Taken in June 1861 when the Navy Yard at Norfolk was abandoned by the United States
Banded and Condverted at Richmond into a 6 inch rifle mounted at Fort Caswell North Carolina
Dismounted by exploding magazines when the Confederates evacuated . . . — — Map (db m262781) HM
A.I.A. Tower
North Carolina Chapter
American Institute of Architects
Chapter Founded(AIA)
August 8, 1913
Building Dedicated
October 18, 1963
Raleigh Historic Site
Water Tower
1887 — — Map (db m93208) HM
Geo. B. Anderson Brigadier General Confederate States Army Born April 12th 1831. Died Oct. 16th 1862 of a wound received at the battle of Sharpsburg. ( Back of Monument : ) Seven Pines Mechanicsville Cold Harbor Malvern Hill South . . . — — Map (db m63255) HM
Fawcett, Preston & Company of Liverpool, England, cast this 4-inch, 18-pounder rifled cannon in 1862 and sold it to the Confederacy. It was part of a “flying battery” of field artillery stationed at Fort Fisher that protected . . . — — Map (db m63221) HM
On and around this spot
stood the old town of
Bloomsbury
or
Wake Court House
which was erected and made the county-seat when Wake County was established in 1771.
This place was the rendezvous of a part of Governor Tryon's army . . . — — Map (db m233421) HM
Spanish-American War camp. 95 acres, named for the Confederate general, was located here. Only U.S. Army camp in the state, 1898. — — Map (db m77772) HM
This carriage house has witnessed the dramatic shift in transportation from horse-drawn buggy to automobile. When built in 1900, it was only the upper portion and would have held two carriages. In general, most carriage houses are indistinguishable . . . — — Map (db m233622) HM
Charles Duncan Mc Iver Educational statesman * * * Born 27th September 1860 Died 17th September 1906 ( Left Side Marker : ) Founder and first President of the State Normal and Industrial College for women ( Right . . . — — Map (db m63231) HM
Christ Episcopal Church
has been designated a National Historic Landmark
This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America — — Map (db m40782) HM
City Cemetery is the City's first public burial site.
Raleigh's City Cemetery, established in 1798 just outside the city limits on East Street, was the principal burying ground for Raleigh's citizens until the late nineteenth century.
The . . . — — Map (db m233510) HM
Raleigh's first public burying ground. In 1798 the General Assembly authorized the city commissioners to lay off up to four acres of public land adjoining the city for this purpose. Additional land added later. Many of Raleigh's earliest citizens . . . — — Map (db m233509) HM
Union Troops and the Hospital In April 1865, 89,000 of General Sherman’s troops occupied Raleigh during the last days of the Civil War. Many Union soldiers camped on the hospital’s grounds and interacted with patients.
On the night of April . . . — — Map (db m233392) HM
In memory of our Confederate Dead --------------- Erected A.D. 1870 Sleep warrior, sleep the struggle. The battle cry is hushed. Our standards have been lowered. Our blooming hopes been crushed. Sleep for thy name is cherished By the bravest and the . . . — — Map (db m63267) HM
Confederate Soldiers Memorial-Here rest the remains of 137 Confederate soldiers killed in action or mortally wounded during the Gettysburg Campaign. These men represent approximately 1600 North Carolinians who fell during the Campaign. North . . . — — Map (db m62478) WM
The cotton gin house was built around 1900 as part of the Wyatt
family's extensive property improvement. It served as a utilitarian gin
for Oak View and neighboring farms. Neighbors brought their cotton,
and farm managers George W. Williams and . . . — — Map (db m233614) HM
On February 17th, 1864 the CSS H.L. Hunley was the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in combat. The sub was lost that night as well, when it sank just outside Charleston Harbour in SC. with all eight crew members perishing. Crew member James A. . . . — — Map (db m63250) HM
A Final Resting Place Before the mid-20th century, cemeteries were often part of institutional settings such as prisons, workhouses, poor farms, and public hospitals. When a patient died at a state mental hospital, the body was usually returned . . . — — Map (db m233380) HM
Home of chief justices John L. Taylor & Thos. Ruffin; of Wm. Gaston, Romulus M. Saunders, & Samuel A. Ashe. Built about 1813. Is 70 yds. N. — — Map (db m63173) HM
Official residence, N.C. governors, it was completed 1891 on Burke Square using prison labor. Architects, A.G. Bauer & Samuel Sloan. — — Map (db m32553) HM
Commissioners of North Carolina's capital met officers of Sherman's Army near this spot, on April 13, 1865, and surrendered the city. — — Map (db m31542) HM
Social activist; writer. Led the Baptist Woman's Missionary Union after 1892. A benefactor of present Meredith College. Lived in this house. — — Map (db m32628) HM
Once a smaller home, this building has been on site since 1855. Benton S. D. Williams built
Oak View in 1855 as an I-Frame Greek Revival style farmhouse, a style popular at the time.
