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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WF_battle-of-averasboro_Dunn-NC.html
Preface: The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the "March to the Sea." Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to crush Gen. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WC_battle-of-bentonville_Four-Oaks-NC.html
(Preface):The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the "March to the Sea." Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to crush Gen.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TT_bennett-place_Durham-NC.html
(Preface, upper left) : The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the "March to the Sea." Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K9_robert-e-lee_Hot-Springs-NC.html
In loving memory ofRobert E. Leeand to mark the route of theDixie Highway"The shaft memorial and highway straightattest his worth — he cometh to his own." &nb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K5_battle-of-echoe_Franklin-NC.html
Beginning in 1758, South Carolina engaged in a four-year war with the Cherokee Indians, whose descendants now live in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. This war resulted from French efforts to incite the Southern Indians against the Br…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K3_nikwasi_Franklin-NC.html
This mound marks site of old Cherokee town, Nikwasi. A council of Sir Alexander Cuming with the Indians here lead to a treaty, 1730.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K2_coweeta-hydrologic-laboratory_Otto-NC.html
The 4015-acre basin below has been a world-famous forest and water laboratory since 1933. Here, a variety of forest cutting experiments have increased flow of pure water by almost a half million gallons per acre per year without increasing soil er…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17C_north-carolina-virginia_Corapeake-NC.html
North Carolina Colonized, 1585-87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote readiness for independence, Apr. 12, 1775
Virginia First permanent English colony in America, 1607; one of thirteen original st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM178_first-post-road_Corapeake-NC.html
The road from New England to Charleston, over which mail was first carried regularly in North Carolina, 1738-39, passed near this spot.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM177_george-washington_Sunbury-NC.html
George Washington owned a tract of land nearby. He surveyed and formed a company to drain a part of the Dismal Swamp, 1763.