Gen. Frank Armstrong, December 1953. Armstrong was a highly acclaimed military figure, and his exploits during World War II later became the subject of a best-selling novel and the hist movie Twelve O'Clock High. Armstrong was born in . . . — — Map (db m276371) HM
A 1961 graduate of E.J. Hayes High School who was the first African American to become:
Asst. State Prosecutor for NC,
District Court Judge of Mecklenburg County
Chief District Court Judge
Resident Superior Court Judge for NC
Appointed to . . . — — Map (db m256333) HM
Early channel of trade, its valley long an area of plantations. Frequent floods until 1952; since controlled by Kerr Dam. Old name was "Moratuck". — — Map (db m67521) HM
Samuel Johnston (1733-1816), c. 1780. Johnston, a leading patriot during the American Revolution, served as governor of North Carolina from 1789 to 1789. He is credited with being the first person elected as president of the United States . . . — — Map (db m276370) HM
The Skewarkee Meeting House was formed in 1789 and assumed a 'mantel of authority' for smaller congregations between the Roanoke and Tar Rivers as well as the Kehukee Association. In 1839, on land donated by Brother Joseph D. Biggs, the present . . . — — Map (db m256331) HM
The first church for this congregation is thought to have been built around 1785 at the site near the intersection of U.S. 17 and Garrett Road (about a half mile from this building). The congregation grew to the point that the structure had to be . . . — — Map (db m256330) HM
The present church building is actually the third to be built on or near this identical spot. The Smithwick Creek Primitive Baptist Church congregation was organized in 1803 following three successful years of missionary visits by Elder Joseph . . . — — Map (db m257090) HM
The congregation was organized in 1803 by Elder Joseph Biggs. The present church was built in 1896 after the previous church was destroyed by fire. Three large wooded posts divide the interior space into two halves, one side for women and children . . . — — Map (db m257091) HM
In 1882 Asa T. Peal and Abram Tice gave out of "natural love and respect a half-acre of land at the Dipping Hole to the Smithwick Creek Primitive Baptist Church for the privilege of a baptizing place."
The Baptismal House was built in 1892. It . . . — — Map (db m257088) HM
The exact date of the first settlement at what was to become Williamston cannot be determined from records presently available, but it is known there was a village in the general locality as early as 1730. The first settlers are said to have . . . — — Map (db m276367) HM
The Williamston Civil Rights movement began in the summer of 1963. The Movement reeled for the period of thirty-two consecutive days under the tutelage of Sarah Small, Mary Louis Mobley and Golden Frinks. Blacks held nightly meetings, formulated . . . — — Map (db m276373) HM
Williamston Prisoner-of-War Camp, c. 1944-1945. German and Italian prisoners housed in the camp, located along East Main Street near the Roanoke River Bridge, were well though of by the citizens of Martin County. During their stay, the Germans . . . — — Map (db m276372) HM
