Home of the Knox family since colonial days. James Knox, grandfather of President James Knox Polk, lived there. House stood 4 miles west. — — Map (db m182010) HM
In memory of
Peter Stewart Ney
A native of France
and
Soldier of the French Revolution
under
Napoleon Bonaparte
Who departed this life
November 15, 1846
Aged 77 years — — Map (db m291242) HM WM
This marker commemorates the men and women who achieved American independence. These Patriots, each believing in the noble cause of liberty, fought valiantly to found a new nation.
1775-1783 — — Map (db m298380) WM
The Chilean Ore Mill is original to Gold Hill having been moved to its present location in Gold Hill Mines Historic Park. The photo above left shows men operating the mill crushing ore for separation. The photo at right shows the mill in 1960 at its . . . — — Map (db m299203) HM
Gold Hill Jail and Rock Wall was built around 1845 as Gold Hill was beginning to grow and prosper. The early 1850's the town was a bustling mining camp with numerous merchants and is said to have had around 26 Saloons. In a mining camp employing . . . — — Map (db m298876) HM
Assay Office Museum
(Photo captions)
Original 19th Century Gold Hill Mining Company Safe
Gold Hill, NC Ore Specimen
High Banker and Rocker Box
Tools used for grading and separating gold ore were donated by Bily Tucker, . . . — — Map (db m298981) HM
The Randolph shaft (located about 50 ft. from this sign), was more than 300 feet deep when it opened in 1855, after more than a year of preparatory digging, which yielded (according to the company president) not "one cent return to the company . . . — — Map (db m298996) HM
Dedicated to the memory of
Capt. Lamar Shaver Russell
U.S. Army Airforce
Killed in Action WW II
February 1, 1944
Pvt. Joe Hearne Rufty
U.S. Army
Killed in Action WW II
June 6, 1944
Cpl. Ernest Raymond Russell . . . — — Map (db m299201) WM
The first gold discovery in Gold Hill was on the farm of Andrew Troutman in 1824. The small family operation utilized a Chilean Ore Mill to grind the gold laden ore into a fine powder. The mill was turned by use of horse or mule power, This mill is . . . — — Map (db m299202) HM
Pioneer miner George Barnhardt (1791-1871) had learned mining while managing John Reed's mine, the first gold mine in the state. Barnhardt married Reed's daughter Martha (1803-1863) and became one of Gold Hill's most successful mine operators. After . . . — — Map (db m299634) HM
In the 1840's and 1850's gold mining was the foundation for a stable industrial and commercial community of some 700 people, including about 60 slaves. The population fluctuated between perhaps 500 and 800 people as companies came and went. 400 to . . . — — Map (db m298873) HM
You are now standing on grounds of the oldest church of any denomination or institution in the western half of NC there possesses legal documentation for proof of age. Land grants were made in this area in 1747 and the meeting house that became . . . — — Map (db m182002) HM
Introduced bill, 1885, for industrial school, now N.C. State University. Speaker of House, 1889: prison reformer. Taught at academy here. — — Map (db m237131) HM
Let this plaque forever remind the
children of Prospect Presbyterian
Church that: near this spot in the
early 1800's, the stone was set for
the first church at Prospect.
In the 1850's the second
church was built nearby — — Map (db m237150) HM
This property has been listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States Dept. of Interior.
“… built on the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as
the chief cornerstone.” . . . — — Map (db m237122) HM
Four houses of worship have served the Thyatira congregation the first, called lower meeting house was constructed of logs approximately 100 yards west of this site around 1749. The name was changed to Cathey's Meeting House around 1755. The second, . . . — — Map (db m181991) HM
Presbyterian. Founded by 1750.Present building completed in 1860. First permanent minister was Samuel McCorkle, who is buried 600 yards N. — — Map (db m181987) HM
Arends
Johann Gottfried Arends
December 11, 1740-July 9, 1807
He came here as a teacher in 1773, German church leaders complied with the request from sixty Rowan families carried by Christopher Lyerly and Christopher Rendleman, . . . — — Map (db m181950) HM
In memory of WW I veterans
In memory of WW II veterans
In memory of Korean veterans
In memory of Vietnam veterans
In memory of Bosnia veterans
In memory of Desert Storm veterans
In memory of Saudi Arabia veterans
In memory of Iraq . . . — — Map (db m175777) WM
Delta Xi Omega Chapter
Chartered April 19, 1947
Salisbury, North Carolina
On April 19, 1947, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
Incorporated®, Delta Xi Omega Chapter was chartered
in Salisbury, North Carolina by Clarissa K. Dillard,
South . . . — — Map (db m238884) HM
Built by William Cole Blackmer. Lived in by generations of Woodsons, a family prominent in medicine, law, business, and politics. The families of Horatio N. Woodson, Dr. Charles Whitehead Woodson, and H. Nelson Woodson lived here.
