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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1571_historic-windsor_Windsor-NC.html
Created by an act of Colonial Assembly in 1768, New Windsor was established on the site known as Gray's Landing. A part of grants to the Lords Proprietors, 2800 acres on the Cashie River were sold in 1717 by John Lord Carteret, Earl of Granville t…
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William Gray in 1776 set aside 100 acres at Gray's Landing for establishing a town. 18th century travelers would have disembarked from sailing vessels docked at the foot of King Street at the old Gray's Landing site. Visitors to Windsor today, cro…
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Acting on orders from General Robert E. Lee in the winter of 1863-64, Confederate forces under the command of Major General George E. Pickett were deployed throughout eastern North Carolina preparatory to as an attempt at clearing the enemy from t…
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To disrupt Confederate recruiting efforts here in Windsor, the Bertie County seat, three Federal transports steamed from Plymouth on the night of January 29, 1864, under U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Charles W Flusser. USS Whitehead and USS Bombshell headed…
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The Confederate ironclad ram Albemarle, led by Capt. J.W. Cooke, crossed Batchelor's Bay, May 5, 1864, and fought seven Union warships 15 mi. E.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12MC_scotch-hall_Merry-Hill-NC.html
Plantation setting for the novel "Bertie," by George R. Throop (1851), tutor in the family of Geo. W. Capehart. House built 1838 is 8 mi. S.E.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12KP_salmon-creek-and-eden-house-seedbed-of-the-colony_Merry-Hill-NC.html
Along the banks of the Chowan River and Salmon Creek, the seeds were planted for the colony and state of North Carolina. From these roots in the 1600s emerged the refined plantation life of the ruling colonial gentry in the 1700s, made possible by…