THE GOVERNOR MOREHEAD SCHOOL
Established for visually impaired students in 1845 under leadership of John Motley Morehead. Present plant is 500 yards north.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is...
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FIRST N.C. STATE FAIR
Sponsored by the State Agricultural Society, it opened 2 blocks South, October 18, 1853. Moved to new location in 1873.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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PLANK ROAD
The Cameron-to-Gulf branch (built in 1853) of the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road passed near this spot.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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A. A. F. SEAWELL 1864-1950
Justice of State Supreme Court, 1938-1950; state legislator and attorney general. Home is here.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full...
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SMILEY'S FALLS
Ruins remain of locks and dams built by the Cape Fear & Deep River Navigation Company in 1850s. Rapids extend upstream 1- 1/2 miles.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
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EGYPT COAL MINE
Operated at intervals, 1856-1929. Aided the Confederate war effort. Site of explosions, 1895 & 1900. Shaft 2 mi. N.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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PLANK ROAD
The route of the old Fayetteville-to-Salem plank road, a toll road 129 miles long, built 1849-54, crosses highway near this spot.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
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STATE CAPITOL
Built 1833-40. Ithiel Towne, A. J. Davis and David Paton, architects. First State House built here, 1796; burned, 1831.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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JOSEPHUS DANIELS 1862-1948
Secretary of the Navy, 1913-21; ambassador to Mexico; author; editor, News and Observer. His home was here.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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MEREDITH COLLEGE
An independent women’s college chartered 1891 as Baptist Female University. Named 1909 for education advocate Thos. Meredith. Campus here since 1926.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical...
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HAYWOOD HALL
Built 1800-1801 by John Haywood, N.C. treasurer, 1787-1827. Operated now by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in State of N.C.Plaque via North Carolina Highway...
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SAINT MARY'S
Episcopal School for girls, established 1842 by Rev. Aldert Smedes on site of an earlier Episcopal School for boys, which opened 1834.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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N.C. STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Collection began with 1851 geological survey; a museum since 1879; H. H. Brimley, curator from 1895 to 1946.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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N.C. STATE FAIR, 1873-1925 / STATE EXPOSITION OF 1884 / CAMP POLK, 1918
Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full page here (NC Marker ID H34)
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PETTIGREW HOSPITAL
Site of Confederate hospital, U.S. Army barracks, Confederate Soldiers' Home, 1891-1938.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full page...
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SHAW UNIVERSITY
Founded 1865 by Baptist missionary Henry Martin Tupper. Chartered 1875; named for benefactor Elijah Shaw of Mass.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their...
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GENERAL GRANT
In the Governor's Palace April 24-27, 1865, Grant conferred with Sherman and approved new terms for surrender of Johnston's Confederate Army.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical...
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OLD BREASTWORKS
Breastworks were thrown up around Raleigh, 1863, by order of Governor Vance, for protection against Federal raids. Remains are 1/3 mile W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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ISAAC HUNTER'S TAVERN
Stood nearby. State Capital located within 10 miles by order N.C. Convention, 1788.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full page...
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FALL OF RALEIGH
Commissioners of North Carolina's capital met officers of Sherman's army near this spot, on April 13, 1865, and surrendered the city.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program,...
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