GEORGE DAVIS 1820-1896
Confederate senator, 1862-64, and attorney general, 1864-65. Home was 2 blocks E.; grave is 1/2 mile northeast.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their...
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GEORGE DAVIS
Confederate Senator, 1862-64, and Attorney General, 1864-65. Birthplace stood 3 mi. east.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full page...
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WELSH TRACT
About 1730 a group of Welsh from the colony of Pennsylvania settled in this area, between the Northeast and Cape Fear rivers.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
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STAG PARK
Named by Barbadian explorers, 1663. Home of Gov. George Burrington and Samuel Strudwick, colonial official. The house stood 3/4 mi. E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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GEORGE BURRINGTON ca. 1682-1759
Colonial governor, 1724-1725, 1731-1734; opened lower Cape Fear region to settlement. His home was 3/4 mile east.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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WOODROW WILSON
President of the United States, 1913-1921. His home, 1874-1882, was the Presbyterian manse, which stood one block E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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FIRST POST ROAD
The road from New England to Charleston, over which mail was first carried regularly in North Carolina, 1738-39, passed near this spot.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program,...
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ORTON
Fine colonial home, built about 1725 by Roger Moore. Later Gov. Benjamin Smith's home. Stands 16-3/4 mi. south.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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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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NORTH CAROLINA-SOUTH CAROLINA
Fought, Feb. 20-21, 1865, between U.S. Colored Troops and Confederates. Last engagement before the fall of Wilmington. Earthworks 300 yds. N.E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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JAMES MOORE
Commander of Whigs in Moore's Creek campaign, 1776, brigadier general North Carolina troops at Charleston. Died 1777. His home was 3 mi. S.E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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ALFRED MOORE
Associate Justice United States Supreme Court, 1799-1804, officer in the Revolution, state attorney general, judge. Home was 18 3/4 mi. S.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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ROBERT HOWE
Major general in the Revolution, commander of the American Army in the South, 1776-78. His home stood 17 miles S.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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STATE SALT WORKS
The state of North Carolina to relieve a wartime scarcity, operated salt works from here to Myrtle Grove Sound, 1861-64.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is...
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EARLY DRAWBRIDGE
One of the few drawbridges in the American colonies was built near here by Benjamin Heron about 1768. Destroyed by British troops, 1781.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program,...
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CORNWALLIS
Retreating after Battle of Guilford Courthouse, en route to Wilmington, passed near here with his army in April 1781.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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WILMINGTON AND WELDON RAILROAD
Longest railroad in the world when completed in 1840. Length 161 1/2 mi. Terminus was 4 blocks W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their...
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OLD COURTHOUSE
Stood two blocks west. Here a stamp master, William Houston, was forced to resign, 1765, and safety committees met in 1775.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used...
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WASHINGTON'S SOUTHERN TOUR
President Washington was a guest Apr. 24-25, 1791, at the Quince home which stood 2 blocks W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission....
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S. S. SATCHWELL
A founder of State Medical Society, 1849, head of Confederate Hospital at Wilson, 1st president State Board of Health, 1879. Home stood here.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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