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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMZF_our-confederate-dead_Lexington-NC.html
Erected byThe Robert E. Lee ChapterDaughters of the ConfederacyNo. 324Sept. 14, 1905.
[ Back of Monument: ]Sleep sweetly in your humble graves.Sleep martyrs of a fallen cause.For lo, a marble column cravesthe pilgrim here to pause.1861 - 65.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMZB_city-of-lexington_Lexington-NC.html
Named during theRevolutionary Warin 1775 afterthe Battle ofLexington.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMZ3_captain-benjamin-merrill_Lexington-NC.html
Sacrificed his life for the causeof regulators. Was executed byofficials of the Crown, June 19, 1771.Home was 8 miles south.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMZ1_daniel-boone-and-gen-nathanael-greene_Lexington-NC.html
In 1750, Daniel Boone, age 16, came with his father from Pennsylvania and settled near Boone's Ford on Yadkin River, then in Rowan, now Davidson County.
Near this spot, in 1781, the American Army under Gen. Nathanael Greene passed on its way fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMUH_wm-rainey-holt_Lexington-NC.html
Physician. Advocate ofscientific agriculture.His plantation "Linwood"was 6 miles southwest.Built home here, 1834.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMUF_the-homestead_Lexington-NC.html
The Homestead was the home of Dr. William R. Holt, one of antebellum North Carolina's most versatile and talented men, with interests in medicine, agriculture, education, religion, transportation, and manufacturing. In May 1865, when Dr. Holt lear…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMU9_old-davidson-county-courthouse_Lexington-NC.html
Completed 1858. Interiorwas burned, 1865, rebuiltca. 1867. Fine example ofClassical Revival style.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMU7_lexington-in-the-civil-war_Lexington-NC.html
President Jefferson Davis and his entourage paused here in Lexington on April 16-17, 1865, as the Confederate government fled south after the April 3 evacuation of Richmond, Virginia. While here, Davis telegraphed Gen. Joseph E. Johnston as to the…