Official residence, N.C. governors, it was completed 1891 on Burke Square using prison labor. Architects, A.G. Bauer & Samuel Sloan.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
State action led to the sterilization by choice or coercion of over 7,600 people, 1933-1973. Met after 1939 one block E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is...
Est. by Methodist Church, 1899; served children in central & eastern N.C. Campus here until 1979.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their...
North Carolina was first state to provide limbs to Confederate amputees. Factory, which operated 1866-67, was 1/4 mi. NE.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is...
Nation's first four-year medical school. Trained 400 African American physicians. Operated here from 1882 to 1918.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
Delegates resolved to seek equal rights for state's freed blacks. Met, Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 1865, one block north.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
Slave poet. His The Hope of Liberty (1829) was first book by a black author in South. Lived on farm 2 mi. SE.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
Civil rights organization, an outgrowth of sit-in movement, had origins in conference at Shaw University, Apr. 15-17, 1960.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used...
Organized here, Feb. 10, 1899, in room then used by N.C. Supreme Court. Platt Walker of Charlotte, group's first president.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is...
Historian, archivist, & editor. Promoted "History for all the people" as head of N.C.'s state historical agency, 1935-1968. Boyhood home was here.Plaque via North Carolina Highway...
Revolutionary War officer; first president of State Bank, 1811-19. In 1825 hosted Lafayette in house that stood here.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
Black teacher, writer, & reformer. Principal, Berry O'Kelly School; a founder, N.C. Industrial Assoc. Lived 1 block S.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
Large smelting furnace provided iron, 1862-65, to Confederacy. Reopened 1870 & ceased to operate 1896. Remains 1 1/2 mi. NE.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used...
Editor and publisher of the Progressive Farmer, 1903-1954. Social and agricultural reformer. Lived 400 yards S.E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
Organized 1816. Site of Constitutional Convention of 1835. State Supreme Court met here, 1831-40, after Capitol fire. This building completed 1900.Plaque via North Carolina Highway...