Built for the Rev. James W. Telfair, Jr. (1837-1914), born in slavery, pastor of St. Stephen A.M.E. Church, presiding elder of the North Carolina Conference of the A.M.E. Church, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina Colored Masons, city . . . — — Map (db m263321) HM
1st Lieutenant Evander McNair Robeson Company K, 18th North Carolina Infantry, Lane’s Brigade, Wilcox’s Division, Third Corps Resident: Bladen County, North Carolina Enlisted: April 1861 A comrade of Robeson’s wrote about the battle on April 2, . . . — — Map (db m15325) HM
Italianate style house built for George T. Curtis (1823-1870), native of Virginia, engineer; and wife, Melvina Ann Medley (1829-1889). Purchased in 1880 by Flavel Wright Foster (1842-1902), native of Bradford County, PA, Union Army veteran, county . . . — — Map (db m264968) HM
Founder of Lumberton, captain in Revolution, later brigadier general; member of legislature, conventions of 1788, ’89. Plantation was here. — — Map (db m102264) HM
Colonel in Revolution, member of provincial congresses and state senator. Robeson County is named for him. His home stood ½ mile N.E. — — Map (db m222331) HM
First Baptist Church
Founded in 1823 as Edgefield Baptist Church, with Basil Manly, Sr., Pastor, Matthew Mims, Clerk, and Arthur Simkins, Moderator, this church led in the establishment here in 1826 of Furman Academy and Theological . . . — — Map (db m12671) HM
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