W. W. KITCHIN
Governor, 1909-1913; member of Congress. Moved to Roxboro from Scotland Neck in 1888. Home is 2 blocks E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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GRIERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Organized in 1753. Rev. Hugh McAden served as its first minister. Present building dates from 1856. Stands 1 mi. E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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SNOW CAMP
Settled by Quakers in 1749. Cornwallis camped in area after Battle of Guilford Courthouse and used home of Simon Dixon as headquarters.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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WILLIAM L. POTEAT
Wake Forest College president, 1905-1927. Champion of freedom of scientific thought. Birthplace and family home stands here.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is...
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THE GLASS HOUSE
Noted winter health resort patronized by Northern hunters and tuberculosis patients. Opened 1871; burned 1893. Site is 1/2 mi. W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
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HARRIS MEETING HOUSE
Founded by Methodists prior to 1778. It was the mother church in this area. Disbanded in 1828. Stood 1 mi. N.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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J. G. A. WILLIAMSON
First U.S. representative to Republic of Venezuela, 1835-1840; member of N.C. General Assembly. Birthplace was 1/2 mile S.E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used...
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JACOB THOMPSON
Secretary of Interior, 1857-1861, Confederate secret agent in Canada, U.S. Representative from Mississippi. Birthplace stands 100 yds. southeast.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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ROBERT PAINE
Leader in organization of Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1845. Bishop, president of LaGrange College, Ala., & author. Born 1 mi. E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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OXFORD ORPHANAGE
Opened by Masons, 1873, with John H. Mills first head, in plant of St. Johns College, which they had operated, 1858-1861.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is...
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CANE CREEK MEETING
First Monthly Meeting of Friends in central North Carolina, 1751. Present building is on the original site.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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WILLIAM B. UMSTEAD
Governor, 1953-54, U.S. Senator, congressman; Democratic leader; and lawyer. Birthplace is 6 1/2 mi., grave 5 1/2 mi., N.E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used...
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BETHESDA CHURCH
Presbyterian, began as "Hart's Chapel," about 1765. Mother of many churches. The present building erected 1944, stands 3/4 mile south.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program,...
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HUGHES ACADEMY
Operated, 1845 to 1884. Founded by Samuel W. Hughes. Attended by Wm. T. Dortch, David I. Craig, Geo. T. and P. H. Winston. Site is 1 mi. W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical...
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MOUNT BETHEL METHODIST CHURCH
Non-denominational meeting house built ca. 1784 by Archer Harris. By 1808 Methodist. Home church to Washington Duke.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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MOSES A. CURTIS
Botanist, authority on North American flora, author, and Episcopal minister. Home was two blocks east.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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DUKE HOMESTEAD
Birthplace of J. B. and B. N. Duke, tobacco and hydroelectric magnates, philanthropists (Duke University, the Duke Endowment), is 1 mi. S.W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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RICHARD HENDERSON
Founder of Transylvania Colony (Ky.) & Nashville (Tenn.), author Cumberland Compact (1780), judge, member N.C. Council of State. Grave 1 mi. N.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical...
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SOLOMON LEA
First president Greensboro College, 1846-47. Founder and master of the Somerville Female Institute, 1848-1892. Home stands 100 yds. N.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program,...
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TRYON'S CAMP
Before and after the Battle of Alamance, the Militia of Governor William Tryon camped nearby, along Alamance Creek, May 13-19, 1771.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
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