WEITZEL'S MILL
Site of a skirmish between American forces under Col. O. H. Williams and British troops under Col. James Webster, Mar. 6, 1781, is 6 mi. E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE
First building erected 1851-52. Opened during academic year 1852-53. Since 1929 Oak Ridge Military Institute.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their...
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GUILFORD COLLEGE
A coeducational college operated by the Society of Friends. Chartered as New Garden Boarding School in 1834. Opened in 1837.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is...
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EDGEWORTH FEMALE SEMINARY
Established by John M. Morehead, operated, 1840-1862, 1868-1871. Building, burned in 1872, stood at this site.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their...
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BUFFALO CHURCH
Presbyterian, organized about 1756. Present building, the third, was erected in 1827. Revolutionary soldiers buried here.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used...
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ALAMANCE CHURCH
Presbyterian, organized about 1764. Synod of North Carolina formed here, 1813. The present building erected 1955.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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WINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY
Established for Negroes as Slater Industrial Academy, 1892. State supported since 1895; University since 1969.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their...
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CONFEDERATE HOSPITAL
Set up in the First Presbyterian Church to receive wounded from Battle of Bentonville, 1865, was here.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their...
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GUILFORD COURTHOUSE
Armies of Greene and Cornwallis engaged in pivotal battle here on March 15, 1781. Site now U.S. military park.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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N.C. A. AND T. UNIVERSITY
Chartered in 1891 as a land grant college for blacks. Since 1972 a campus of The University of North Carolina.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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NORTH CAROLINA- VIRGINIA
Ku Klux Klan members and American Nazis, on Nov. 3, 1979, shot and killed five Communist Workers Party members one-tenth mile north.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
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JOSEPH G. CANNON
Member of Congress for 46 years from Illinois, Speaker of the House, 1903-11. His birthplace stood 1 1/2 miles southwest.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used...
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WRIGHT TAVERN
Built in 1816. Rare example of dog-run building. Operated by Wrights and Reids. Birthplace and home of Congressman J. W. Reid.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
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'LAND OF EDEN'
Near here ran southern line of estate of Wm. Byrd, Virginia planter, author, and surveyor of Va.-N.C. boundary line, 1728.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is...
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PLANK ROAD
A section of the Fayetteville-Salem plank road, a toll road 129 miles long, built 1849-1854, followed this route.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their...
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