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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UFY_carolina-power-light-car-barn-automobile-garage-historical_Raleigh-NC.html
Carolina Power & Light Car Barn & Automobile Garage Built 1925 Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SCD_seaboard-air-line-railroad-wwii-memorial_Raleigh-NC.html
Dedicated to the patriotism and valor of the more than three thousand four hundred employees of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad who served in the Armed Forces of their country in World War II and to the imperishable memory of those who died in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SC7_dorothea-dix-hospital_Raleigh-NC.html
Authorized 1849, largely through work of Dorothea L. Dix, crusader for better care of the mentally ill. 500 yards southwest.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SC0_mount-hope-cemetery_Raleigh-NC.html
Mount Hope Cemetery a 34.3-acre cemetery owned by the City of Raleigh, was established about 1872 for African Americans and continues to be operated so almost exclusively. Soon after the Civl War, the old City Cemetery was filled with interment…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H3Q_artificial-limbs_Raleigh-NC.html
North Carolina was first state to provide limbs to Confederate amputees. Factory, which operated 1866-67, was ? mi. NE.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H3P_eugenics-board_Raleigh-NC.html
State action led to the sterilization by choice or coercion of over 7,600 people, 1933-1973. Met after 1939 one block E.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H3E_central-prison_Raleigh-NC.html
State prison site since 1869. Original buildings completed in 1884. First supt., W.J. Hicks. New facility finished 1983.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16YS_joel-lane-house_Raleigh-NC.html
Built prior to 1770 andoften site of politicalmeetings. Decision tolocate Raleigh on Lane'sland made there, 1792.Stands 2 blocks south.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16XA_elmwood_Raleigh-NC.html
Home of chief justicesJohn L. Taylor & Thos.Ruffin; of Wm. Gaston,Romulus M. Saunders, &Samuel A. Ashe. Builtabout 1813. Is 70 yds. N.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16X2_81st-or-wildcat-division_Raleigh-NC.html
In memory of the81st or WildcatDivisionWorld War 1917-18
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