The most dominant feature of the Greek Revival style is the . . . — — Map (db m233620) HM
Entered on the National Register
of Historic Places
May 6, 1971
Federal Building
Century Pstal Station
Raleigh, North Carolina
Alfred B. Mullett
architect 1874
This property significantly contributes to the
nation's cultural . . . — — Map (db m233534) HM
First Baptist Church
Built in 1859
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Baptist Church
A.D. 1859
Wm. Percival . . . — — Map (db m126213) HM
The Heritage of Indigenous Communities Starting about 10,000 BCE, Indigenous people came to the American South as hunter gatherers, camping near rivers and streams.
By 1,000 CE, Indigenous people, like the Euro-American settlers who came . . . — — Map (db m233385) HM
Organized 1816. Site of Constitutional Convention of 1835. State Supreme Court met here, 1831-40, after Capitol fire. This building completed 1900. — — Map (db m63165) HM
Organized
January 21, 1816
First building on this site
dedicated
February 7, 1818
Present building
dedicated
September 16, 1900
Sanctuary remodeled
1956 — — Map (db m94802) HM
Colonel Fred Olds founded the Hall of History, now the North Carolina Museum of History, in 1902. He devoted his life to preserving the state's heritage.
In memory of Dellie Hardison Smith, a creative planner for this North Carolina . . . — — Map (db m126212) HM
In the Governor’s Palace April 24-27, 1865, Grant conferred with Sherman and approved new terms for surrender of Johnston’s Confederate Army. — — Map (db m63140) HM
Site used by U.S. Coastal and Geodetic Survey to measure the precise longitude and latitude of Raleigh by taking simultaneous readings of the positions of the stars here and at locations in Richmond, Va. and Charleston and Columbia, S.C. A . . . — — Map (db m40858) HM
George Morris (1901-1986), from Sonoma, California, was a plasterer by trade. In 1929 he married his wife, Jessie Merle Arnold. After working in shipyards during WWII, he moved to North Carolina in 1945, settled in Raleigh, and started a plaster . . . — — Map (db m233279) HM
Here rest the remains of 137 Confederate soldiers killed in action or mortally wounded during the Gettysburg Campaign. These men represent the approximately 1,600 North Carolinians who fell during the campaign. North Carolinians accounted for . . . — — Map (db m242818) HM WM
Established for visually impaired student in 1845 under the leadership of John Motley Morehead. Present plant is 500 yards north. — — Map (db m77775) HM
Opened in 1869, it was first state-supported school in the U.S. for African American blind & deaf students. Located on this site 1929-1977 — — Map (db m233081) HM
On this site stood the Governor’s Palace of North Carolina 1816 – 1865 where General LaFayette was entertained March 2-3, 1825. — — Map (db m222848) HM
Originally located at 802 Oberlin Road on the other side of Oberlin Baptist Church; relocated to this site in 2019 by Preservation North Carolina to save it from demolition.
Willis M. and Eleanor Hinton Graves, both born into slavery, . . . — — Map (db m233282) HM
Built 1800-1801 by John
Haywood, N.C. treasurer,
1787-1827. Operated now
by the National Society
of the Colonial Dames of
America in State of N.C. — — Map (db m233508) HM
Henry Clay, on a visit to this city, wrote the famous Raleigh Letter, April 17, 1844, opposing the annexation of Texas. Many authorities believe that this statement cost him the presidential election of 1844. According to tradition Clay wrote the . . . — — Map (db m63175) HM
Private in
Bethel Regiment
North Carolina Volunteers
Killed at Bethel Church
June 10, 1861
First Confederate soldier
to fall in battle in the
War Between the States.
