Completed 1816. Vance was the last governor to reside there, 1862-5. Stood 50 yards south.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full page...
U.S. negotiator in China for 30 years. Consul in Japan and China. Editor, author, and lawyer. His home was 2 blocks E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
Organized, 1794, by Jas. O'Kelly, founder of the denomination. Present building fourth on site.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full...
Begun 1910. Early Negro teacher training school. Named for benefactor. Later used as elementary school. Closed in 1966.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
Outgrowth of N.C. Art Society. In 1947 state funded purchase of art. Museum opened, 1956. Moved here, 1983.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full page here (NC Marker ID H75)
Enroute from Goldsboro to Raleigh, Sherman's army camped 1 mile east and on April 12, 1865, celebrated the news of Lee's surrender.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
Baptist, organized about 1757. Used by Regulators for meetings after 1768. Stands 200 yards east.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their...
Congressman; Minister to Portugal; Governor of the Territory of New Mexico, 1857-1861; poet and essayist. Buried two blocks West.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
First Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of N.C., 1823-1830. Active in the revival of the Church. Interred in church 50 yds. south.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
Successor to earlier group founded in 1799. Formed here in 1849. Dr. Edmund Strudwick was first president.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
Authorized 1849, largely through work of Dorothea L. Dix, crusader for better care of the mentally ill. 500 yards southwest.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is...
President of Raleigh and Gaston Railroad; president of the State Bank; publisher of the Raleigh "Minerva" 1803-1810. Home is 3 blks. S.W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
Baptist; coeducational. Opened as Wake Forest College, 1834. Moved to Winston-Salem, 1956. University since 1967.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their...
Governors Aycock, Bragg, Fowle, Holden, Swain, and Worth, other notables and Confederates buried there. 3 blocks E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...