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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Catawba County, North Carolina
Adjacent to Catawba County, North Carolina
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| | Organized before 1797 by German settlers from Pennsylvania. Present building, erected 1950, stands 2½ miles south. — — Map (db m156711) HM |
| | Erected in 1847 as
Grace Union Church
Reformed and Lutheran
Organized 1797 - Separated 1940
Grace Evangelical ad Reformed
Congregation 1940-1969 — — Map (db m156712) HM |
| | One of the last surviving covered bridges in North Carolina, built in 1894, stands 500 yards north on Lyles Creek. — — Map (db m51166) HM |
| | County commissioners, in 1894, called local land owners to build and maintain a bridge across Lyles Creek. In response, landowners hired the services of Andy J. Ramsour, keeper of Horse Ford covered bridge over the Catawba River, at Hickory. In . . . — — Map (db m70563) HM |
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Why Covered Bridges:
They protect exposed wooden superstructures from rot resulting from exposure to the elements (rain, sleet, snow, and blazing sun).
An uncovered wooden bridge's life span would be 15-20 years; but with a roof and . . . — — Map (db m70562) HM |
| | In 1862, the Secretary of War called on Haupt to assist in the reconstruction of railroads destroyed by retreating Confederates. Haupt was able to both rebuild the rail system and organize an efficient rail operation to resupply the Union. In nine . . . — — Map (db m70564) HM |
| | Lutheran. A precursor of Lenoir-Rhyne College; burned, 1935. Church now on site 1 block south. — — Map (db m152384) HM |
| | Lutheran. Organized prior to 1798. J.G. Arends was first pastor. Building, the fourth on site, is 1/4 mile east. — — Map (db m152419) HM |
| | Outbreak of polio in June 1944 led to the founding of an emergency hospital 1/2 mile N.E. Closed, 1945. — — Map (db m129249) HM |
| | Placed here in Memory of the
Men from this community who
participated in the World War
Insert Rededicated by American Legion Post 48 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1957 to all veterans man and women of this area May 24, 1998 — — Map (db m18540) HM |
| | Founded in 1880 by the Evangelical & Reformed Church as a school for women. Closed in 1916. Stood 300 yards east. — — Map (db m129256) HM |
| | To your right stood a frame church built by First Presbyterian Church. The first service was Nov. 2, 1878, and was their house of worship until 1905, when it was purchased by Christ Lutheran Church. The Lutherans worshiped here until 1926. It was . . . — — Map (db m18567) HM |
| | Commemorating the memory of Henry Weidner Robinson
This marks the town of Hickory Tavern as incorporated December 12, 1863. The city of Hickory Commemorates Henry Weidner Robinson who in 1859 gave this site as a public common. The citizens of . . . — — Map (db m18544) HM |
| | Coeducational, Lutheran college, named for W.W. Lenoir and D.E. Rhyne. Opened as Lenoir College in academic year, 1891-92. — — Map (db m129252) HM |
| | To the rear of this spot stood a log house known in 1799 as Hickory Tavern. This tract of 640 acres was surveyed by Col. Christopher W. Beekman on June 8, 1779 and was granted to William McMullen Oct. 28, 1783 on the south side of this tavern ran . . . — — Map (db m18538) HM |
| | Manufacturer of horse-drawn wooden wagons. At peak capacity produced 1000 per month. Operated from 1880 to 1940s 1/10 mile north. — — Map (db m129254) HM |
| | Maryrose Carroll
Millennium Art Committee
City of Hickory — — Map (db m18542) HM |
| | Coeducational, liberal arts. Affiliated with Evangelical & Reformed Church. Opened ½ mi. N., 1851. Moved to Salisbury, 1925, & enlarged. — — Map (db m156713) HM |
| | (front)
C.S.A.
To the Confederate Soldiers of Catawba County 1861-65
Confederate Heroes
(side)
Full Companies Sent Out
Co. A. 12 Reg.
Co. F. 23 Reg.
Co. C. 28 Reg.
Co. E. 32 Reg.
Co. E. 57 Reg.
Co. F. 32 Reg. . . . — — Map (db m156720) WM |
| | "That freedom and justice might prevail, these Catawbans died" 1917-1918 James Russell Boggs · William A. Bolick · Sgt. Theodore P. Bonner · Adolphus G. Cansler · Thaddius C. Carpenter · Frank E. Cline · Henry Dameron · George R. Davis · Fred . . . — — Map (db m156719) WM |
| | Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1897-1901; president of Catawba College, 1901-04;
newspaper editor. Home 3 blocks E. — — Map (db m156744) HM |
| | On a Civil War raid through Western North Carolina by Gen. George Stoneman's U.S. Cavalry troops commanded by Col. William J. Palmer passed through Newton on April 17, 1865, burned the Confederate Commissary depot and the county jail, and shot and . . . — — Map (db m152421) HM |
| | Secretary of Interior, 1893-1896, Governor of Georgia, United States Senator, was born, 1855 at Catawba College, then located at this point. — — Map (db m156714) HM |
| | This tablet is dedicated to the Glory of God and the commemorate the unbroken record of the preaching of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ on or near this site since 1757 A.D. This church, known as Old St. Paul's Church, first known as "Dutch . . . — — Map (db m156757) HM |
| | Superior Court judge; a founder of Catawba College; state senator & Confederate colonel. His home stood here. — — Map (db m152420) HM |
| | Beneath this marker is the
"Old Court House Well"
Dug 1842 Sealed 1908
During those years it was the
public water supply for Newton — — Map (db m156717) HM |
| | Organized before 1771 as a union church by German settlers. Present building erected ca. 1820. — — Map (db m156745) HM |
| | A tribute to Mathias Barringer, Lipsicom Adam, - Grundt, - Haas, - Wilson, and another, who were massacred on John's River in Gen. Rutherford's "forced march" against the Cherokees in 1776, and to Philip Fry who alone escaped, and to Conrad Tippong, . . . — — Map (db m156715) HM WM |
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