The steepest, standard gauge, mainline railway grade in the U.S. Opened in 1878; three mi. long. Crests here.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
Granite monolith. Site acquired by Lucius Morse in 1902. Developed into tourist attraction. State park, 2007. One mi. S.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is...
Congregation organized by 1791. Cemetery and present building, the church's fourth, are one mile west.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
Engineer and inventor. Pioneered advances in textile mill air conditioning. Home 3 mi. SW.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full page...
Landmark on Cherokee boundary, negotiated by Gov. William Tryon and Cherokee chiefs, 1767. Elevation 3,231 feet.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
State institution for crippled children, 1921-1979. R. B. Babington was its first president; O. L. Miller, founding surgeon.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used...
Pioneer orthopedic surgeon; founded hospitals for crippled children; chief surgeon of Warm Springs (Ga.) Foundation. Birthplace 80 yds. east.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical...
West Point graduate. A Confederate major general at 27; mortally wounded, Cedar Creek, Va. Grave 2 blocks N.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
Many iron mines and forges were operated within a radius of ten miles of this point between 1790 and 1880.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their...
Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full page here (NC Marker ID OO1)
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...
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)
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...
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...
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...