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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM157D_dr-walter-reed_Murfreesboro-NC.html
Head of U.S. Yellow Fever Commission in Cuba, 1900-01. Lived here as a young man and married Emily Lawrence of this town.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM157C_murfree-house_Murfreesboro-NC.html
Home of William Hardy Murfree, member of U.S. Congress, 1813-1817; N.C. House, 1805 & 1812; presidential elector, 1812. House stands 1 block N.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM157B_chowan-university_Murfreesboro-NC.html
Opened 1848 as Chowan Baptist Female Institute. Became four-year college, 1992. A university since 2006. Two blocks south.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM157A_john-h-wheeler_Murfreesboro-NC.html
Historian, legislator, superintendent U.S. Mint at Charlotte, state treasurer, minister to Nicaragua, born 1806 in brick house 300 yds. N.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1578_lafayette_Murfreesboro-NC.html
On his American tour Lafayette spent night of Feb. 26, 1825, at Indian Queen Inn which stood two blocks north.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1577_richard-j-gatling_Como-NC.html
Inventor of the Gatling gun and of numerous agricultural implements, was born September 12, 1818, in a house which stands 400 yards north.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1573_burning-of-winton_Winton-NC.html
A detachment of United States troops burned Winton on February 20, 1862. The first town in N.C. to be burned during the Civil War.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1572_potecasi-creek_Ahoskie-NC.html
Scene of minor skirmish between Confederate & Union troops driving on Richmond and Weldon Railroad, July 26, 1863. Breastworks 60 yds. SW.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT5M_murfreesboro_Murfreesboro-NC.html
Murfreesboro, a prosperous riverfront commercial center, interested both sides during the war. In June 1862, Confederate Gen. Theophilus H. Holmes ordered cotton destroyed here and in other nearby towns. Eighty Confederate cavalrymen executing his…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT5J_burning-of-winton_Winton-NC.html
After Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside captured Roanoke Island in February 1862, he decided to "sweep Albemarle Sound clean of [Confederate] defenses," establish inland bases of operation, and encourage eastern North Carolina Unionists. Winton, the …