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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Watauga County, North Carolina
Adjacent to Watauga County, North Carolina
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| | Moses H. Cone Memorial Park preserves the country estate of Moses Cone, a prosperous textile entrepreneur, conservationist, and philanthropist of the Gilded Age. Its centerpiece is Flat Top Manor, a gleaming white 23-room mansion of almost 14,000 . . . — — Map (db m123231) HM |
| | Flat Top Manor, once the home of textile magnate Moses H. Cone and his family, presides over the former Cone Estate—3,600 acres of forests, meadows and rolling farmlands.
Moses Cone, whose hobbies included road-building and cultivating . . . — — Map (db m20349) HM |
| | Flat Top Manor, once the home of textile magnate Moses H. Cone and his family, presides over the former Cone Estate—3,600 acres of forests, meadows and rolling farmlands.
Moses Cone, whose hobbies included road-building and cultivating . . . — — Map (db m98708) HM |
| | Donated to the Town of Blowing Rock in loving memory of two brothers and Blowing Rock's sons, Paul and Glenn
Coffey by the Coffey Family
This monument was erected two blocks north of this site on September 1, 1927. Mr. Thomas H. Coffey . . . — — Map (db m43883) HM |
| | Artist, teacher, author. His paintings hang in the National Gallery, Metropolitan Museum, and other galleries. His home is here. — — Map (db m43354) HM |
| | Missionary. Founded 15 western N.C. schools including Pfeiffer College forerunner. Her
Skyland Institute stood here. — — Map (db m156854) HM |
| | In Memory Of Those
Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice
World War I
Linny Coffey
Milton Greene
Harley Hampton
Lloyd Hampton
Daniel Teague
Albert Walser
World War II
Frank Baldwin
Ralph M. Brown
John H. Calloway . . . — — Map (db m136319) WM |
| | The Julian Price Memorial Park, comprising 4,200 acres, is named in honor of its former owner, the late Julian Price, for many years president of the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company of Greensboro, N.C. The company and Mr. Price’s son and . . . — — Map (db m134210) HM |
| | On a Raid through Western
North Carolina Gen.
Stoneman's U.S. Cavalry
Passed through Blowing
Rock March 28, 1865 — — Map (db m20378) HM |
| |
On a raid across western N.C. Gen. A.C. Gillem led part of Stoneman's U.S. cavalry through this vicinity, March 28, 1865. — — Map (db m95303) HM |
| | This 250 million year old cliff formation is
North Carolina's oldest travel attraction.
Located at 4,000 feet above sea level,
The Blowing Rock is the town's namesake.
The phenomenon is so called because
the rocky walls of the gorge form a . . . — — Map (db m43674) HM |
| | Originally constructed as one of several cottages located on the Watauga Hotel property, the building contained two small rental units. This structure is the last remaining example of the group of cottages. Acquired in 1939 by the town, the hotel . . . — — Map (db m104693) HM |
| | Est. 1899 as Watauga
Academy by B.B. and D.D.
Dougherty. A campus of
The University of North
Carolina since 1972. — — Map (db m20377) HM |
| | Native root valued in China for medicinal uses; long collected by locals. Wilcox Drug (est. 1900), among its exporters, operated 175 yds. SE. — — Map (db m95294) HM |
| | Boy Scouts of America leader. Founded Scouts’ Interracial Service in 1926. Lived 100 yds. N. — — Map (db m43356) HM |
| | On a raid through western
North Carolina Gen. Stoneman's
U.S. Cavalry Fought a skirmish
with the Home Guard at Boone,
March 28, 1865. — — Map (db m20352) HM |
| | Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior 1938 — — Map (db m134643) HM |
| | On a raid through western North Carolina Federal forces inder Gen. George Stoneman erected a palisaded fort here in April 1865. — — Map (db m74935) HM |
| | French botanist, pioneer
in studying flora of
western North Carolina,
visited Grandfather
Mountain, August, 1794. — — Map (db m20372) HM |
| | American botanist and
Harvard professor. In
July,1841, investigated
flora of this region.
He visited Grandfather
Mountain. — — Map (db m20371) HM |
| | In July 1863, Gov. Zebulon B. Vance created the Home Guard to protect communities and capture deserters, Unionists, and bushwhackers. The Guard was made up of men not liable for conscription because of age, health, and other reasons. Capt. Harvey . . . — — Map (db m100748) HM |
| | This Property Was
Placed On The
National Register
Of Historic Places
June 18, 1998
By The United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m100750) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m100751) WM |
| | Established in 1842 by Bishop Levi S. Ives. Reorganized in 1895 by Bishop J. B. Cheshire. — — Map (db m98513) HM |
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