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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Rowan County, North Carolina
Adjacent to Rowan County, North Carolina
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| | Militia general. He led expedition against the Cherokee, 1776. Colonial & state official. Lived nearby on Grant's Creek. — — Map (db m70031) HM |
| | The first mail over an R.F.D. route in N.C. was carried out in China Grove, October 23, 1896. — — Map (db m70030) HM |
| | Studied law under Spruce Macay, 1784 – 85, at an office which stood 1 bl. W. Admitted to the bar in Rowan County, Nov. 6, 1787. — — Map (db m34204) 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 |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m35662) HM |
| | Enclosure, 16 acres. Once held 10,000 men. Destroyed by Federals, 1865. Site one block south. — — Map (db m1583) HM |
| | This tablet is erected to the memory of Elizabeth Maxwell Steele Patriot 1781 - 1911 — — Map (db m35732) 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 |
| | Baptist minister vital to growth of church in N.C. Founder of Mount Zion Church (1867), which is one block W. — — Map (db m35132) HM |
| | Congressman, 1789 – 93, Comptroller of the United States Treasury, Federalist Party Leader. Home stands 2 blocks east. — — Map (db m34415) HM |
| | Governor, 1859-61. A leader of the secession movement in N. C. Died July, 1861, aged 40. Home stands 1½ blocks south. — — Map (db m34288) 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 |
| | 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 |
| | A good example of the larger homes built about 1820. Now used by the Rowan Museum. Located ½ block south. — — Map (db m35133) 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 . . . — — Map (db m35657) HM |
| | Cornwallis’ men buried here in 1781. Granted to city in 1770 by British government. Grave of Gov. John W. Ellis is here. — — Map (db m33947) 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 memory of Rowan’s Confederate Soldiers that their heroic deeds, sublime self-sacrifice and undying devotion to duty and Country may never be forgotten 1861 – 1865 [ Left of Monument: ] Soldiers of the Confederacy, Fame has given you . . . — — Map (db m34408) 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 |
| | Restored one-room log school of 1840’s. Now located at the Knox Junior High School, ¼ mile east. — — Map (db m35268) HM |
| | Parish established in 1753. Present building constructed in 1828, stands one block west. — — Map (db m34285) HM |
| | Stoneman’s U.S. Cavalry occupied the town of Salisbury, Apr. 12, 1865, and destroyed the Con- federate warehouses, supplies, and prison. — — Map (db m33918) HM |
| | On a raid through west- ern North Carolina Gen. Stoneman’s U. S. Cavalry fought a skirmish with Southern troops near here, April 12, 1865. — — Map (db m33921) 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 cen- tury 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 |
| | In Patriotic Commemoration of the visit of George Washington on his tour of the Southern States 1791 — — Map (db m35731) HM |
| | President Washington was a visitor in the town of Salisbury, May 30 – 31, 1791. — — Map (db m33938) HM |
| | Food Lion, founded in 1957 by Ralph Ketner, Brown Ketner, and Wilson Smith was originally named Food Town and located in what is now the Ketner Center in Salisbury, North Carolina. Grocery prices at the time included ten-pound-bags of potatoes for . . . — — Map (db m103851) HM |
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Builder: Great Dane Trailers
Manufactured: November 1968
Model: 731T Dry Van
Weight: 12 feet 6 inches
Length: 45 feet
Weight: 13,600 pounds
Capacity: 49,960 pounds
PurchaSe price: $17,608.07
The Great Dane Trailer . . . — — Map (db m103881) HM |
| | In commemoration of the 1977 gift to the State of North Carolina by Southern Railway Company of the property and buildings which formerly housed Southern's largest steam locomotive servicing facility. Historic Spencer Shops, North Carolina's . . . — — Map (db m100745) HM |
| | The Magnetic Signal Company, formed sometime after 1910, received its first patent, on May 19, 1914. The Los Angeles-based company mainly sold its crossing signals to western railroads, such as the Santa Fe and Union Pacific. Pacific Electric . . . — — Map (db m102419) HM |
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Builder: International Car Company, Kenton, Ohio
Date Complete: April 1976
Cost: $45,000
Built as: Norfolk & Western Railway 555012
In 1976 the Norfolk & Western Railway (N&W) placed an order for one hundred new cabooses with the . . . — — Map (db m104595) HM |
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Railroads use signals for traffic control. They give crews permission for track use.
One of the most interesting signal styles is the position light, first used on the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1915. Instead of one light signifying the signal . . . — — Map (db m102420) HM |
| | Streetcar #85 was manufactured in Charlotte in 1927 by the Southern Public Utilities Company The trolley ran 11 years in the city, powered by overhead electric wires. It was the last streetcar running and was the centerpiece of a ceremony that . . . — — Map (db m104594) HM |
| | This 37-stall roundhouse and 100-foot turntable built by the Southern Railway are among the few survivors of a distinctive type of locomotive repair facility that was once common across North America. The radial track and turntable arrangement was . . . — — Map (db m104588) HM |
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The Muscle of Spencer Shops
While the Bob Julian Roundhouse, located just south of here, provided routine maintenance for Southern Railway's steam locomotives, the Back Shop was where the heavy lifting was done—literally. Locomotives . . . — — Map (db m104590) HM |
| | When Southern Railway formed in 1894, its first President, Samuel Spencer, began looking for a location for a new repair facility halfway between Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, Ga. As Rowan County became the targeted location, former N.C. State . . . — — Map (db m103741) HM |
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