On Wake Forest Road at Poplar Street, on the right when traveling north on Wake Forest Road.
Breastworks were thrown up around Raleigh, 1863, by order of Governor Vance, for protection against Federal raids. Remains are ⅓ mile W. — — Map (db m63162) HM
On Hillsborough Street at N Boylan Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Hillsborough Street.
Home of chief justices John L. Taylor & Thos. Ruffin; of Wm. Gaston, Romulus M. Saunders, & Samuel A. Ashe. Built about 1813. Is 70 yds. N. — — Map (db m63173) HM
Just upstream from this location, a dam has slowed the waters of the Neuse River for more than 150 years. The greenway bridge is a great place to see the dam.
Mid-1800s — Paper Mill
In the mid-1800s, the original Miburnie Dam was . . . — — Map (db m90146) HM
Look around. Would this be a good place to cross the river? For hundreds of years, people have crossed the Neuse River in this area on horseback or by stagecoach, wagon or car.
1700s – Smith’s Ferry
In the 1700s before bridges were . . . — — Map (db m90147) HM
On Oberlin Village Drive east of Oberlin Road, on the right when traveling east.
George Morris (1901-1986), from Sonoma, California, was a plasterer by trade. In 1929 he married his wife, Jessie Merle Arnold. After working in shipyards during WWII, he moved to North Carolina in 1945, settled in Raleigh, and started a plaster . . . — — Map (db m233279) HM
On Oberlin Road, 0.1 miles south of Wade Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
From 1956 to 1959, Joseph and Elwyna Holt led effort to integrate the City of Raleigh school system. They lived 120 yards south. — — Map (db m233353) HM
On Parker Street at Dodd Lane, on the left when traveling north on Parker Street.
Former site of Latta University in Oberlin Village.
Founded in 1892 by Reverend Morgan London
Latta, the University primarily served orphaned
African-American boys and girls. A former slave
and also a Shaw graduate, Reverend Latta built . . . — — Map (db m233350) HM
Near Oberlin Road north of Glover Lane, on the right when traveling north.
established 1873 by and for
African Americans
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m233293) HM
On Oberlin Road north of Glover Lane, on the right when traveling north.
In the late 1860s freed slaves founded
Oberlin, the largest Reconstruction-era
black settlement in Wake County. By 1880
some 160 families lived in Oberlin Village,
named in tribute to the Ohio college that
supported education for Negroes. . . . — — Map (db m233297) HM
On Oberlin Road at Oberlin Village Drive, on the right when traveling north on Oberlin Road.
Originally located at 802 Oberlin Road on the other side of Oberlin Baptist Church; relocated to this site in 2019 by Preservation North Carolina to save it from demolition.
Willis M. and Eleanor Hinton Graves, both born into slavery, . . . — — Map (db m233282) HM
On Oberlin Road at Oberlin Village Drive, on the right when traveling north on Oberlin Road.
Plummer T. Hall was born into slavery in 1849, the son of Plummer Hall and Caroline White, an enslaved couple in Warrenton. In 1870 he was living in Raleigh as a domestic servant, and by 1875 he was a student at Shaw University. According to . . . — — Map (db m233291) HM
This carriage house has witnessed the dramatic shift in transportation from horse-drawn buggy to automobile. When built in 1900, it was only the upper portion and would have held two carriages. In general, most carriage houses are indistinguishable . . . — — Map (db m233622) HM
The cotton gin house was built around 1900 as part of the Wyatt
family's extensive property improvement. It served as a utilitarian gin
for Oak View and neighboring farms. Neighbors brought their cotton,
and farm managers George W. Williams and . . . — — Map (db m233614) HM
Once a smaller home, this building has been on site since 1855. Benton S. D. Williams built
Oak View in 1855 as an I-Frame Greek Revival style farmhouse, a style popular at the time.
The most dominant feature of the Greek Revival style is the . . . — — Map (db m233620) HM
On Garner Road south of Bailey Drive, on the right when traveling north.
Historic Hillcrest Cemetery is a planned African American cemetery located at 1905 Garner Road in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. The Lightner Funeral Home was started in 1908 by Calvin E. Lightner and Rayford H. Lightner and received its . . . — — Map (db m233083) HM
Just beyond the trees in front of you is Interstate 440, commonly known today as the Raleigh Beltline. Prior to the highway's construction in the 1970s, Oak View was still considered “in the country” and this area of the farm was home to a large . . . — — Map (db m233637) HM
The Benton S.D. Williams family farmed the land at Oak View from the 1830s to the 1880s, when the property was sold to Job P. Wyatt. The Wyatt family owned the farm through 1940. Like most farmers in Wake County, the Williams and Wyatt families grew . . . — — Map (db m233634) HM
This barn was built around 1900 with a single entrance, or bay. In the 1940s the Poole family added two wings, or side sheds. One wing collapsed after Hurricane Hazel in 1954, but Wake County restored it before the site opened to the public in . . . — — Map (db m233639) HM
Built around 1825, this is the oldest building on the property. It
most likely served as a home for the Williams family before they
finished construction on the main house in 1855, and was once the
meeting place for the Samaria Baptist Church. . . . — — Map (db m233617) HM
Listen! That sound of rushing water is the Neuse River flowing over the remnants of an old mill dam. In the early to mid-19th century, this was the site of a bustling industrial enterprise known as Stone's Mills. Carts and wagons arrived here . . . — — Map (db m90145) HM
Throughout the early 20th century, Oak View operated under a tenant farming system. From 1890-1940, the Wyatt family owned Oak View but did not live on the farm. Instead they hired a farm manager who lived in the main house. This manager hired other . . . — — Map (db m233630) HM
In the first decades of the 20th century, Oak View's owners worked with their farm manager to plant the Pecan Grove in an effort to diversify the crops grown on the farm. The farm managers were careful to plant the trees in distinct row patterns to . . . — — Map (db m233627) HM
Near Dawkins Drive north of Umstead Drive, on the right when traveling north.
