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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19VC_john-gray-blount_Washington-NC.html
Merchant & land speculator. Shipping interests across eastern N.C.; also invested in western N.C. land. Home stood here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1906_dr-susan-dimock_Washington-NC.html
Native of Washington, Zurich graduate, head of a Boston hospital, 1st woman member N.C. Medical Society, 1872. Her girlhood home was here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18SA_daniel-g-fowle_Washington-NC.html
Governor, 1889-91, state Adjutant General, 1863, Confederate officer, superior court judge, state legislator. His home was here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18RB_c-c-cambreleng_Washington-NC.html
Congressman from New York, 1821-39; House leader for Jackson & Van Buren; minister to Russia; merchant. Was born in this town, 1786.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18LG_demille-family_Washington-NC.html
Home of motion picture producer Cecil B. DeMille & his father, playwright Henry C. DeMille, stood five blocks west.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18DI_granville-grant_Washington-NC.html
Formed northern half of colony of North Carolina. Its southern boundary was surveyed in 1743 to a point near here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM183Q_uss-picket_Washington-NC.html
During the summer of 1892, Unionforces firmly controlled easternNorth Carolina, with garrisonsstationed at Plymouth, Washington, New Bern and elsewhere. Federaldetachments raided the countrysideat will, while Confederate authoritiesstruck back wit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1806_burning-of-washington_Washington-NC.html
The town was burned and shelled by evacuating United States troops in April, 1864.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1805_attack-on-washington_Washington-NC.html
Town taken by Federals, March, 1862. Confederate efforts to recapture it failed, 1862 and 1863.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1804_siege-of-washington_Washington-NC.html
Confederates failed to recapture town, March-April, 1863, but held it March-Nov., 1864.
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