(back of marker)
Wyatt's Comrades
In dash to burn the . . . — — Map (db m41569) HM
Historic Hillcrest Cemetery is a planned African American cemetery located at 1905 Garner Road in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. The Lightner Funeral Home was started in 1908 by Calvin E. Lightner and Rayford H. Lightner and received its . . . — — Map (db m233083) HM
From 1956 to 1959, Joseph and Elwyna Holt led effort to integrate the City of Raleigh school system. They lived 120 yards south. — — Map (db m233353) HM
Just beyond the trees in front of you is Interstate 440, commonly known today as the Raleigh Beltline. Prior to the highway's construction in the 1970s, Oak View was still considered “in the country” and this area of the farm was home to a large . . . — — Map (db m233637) HM
The Benton S.D. Williams family farmed the land at Oak View from the 1830s to the 1880s, when the property was sold to Job P. Wyatt. The Wyatt family owned the farm through 1940. Like most farmers in Wake County, the Williams and Wyatt families grew . . . — — Map (db m233634) HM
Built prior to 1770 and often site of political meetings. Decision to locate Raleigh on Lane's land made there, 1792. Stands 2 blocks south. — — Map (db m63236) HM
First Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of N.C.; 1823-1830. Active in the revival of the Church. Interred in church 50 yds. south. — — Map (db m63242) HM
Editor, author, public official
Son of
Josephus Daniels and Mary Cleaves Seabrook
Born in Washington, N.C.
May 18, 1862
Married to Addie Worth Bagley of Raleigh
May 2, 1888
Died in Raleigh, N.C.
January 15, 1948 . . . — — Map (db m217457) HM
This exact replica of the Liberty Bell is the same size, weight, and material as the original. Therefore, it has the same tone that the Liberty Bell would have if it could be rung. The bell, cast in France, weighs 2, 080 pounds. It is 85 percent . . . — — Map (db m73012) HM
Confederate brigadier general; president of Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, 1852-55; member of Congress, 1855-61. Home here, grave ⅔ mi. east. — — Map (db m63157) HM
On March 2, 1825, General Lafayette, an outspoken abolitionist, was received near this spot by Gov. Burton at the Government House. — — Map (db m233590) HM
An Enslaved Workforce For nearly 100 years beginning in the late 1700s, this land was part of the Spring Hill plantation owned by the Hunter family. Enslaved African Americans were forced to work the fields and raise livestock for sale in . . . — — Map (db m233386) HM
Former site of Latta University in Oberlin Village.
Founded in 1892 by Reverend Morgan London
Latta, the University primarily served orphaned
African-American boys and girls. A former slave
and also a Shaw graduate, Reverend Latta built . . . — — Map (db m233350) HM
President of National Farmers' Alliance, 1889 - 1892; began Progressive Farmer, 1886; a founder of NCSU and Meredith College. House is here. — — Map (db m63235) HM
A Thriving Community
The people living and working on the hospital campus, commonly called "Dix Hill," built a self-suffcient community largely separate from the city of Raleigh. The hospital campus had its own water supply, a farm that . . . — — Map (db m189401) HM
This barn was built around 1900 with a single entrance, or bay. In the 1940s the Poole family added two wings, or side sheds. One wing collapsed after Hurricane Hazel in 1954, but Wake County restored it before the site opened to the public in . . . — — Map (db m233639) HM
Enslaved. Bought freedom in 1835. An abolitionist, nationally known orator, and entrepreneur. Wrote his Narrative in 1842. Was born nearby. — — Map (db m175033) HM
(side 1)
North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts required daily military drills, and when the U.S. entered World War I, hundreds of students and alumni enlisted. Thirty-four alumni died in military service.
The idea for . . . — — Map (db m94742) HM WM
Just upstream from this location, a dam has slowed the waters of the Neuse River for more than 150 years. The greenway bridge is a great place to see the dam.
Mid-1800s — Paper Mill
In the mid-1800s, the original Miburnie Dam was . . . — — Map (db m90146) HM
Mount Hope Cemetery a 34.3-acre cemetery owned by the City of Raleigh, was established about 1872 for African Americans and continues to be operated so almost exclusively.
Soon after the Civl War, the old City Cemetery was filled with . . . — — Map (db m94696) HM
Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 an April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union troops. . . . — — Map (db m233612) HM
