EARLY TRANS-CATAWBA HISTORY
Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full page here (NC Marker ID OO1)
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BUNKER HILL COVERED BRIDGE
One of the last surviving covered bridges in North Carolina, built in 1894, stands 500 yards north on Lyles Creek.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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CALVARY CHURCH EPISCOPAL
Built 1859. Grave of "Bill" Nye. Memorials to many famous southerners.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full page here (NC Marker ID P1)
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MARTIN'S SURRENDER
Gen. James G. Martin surrendered District of Western North Carolina, the last Confederate forces in the state, May 7, 1865, in Waynesville.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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NORTH CAROLINA-SOUTH CAROLINA
NORTH CAROLINA / Colonized, 1585-87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote readiness for independence, Apr. 12, 1776 b/w SOUTH CAROLINA / Formed in...
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BINGHAM SCHOOL
A boys' military school, operated by Robert Bingham, 1891-1928. Moved from Mebane. Campus was 1 mile S.W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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THOMAS WOLFE
Author of "Look Homeward Angel" (1929), "Of Time and the River," and other works. Home stands 200 yards N., birthplace 500 yds. N.E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
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NEWTON ACADEMY
Established before 1793 as Union Hill Academy. Named for Rev. George Newton. Present Newton Academy School is 4th building on this site.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program,...
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MORNING STAR CHURCH
Organized by German Lutherans about 1825; Methodist since 1866. Is 2 1/2 miles south.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full page here...
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ZEBULON B. VANCE 1830-1894
Civil War governor. He led state, 1862-65, and 1877-79; U.S. Senator, 1879-94. Colonel, 26th N.C. Regiment, 1861-62. Birthplace 6 miles N.E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical...
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FRENCH BROAD BAPTIST CHURCH
Organized before 1792. Present building is here. First building stood 1 mile south.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full page here...
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ANDRE MICHAUX
French botanist, pioneer in studying flora of western North Carolina, visited Black Mountains, August, 1794.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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LOCKE CRAIG
1860-1924 Governor, 1913-1917. He created the state highway & fisheries commissions, est. Mt. Mitchell State Park. Lived 1/2 mi. W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
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HOT SPRINGS
Health resort since 1800. Name changed from Warm Springs, 1886. Internment camp for Germans in World War I was here.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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VANCE-CARSON DUEL
On Nov. 5, 1827, Robert B. Vance, former N.C. Congressman, was fatally wounded in a duel by Samuel P. Carson, his successor. 1/2 mile S.E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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FELIX WALKER
Revolutionary officer, member Congress, 1817-23, where, in "talking for Buncombe" (County), he gave new meaning to the word. Home was 1/2 mi. N.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical...
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PAINT ROCK
Pictographs on cliff face were created by Indians ca. 2500 B.C. & long have been landmark for travelers. 5 1/2 mi. N.W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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GUN SHOP AND FORGE
Iron works set up four mi. W. by Philip Sitton after 1804. Source for manufacture of rifles by Philip Gillespie. Both operated to 1860s.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program,...
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LEE'S SCHOOL 1846-1879
A school for boys, conducted by Stephen Lee, West Point graduate, Confederate colonel, stood 1/2 mile north.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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RIVERSIDE CEMETERY
Graves of Thomas Wolfe & "O. Henry," authors; Zebulon B. Vance, governor; Thomas L. Clingman and Robert R. Reynolds, U.S. senators. One-half mile W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway...
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