On Boones Mill Road (U.S. 158) 0.5 miles west of Barrows Mill Road, on the left when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
On July 28, 1863, Union Col. Samuel P. Spear's cavalrymen came thundering through Jackson from Federal-occupied Winton to destroy the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Bridge over the Roanoke River at Weldon. Confederate Gen. Matt W. Ransom and his . . . — — Map (db m43394) HM
On Boones Mill Road (County Road 1137) 0.1 miles east of U.S. 158, on the right when traveling east.
On July 28, 1863, some of Confederate Gen. Matt W. Ransom's men were bathing here in the Boone's Mill pond, when suddenly bullets began splashing into the water. At the same time, Ransom and his staff galloped across the mill bridge shouting . . . — — Map (db m180511) HM
Here on July 28, 1863, a Confederate force repulsed a Union march on the vital Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. Breastworks 50 yds. S.W. — — Map (db m31147) HM
On U.S. 158/301, 1.7 miles south of U.S. 301, on the right when traveling south.
The first railroad in the State was completed in 1833 from Petersburg, Va., to Blakely, on the Roanoke River, a short distance southeast. — — Map (db m222087) HM
On Old Highway Road (County Road 1207) just west of East Railroad Street, on the left when traveling west.
Garysburg
United Methodist Church
and Cemetery built in 1849
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
— — Map (db m180470) HM
On U.S. 158/301, 0.3 miles east of Sycamore Street, on the right when traveling west.
Early channel of trade, its valley long an area of plantations. Frequent floods until 1952, since controlled by Kerr Dam. Old name was "Moratuck." — — Map (db m222088) HM