Given by . . . — — Map (db m238715) HM
From this town Richard Henderson in Behalf of Henderson and Company dispatched Daniel Boone, John Findlay, John Stuart, Joseph Holden, James Mooney and William Cooley to explore the wilderness of Kentucky. — — Map (db m175793) HM
You are facing the 18 trenches used by the Salisbury Confederate Prison for the burial of prisoners, most of whom died after October 1864. — — Map (db m35270) HM
On November 2, 1861, the Confederate government purchased about 16 acres here for a prison. The tract included an abandoned three-story cotton mill, a boiler house, six tenements, a superintendent’s house, and several smaller buildings. A stockade . . . — — Map (db m34202) HM
Coeducational, liberal arts. Affiliated with Evangelical & Reformed Church. Opened at Newton, 1851. Moved here, 1925, and enlarged. — — Map (db m238969) HM
Wrote more than forty novels, odes and poems. "The Land of the Sky" has been an inspiration to all who have read it, and many travelers have visited North Carolina to enjoy scenic beauties so graphically described by her. — — Map (db m175786) HM
Settled by Scotch-Irish in 1747, coming from Pennsylvania along the “Great Wagon Road”. Established as the county seat in 1753. Named after the cathedral town (New Sarum) in England. Largest city in western North Carolina in the 18th and 19th . . . — — Map (db m35662) HM
The property at this corner of Church and Fisher Streets was the location of a three-week revival that in 1887 initiated the textile industry in Rowan County. The Salisbury Public Art Committee designed a bronze history marker for the site and . . . — — Map (db m175782) HM
This mural depicts Salisbury at the turn of the 20th century. Local artist Cynvia Arthur Rankin completed the 127' × 48.5' mural over three years. The mural was dedicated on November 30, 1980. One hundred forty-one local citizens in period . . . — — Map (db m175779) HM
In 1859, Dr. Josephus Wells Hall bought this house, which was constructed in 1820 as the Salisbury Female Academy, and added a new entrance and the double veranda with lacey ironworks. Inside, he had ornate French wallpaper hung and the hall . . . — — Map (db m34279) HM
Large Jacobean-style mansion built
1900-1903 by E. B. C. Hambley using
local granite from the Whitney Mine.
Purchased by the Leo Wallace, Sr.
family in 1927. Restored in 2011-12
by Mona Lisa and Leo Wallace, III.
Listed on National Register . . . — — Map (db m238749) HM
Friendless, penniless, and above, he took his own life, and died at the age of eighty — this man who had shaken the Republic from center to circumference and who at a critical period had held and filled the center of the stage. . . . — — Map (db m175792) HM
"The principle use of the Deagan Tower Chimes is…to carry the message of Christ and Christianity beyond the walls of the church building into the hearts and homes and homes of the entire community"
The J.C. Deagan Company of Chicago, Illinois . . . — — Map (db m175787) HM
Born in West Africa's Gold Coast (now Ghana), James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey enrolled at Livingstone College in 1898 & later joined the faculty. In 1920 he returned to Africa where he influenced the course of post colonialism. In 1905 Aggrey married . . . — — Map (db m238759) HM
John Willis Ellis was born November 20, 1820, in the area of Rowan County which later became a part of the new county of Davidson. In 1842 he opened his law office at No. 2 Cowan's Row, located in this block. Early in his career he won a seat in . . . — — Map (db m175778) HM
United States Senator, 1903-30, a leading supporter of Wilson’s war policies, Speaker of the House of Representatives. His home is here. — — Map (db m34286) HM
Founded as Zion Wesley Institute, 1879. Became College in 1885. Rev. J.C. Price president 1882-93. Named for British missionary. 5 blocks west. — — Map (db m238747) HM
Lynching in America Racial terror lynching claimed the lives of thousands of African Americans and created a legacy of injustice that can still be felt today. After slavery ended, many white people remained committed to racial hierarchy and used . . . — — Map (db m238719) HM
Spruce Macay (1755-1808), prominent local attorney, law teacher and judge, built his office on this lot. Andrew Jackson, U.S. President and William R. Davie, Revolutionary war hero and founder of the University of North Carolina studied under Macay . . . — — Map (db m175783) HM
Maine’s tribute to her soldiers who died while prisoners of war at Salisbury, N.C. 1864 – 1865 [ Right of Monument: ] “They fought for peace, - for peace they fell, - they sleep in peace, and all is well.” [ Rear of . . . — — Map (db m34406) HM
When Dr. L. J. Meroney and his sister Lena built the theater in 1905, its large seating capacity attracted professional troupes to Salisbury. Two of the most famous thespians of the day, the “Divine” Sarah Bernhardt and the glamorous Lillian . . . — — Map (db m35657) HM
In 1923, became Salisbury's
new Black public school.
It was originally named
Joseph C. Price High School
in honor of Livingstone
College's first president.
The first principal was
Professor L. Hamilton Hall.
