POTTERY INDUSTRY
Begun in 18th century by Chriscoe, Cole, Craven, Luck, McNeill, Owen, & Teague families living within 5 mile radius.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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N.C. FARMERS' ALLIANCE
Organized by statewide convention of delegates in Rockingham, Oct. 4, 1887. Leonidas L. Polk elected first secretary.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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WM. RAINEY HOLT 1798-1868
Physician. Advocate of scientific agriculture. His plantation "Linwood" was 6 miles southwest. Built home here, 1834.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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JOHN J. McRAE 1815-1868
Governor of Mississippi, 1854-1857. Member, U.S. Senate and House; Confederate congressman. Born 5 miles southeast.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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RALF FREEMAN
Free black served as a Baptist pastor at Rocky River Church until law in 1831 barred blacks from public preaching. Buried 500 yards west.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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CEDAR FALLS MILL
Chartered 1828; opened 1836. Jonathan Worth, N.C. governor (1865-68), its president. Supplied clothing for Confederate war effort. 2 mi. N.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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ALSTON HOUSE
Philip Alston's Whigs were defeated there by David Fanning's Tories, 1781. Later the home of Benj. Williams, Governor, 1800-02. Is 9 1/2 mi. N.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical...
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REED GOLD MINE
Gold discovered there 1799. Many gold mines were later operated in this area. N.C. was the chief gold-mining state to 1849. N. 4 mi.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
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LT. SAMUEL I. PARKER
One of two North Carolinians awarded Medal of Honor for valor in World War I (France, 1918). Born 1 blk. SE.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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HARRY COWAN 1810-1904
Baptist minister vital to growth of church in N.C. Founder of Mount Zion Church (1867), which is one block W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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J. E. K. AGGREY (1875-1927) ROSE D. AGGREY (1882-1961)
Born in West Africa's Gold Coast (now Ghana), James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey enrolled at Livingstone College in 1898 & later joined the faculty. In 1920 he returned to Africa where he influenced...
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HERMAN HUSBAND 1724-1795
Leader during War of the Regulation, 1768-1771; a reformer and pamphleteer. Later in Whiskey Rebellion in Pa. Lived nearby.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used...
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HUGH HAMMOND BENNETT 1881-1960
"Father of soil conservation." First chief of the Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1935-1952. Born 4 miles southwest.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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BUGGY COMPANY
Thomas B. Tyson & W. T. Jones's factory produced horse-drawn vehicles sold across South, 1850s to 1920s. At peak made 3000 per year. Stood here.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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PEE DEE MEETING
Quaker meeting organized, 1755. Westward migration led to decline by the 1840s. Cemetery located 1 1/2 mi. west.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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BOGGAN-HAMMOND HOUSE
Eighteenth-century house built by Patrick Boggan, Revolutionary soldier & a founder of Wadesboro. Now historical museum. Located 2 blocks south.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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THOMAS SAMUEL ASHE
Associate Justice, State Supreme Court, 1878-1887; Member of Congress, 1873-1877; Member of Confederate Congress; legislator. Home is one mile west.Plaque via North Carolina Highway...
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FLORA MACDONALD
Scottish heroine who lived in N.C., 1774-79. Loyalist in the Revolution. Her home stood on this creek a few miles north.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is...
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CAMERON MORRISON SCHOOL
State home and school for boys, opened 1925. Gives academic, vocational, and agricultural training. Three miles W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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TORY RENDEZVOUS
Before going to battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, Feb., 1776, Tories of this area met in Cross Hill, at Alexander Morrison's home, 125 yards S.W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical...
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