A Final Resting Place Before the mid-20th century, cemeteries were often part of institutional settings such as prisons, workhouses, poor farms, and public hospitals. When a patient died at a state mental hospital, the body was usually returned . . . — — Map (db m233380) HM
On City Farm Road, 0.2 miles east of South Wilmington Street, on the right when traveling east.
Commissioners of North Carolina's capital met officers of Sherman's Army near this spot, on April 13, 1865, and surrendered the city. — — Map (db m31542) HM
On Barbour Drive, 0.1 miles south of Blair Drive, on the left when traveling south.
An Enslaved Workforce For nearly 100 years beginning in the late 1700s, this land was part of the Spring Hill plantation owned by the Hunter family. Enslaved African Americans were forced to work the fields and raise livestock for sale in . . . — — Map (db m233386) HM
Near Richardson Drive at Umstead Drive, on the left when traveling north.
A Thriving Community
The people living and working on the hospital campus, commonly called "Dix Hill," built a self-suffcient community largely separate from the city of Raleigh. The hospital campus had its own water supply, a farm that . . . — — Map (db m189401) HM
Near Prospect Avenue west of Fayetteville Street, on the right when traveling west.
Mount Hope Cemetery a 34.3-acre cemetery owned by the City of Raleigh, was established about 1872 for African Americans and continues to be operated so almost exclusively.
Soon after the Civl War, the old City Cemetery was filled with . . . — — Map (db m94696) HM
On Umstead Drive at Barbour Drive, on the left when traveling west on Umstead Drive.
A Working Plantation, a People Enslaved For over 100 years beginning in the late 1700s, this land was part of the Spring Hill plantation owned by the Hunter family and worked by enslaved African Americans. Theophilus Hunter Sr. was a . . . — — Map (db m233358) HM
On Tate Drive east of South Boylan Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Union Troops and the Hospital In April 1865, 89,000 of General Sherman’s troops occupied Raleigh during the last days of the Civil War. Many Union soldiers camped on the hospital’s grounds and interacted with patients.
On the night of April . . . — — Map (db m233392) HM
On Dawkins Drive north of Umstead Drive, on the left when traveling north.
The Heritage of Indigenous Communities Starting about 10,000 BCE, Indigenous people came to the American South as hunter gatherers, camping near rivers and streams.
By 1,000 CE, Indigenous people, like the Euro-American settlers who came . . . — — Map (db m233385) HM
On Western Boulevard at Ashe Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Western Boulevard.
Established for visually impaired student in 1845 under the leadership of John Motley Morehead. Present plant is 500 yards north. — — Map (db m77775) HM
On Garner Road, 0.1 miles south of Wilson Road, on the right when traveling south.
Opened in 1869, it was first state-supported school in the U.S. for African American blind & deaf students. Located on this site 1929-1977 — — Map (db m233081) HM
On Hillsborough Street east of Pogue Street, on the right when traveling east.
The area across Hillsborough Street from this site, today combing commercial and residential use, has a varied history with particular significance to the development of North Carolina State University. Extending from Brooks Avenue to Horne Street, . . . — — Map (db m233270) HM
On West Davie Street at Commerce Place, on the left when traveling west on West Davie Street.
The Freight Depot was built in 1912 by W.P. Rose
Supply of Goldsboro for the Southern Railway.
Freight was received through 14 large steel doors
along the east side of the building. A doorway on
the southern end opened to accommodate . . . — — Map (db m233418) HM
On Watauga Club Drive (Route 64) north of Stinson Drive, on the left when traveling north.
(side 1)
North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts required daily military drills, and when the U.S. entered World War I, hundreds of students and alumni enlisted. Thirty-four alumni died in military service.
The idea for . . . — — Map (db m94742) HM WM
On N. Main Street, 0.1 miles south of W. Walnut Ave., on the right when traveling south.
Historian, archivist, & editor. Promoted "History for all the people" as head of N. C.'s state historical agency. 1935 - 68. Boyhood home was here. — — Map (db m41332) HM
On Durham Road (North Carolina Route 98) at Wake Union Church Road, on the right when traveling west on Durham Road.
Soil conservation landmark. Erosion-checking terrace built ca. 1885 by Priestley Mangum 2 mi. north. Technique adopted across the U.S. — — Map (db m231317) HM
On North Main Street (Alternate U.S. 1) south of East Juniper Avenue.
This simple provincial house was built before 1820. For some years it was the home of Dr. Calvin Jones, a founder of the North Carolina Medical Society. major general in the War of 1812 and Grand Master of the Masonic Order in North Carolina. He was . . . — — Map (db m231315) HM