In 1932, the school . . . — — Map (db m238802) HM
This property
Mount Zion
Baptist Church
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
December 30, 1985 — — Map (db m238713) HM
Established 1768. Land given to German Lutheran congregation by John Lewis Beard. Contains graves of German, Scotch-Irish, and English settlers. Site of only church building in Salisbury for about 50 years. Wall built 1878. — — Map (db m228954) HM
[ Left Tablet: ] This monument is erected by authority of an Act of the Pennsylvania Legislature approved June 13th 1907. To commemorate the patriotic devotion, heroism, and self-sacrifice of the officers and soldiers of the Pennsylvania . . . — — Map (db m34410) HM
The Old Rowan County Courthouse, a visible reminder of Salisbury’s antebellum prosperity, was erected in 1855 and is one of North Carolina’s finest Greek Revival-style public buildings. It served as Rowan’s third courthouse until 1914. Salisbury . . . — — Map (db m34278) HM
Erected by the Elizabeth Maxwell Steele Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in memory of the Rowan County boys who fought in the World War - 1919 — — Map (db m35736) HM
In 1856 Nathaniel Boyden and other investors established the North Carolina Foundry and Agricultural Machine Works. It was located on East Kerr Street on an acre lot lying between the railroad and Long Street. The property, with its three large . . . — — Map (db m238692) HM
In memory of Rowan's Confederate Soldiers that their heroic deeds, sublime self-sacrifice and undying devotion to duty and Country may never be forgotten
Soldiers of the Confederacy, Fame has given you an imperishable crown. History will . . . — — Map (db m195015) WM
Religious fervor provided the impetus for establishing Rowan County's post-Civil War textile industry. On November 9, 1887, during a three-week revival held in the Farmer's Warehouse on this site, the Reverend R.G. Pearson, a visiting evangelist, . . . — — Map (db m175781) HM
1817: Townsmen donate $415. "We … do promise to pay to the Commissioners of the Town of Salisbury … to procure an engine and other fire apparatus … for the safety of the town." Witnessed 12/8/1817.
1866: A new fire engine was purchased . . . — — Map (db m175796) HM
Salisbury Prison and Trench Graves Salisbury Prison was established by the Confederate government in October 1861 on the site of an old cotton factory. In preparation for the first prisoners, a portion of the grounds was enclosed by a stockade . . . — — Map (db m34398) HM
June 15, 1920—First formal meeting, installation of local officers, and presentation of its charter from Rotary International was held on the roof garden of the Wallace Building (now The Plaza).
On a raid through western North Carolina Gen. Stoneman’s U. S. Cavalry fought a skirmish with Southern troops near here, April 12, 1865. — — Map (db m33921) HM
Stoneman’s U.S. Cavalry occupied the town of Salisbury, Apr. 12, 1865, and destroyed the Confederate warehouses, supplies, and prison. — — Map (db m33918) HM
Charles Sparks chose Salisbury as the winter home for his Sparks World-Famous Shows (1910-1916 & 1918-1919) because of its north-south and east-west railways and the nearby Spencer Shops that could refurbish the circus train. Each year, before . . . — — Map (db m238709) HM
In 1909 twelve ladies, led by Mrs. James Preston Moore (nee Beulah Stewart), organized the Travelers' Club for the purpose of becoming well informed on foreign countries and other subjects. "Miss Beulah," as she was affectionately known, was . . . — — Map (db m175785) HM
Dug in the mid-1700s, it was last used by the A.H. Boyden family in the early 1900s. The well was the source of water for those who resided on this property, notably the familes of Adlai Osborne, Archibald Henderson, and Spruce Macay, along with his . . . — — Map (db m175784) HM
On famous trading path used by Indians and early settlers. There Greene, retreating from Cornwallis, crossed on Feb. 2, 1781. East 1 mi. — — Map (db m33930) HM
Colonial trading route, dating from 17th century from Petersburg, Virginia, to the Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina, passed nearby. — — Map (db m34416) HM
In 18 trenches, just south of this spot, rest the bodies of 11,700 soldiers of the United States Army, who perished during the years 1864 and 1865 while held by the Confederate Military Authorities as prisoners of war in a stockade near this place. . . . — — Map (db m34403) HM
Wiley Immanuel Lash (1908-1995), son of the Reverend Wiley H. and Mayzonetta "Mary" Grundy Lash received his education at a local black parochial school and Livingstone College. He rose to political prominence in the Negro Civic League where he . . . — — Map (db m228946) HM
William Valentine, a free man of color, was born in North Carolina and lived in Salisbury for a number of years. His home on East Bank Street, purchased before the Civil War, was located just outside the gates of the Confederate States Military . . . — — Map (db m175794) HM
[First stone]
Earliest date of record
Jan. 1, 1753
This building being the
fourth house of worship
of this congregation.
Completed 1860.
This stone placed
1930
[Second stone]
Thyatira
Presbyterian Church
at . . . — — Map (db m237121) HM
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