24 entries match your criteria.
Historical Markers and War Memorials in Watauga County, North Carolina
Adjacent to Watauga County, North Carolina
▶ Ashe County (4) ▶ Avery County (11) ▶ Caldwell County (7) ▶ Wilkes County (21) ▶ Johnson County, Tennessee (7)
Touch name on list to highlight map location.
Touch blue arrow, or on map, to go there.
GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| Near Blue Ridge Parkway (at milepost 294), 2 miles west of U.S. 221, on the left when traveling south. |
| | 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 |
| Near Blue Ridge Parkway (at milepost 294). |
| | 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 |
| On Bass Lake Drive 0.2 miles north of Blowing Rock Highway (U.S. 221), on the right when traveling north. |
| | 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 |
| On Main Street (Business U.S. 321) near Sunset Drive, on the right when traveling south. |
| | 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 |
| On Blowing Rock Highway (U.S. 221) north of Westglow Circle, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Artist, teacher, author. His paintings hang in the National Gallery, Metropolitan Museum, and other galleries. His home is here. — — Map (db m43354) HM |
| On Main Street (Business Highway 321) at Valley Boulevard (U.S. 321), on the left when traveling west on Main Street. |
| | Missionary. Founded 15 western N.C. schools including Pfeiffer College forerunner. Her
Skyland Institute stood here. — — Map (db m156854) HM |
| On Main Street (Business U.S. 321) at Sunset Drive, on the right when traveling south on Main Street. |
| | 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 |
| On Blue Ridge Parkway (at milepost 297), on the right when traveling north. |
| | 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 Valley Boulevard (U.S. 321). |
| | 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 Main Street (Business U.S. 321) south of Sunset Drive, on the right when traveling south. |
| |
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 |
| Near Cliff Lane, on the right. |
| | 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 |
| On Main Street (Business U.S. 321) south of Sunset Drive, on the right when traveling south. |
| | 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 |
| On Blowing Rock Road (U.S. 321/221) just south of Pine Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | 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 |
| On West King Street (U.S. 321/421) at Water Street, on the left when traveling west on West King Street. |
| | 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 |
| On West King Street (U.S. 321/441) near Poplar Grove Connector Road, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Boy Scouts of America leader. Founded Scouts’ Interracial Service in 1926. Lived 100 yds. N. — — Map (db m43356) HM |
| On East King Street (State Highway 321), on the right when traveling west. |
| | 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 |
| Near West King Street (U.S. 321) east of Linney Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior 1938 — — Map (db m134643) HM |
| On U.S. 421 at Blue Ridge Parkway, on the right when traveling south on U.S. 421. |
| | 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 |
| On U.S. 221 at Blowing Rock Highway on U.S. 221. |
| | 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 |
| On Dale Adams Road north of Georges Gap Road (Route 1213), on the left when traveling north. |
| | 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 |
| On Dale Adams Road north of Georges Gap Road (Route 1213), on the left when traveling north. |
| | 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 |
| On Dale Adams Road north of Georges Gap Road (Route 1213) when traveling north. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m100751) WM |
| On State Highway 194 at Skiles Road, on the right when traveling west on State Highway 194. |
| | Established in 1842 by Bishop Levi S. Ives. Reorganized in 1895 by Bishop J. B. Cheshire. — — Map (db m98513) HM |
RSS Feed